Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1045
ISBN: 9780881469349
Price: $25.00
During the summer of 1958, a local church burned to the ground in a small town in central Virginia. While the details of what happened that early June morning were lost over the decades, Mansion Springs still has descendants who knew the people and the places involved. This classic Don Reid book observes the culture, music, lifestyle, warmth, and realism of that era.
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Product Code: P750
ISBN: 9798897360383
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $30.00
It did not take long to see that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" would have an enduring impact on American culture. Instantly ubiquitous, it was widely reprinted, celebrated, criticized, and mocked during the years between its January 29, 1845, publication in New York and Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. In QUOTHING "THE RAVEN," Paul Lewis follows America's most famous poem during these years from the literary salons where it was discussed, to the newspapers where it was reviewed, to the twenty-nine parodies that made fun of both the poem and its controversial author.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1006
ISBN: 9780881467901
Price: $35.00
Guy Herbert Wells, president of Georgia State College for (white) Women, learned to manage the tension between holding true to his own values, which more closely resembled those of students in the YWCA, while working for a state system that upheld white supremacy. A 1935 YWCA interracial event became the catalyst for his first lesson on how to manage this tension.
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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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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P651
ISBN: 9780881468571
Price: $17.00
ACCORDING TO SAND is an aching, wryly joyous collection that embodies the erosive and porous qualities of sand and invites us to recognize how we might remain among the remains, settling, shifting, filtering, and surviving.
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Product Code: H632
ISBN: 9780865548398
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $25.00
In his powerful debut collection Twelfth Year and Other Times. Randy Hendricks paints each of his characters with a few meticulous strokes. Step by step then, each story in this collection constructs a journey of the most internal and fundamental kind, journeys that we all must make toward who we are.
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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 Universtiy Press
Product Code: P653
ISBN: 9780881468632
Price: $16.00
Chris Watson began developing a tool for mapping wildness across the Georgia landscape, but as work progressed, the study's conception of the region's significance expanded beyond ecology: the floodplain's value is immeasurable to the Muscogee Indians.
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Product Code: HH1066
ISBN: 9798897360598
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Price: $27.00
ROMANCING THE MYSTERY weaves together personal narrative, philosophical inquiry, and theological reflection to explore life's most profound questions: What is the nature of reality? What can we know of God? How should we live? R. Kirby Godsey invites readers into a lifelong journey of thought and belief shaped by family, mentors, and five decades of leadership in higher education. From his grandmother Janie's embodiment of grace on an Alabama farm to his transformative presidency at Mercer University, Godsey traces how lived experience and rigorous thinking have shaped his understanding of our interconnected existence.
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Product Code: P753
ISBN: 9798897360437
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Price: $20.00
Edwina's shaky world is rocked by the murder of a childhood friend on a sweltering Georgia day in 1929. War erupts between the fed-up poor folks of Shine Town and Edy's in-laws, the old money Jacksons of Canes Crossin. Edwina and her sister are trapped in the middle. Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.
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Product Code: P215
ISBN: 9780865547308
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $23.00
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P631
ISBN: 9780881468014
Price: $24.00
Why do lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy return to it again and again through their lives? Why does each rereading seem more nourishing? FRODO'S WOUND is a collection of essays that approaches these questions from various angles. It argues that while epic conflict and heroic warriors may provide the initial allure to the book, what lingers and deepens with each reading is its emotional complexity, its knowledge of loss and grief, and its yearning for something only dimly understood.
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