University of Georgia Press
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
$28.95 Add to cartThe World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast–its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survi
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Seabrook, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345334
- Language: English
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America
$38.95 Add to cartA Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication
Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washi- Author: Feiler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 082035841X
- Language: English
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
$28.95 Add to cartThere are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Ping, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353922
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
$28.95 Add to cartIf we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is “a person who talks wh
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0820324019
- Language: English
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Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
$32.95 Add to cartLong recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our inc
- Author: Mura, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353469
- Language: English
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Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
$28.95 Add to cartSeparately they were formidable–together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850-1
- Author: Gillespie, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0820347221
- Language: English
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
$53.95 Add to cartAspects of Georgia’s unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches
- Author: Seals, Sonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820349356
- Language: English
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Zero to Three: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWhat started out as a way to address dealing with parenting and, in particular, fatherhood, became a series of poems focused on familial roles and situations that are difficult to articulate, even amo… [more below]
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Brown, F. Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347272
- Language: English
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Jekyll Island’s Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
$30.95 Add to cartFrom the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island’s early history. Much of what defines our view of the place dates from the Jekyll Isla
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publication #14
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347388
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartDaniel Groves presents a debut collection of tightly rhymed poems that, through adherence to form, unlock a power in language to surprise and illuminate–a power too often dormant in writing that esch
- Series: VQR Poetry
- Author: Groves, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0820336793
- Language: English
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The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music
$28.95 Add to cartWhile on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were … [more below]
- Author: Hemphill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0820348570
- Language: English
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Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
$27.95 Add to cartLike cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But
- Author: Feeser, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345539
- Language: English
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Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
$23.95 Add to cartJanisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Ray, Janisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345326
- Language: English
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Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
$21.95 Add to cartSean Hill’s debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia,
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0820330930
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America’s Millionaires
$48.95 Add to cartFrom its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation’s wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hec
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0820310700
- Language: English
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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
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Party Out of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town
- Series: Music of the American South #2
- Author: Brown, Rodger Lyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820350400
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape
$38.95 Add to cartUniversities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repository for the memories of countless students, staff, and facult
- Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications
- Author: Hauk, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355623
- Language: English
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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
$21.95 Add to cartBrian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferocious
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820355445
- Language: English
