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Christmas in Plains

Christmas in Plains
  • Author(s): Jimmy Carter
  • Location(s): Georgia, Plains
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Jimmy Carter remembers Christmas in Plains, Georgia, the source of spiritual strength, respite, friendship, and vacation fun in this charming portrait. In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood—the simplicity of family...

Cold Sassy Tree

Cold Sassy Tree
  • Author(s): Olive Ann Burns
  • Location(s): Cold Sassy, Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1906

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around–fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he’s aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love...

Crashing Into Me

Crashing Into Me
  • Author(s): R L Jackson
  • Location(s): Georgia, Fort Lauderdale
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Time

A year after being left at the altar, headstrong E.R Nurse, Lana McKenzie is finally piecing her life back together. Tired of seeing her ex and his new girlfriend at every turn, she longs for blissful solitude and can’t...

Crux

Crux
  • Author(s): Julie Reece
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

She should have run. Now, she’ll have to fight. Eighteen year old Birdie may be homeless, but she’s surviving, that is until a mysterious guy throws money in the air like a crazy game show host and she grabs...

Dead to Her

Dead to Her
  • Author(s): Sarah Pinborough
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Something old… When Marcie met Jason Maddox, she couldn’t believe her luck. Becoming Jason’s second wife catapulted her into the elite world of high society. But underneath the polite, old money manners, she knows she’ll always be an outsider,...

Deep Dish

Deep Dish
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Battling TV chefs—a handsome Georgia redneck and a struggling young professional woman—find themselves competing for a coveted weekly time slot on national television in Mary Kay Andrews’s delightful New York Times bestseller Deep Dish. The incomparable Mary Kay offers...

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...

East Is East

East Is East
  • Author(s): T C Boyle
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies,...

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
  • Author(s): Janisse Ray
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s-1970s

Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is one of those treasures in memoir that make you realize that truth can be as well-written, and as fascinating, as fiction. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells Ray’s story of growing up...

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...

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