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An American Marriage

An American Marriage
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of Silver Sparrow returns with a stunning novel about race, loyalty, and love that endures. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and...

Tea Leafing

Tea Leafing
  • Author(s): Weezie MacDonald
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in the twilight of the stripping culture, the strippers manipulate reality in an Atlanta strip club. Four friends take on the world.

Burnt Mountain

Burnt Mountain
  • Author(s): Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp – Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her...

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy
  • Author(s): Alfred Uhry
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1948

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she...

Every Crooked Nanny

Every Crooked Nanny
  • Author(s): Kathy Hogan Trocheck
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

After ten years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta’s streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different, Callahan soon finds herself...

Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope
  • Author(s): Rob Franklin
  • Location(s): Atlanta, New York City (NYC), The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering summer leaves Smith, a young Black queer graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself...

I Couldn’t Love You More

I Couldn’t Love You More
  • Author(s): Jillian Medoff
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Which child would you save? A decision no parent can even fathom. Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney,...

Lightning Men

Lightning Men
  • Author(s): Thomas Mullen
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Atlanta, 1950. Crime divides, the fight unites. Officer Denny Rakestraw and ‘Negro Officers’ Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith face the Klan, gangs and family warfare in a rapidly changing Atlanta. Black families – including Smith’s sister and brother-in-law –...

Little Bitty Lies

Little Bitty Lies
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn’t notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he’s gone—and...

Mrs. Everything

Mrs. Everything
  • Location(s): Connecticut, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Detroit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 950s to present1

Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise. Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect ‘Dick and Jane’ house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy,...

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