Mercer University Press

  • Old Gods

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    Through the redemptive power of words, OLD GODS confronts personal battles of addiction, autism, heartbreak, otherness, anxiety, and escapism through journey poems. Bolstered by faith, family, friends… [more below]

    • Author: Brooks, Clifford
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469068
    • Language: English
  • 1000 Sheets of Rice Paper

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    This third collection of Cantwell’s poetry is characterized less by formalism than by the lyric poem as an exploration of the process of making art. The title poem recounts an anecdote about the mid-c… [more below]

    • Author: Cantwell, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 76
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881468754
    • Language: English
  • Piano Days

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    PIANO DAYS is the story of three boys growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a small town doing the things young boys do; playing softball for the local church team, discovering girls, going … [more below]

    • Author: Reid, Don
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 088146869X
    • Language: English
  • Something in the Water

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    The history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city’s musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. From its pioneer orig… [more below]

    • Author: Wynne, Ben
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: October 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 0881468029
    • Language: English
  • Where You Come from Is Gone

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    WHERE YOU COME FROM IS GONE examines the economic and racial violence of rural America, where whiteness is a fraught and often dysfunctional identity. It is a poetic attempt at a blues line or a blueg… [more below]

    • Author: Woodford, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 98
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 0881468541
    • Language: English
  • Crypto

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    John Wesley O’Toole, the disbarred attorney-turned art dealer and protagonist of THE GIRL WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES, returns to face another challenge when he is approached by a wealthy cryptocurrency tr… [more below]

    • Author: Rawlings, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469033
    • Language: English
  • Bloodroot

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    The poems in Bill King’s first full-length collection articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. These poems follow the root of a life nourished by and inseparable from ga… [more below]

    • Author: King, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469106
    • Language: English
  • America’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities

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    This narrative provides a comprehensive history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The book concludes that race, the Civil Rights movements, and black and white philant

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  • Campus to Counter

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    CAMPUS TO COUNTER analyzes civil rights activism in North Carolina in the early 1960s, especially among students at Shaw University, Saint Augustine’s College, and North Carolina College at Durham. Th… [more below]

  • Technological Univ Reimagined

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    In 1994 Georgia Tech was a good regional technological university, but the outgoing president left under a cloud of problems with financial systems, federal audits, deferred maintenance, threats to ac… [more below]

    • Author: Clough, G. Wayne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 881468126
    • Language: English
  • 7 Islands of the Ocmulgee

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    These seven river stories, written after the author canoed the Ocmulgee and its tributaries, draw on European American, Native, and African American traditions and relationships with the upper river b… [more below]

    • Author: Johnston, Gordon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881468797
    • Language: English
  • Wilderness of Destruction

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    Modern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida’s interi… [more below]

    • Author: Waters, Zack C.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881468819
    • Language: English
  • Allman Joy

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    ALLMAN JOY is Bill Connell’s insightful account of the mid-1960s musical journey he went on as the drummer for The Allman Joys, a group that was a precursor to The Allman Brothers Band. A native of Tu… [more below]

    • Series: Music and the American South
    • Author: Connell, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469009
    • Language: English
  • Above and Beyond: The Mason Family and the Transformation of Gwinnett County

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    • Author: Lewis, Catherine M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 0881469459
    • Language: English
  • Reading Van Gogh: An Amateur’s Search for God

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    Vincent Van Gogh, even with his mental illness, poverty, isolation, and persistent failure, reflected compassion remarkable for his own life of rejection. He loved God. He loved beauty. He acknowledge… [more below]

    • Author: Cox, Elizabeth Barks
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: March 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 0881469203
    • Language: English
  • Day by Day Through the Civil W

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    Until now, a daily account (1,630 days) of Georgia’s social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. During the 160 years since the conflict’s termination, many fi… [more below]

    • Author: Shaffer, Michael K.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: February 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 088146824X
    • Language: English
  • Georgia

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    Based on the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people and events that shaped Georgia’s history. Beginning with the earliest Native American settlements, the story tells of first co… [more below]

    • Author: Meyers, Christopher C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881468924
    • Language: English
  • Defending Socrates

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    The modern world began with a critique of ancient philosophy as unscientific and in a decisive attempt to progress beyond it. Over time, however, the promises of the early modern philosophers have bec

    • Author: Priou, Alex
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: December 05, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469149
    • Language: English
  • No Perfect Mothers

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    While 1920s Charlottesville, Virginia, is a charming place to grow up, there’s one thing Carrie Buck doesn’t like about her hometown–her home. Taken from her mother, Carrie is put up for fostering as… [more below]

    • Author: Zacharias, Karen Spears
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 088146919X
    • Language: English
  • Truth Keepers

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    THE TRUTH KEEPERS is a historical novel that tells the tale of a torn family and the struggles of a young nation. Set primarily on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in the nineteenth-century, it is based on the… [more below]

    • Author: McCash, June Hall
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0881468185
    • Language: English
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