Wipf & Stock Pub, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Deeper Waters is a sermon collection--but also a manifesto. Its sermons sound forth a call for Christian preaching that is evangelical and emancipatory: unashamed of the good news about Christ's death and resurrection and resolute in resistance to white supremacy, male domination..... More
Vintage, October 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
Hub City Press, April 2017. Trade Paperback. In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing..... More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
Georgia Map Office, 2004. Pamphlet. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'}; Ginger colored cardstock cover. Like new. 16 pages. More
The History Press, February 2021. Paper Back. Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1997. Trade Paperback. The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this southern city. In "Where..... More
Scribner, May 1996. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge. More
University of South Carolina Press, January 2022. Paper Back. The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericks When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one..... More
Beacon Press, January 2019. Hardcover. An insider's account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform movement. In March of 2013, 35 educators in the Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy--the same charges used to bring..... More
Thunder Bay Press, May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Atlanta Then and Now is a captivating chronicle of history and change since the dawn of the camera age. It pairs historic photographs, many over a century old, with specially commissioned views of the same scene as it exists today showing the..... More
Little Brown & Co (T), April 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & solid & near fine all around. Signed by Blount on front free end page. More
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First/first; Oblong octavo (10' x 8'). Bright, clean, sound, no markings. Well cared for & gently read. Faint shelfwear along wrapper edges. Hard to imagine a better collector's copy. One of a kind selection of all things Deacon. RIP you Georgia..... More
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First printing. Tight, clean copy. Very minor shelfwear on the cover. More
Peachtree Publishing, November 1999. Hardcover. More
Harpercollins, March 1995. Hardcover. The fourth charming and ingenious mystery featuring Atlanta reporter and amateur sleuth Kate Mulcay. A sticky situation gets even more complicated when, after the arrival of a quirky couple who claims to be Kate's long-lost kin, Kate finds herself implicated in the murder of a neighbor..... More
Doubleday, June 1977. First American. Hardcover. In spine sunned dust jacket. First/first. More
Doubleday, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto: 5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/2'. First/first in spine-sunned dustjacket with worn folds & edges. Flap not clipped. Jacket verso darkened heavily at spine. Quarter bound: brick red cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Boards covered with khaki color paper with speckles..... More
Mercer University Press / Atlanta Historical Society, July 1986. Oversized Clothbound. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. In dustjacket with creasing to laminate coating on DJ red, black & white cover. Considerable damp staining to DJ verso. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Tan marble print end..... More
Dekalb Historical Society, January 1985. Cloth. Oblong {10' & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'}. In edgeworn DJ with sun-bleached spine. Especially heavily worn at spine & corners. Foxing of verso and end pages.Front flap is not clipped. Coffee colored cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Mild edgewear to..... More
Gwinnett Historical Society, January 1984. Hardcover. Oblong. [10 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'}. In dustjacket, very good overall. Brown cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering upon spine and brown panel. Tan end pages. Sound binding. Without markings. Black & white photography sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrific, and sometimes both..... More
University Press of Kansas, October 1989. Trade Paperback. From the end of Georgia's white primary in 1946 to the present, Atlanta has been a community of growing black electoral strength and stable white economic power. Yet the ballot box and investment money never became opposing weapons in a battle for..... More
NewSouth Books, March 2022. Hardcover. From his childhood in New Orleans to Howard University as a boy of fifteen, from his work as a young pastor in Alabama to his leadership role in the SCLC, from serving as the first Black congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction to serving as the..... More
Arcadia Publishing, May 2010. Trade Paperback. Georgia: A State History, opens a window on our rich and sometimes tragic past and reveals to all of us the fascinating complexity of what it means to be a Georgian. Georgia's past has diverged from the nation's and given the s.... More
