University of Illinois Press, April 2019. Hardcover. Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction..... More

Longstreet Press, May 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, the book offers up a rich menu of surprising new facts and fresh insights about their own hometown..... More

simon & schuster, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Well worn boards in chipped/tanned jacket. Signed by Allen on front free end page. 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

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2016. Paper Back. From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized..... More

Pantheon, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Rick Bragg at the Carter Library, September 28, 2015. A Cappella was the bookseller. More

Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. When childhood is complicated by poverty and an abusive, alcoholic father, it vecomes focused on survival. Were it not for the dedication and strength of his mother, Rick Bragg may have never left northeast Alabama and become a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His memoir captures the..... More

Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More

Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More

Knopf, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He..... More

Knopf, October 2020. Hardcover. From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and..... More

Beaver's Pond Press, January 2016. Oversized Hardcover. Through stunning portraiture and intimate conversations, Brent Walker takes the reader on a journey across the Southeast United States, uncovering stories of heartbreak, addiction, and hope. DESCRIPTION ''The Hidden South--Come Home'' is the first book by Atlanta-based photographer and storyteller Brent..... More

Island Press, August 2000. Trade Paperback. A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Sprawl-fueled growth pushes people further apart geographically, politically, economically, and socially. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country..... More

Arcadia Publishing, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Discover the history of Warm Springs and how their healing waters attracted Franklin D. Roosevelt; restoring hope and charity to the country. The Spirit of Warm Springs is what Franklin D. Roosevelt described as the peaceful atmosphere and healing qualities he found along the..... More

The History Press, August 2021. Paper Back. A plunge into Georgia history offers no shortage of bewilderment. UFOs, haunted bridges, ghost lights and monsters are just a smattering of the unexplained. At the Jekyll Island Club, a bellhop from the Roaring Twenties does his best to stay busy. A bright..... More

Univ of Texas Pr, August 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. The book has green marbled boards lettered in bright gold gilt along the spine. There is one very lightly bumped corner on the back board. The jacket has minor chipping and tiny tears along the edges. There is a 1.5 inch..... More

Harper Collins, June 1991. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Signed by Sibley on title page. More

Simon & Schuster, March 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing on the reverse side of the jacket. Moderate foxing on the cloth soine and edges of the boards. Mylar wrapped. 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

Longstreet Press, October 1990. Hardcover. More

Harper & Row, April 1982. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. Signed on f.f.e.p. 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley, 1984'. More

Knopf, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime..... More

Reprint Co, January 1974. Hardcover. More

St Martins Pr, October 1995. Trade Paperback. More

University of South Carolina Press, January 2020. Hardcover. There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. How did these odd geomorphological features come to be formed in the landscape in the first..... More

D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, January 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily chipped, edgeworn and torn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red stamped illustration on spine and front board. Mildly edgeworn boards. Bumped corners. Previous owner's name/address stamped in red ink on front free end page and..... More

A. J. Holman Co, January 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Slanted spine in dust jacket. Soiling/discoloration to edges. More

Blue & Gray Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Signed on half-title page by Alred L. Crabb. Book is a bit cocked; jacket is spine-sunned, clipped and chipped; still a nice, presentable copy. More

University of Virginia Press, November 1983. Trade Paperback. More

Brash Books, May 2019. Paper Back. The 12th and final adventure in the legendary Hardman series It's doing the small, simple favors that gets Jim Hardman in the most trouble. A waitress he knows asks him to find her missing husband, a freelance bartender who never returned from a weekend..... More

Brash Books, January 2019. Paper Back. "Ralph Dennis has mastered the genre and supplied top entertainment." The New York Times Before Spenser & Hawk, Elvis Cole & Joe Pike, and Hap & Leonard, there was Jim Hardman & Hump Evans, author Ralph Dennis' legendary 1970s PI team. They're back in..... More

Brash Books, May 2019. Paper Back. "A brilliantly original, surprising plot in one of the best crime novel series ever written. This is straight-up, hardboiled crime fiction, written in a tight, evocative voice with a wicked, dark sense of humor. It's wonderful!" Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author..... More

Atlanta Bicentennial Commission, January 1975. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {4 & 1/2' x 8'}; cover is sepia colored cardstock with darker brown lettering front side and white on verso. Cover is mildly toned with rubbing and a few stray stains. Staples (two) are rusting and bleeding into tiny surrounding paper. 48..... More

Arcadia Publishing, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author Joe Earle as he recounts the history of Decatur, Georgia's rich and storied past using 200 vintage images. Decatur proudly proclaims itself a city of "homes, schools, and places of worship." While that motto might seem to describe any number of small..... More

University of Georgia Press, April 2021. Paper Back. A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings..... More

Charles H. Richardson, 1865. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Reprint of book originally issued in 1861. There are portraits of the authors and small samples of their writing. Brown cloth covered boards with heavy edgewear. The cloth at edges is worn through at corners and in spots along bottom edge. Textblock edges..... More

Harlo Printing, January 1994. Hardcover. Creasing, chipping and corner bumps on the jacket. More

N/A, June 2002. Trade Paperback. More

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

Brunswick, GA: Neeld Printing House, 1997. 1st ed. January 1997. Stapled Soft Cover. Oblong octavo. Two inch closed-tear at bottom edge of front cover is repaired with clear tape. More

Simon & Schuster, August 2021. Paper Back. Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek). Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else..... More

Livingston Pr, August 2016. Trade Paperback. Fiction. African & African American Studies. Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel. Travis Hemperly is estranged from his Southern roots Who defines history, anyway? Is it our school systems? Is it our popular media? Our literature? Our sermons..... More

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

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

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

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

Independently published, August 2018. Paper Back. More

Arcadia Publishing, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The enduring spirit of Wake Forest is celebrated in this memorable collection of more than 200 vintage photographs. Wake Forest College was founded in 1834 to train Baptist ministers. Now a nationally and internationally recognized university, it is renowned for both its graduate and..... More

Houghton Mifflin (T), September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Long crease along the spine and back flap of the jacket. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. More

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