University of Georgia Press
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Suburban Wild
$26.95 Add to cartSet in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, amid traffic, pollution, and ever-increasing neighborhoods of houses and apartments, these meditative personal essays explore the importance of our connectio
- Author: Friederici, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820357170
- Language: English
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19 of Greene: Football, Friendship, and Change in the Fall of 1970
$30.95 Add to cartThe 19 of Greene narrates Tony Barnhart’s experience with integration in small-town Georgia as a member of Greene County’s first integrated football team. The longtime sportswriter, also known as Mr.
- Author: Barnhart, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365645
- Language: English
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What It Doesn’t Have to Do with: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartLindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Bernal, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353949
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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Phillis Wheatley Peters
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrit
- Author: Carretta, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363324
- Language: English
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Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
$26.95 Add to cartCatfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfi
- Series: Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and P #2
- Author: Rankin, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353590
- Language: English
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
$28.95 Add to cartThe World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast–its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survi
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Seabrook, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345334
- Language: English
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America
$38.95 Add to cartA Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication
Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washi- Author: Feiler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 082035841X
- Language: English
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
$28.95 Add to cartThere are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Ping, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353922
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
$28.95 Add to cartIf we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is “a person who talks wh
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0820324019
- Language: English
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Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
$32.95 Add to cartLong recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our inc
- Author: Mura, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353469
- Language: English
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Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
$28.95 Add to cartSeparately they were formidable–together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850-1
- Author: Gillespie, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0820347221
- Language: English
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
$53.95 Add to cartAspects of Georgia’s unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches
- Author: Seals, Sonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820349356
- Language: English
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Zero to Three: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWhat started out as a way to address dealing with parenting and, in particular, fatherhood, became a series of poems focused on familial roles and situations that are difficult to articulate, even amo… [more below]
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Brown, F. Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347272
- Language: English
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Jekyll Island’s Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
$30.95 Add to cartFrom the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island’s early history. Much of what defines our view of the place dates from the Jekyll Isla
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publication #14
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347388
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartDaniel Groves presents a debut collection of tightly rhymed poems that, through adherence to form, unlock a power in language to surprise and illuminate–a power too often dormant in writing that esch
- Series: VQR Poetry
- Author: Groves, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0820336793
- Language: English
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The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music
$28.95 Add to cartWhile on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were … [more below]
- Author: Hemphill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0820348570
- Language: English
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Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
$27.95 Add to cartLike cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But
- Author: Feeser, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345539
- Language: English
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Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
$23.95 Add to cartJanisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Ray, Janisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345326
- Language: English
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Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
$21.95 Add to cartSean Hill’s debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia,
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0820330930
- Language: English
