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Campus to Counter: Civil Rights Activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963
By author: Brian Suttell   Series edited by: Quinton H. Dixie
Product Code: P665
ISBN: 9780881468779
Availability: In stock
Price: $30.00
Despite the rich historiography on the civil rights movement and scholarly works addressing academic freedom, their connections have gone mostly unexplored. Suttell utilized extensive archival research and conducted thirty-one interviews with activists and Raleigh and Durham community members, in addition to nationally recognized civil rights leaders like Andrew Young and Wyatt Tee Walker.

Georgia: A Brief History, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P671
ISBN: 9780881468922
Availability: In stock
Price: $30.00
Here is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans into the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly.

Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle: Lessons from a Football Life, Revised
By author: Bill Curry
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P672
ISBN: 9780881468946
Availability: In stock
Price: $25.00
No sport rivals football for building character. In the scorching heat of two-a-days and the fierce combat of the gridiron, true leaders are born. Just ask Bill Curry, whose credentials for exploring the relationship between football and leadership include two Super Bowl rings and the distinction of having snapped footballs to Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas. In TEN MEN YOU MEET IN THE HUDDLE, Curry shares the wit, wisdom, and tough love of teammates and coaches who turned him from a next-to-last NFL draft pick into a two-time Pro Bowler.

Cook & Celebrate: A Collection of Southern Holiday & Party Culinary Traditions
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P673
ISBN: 9780881468953
Availability: In stock
Price: $25.00
Barrett takes readers from the Commonwealth of Virginia, down to the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, over to Mobile Bay, and on jaunts in between to showcase the favorite dishes (and the stories behind them) Southerners use to fete the holidays, and one another. COOK & CLEBRATE is a wonderful, delectable, and nostalgic read that will invoke warm, festive memories and inspire you to celebrate life in the kitchen.

Allman Joy: Keeping the Beat with Duane and Gregg
By author: Bill Connell, John Lynskey   Foreword by: Chuck Leavell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P675
ISBN: 9780881469004
Availability: In stock
Price: $26.00
A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bill Connell began drumming as a teenager, and worked his way through the burgeoning Tuscaloosa music scene. A passing encounter with the brothers Allman in 1966 led to Connell being offered the drummer's chair in The Allman Joys. The day after high school graduation at age seventeen, he found himself headed to New York City's Greenwich Village to join the band.

From Biscuits to Lane Cake: Emma Rylander Lane's "Some Good Things to Eat"
Edited by: Evan A. Kutzler
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P676
ISBN: 9780881469028
Availability: In stock
Price: $22.00
When the Lane cake, named after Emma Rylander Lane (1856-1904), appeared in Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1960), the boozy Southern dessert was at peak popularity. Yet the culinary artist behind the cake had fallen into obscurity. FROM BISCUITS TO LANE CAKE recovers Lane's biography, as well as the recipes she published in SOME GOOD THINGS TO EAT (1898) and the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.

Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place
By author: Richard Rankin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P691
ISBN: 9780881469240
Availability: In stock
Price: $20.00
LOCAL SIGNS AND WONDERS is an essay collection describing how attachment to a family homestead creates a sense of wellbeing, fulfillment, and belonging. Richard Rankin lives on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The Rankin home place sits in a shrinking countryside about twenty miles west of fast-growing Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite rural decline and environmental peril, these essays show how staying on family land benefits personal wholeness, rich relationships with family, neighbors and wildlife, and service to creation.

The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1044
ISBN: 9780881469318
Availability: In stock
Price: $39.00
Civil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. There are two versions of events: Confederate commanding General Joseph E. Johnston's story, and Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's story. But Federal General William T. Sherman had other plans, and it was Confederates who would be "surprised" instead.

Mercer Illustrated: The Places, People, and Experiences of a Uniquely Impactful University
Foreword by: William D. Underwood   Text by: Gordon Johnston   Managing editor: Larry D. Brumley   Other: Matthew R. Smith, Jan Horne Crocker
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1047
ISBN: 9780881469387
Availability: In stock
Price: $60.00
This folio of more than two hundred-fifty photographs with a foreword by President William D. Underwood and accompanying text by Gordon Johnston celebrates Georgia's oldest private university. Mercer University enrolls more than 9,000 students each academic year in twelve colleges and schools on campuses in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus, and at centers in Henry and Douglas Counties.

Toby’s Campus Tour: Explore Mercer University with Mascot, Toby the Bear
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P697
ISBN: 9780881469394
Availability: In stock
Price: $16.00
Join Mercer University's mascot, Toby, on a fun-filled tour around campus, stopping at all his favorite places on the way to the big game. This illustrated journey is sure to become a keepsake for generations of Mercerians to come.

Above and Beyond: The Mason Family and the Transformation of Gwinnett County
By author: Catherine M. Lewis
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1048
ISBN: 9780881469455
Availability: In stock
Price: $27.00
Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. ABOVE AND BEYOND tells the story of that growth through one of its most significant families--the Masons.

The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P708
ISBN: 9780881460179
Availability: In stock
Price: $20.00
On the heels of a global pandemic, two post-menopausal Appalachian women, one black, one white, abandoned hearth, home, and spouses shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study abroad together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr. Poet E.J. Wade and author Karen Spears Zacharias roamed from the depths of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. THE DEVIL'S PULPIT & OTHER MOSTLY TRUE SCOTTISH MISADVENTURES is part travelogue, part memoir, part poetry, and in outlandish Scottish storytelling tradition, a wee bit of winging it.