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- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African-American attorney, is living her...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th centuryy
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the...
- Location(s): Georgia, Andersonville
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): American Civil War
The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
- Location(s): Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Cenury
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Nonny Frett understands the meanings of “rock” and “hard place” better than any woman ever born. She’s got two mothers, “one Deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy.” She’s got two men: her husband, who’s easing...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn’t even need to be in love–sex is all...
- 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...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1920
In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia-the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. It Is a crime too horrific to be ignored; the first of many that will span four decades, embroiling...
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