University of Georgia Press
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Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey Through Atlanta’s National Treasure
$29.95 Add to cartOnce the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the glob
- Author: Kansas, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820367702
- Language: English
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American Sheep: A Cultural History
$29.95 Add to cartWhy did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opportunity did attorney John Lord Hayes envision for the newly emancipated during Reconstruction? What Am
- Author: Bannor, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367168
- Language: English
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A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
$24.95 Add to cartNorthern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis an
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
- Author: Davis, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367427
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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Japa and Other Stories
$25.95 Add to cartThese eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor them
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Nwachukwu, Iheoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367273
- Language: English
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James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
$22.95 Add to cartFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered Englan
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820366005
- Language: English
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Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After
$22.95 Add to cartJust over fifty years ago on January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade assured millions of women that abortion was a protected constitutional right due to a woman’s rig
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 082036567X
- Language: English
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Bon App?tit, Y’All: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking, Revised and Updated, with New Recipes
$24.95 Add to cartFeaturing new recipes and photographs, this revised and updated edition of Virginia Willis’s best-selling culinary classic also features new variations and commentary on the original recipes plus opti
- Author: Willis, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367192
- Language: English
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Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir
$28.95 Add to cartIn the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At the same time, her seven-year-old son Jay was being subjected to repeated
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Nicorvo, Jay Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367362
- Language: English
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Beware the Tall Grass
$22.95 Add to cartBeware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young ma… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Ellen Birkett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988732105
- Language: English
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
$26.95 Add to cartThe Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make … [more below]
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351172
- Language: English
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$23.95 Add to cart“Beyond Katrina” is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Trethewey’s
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 082034902X
- Language: English
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Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartJoy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by c
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Nelson, Jessica Hendry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365475
- Language: English
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Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them
$28.95 Add to cartAll the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn’t happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have bee
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Doelen, Jaap Van Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367826
- Language: English
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia
$48.95 Add to cartA hidden world of amphibians and reptiles awaits the outdoor adventurer in Georgia’s streams, caves, forests, and wetlands. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia makes accessible a wealth of information
- Author: MacKinnon, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0820331112
- Language: English
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Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy
$25.95 Add to cartEarly in Brooke Champagne’s childhood, her Ecuadorian grandmother Lala (half bruja, half santa) strictly circumscribed the girl’s present and future: become beautiful but know precisely when to use it
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Champagne, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366536
- Language: English
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The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia
$25.95 Add to cartThe Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow stud
- Author: Clegg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366986
- Language: English
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North Carolina’s Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
$23.95 Add to cartFun and learning come together in North Carolina’s Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating p
- Author: Bryant, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345105
- Language: English
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A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster
$26.95 Add to cartOysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that’s just the beginning. Andr? Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off poin
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Gallant, Andr? Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357839
- Language: English
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Red Clay, White Water & Blues: A History of Columbus, Georgia
$26.95 Add to cartColumbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city’s founding in 1828 and brings its story to
- Author: Causey, Virginia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820358827
- Language: English
