University of Georgia Press
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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, someth
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Johnson, Toni Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820363065
- Language: English
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God’s Little Acre
$23.95 Add to cartLike Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. C
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Caldwell, Erskine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0820316636
- Language: English
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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
$23.95 Add to cartIn her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading l
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Moustakis, Melinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0820344907
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Mushrooms of Georgia
$41.95 Add to cart“Welcome to the world of mushrooms! A Field Guide to the Mushrooms of Georgia is the first highly illustrated, comprehensive mushroom field guide dedicated to the entire state of Georgia. Written in a… [more below]
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
- Author: Bessette, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820362697
- Language: English
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The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook
$29.95 Add to cartEverybody has one in their collection. You know–one of those old, spiral- or plastic-tooth-bound cookbooks sold to support a high school marching band, a church, or the local chapter of the Junior Le
- Author: Edge, John T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0820348589
- Language: English
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The Dance Boots
$23.95 Add to cartIn this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.
In the titl- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #72
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0820342173
- Language: English
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Your Eyes Will Be My Window: Essays
$23.95 Add to cartYour Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the let
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Varon, Jodi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0820364665
- Language: English
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Tobacco Road
$23.95 Add to cartSet during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Caldwell, Erskine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 082031661X
- Language: English
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The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography
$28.95 Add to cartCol. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing. Part bandleader, soul singer, storyteller, conjuror
- Series: Music of the American South #6
- Author: Grillo, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0820358487
- Language: English
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Leaving Saturn: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartLeaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spi… [more below]
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 08 2002
- ISBN10: 082032342X
- Language: English
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Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss
$27.95 Add to cartProdigals, a memoir inessays, explores the life of Sarah Beth Childers’swildly creative brother, who committed suicide at twenty-two, and her life with him and after him, through the lens of the Bibli
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Childers, Sarah Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0820364630
- Language: English
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Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
$28.95 Add to cartVibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term “soul food” gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to
- Author: Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0820337390
- Language: English
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Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition): Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray
$30.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable care
- Author: Gray, Fred D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384519
- Language: English
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Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses
$36.95 Add to cartThis guide to common and unique plants found in forests of the Southeast thoroughly covers 330 species of forbs (herbaceous plants), grasses, vines, and shrubs, with a special emphasis on the plants’
- Author: Miller, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0820327484
- Language: English
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As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book
$21.95 Add to cartWriter Pam Houston once summed it up: “Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us.” As Long as I Know You is a compelling read f
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Oomen, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820362549
- Language: English
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Survival Strategies: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartSurvival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, this collection of poems follows a narrative arc.The speaker, who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after ma
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Black, Tennison S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365157
- Language: English
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Around the World on a Bicycle
$23.95 Add to cartThis classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle
- Author: Birchmore, Fred A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357286
- Language: English
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Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us
$25.95 Add to cartImmigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio’s Little Syria neighborhood where Joseph Geha grew up, the first place he would go to find his mother would be the kit
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Geha, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820364002
- Language: English
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Celia, a Slave
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her ensl… [more below]
- Series: Gender and Slavery #5
- Author: McLaurin, Melton a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360961
- Language: English
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Black Pastoral: Poems
$22.95 Add to cartBlack Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples’ past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histori
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Benson, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365181
- Language: English
