University of Georgia Press
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The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America’s Millionaires
$48.95 Add to cartFrom its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation’s wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hec
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0820310700
- Language: English
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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
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Party Out of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town
- Series: Music of the American South #2
- Author: Brown, Rodger Lyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820350400
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape
$38.95 Add to cartUniversities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repository for the memories of countless students, staff, and facult
- Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications
- Author: Hauk, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355623
- Language: English
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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
$21.95 Add to cartBrian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferocious
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355445
- Language: English
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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
$21.95 Add to cartAround the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voic… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345415
- Language: English
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Waterfall Hikes of Upstate South Carolina
$22.95 Add to cartA waterfall is a perfect destination for a day hike. In this revised and updated guide, native South Carolinian, photographer, and hiker Thomas E. King lists 147 waterfall destinations in the mountain
- Author: King, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1889596396
- Language: English
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Island Passages: An Illustrated History of Jekyll Island, Georgia
$41.95 Add to cartAlthough it is among the smallest of Georgia’s Golden Isles, Jekyll Island boasts a depth of history rivaling that of its larger neighbors. The island embraces two National Historic Landmarks, a listi
- Author: Davis, Jingle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820348694
- Language: English
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Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
$21.95 Add to cartYes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by t
- Author: Beasley, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354295
- Language: English
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The American Chestnut: An Environmental History
$36.95 Add to cartBefore 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural distribution of the American chestnut extended across
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
- Author: Davis, Donald Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360457
- Language: English
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Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
$24.95 Add to cartIn this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof’s engaging, convers
- Author: Maloof, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 25 2007
- ISBN10: 082032955X
- Language: English
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The Sum of Trifles
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Julia Ridley Smith’s parents died, they left behind a virtual museum of furniture, books, art, and artifacts. Between the contents of their home, the stock from their North Carolina antiques shop
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Smith, Julia Ridley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360414
- Language: English
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Darkroom: A Family Exposure
$26.95 Add to cartDarkroom: A Family Exposure is Jill Christman’s gripping, funny, and wise account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Christman, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0820341746
- Language: English
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartIn the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Shah, Sejal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357235
- Language: English
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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia
$21.95 Add to cartIn April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crow
- Series: Music of the American South #3
- Author: Lamb, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354139
- Language: English
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Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays
$24.95 Add to cartThis debut essay collection is inspired by the grief Maddie Norris experienced in the wake of her father’s death from cancer when she was seventeen. Norris uses a medical lens to examine the anguish t
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Norris, Maddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366684
- Language: English
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Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines
$21.95 Add to cartZell Miller was one of the United States’ most respected leaders. His integrity, passion, and commitment to excellence earned the praise of colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Miller often attribut
- Author: Miller, Zell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820359599
- Language: English
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All My Relations: Stories
$26.95 Add to cartSet against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #26
- Author: McIlroy, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0820333093
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest fri… [more below]
- Author: Fuhrman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0820323381
- Language: English
