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The secret trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault
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Janice Sumler-Edmond |
"In this biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lo… |
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Kid Carolina
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Heidi Schnakenberg |
The Reynolds tobacco family was an American dynasty like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Astors. R.J. "Dick" Reynolds Jr. was born into privilege and decadence, but his disastrous personal life ev… |
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Where Peachtree meets Sweet Auburn
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Gary Pomerantz |
There is an intersection in Atlanta where two worlds meet; where the architecture changes dramatically, the texture of the buildings reflecting two histories, separate and distinct. It is a crossing … |
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Little Miss Dynamite
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Brenda Lee |
A self-portrait of the child star who rose from the Georgia backwoods to pop music stardom illuminates the passion and drive that made Brenda Lee a celebrity and describes her tumultuous private life. |
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Running a thousand miles for freedom
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William Craft |
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in … |
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Rabbit
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Patricia Williams |
A remarkably bold and inspiring story of crime, motherhood, and redemption, not since Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake has there been a memoir this unforgettable. You want to know about the struggle o… |
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The making of a Black scholar
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Horace A. Porter |
"This is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in respons… |
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Flannery O'Connor
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Jean W. Cash |
"Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) ranks among the foremost writers of fiction in American literature. Her short stories, in particular, are considered models of the form. Born in Savannah, O'Connor spen… |
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Vernon can read!
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Vernon E. Jordan,Vernon E. Jordan Jr,Vernon E., Jr. Jordan,Annette Gordon-Reed,Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. |
"In 1955, as a college student home in Atlanta for vacation, Vernon Jordan had a summer job driving a retired white banker around town. During the man's afternoon naps Jordan passed the time reading … |
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Judge Harley and his boys
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Lancaster, John E. |
"John Lancaster has produced a history of the Langdale family that traces their origins in Yorkshire in the eighteenth century to his primary focus on the family in the twentieth century. In the 1930… |
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Seas of gold, seas of cotton
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Martha L. Keber |
"This biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739… |
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Daddy King
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Martin Luther King, Sr. |
An autobiography of the Reverend King describing his life and the lives of other members of his family. |
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My Jesus Year
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Benyamin Cohen |
One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a s… |
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