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Fallen

Fallen
  • Author(s): Lauren Kate
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori. Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one...

Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America

Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
  • Author(s): Laura Wexler
  • Location(s): Georgia, Walton County
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1946

July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in America’s history: the shotgun murder of four black sharecroppers — two men and two women — at Moore’s...

First Comes Love

First Comes Love
  • Author(s): Emily Giffin
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads. Growing up, Josie and...

Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories

Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories
  • Author(s): Flannery O'Connor
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1940s

Flannery O’Connor’s short stories are like a mash-up of Patsy Cline’s country music and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. O’Connor’s settings — with the heat, humidity, red clay, drawling dialect, racial tension, and moral righteousness — take you deep into...

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
  • Author(s): Jaye Brown
  • Location(s): Rome (GA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the...

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...

Hidden Moon

Hidden Moon
  • Author(s): Lori Handeland
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

He’s got a secret… Claire Kennedy left Lake Bluff, Georgia, for the bright lights of Atlanta and a promising career in journalism. Now, recovering from a cruel betrayal, she’s back in the one place she always felt safe, starting...

High Noon

High Noon
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family’s home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she’s Savannah’s top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for...

Hissy Fit

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

Whether it’s a mystery, sassy women’s fiction, or a combination of the two, New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews always gives her fans a read to remember. And now she’s throwing a Hissy Fit, in the best possible...

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,...

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