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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
  • Author(s): Becky Albertalli
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Young Adult
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually...

Someone Else’s Love Story

Someone Else’s Love Story
  • Author(s): Joshilyn Jackson
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She’s got enough complications without getting caught in the middle...

Sutter’s Cross

Sutter’s Cross
  • Author(s): W Dale Cramer
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer’s elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the “old universal truths…love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Sutter’s...

Sweetwater Deception

Sweetwater Deception
  • Author(s): Sylvia Nickels
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): modern

Dana Tucker Pennington returns to the farm in Georgia she inherited from the grandparents who raised her and where she grew up. She did not expect to meet and rekindle her romance with the boy, now a successful businessman...

Tailspin

Tailspin
  • Author(s): Sandra Brown
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rye Mallett, a fearless “freight dog” pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken, usually unshaven, and he never gets the regulation eight hours of shut-eye before a flight; but he does have a rock-solid reputation:...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
  • Author(s): Carson McCullers
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

McCullers, known for Southern Gothic fiction, was born in Columbus, Georgia. McCullers felt “other” as a young woman growing up in the South, and with outcast characters, she explores that isolation and deep desire for connection in her fiction....

The Color Purple

The Color Purple
  • Author(s): Alice Walker
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1910-1940

Born in Eatonton, Georgia, a tiny town in middle Georgia, Alice Walker was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer prize. She won it with The Color Purple, and if you read it, you will see why....

The Devil’s Hearth

The Devil’s Hearth
  • Author(s): Phillip DePoy
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21s century

Fever Devilin is a folklorist and a very recent ex-academic who has decided to return to his family home in the Georgia Appalachians. But his homecoming isn’t quite what he expected—he arrives at the home he once shared with...

The Evil Men Do

The Evil Men Do
  • Author(s): John McMahon
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of The Good Detective delivers a gripping and atmospheric new novel in which a cop takes on a harrowing case and confronts old personal demons. What if the one good thing you did in your life doomed...

The Fixer Upper

The Fixer Upper
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A sassy, sexy, sometimes poignant look at small town Southern life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it, The Fixer Upper is a must-read for fans of Fannie Flagg, Sophie Kinsella, the Ya-Yas, and...

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