Dear Heart
Peachtree Pub Ltd, November 1980. Hardcover. More about Dear Heart
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book, September 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Janisse 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 from view... More about Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. More about Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. More about Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition
Milkweed Editions, May 2015. Trade Paperback. "A gutsy, wholly original memoir of ragged grace and raw beauty." --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED) From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings... More about Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition
Milkweed Editions, May 2015. Trade Paperback. "A gutsy, wholly original memoir of ragged grace and raw beauty." --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED) From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings... More about Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition
Winter Birds
Algonquin Books, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina along a stretch of rural highway, a dreamy eight-year-old named Danny Crell is caught in the middle of a violent quarrel between his parents. Danny's father, Bobjay Crell, has been at the mercy of doctors... More about Winter Birds
From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia
A Wormsloe Foundation Publication, March 2010. Trade Paperback. John Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay "not only the best study of American stoneware pottery now available but also a fine model for the presentation and analysis of hand-based technologies." The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss noted, "Mr. Burrison has brought to this... More about From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia
Miss Lucy of the Cio: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882-1959
Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1988. Hardcover. More about Miss Lucy of the Cio: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882-1959
History of Turner County
Reprint Co, June 1979. Hardcover. 1980 reprint. More about History of Turner County
Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South
LSU Press, September 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has moderate shelf wear. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards and light foxing on the endpapers. More about Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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 about Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
The smell of matches
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY JOHN STONE on the front free endpaper. More about The smell of matches
March Book 2
Top Shelf Productions, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation... More about March Book 2
Staff Pick
Just as Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi benefits from being a stone’s throw from William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, A Cappella is proud to call the 5th Congressional district represented by John Lewis our home. For a small store with an even smaller graphic novel section, it’s telling that Lewis’s series continues to be among our very best sellers. No matter how many different times and locations we’ve stood beside Mr. Lewis for a book signing, we always leave more hopeful about the future than we arrived.
The Grace and Grandeur of Natchez Homes (South/South Coast)
Voyageur Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. More about The Grace and Grandeur of Natchez Homes (South/South Coast
We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989
The Glade Press, September 2009. Trade Paperback. A richly illustrated, compelling saga and biography, this unsentimental social history follows the adventures of more than five generations of families that made their mark on both Atlanta and Paris. The narrative especially highlights one grandmother's brave work with the French Resistance in... More about We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family,...
The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After (Southern Literary Studies)
LSU Press, June 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern imagery and text affect one another, explains Joseph R. Millichap, as intertextual languages and influential visions. Focusing on the 1930s, and including significant works both... More about The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After (Southern...
The Sweet Everlasting
University of Georgia Press, August 2005. Trade Paperback. In The Sweet Everlasting, Judson Mitcham cuts through the moral ambiguities of life in the midcentury, rural South to show us the heart and soul of a good but flawed man. Sharecropper's son, mill worker, and ex-convict--Ellis Burt surely knows adversity. For... More about The Sweet Everlasting
American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
University of Georgia Press, March 2014. Hardcover. Someone dies. What happens next? One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, "You can make mummies with it!" while... More about American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah
Pocket Books, August 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The Lady Chablis, the outrageously charming drag queen made famous in John Berendt's bestselling "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", takes us on an unforgettable tour of Savannah in her amazing story-- a triumphant woman's life filled with passion, humor, flair... More about Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah
Father and Son
Algonquin Books, September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Father and Son" tells the story of five days following Glen Davis s return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you ll never forget.Convicted and sentenced on a vehicular... More about Father and Son
The Devil's Dream
Putnam Publishing Group, July 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A sweeping saga about the world of country music by Lee Smith, a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition {who}, like the best of storytellers, knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.--San Francisco Chronicle... More about The Devil's Dream
The Devil's Dream
Putnam Publishing Group, July 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A sweeping saga about the world of country music by Lee Smith, a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition {who}, like the best of storytellers, knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.--San Francisco Chronicle... More about The Devil's Dream
Dimestore
Algonquin Books, March 2016. First Edition. Cloth. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the... More about Dimestore
