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Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2024. Paper Back. First published in 1974, Black Majority marked a breakthrough in our understanding of early American history. Today, Wood's insightful study remains more relevant and enlightening than ever. This landmark book chronicles the crucial formative years of North America's wealthiest and most..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian..... More
Anchor, August 1975. Trade Paperback. First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and..... More
Anchor Books/ Doubleday, March 1972. Trade Paperback. In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her..... More
Ecco, January 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson..... More
Warner Books, 1992-09-01. Trade Paperback. Precursor to Flagg's bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, this coming of age story is taken from Daisy's journal. 2 cassettes. More
Harvard University Press, July 2020. Hardcover. Winner of the Bancroft Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink..... More
Legacy Lit, January 2024. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...meticulous research" and bestselling..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2023. Hardcover. Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man..... More
Random House Inc, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. First printing. Full number line. Boards in cloth back a tad faded. Presentation copy with a warm, personal, dated (year of publication) inscription from the..... More
University of Georgia Press, October 2011. Cloth. This is the first--and the only authorized--biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief..... More
Penguin Press, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail..... More
University of N. Carolina Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of..... More
University of Arkansas Press, December 2018. Hardcover. Winner, 2019 Booker Worthen Prize from the Central Arkansas Library System. A dedicated advocate for social justice long before the term entered everyday usage, Rabbi Ira Sanders began striving against the Jim Crow system soon after he arrived in Little Rock from New..... More
Arcadia Publishing, October 1998. Paper Back. Monroeville is the county seat of Monroe County, a county older than the state of Alabama itself. Located in what was the western Creek Nation, Monroeville became the center of county business in 1832, eighteen years after the surrender of the Creeks to Andrew..... More
Anchor/Doubleday, August 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed by Eliot Wigginton on front free endpaper. Jacket mildly edgeworn, but wrapped for further preservation. More
Doubleday, February 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Front hinge starting. Jacket moderately shelfworn; wrapped for preservation. Still, a very solid copy of a book that is becoming quite scarce in hardcover with jacket. More
Dutton Adult, September 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Full number line. Moderate shelfwear. Wrapped for further preservation. More
Random House, January 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John..... More
Pantheon, September 1997. Hardcover. A haunting memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, All Over but the Shoutin' presents a gripping account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life's capricious promises. As he tells the wrenching story of his own family's life in the dirt-poor Alabama hills--where he..... More
University of Georgia Press, November 2023. Paper Back. Nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta, in a suburb called Druid Hills, lies Briarcliff Mansion. It sits on Briarcliff Road in the Briarcliff neighborhood, surrounded by strip malls and business with Briarcliff in their names. The mansion and the land it occupies..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, October 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Jacket wrapped. More