NewSouth Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of..... 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
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Milestone Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Outdoor leader and educator Jonah McDonald shows the way to discovering hiking in Atlanta's canopy-covered green spaces in this guide that recommends 60 hikes within 30 miles of Georgia's Capitol dome. Ranging from less than a mile to more than 12 miles, routes are..... More
Akashic Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018's Books All Georgians Should Read! Kenji Jasper's A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story! Atlanta has its share, maybe more..... More
Milestone Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Outdoor leader and educator Jonah McDonald shows the way to discovering hiking in Atlanta's canopy-covered green spaces in this guide that recommends 60 hikes within 30 miles of Georgia's Capitol dome. Ranging from less than a mile to more than 12 miles, routes are..... More
University of Nebraska Press, February 2022. Hardcover. In July 1975 the editors of the Atlanta Constitution ran a two-part series entitled "Loserville, U.S.A." The provocatively titled series detailed the futility of Atlanta's four professional sports teams in the decade following the 1966 arrival of its first two major league franchises..... More
Algonquin Books, January 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where..... 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
LSU Press, September 2006. Paper Back. A criminal lawyer and popular journalist, Henry C. Castellanos lived nearly three-quarters of the nineteenth century in New Orleans. In his later years, between 1892 and 1895, he wrote more than 120 articles for the Times-Democrat on the history and mores of his beloved..... 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
Robert L. Crager & Co., 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth with gold lettering and brown cloth covered boards with black & yellow illustration. Dust jacket is missing. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [380 pages). More
Touchstone, April 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2006. First Edition. Cloth. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea..... More
University of Illinois Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women's contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras run. Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1996. Trade Paperback. One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... More
Arcadia Publishing, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author and Huntsville native T. Gary Wicks as he uncovers the beginnings and inventions that influenced air and space engineering in Alabama and America. The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will Quick's design and construction of a...... More
Pelican Publishing Company, November 1990. Hardcover. Buddy Stall offers his insider's knowledge of the most interesting city in America. In dustjacket with edge wear/darkened edges. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Sticker residue back panel of DJ.Tightly bound.[250 pages]..... More
University Press of Mississippi, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a...... More
Emons Publishers, August 2020. Paper Back. The ultimate insider's guide to Atlanta Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide Appeals to both the local market (more than..... More
Hub City Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. When the deacons at Mark Beaver's Bible Belt church cue up an evangelical horror flick aimed at dramatizing Hell, he figures he'd better get right with God, and soon. Convinced he could die at age seven and spend eternity roasting on a spit..... More
Reedy Press, March 2020. Trade Paperback. More
University of Kentucky Press, 1968. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. Olive green cloth with dust stains and stained rings front panel. Gold lettering in dark green band along spine. Previous owner's name inked on front free end page. Foxing/dust stains top edge. Heavy foxing fore-edge. More
