University of Georgia Press
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Ghostbread
$24.95 Add to cart“When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.” Ghostbread makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Livingston, Sonja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0820336874
- Language: English
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Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up
$29.95 Add to cartIn Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey… [more below]
- Author: Jones Royster, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820375160
- Language: English
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U.S. History at the 250th: From the Revolution to the History Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But does the nation begin in 1776, or do we trace its origins to some point earlier–for example, the arrival of the first
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377120
- Language: English
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope
$28.95 Add to cartThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Kinney, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377236
- Language: English
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Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests
$32.95 Add to cartThroughout the eastern United States, hundreds of colleges and universities own acres of forested lands. These holdings range from modest parcels like Virginia Tech’s eleven-acre Stadium Woods to more
- Author: O’Donnell, Kevin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820375578
- Language: English
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American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon
$34.95 Add to cartIn American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-f… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0820375403
- Language: English
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Pimento Cheese: The Southern Spread
$27.95 Add to cartIn Rebecca Lang’s Pimento Cheese, the storied food writer and ninth-generation Southerner gives readers a taste of the famed spread’s history and versatility. The collection includes more than sixty-f… [more below]
- Author: Lang, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820374679
- Language: English
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The Most Controversial State Park: Jekyll Island
$39.95 Add to cartThe Most Controversial State Park offers a unique study of Jekyll Island State Park from the 1940s to the present. Relying on more than sixty oral histories, governors’ records, and a variety of archi… [more below]
- Author: Martin, C. Brenden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820373567
- Language: English
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The Season of Birds and Stones: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartThe essays that make up The Season of Birds and Stones grapple with questions of what wilderness means and how we can interact with and learn from other species. Set in some of our most stunning publi… [more below]
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Renfro, Yelizaveta P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377309
- Language: English
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Bookin’ in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women’s Prison Book Club
$27.95 Add to cartPat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women’s Facility who participated in her book club for the better part of seven years. She hoped the books they read
- Author: Devoto, Pat Cunningham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1588385671
- Language: English
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Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist
$32.95 Add to cartWilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of
- Author: Chanoff, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374237
- Language: English
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Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays
$23.95 Add to cartJazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays traces a life, not by recounting its major events but by going deep into its representative moments: the moments of wonder, hope, fear, uncertainty, humor, love, a… [more below]
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Thompson, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374644
- Language: English
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There’s Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia’s State Historic Sites
$29.95 Add to cartThere’s Lots to See in Georgia provides a history of the Peach State’s state historic sites, including a brief history of each site, the process by which the sites were preserved or restored and becam
- Author: Dickey, Jennifer W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374032
- Language: English
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My Withered Legs and Other Essays
$24.95 Add to cartMy Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert that reflects upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and agin
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Lambert, Sandra Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365904
- Language: English
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Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN
$34.95 Add to cartDriven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-
- Author: Johnson, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374539
- Language: English
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35 Natural Wonders of Georgia to See Before You Die
$39.95 Add to cartThe expression “natural wonders” can often conjure images of far-flung destinations like the Grand Canyon, the peaks of the Rockies, or Niagara Falls. Yet Georgia, the largest state east of the Missis
- Author: Litrel, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 082037444X
- Language: English
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Georgia’s Historical Recipes: Seeking Our State’s Oldest Written Foodways and the Stories Behind Them
$34.95 Add to cartGeorgia’s Historical Recipes is an exploration of our state’s oldest recipes from the antebellum period through World War II, as painstakingly researched by Georgia archivist Valerie J. Frey. This vol
- Author: Frey, Valerie J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820367966
- Language: English
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A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
$26.95 Add to cartSet in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a pri… [more below]
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Muia, A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374385
- Language: English
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Unmothered, Untongued: Lyric Essays
$27.95 Add to cartunMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving to… [more below]
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Roripaugh, Lee Horikoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374415
- Language: English
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Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women
$27.95 Add to cartLiving Indigenous Feminism is a bricolage of historical research and historiography, poetry, interviews, biographies, memoirs, and stories–both traditional and contemporary. This book poses the quest
- Author: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 082037377X
- Language: English
