Chasing Moonlight
The True Story of Field of Dream's Doc Graham
Brett Friedlander and R. W. Reising

In Chasing Moonlight the authors follow Graham's life from his youth spent with his younger brother, Frank Porter Graham, who became the president of the University of North Carolina and a U.S. senator; through his career as a medical student in Baltimore and New York while he played baseball at the same time; through his minor league successes in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In Graham's Minnesota years, the authors reveal a man whose pioneering research on children's blood pressure is still used at institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and whose quiet philanthropy made him beloved in his community.

Newcomer's Guide to Georgia
Don O'Briant

Whether new to the state or a native, any Georgia resident will want the information in this one handy volume.

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Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas
Edited by Ed Southern

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Hatteras Island
Keeper of the Outer Banks
Ray McAllister

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Rain Gardening in the South
Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge, & Everything in Between
Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford

Alef-Bet
A Hebrew Alphabet Book
Michelle Edwards

This illustrated children's book serves as an introduction to the modern Hebrew alphabet; but more than that, it is a joyous portrait of a very special family. Its heroine, Gabi, shares in the activities of five-year-olds everywhere.

Behind the Hedges
Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia
Richard Whitt

Behind the Hedges examines Michael Adams's tumultuous career as president of Georgia's flagship university, a tenure marked by intrigue and backroom deals.

Jim Crow and Me
Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer
Solomon S. Seay, Jr., with Delores R. Boyd

Seay's memoir takes a different tack from most civil rights legal autobiographies: in a series of compact, powerful vignettes, he reveals dramatic courtroom moments; the complex personalities of segregation's victims, heroes, and oppressors; and the emotional highs and lows of using the law to seek justice where it too often had been an empty promise.

Life and Death Matters
Dr. Robert Baldwin

Robert Baldwin's life changed when he discovered that his previous racial attitudes and beliefs about issues such as capital punishment were indefensible. Today, Baldwin works in a two-part prison ministry: in one part, he visits with inmates on a personal level; in the other part, he teaches and preaches to people on the outside about myths and misconceptions about prisons and criminal justice. He is especially focused on the death penalty.

Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land
History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project, Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959
Robert G. Pasquill, Jr.

This book describes the conditions of the land in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1930s and then traces the history of an innovative New Deal program established by the Franklin Roosevelt administration to reclaim the land and the people's lives.

Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns as Told by Orville Hicks
Transcribed and Edited by Julia Taylor Ebel

For the past two decades, Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences with his storytelling performances. As his reputation as a storyteller grew, his audiences clamored for a book of Orville's tales. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns includes more than 20 transcribed stories that expertly capture the voice of the master storyteller.

The Picture Man
Julia Taylor Ebel

Appalachian picture men come to life in this story of a farm girl who is intrigued by an offer to photograph her family. The story culminates with the actual 1940s photograph that inspired this story.

Sports in the Carolinas
From Death Valley to Tobacco Road
Edited by Ed Southern

Sports in the Carolinas boasts dozens of essays, profiles, and personal reminscences that celebrate the amazing sports stories of the Carolinas.

Spirit Letters
Communications with God
Diannia Baty

Spirit Letters is a lively combination of meditation and dictation. Always fascinated with spiritual development, Baty began writing down her questions to God. More importantly, she recorded the answers she received during meditation.

Leaving Maggie Hope
Anthony S. Abbott

Leaving Maggie Hope is the story of ten-year-old David Lear who is forced to confront the legacy of his family.

Riggs Park
Ellyn Bache

A poignant novel about women's friendships, Riggs Park is the story of Barbara and Marilyn, who once shared an idyllic childhood in the modest Riggs Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Now, at age 58, they're each dealing with a crisis of late middle age, yet feel driven to return to the old neighborhood to solve a decades-old mystery that still haunts them.

Daughters of the Sea
Ellyn Bache

Three generations of women, each with a special attraction to water, yearn to find where they belong. Not until they understand that it's possible to be a daughter of the sea anywhere, does each one finally make the pilgramage that will set her free.

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