Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1058
ISBN: 9780881469721
Price: $27.00
It's a wintry April 1833 in Watkinsville, Georgia. Fourteen-year-old Barker McRae is stuck living with her odious uncle, militia captain Wiley Wood, as she waits for her father, a Methodist circuit rider, to return. Instead, a stranger arrives. Matthew Higgenbotham, a land lottery messenger who dreams of leaving Georgia, shows up at Wiley's farm with unexpected news: Barker has won forty acres in the latest state lottery. THE DELIVERANCE OF BARKER MCRAE weaves fiction and meticulously researched history to introduce readers to two travelers, thrown together by luck and duty, on an adventure neither of them wanted. This is a tale about trespass, frontier religion, fathers and daughters, and friendships between unlikely companions.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P608
ISBN: 9780881467741
Price: $18.00
First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green grow up across the street from one another in Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. Susan Beckham Zurenda masterfully transports readers into a small Southern town where quiet, ordinary life becomes extraordinary. In this compelling coming of age story, culture, family, friends, bullies, and lovers propel two young people to unite to guard each other in a world where love, hope, and connectedness ultimately triumph.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1059
ISBN: 9798897360031
Price: $27.00
TRUDY'S AWAKENING is a historical novel set in the latter half of nineteenth-century Georgia that tells the story of three women whose lives were intermingled as they worked to overcome society's barriers to their progress and success. Gertrude Thomas, "Trudy" to her friends and family, grew up in wealth and privilege but lost it all in the aftermath of the war. Amanda "Mae," along with her mother Lurany, were enslaved to Gertrude's family and yearned for freedom. Lizzie Jeter was a middle-class young woman who dreamed of being a professional artist. All three faced tremendous obstacles in a world that wished to limit and suppress their talents.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1023
ISBN: 9780881468403
Price: $25.00
PIANO DAYS is the story of three boys growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a small town doing the things young boys do; playing softball for the local church team, discovering girls, going to the record hop at the National Guard Armory on Saturday nights, and learning to drive while learning a little bit about life along the way. The townspeople impact the boys in various ways during their childhood and influence who they become as young adults.
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Product Code: P658
ISBN: 9780881468694
Price: $18.00
PIANO DAYS is the story of three boys growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a small town doing the things young boys do; playing softball for the local church team, discovering girls, going to the record hop at the National Guard Armory on Saturday nights, and learning to drive while learning a little bit about life along the way.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P677
ISBN: 9780881469035
Price: $20.00
John Wesley O'Toole, the disbarred attorney-turned art dealer and protagonist of THE GIRL WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES, returns to face another challenge when he is approached by a wealthy cryptocurrency trader wanting to invest heavily in quality works of art. A proposition that seems almost too good to be true turns deadly when the trader's body is discovered, and the digital code keys needed to retrieve his millions are missing.
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