Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P637
ISBN: 9780881468281
Price: $19.00
The characters in the story collection TOWER move through their lives with the sense that something is missing. When attempting to fill the void, they discover that the problem isn't what's missing, the problem invariably has to do with a truth they’ve been trying to avoid.
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Product Code: HH1034
ISBN: 9780881468854
Price: $45.00
Timothy H. Scherman re-introduces modern readers to a nineteenth-century woman writer and political activist whose disappearance from literary history would seem impossible in light of the volume of her published writing and the visceral responses she elicited from readers in her own day. Collecting samples of her work in every genre--personal letters, short fiction, essays, lectures, editorial, memoir, excerpts from several novels and one of her plays--Scherman captures the full creative range of one of the earliest woman professionals in the literary field in three conveniently arranged volumes.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P699
ISBN: 9780881469424
Price: $20.00
John Wesley O'Toole, a disbarred attorney-turned art dealer, continues to struggle in his effort to rebuild his shattered life after his release from prison. Having fallen in love with his girlfriend, Jenna, he quietly makes plans to propose marriage to her while on a romantic trip to Spain, surrounded by classical art in Madrid's Prado museum.
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Product Code: HH1055
ISBN: 9780881469813
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $22.00
Stella Bankwell is going home for Christmas, leaving behind her quaint cottage on St. Simons Island and heading back to Turner's Corner, the farm where she happily grew up in the North Georgia mountains shadowed by the Appalachian Trail. The snowy Christmas Stella and her friends spend at Turner's Corner is surprising--there will never be another Christmas like it--a sweetly meaningful holiday and celebration of life.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P630
ISBN: 9780881468007
Price: $18.00
Now in paperback, John Lane's award-winning first novel FATE MORELAND'S WIDOW has been singled out by reviewers and critics as a noteworthy exploration of the cotton mill culture of the South.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P656
ISBN: 9780881468670
Price: $20.00
An African American serviceman is gunned down on a rural Georgia road in July 1964. This shocking murder ensnares a wide range of characters including the journalists who cover it, the lawmen who must solve it, the civil rights leaders who capitalize upon it, the politicians who exploit it, and the Atlanta magnate who fears its impact on the New South image he desperately wants to protect.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P709
ISBN: 9780881460285
Price: $20.00
The stories in STYMIE highlight his early races and his legendary battles with other equine stars of the era, including the great Assault. Eventually the horse is retired and, with Ben, takes up residence at the fictional Galileo Farm in Kentucky, where their pasts are revisited through unexpected events. Ben Held and Stymie mark a place in time; Stymie's legacy and record might never be duplicated.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1039
ISBN: 9780881469011
Price: $27.00
Set in 2012 South Carolina, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore, their stern but compassionate English teacher. Navigating between privilege and poverty, vulnerability and strength, all three must confront what they need from themselves and each other.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1015
ISBN: 9780881468182
Price: $27.00
THE TRUTH KEEPERS is a historical novel that tells the tale of a torn family and the struggles of a young nation. Set primarily on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in the nineteenth-century, it is based on the true story of Henri du Bignon, his wife, and his long-time mistress. As it explores the issues and limitations faced especially by women in nineteenth-century America, the story takes us from the French Revolution through the Civil War and its aftermath, when nearby Brunswick residents encounter many hardships, among them having to evacuate their town to the invading Union army. The novel ends in 1877, followed by a poignant epilogue set in the 1950s.
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Product Code: P725
ISBN: 9780881469868
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Price: $20.00
For John Wesley O'Toole, a disbarred attorney-turned art dealer, life appears to be returning to a semblance of normal as his troubles fade into memory. Still in love with his girlfriend, Jenna, he hopes to help convince her he would be a good husband and stepfather by showing interest in her young son, Robert. O'Toole offers to take the boy fishing in Jenna's parents' pond, located on their small family farm in the countryside of rural south Georgia. All goes well until Robert's lure gets hung on what initially appears to be a small mud-covered log but is soon found to be a tennis shoe containing human bones.
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Product Code: P732
ISBN: 9780881469752
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $20.00
When twenty-one-year-old Hannah Gardner's father sells the family farm, she is cast onto the streets of Sundown, Georgia, where, having left her fundamentalist church, she grapples with the weight of her family's racist past. Working as a shampoo girl at a rinky-dink salon, Hannah tries to make ends meet cutting hair at the local funeral home. HAIRCUTS FOR THE DEAD is a modern retelling of the Fall of Man in a small-town Peyton Place where Hannah is kicked out of Eden and forced to deal with race issues, her sexual identity, the burdens of her family's past, and challenges to her faith.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P618
ISBN: 9780881467789
Price: $18.00
Based on a true story, beautiful, tenacious Annie Laura Brock, an immigrant in the rural South of the late 1880s fights for her dream: a home in America for herself and her young siblings. She is certain that in America, anything is possible for those who work hard and believe.
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