Cultural Region/South
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Ghost Dogs of the South
$17.95 Read moreAward-winning husband-and-wife folklorists Randy Russell and Janet Barnett have gone to the dogs. Digging deeply through the rich field of Southern folklore, the authors have discovered that a dog’s d
- Author: Russell, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 895872889
- Language: English
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A Guide to Mississippi Museums
$24.99 Read moreMuseums not only preserve history–their mere presence shows what a community values and celebrates. And from the incredible variety of museums that dot the Mississippi landscape, it’s abundantly clea… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Putnam, Richelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467141844
- Language: English
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Dark Florida: Animal Attacks, Historic Murders, Deadly Disasters and Other Calamities
$23.99 Read moreAuthor Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida’s dark side .
Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Brown, Alan N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154571
- Language: English
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The Big Jones Cookbook: Recipes for Savoring the Heritage of Regional Southern Cooking
$25.00 Read moreAn original look at southern heirloom cooking with a focus on history, heritage, and variety.
You expect to hear about restaurant kitchens in Charleston, New Orleans, or Memphis perfecting plates of- Author: Fehribach, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829375
- Language: English
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The Cold Case Murder of Fred Wilkerson: Untangling the Black Widow’s Web in West Georgia
$23.99 Read moreNearly two decades after the fact, tragedy meets justice. One day in 1987, Fred Wilkerson up and vanished in Troup County, Georgia. It was a mystery beset with suspicious circumstances, but the eviden… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Bryant, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154040
- Language: English
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
$23.99 Read moreA Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, b… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Barbuschak, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152897
- Language: English
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My Name Is Yip
$18.00 Read moreFor readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, My Name Is Yip is a bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice.
- Author: Crewe, Paddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1419762303
- Language: English
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Gumbo Shop
$19.95 Read moreFor decades, patrons of the quaint Creole restaurant on Saint Peter Street have enjoyed the standards of New Orleans cuisine in one of its most natural settings. Around the corner from Saint Louis Cat… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1455627216
- Language: English
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St. Augustine Impressions
$12.95 Add to cartRobb Helfrick brings us a photographic portfolio of the oldest permanent European settlement in North America?and the alluring city it has become today. Spaniards first settled here on the north coast… [more below]
- Author: Helfrick, Robb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1560372710
- Language: English
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas: With Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps Volume 45
$39.95 Read moreThis third edition of James R. Dixon’s Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas: With Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps, completely redesigned throughout with color photographs, re
- Series: W. L. Moody, Jr., Natural History (Paperback) #45
- Author: Dixon, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: January 14 2013
- ISBN10: 1603447342
- Language: English
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
$30.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South–and thus of America–by an esteemed daughter of
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063090767
- Language: English
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Under the Magnolias
$28.99 Read more2022 Christy Award finalist!
This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we’d kept hidden under the magnolias.
Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980
Austin Foster… [more below]- Author: Lowe, T. I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1496453603
- Language: English
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Mysterious Georgia
$21.99 Read moreA 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 t… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Carmichael, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149268
- Language: English
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Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography
$29.95 Add to cartAnne Wetzell Armstrong adored her adopted hometown. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she moved with her family to the “West End” (Fort Sanders) area of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the 1880s, a pivotal dec
- Author: Behrend, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907066
- Language: English
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A New History of Lexington, Kentucky
$21.99 Read moreLexington is known as the Horse Capital of the World, but the city’s history runs much deeper. Learn about the mayor who refused the Ku Klux Klan permission to march and organize in the city. Meet one… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Ockerman Jr, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1467146854
- Language: English
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Occasions to Celebrate: Cooking and Entertaining with Style
$45.00 Read moreThe renowned chef and master host presents his second Rizzoli cookbook: a collection of more than 100 recipes inspired by traditional Southern fare and French culinary flair, with an emphasis on seaso… [more below]
- Author: Hitz, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0847872548
- Language: English
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Captured
$9.99 Read moreCaptured is a high-stakes historical romance from Beverly Jenkins, award-winning author of Night Song and Jewel, in which a stunning young slave and a roguish privateer share forbidden passion on the … [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0061547794
- Language: English
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
$21.99 Read moreIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply infor… [more below]
- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337502
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
$16.99 Read moreThe first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tra… [more below]
- Author: Odom, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0767910273
- Language: English
