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Aia Guide to the Architecture of Atlantaby Isabelle GournayISBN 0820314501 (0-8203-1450-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frankby Steve OneyISBN 0679764232 (0-679-76423-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank'Book summary:On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlantas National Pencil Factory. The girls murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in Americas collective imaginationa saga that would climax in 1915 with the lynching of Leo Frank, the Cornell-educated Jew who was convicted of the murder. The case has been the subject of novels, plays, movies and even musicals, but only now, with the publication of And the Dead Shall Rise, do we have an account that does full justice to the mesmerizing and previously unknown details of one of the most shameful moments in the nations history.
In a narrative reminiscent of a nineteenth-century novel, Steve Oney recounts the emerging revelations of the initial criminal investigation, reconstructs from newspaper dispatches (the original trial transcript mysteriously disappeared long ago) the day-to-day intrigue of the courtroom and illuminates how and why an all-white jury convicted Frank largely on the testimony of a black man. Oney chronicles as well the innumerable avenues that the defense pursued in quest of an appeal, the remarkable and heretofore largely ignored campaign conducted by William Randolph Hearst and New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs to exonerate Frank, the last-minute commutation of Franks death sentence and, most indelibly, the flawlessly executed abduction and brutal lynching of Frank two months after his death sentence was commuted.
And the Dead Shall Rise brings to life a Dickensian cast of characters caught up in the Frank casezealous police investigators intent on protecting their departments reputation, even more zealous private detectives, cynical yet impressionable factory girls, intrepid reporters (including a young Harold Ross), lawyers blinded by their own interests and cowed by the populaces furor. And we meet four astonishing individuals: Jim Conley, who was Franks confessed accomplice and the states star witness; William Smith, a determined and idealistic lawyer who brilliantly prepared Conley for the defenses fierce cross-examination and then, a year later, underwent an extraordinary change of heart; Lucille Frank, the martyred wife of the convicted man; and the great populist leader Tom Watson, who manipulated the volatile and lethal outrage of Georgians against the forces of Northern privilege and capital that were seeking to free Frank.
And the Dead Shall Rise also casts long-awaited fresh light on Franks lynching. No participant was ever indicted, and many went on to prominent careers in state and national politics. Here, for the first time, is the full account of the eventincluding the identities of the influential Georgians who conceived, carried out and covered up the crime. And here as well is the story of the lynchings aftermath, which saw both the revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the evolution of the Anti-Defamation League.
At once a work of masterful investigative journalism and insightful social history, And the Dead Shall Rise does complete justice to one of historys most repellent and most fascinating moments. [via]More editions of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank:
Archival Atlanta: Electric Street Dummies, the Great Stonehenge Explosion, Nerve Tonics, and Bovine Laws Forgotten Facts and Well-Kept Secrets from Our City's Pastby Perry Buffington, Kim UnderwoodISBN 1561451053 (1-56145-105-3)
Softcover, Peachtree Pub Ltd
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Atlantaby Bob Krist, Martha Ellen ZenfellISBN 9624211965 (962-421-196-5)
Hardcover, APA Publications
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Atlantaby Jeff Clark, Jordan SimonISBN 1563525178 (1-56352-517-8)
Softcover, Longstreet Pr
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Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacyby Richard M. McMurryISBN 0803282788 (0-8032-8278-8)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Atlanta : An Illustrated Historyby Andy Ambrose, John LewisISBN 1588180867 (1-58818-086-7)
Softcover, Hill Street Press, LLC
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Atlanta and the Warby Webb B. GarrisonISBN 1558534148 (1-55853-414-8)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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The Atlanta Paradoxby David L. SjoquistISBN 0871548089 (0-87154-808-9)
Hardcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansionby Larry KeatingISBN 1566398215 (1-56639-821-5)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996by Frederick AllenISBN 1563522969 (1-56352-296-9)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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Atlanta Then & Nowby Michael RoseISBN 1571454748 (1-57145-474-8)
Hardcover, Thunder Bay Pr
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Atlanta-2006/07by Zagat Survey StaffISBN 1570067953 (1-57006-795-3)
Softcover, Zagat Survey
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Battles for Atlantaby Ronald H. BaileyISBN 0809447738 (0-8094-4773-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Battles for Atlanta: Sherman Moves Eastby Time-Life Books, Ronald H. BaileyISBN 080944772X (0-8094-4772-X)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Bleachy-haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhoodby Hollis GillespieISBN 0060561998 (0-06-056199-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Blue Placeby Nicola GriffithISBN 0380790882 (0-380-79088-2)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Place'Book summary:Science fiction writer Nicola Griffith, winner of the Nebula and Tiptree Awards, proves that good writing transcends genre. The Blue Place is a spare, cold suspense thriller--Norwegian noir--with the kind of strong, enigmatic characters that made Griffith's Slow River such a great read. Aud Torvingen is a former cop, martial artist, and Scandinavian to the core. She stalks powerfully through the streets of Atlanta and the fjords of Norway in search of an art thief and killer. At first, she frightens us a bit, because she insistently imagines how easy it would be to kill almost everyone she meets. Having descended more than once into that dark, cold psychic realm wherein violence provides primal pleasure, Aud is constantly wary of her fellow human beings. But our fear turns to fascination as she finds herself falling in love with Julia, a smart, beautiful art dealer mixed up in the crime, and getting closer to finding the center of the danger in the icy north.
