A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader, 1982-2002
N/A, June 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Atlanta & Georgia
We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989
The Glade Press, September 2009. First Edition. 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..... More
Boys' High Forever: The History of an Extraordinary Atlanta Public High School
Atlanta Boys' High School Alum, January 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and corner rubbing on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
Georgia: A Guide to its Towns and Countryside
University of Georgia Press, January 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/4'}. Ex-library with a few stamps and fat marker marks. Relative to many ex-library books there are few of these distractions. Dustjacket is missing. Also missing -- from 'back pocket' the Georgia State Map..... More
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
Staff Pick
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, October 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner. First printing. Author's first book. Slightly cocked; non-authorial gift inscription on verso for front free endpaper. More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, October 1991. Hardcover. A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner. More
The Temple Bombing
Da Capo Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was..... More
The Temple Bombing
Perseus Books, March 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was..... More
Temple Bombing
Ballantine Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but..... More
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Bloomsbury USA, September 2006. Hardcover. There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between..... More
Abandoned Atlanta: Echoes of a Storied Past
America Through Time, May 2019. Trade Paperback. "Atlanta has a rich and complex history worth remembering, but its desire to become the next booming sensation puts it at risk of becoming a tear-down city. Before our eyes, historic buildings are being knocked down for apartments, parking decks and office spaces..... More
Atlanta's Druid Hills: A Brief History
The History Press, June 2008. First Thus. Trade Paperback. The Druid Hills neighborhood is characterized by rolling hills, magnificent trees and shrubs and gorgeous, expansive houses. Its Ponce de Leon corridor bears the imprint of the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. The brainchild of Joel Hurt, the..... More
Talmadge: A Political Legacy, a Politician's Life : A Memoir
Peachtree Publishers, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket, minor creases on the front flap. Mylar wrapped. Light sunning on the edge of the boards. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915
Jewish Pubn Society, June 1978. Hardcover. More
A treasure album of Milledgeville and Baldwin County, Georgia
J.W. Burke, January 1936. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. {9' x 12'} In flexible textured cardstock with silver & brown inked front panel illustration & lettering. Dust staining rear cover panel. Non authorial inscription title page. Semi-transparent fly leaf over title page (1st page) & Afterword (last page). [52 pp.]. More
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
The University of North Carolina Press, August 2019. Paper Back. For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and..... More
Georgia's Coastal Plain (3 volumes)
Lewis Historical Publishing Company, January 1964. Hardcover. 3 Volume Set. More
Invisible Sisters
PublicAffairs, April 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter Sarah had been born with a rare congenital blood disorder, it was an..... More
