Cultural Region/South
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Berry College: A History
$46.95 Add to cartIllustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. Ranging from Berry’s modest beginnings in
- Author: Mathis, Doyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0820327581
- Language: English
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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
$26.95 Add to cart“Takes readers on a head-shaking romp through a south Florida that they won’t find in any tourist brochure. . . . Hiaasen’s writing is fearless and the targets endless: politicians, municipal employee… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0813034280
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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Texas Rangers: Volume I: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
$34.99 Add to cartTexas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers.
Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers’ first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the- Author: Cox, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 076531892X
- Language: English
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Being United Methodist in the Bible Belt: Theological Survival Gde for Youth, Parents, & Other Confused United Methodists
$19.00 Add to cartWritten in a humorous, accessible style, this book is an easy-to-understand guide to the kinds of theological questions that many United Methodist youth and others are asking today. Being United Metho
- Author: Joyner Jr, F. Belton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0664231683
- Language: English
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Mississippi Sissy
$25.99 Add to cartMississippi 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
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341024
- Language: English
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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairst- Author: Wiencek, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253931
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172817
- Language: English
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The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle
$40.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
When it comes to delectable, freshly baked cakes, pies, cookies, and muffins, nobody beats the world famous Dahlia Bakery of Seattle, Washington. Owner, Iron Chef, and James B
- Author: Douglas, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0062183745
- Language: English
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The Hachland Hill Cookbook: The Recipes & Legacy of Phila Hach
$35.00 Add to cartPaying homage to his grandmother, Carter’s debut cookbook, The Hachland Hill Cookbook: The Recipes and Legacy of Phila Hach, shares the many stories and recipes that shaped the life of a legendary Sou
- Author: Hach, Carter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1951217454
- Language: English
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Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South
$28.99 Read moreRead about the Civil War from those who were there.
They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that’s largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern poin- Author: Mitcham Jr, Samuel W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585179
- Language: English
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Vigilance: A Story of Sheriff Watson
$12.99 Add to cartIt is 1884, widower Alexander “Sandy” Watson is enjoying time at home with his seven children when he is alerted of a murder in the nearby town of Sarasota. As sheriff of this Florida frontier land, h
- Author: Knies, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1662920229
- Language: English
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North Myrtle Beach
$39.99 Add to cartIn 1968, the family-based Cherry Grove, Ocean Drive, Crescent, and Windy Hill Beaches were consolidated into one municipality, gaining a stronger presence with a new name of North Myrtle Beach. Lookin… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: McMillan, Susan Hoffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247082
- Language: English
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The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University
$34.95 Add to cartAlready renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a patron, the former preside
- Author: O’Shaughnessy, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0813946484
- Language: English
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Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta–And How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Bell Award for the Best Book on Georgia History
In July 1975 the editors of the Atlanta Constitution ra
A Sports Collectors Digest Best Baseball Book of 2022
A Public Books Public Pick of 2022- Author: Trutor, Clayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149622504X
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People’s History
$28.00 Add to cartThe seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers–oftentimes folks who were either already acquainted with maritime livelihoods or those who quickly… [more below]
- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Stephens, Deanne Love
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1496833503
- Language: English
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Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories
$36.99 Read moreBitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick – Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick – Forbes Best New Cookbooks For Travelers pick – 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award Finalist – A vivid cu
- Author: Mitchell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1643361961
- Language: English
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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original
$30.00 Add to cartEdna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America’s most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore h… [more below]
- Author: Franklin, Sara B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663996
- Language: English
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798612
- Language: English
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To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University
$21.95 Add to cartLaw professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of
- Author: Kapur, Geeta N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 194946752X
- Language: English
