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
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
The Bowdon Bulletin, 1954. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Clean & solid without markings. Signed & inscribed by Jessie Bartlett Digby. More
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
Simon & Schuster, October 2004. Paper Back. Jimmy Carter remembers Christmas in Plains, Georgia, the source of spiritual strength, respite, friendship, and vacation fun in this charming portrait. In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood--the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his..... More
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
Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1988. Hardcover. More
Reprint Co, June 1979. Hardcover. 1980 reprint. More
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
Hyperion, May 2012. Hardcover. Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and..... 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
Delta, January 1992. First Trade. Trade Paperback. From the little blue baby with a heart murmur to those desperate patients who undergo heart transplants, In the Country of Hearts brings the world of medicine down to its all-too-human level and shows the two hearts that beat in all of us--the..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY JOHN STONE on the front free endpaper. More
Falcon Guides, April 2008. Trade Paperback. ROAD BIKING(TM) GEORGIA: A Guide to the Greatest Bicycle Rides in GeorgiaJohn TrusselThe first book of its kind, for cyclists of all skill levels There is no other guide to bicycling the expanse of the Peach State, home turf to award-winning journalist and cyclist..... More
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
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.
Voyageur Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Bright Mountain Books, April 1984. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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
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
Princeton University Press, July 2007. Paper Back. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the..... More
Picador, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie..... More
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
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