As in Slow River and Ammonite, Griffith's attention is often on the bodies of her characters--their awareness of skin and muscle, sinew and bone suffuses the action. Griffith closely scrutinizes their deeper inner workings, their emotions and logic, as well. The story is tense and gripping, as a good thriller should be, but the best part of The Blue Place is Aud's fascinatingly familiar search for self. --Therese Littleton [via]
Boogers Are My Beatby Dave Barry, Jeff MacNellyISBN 1400080762 (1-4000-8076-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalismby Dave BarryISBN 1400047579 (1-4000-4757-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:
" The scientific search for the worlds funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word weasel )
" RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot
" Outwitting smart kitchen appliances and service contracts
" Elections in Florida ( You cant spell Florida without duh )
" The Olympics, where people from all over the world come together to accuse each other of cheating
" The truth about the Dakotas, the Lone Ranger, and feng shui
" The choice between death and taxes
And much, much moreincluding some truths about journalism and serious thoughts about 9/11.
Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988, and his columns are syndicated in more than 500 newspapers. His most recent books, Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down and the novels Big Trouble and Tricky Business, were national bestsellers. He lives in Miami, Floriduh.
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The Braves Encyclopediaby Gary CarusoISBN 1566393841 (1-56639-384-1)
Hardcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Buckheadby Susan Kessler BarnardISBN 1892514028 (1-892514-02-8)
Softcover, Hill Street Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buckhead'Book summary:Buckhead is a magical neighbourhood in north Atlanta that has come to be internationally known for its tree-canopied neighbourhoods and among the most sought-after real estate in the country. Known to many as the 'Beverly Hills of the South', Buckhead has been home to many of the South's most prestigious families and established companies. Originally a Native American river village, following the War of 1812 and seizure of the Creek Indian land to the federal government in 1821, settlers established the community known as Buck's Head by 1838. The ensuing one hundred and fifty years has seen the direct impact of several wars, the Depression, riots and murders, racial strife, the establishment of black neighbourhoods, and its place today as an international business centre and playground for southern society. [via]
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 1568496281 (1-56849-628-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Comfort and Joyby Jim GrimsleyISBN 1565123964 (1-56512-396-4)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comfort and Joy'Book summary:Question: What could be more terrifying than bringing your significant other home for Christmas? Answer: Bringing home your significant other of the same sex. From the start, it's clear that Jim Grimsley's vision of the holidays holds as much darkness as it does light. Ford McKinney first lays eyes on Dan Crell when he's singing carols at the hospital where they both work, the mournful minor-key tones of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" seeming to broadcast "the sadness of Christmas" in contrast to the lights and decorations around them. Their attraction is immediate, but the couple must face down several obstacles. For one thing, Dan is a hemophiliac who's HIV-positive. And Ford, a rich doctor from a prominent Savannah family, doesn't even think of himself as gay. That the two manage to meet, date, and fall in love is something of a miracle in itself--perhaps the only one that can sustain them through the season of miracles.
Comfort and Joy alternates scenes of Ford and Dan's courtship with their trip to North Carolina to meet Dan's family. Like any couple anywhere, they argue about money and their families; unlike some couples, they also argue about Dan's health and Ford's reluctance to kiss. In chronicling their history, however, Grimsley gets at something fundamental: the strange mixture of love and hate and anxiety at the bottom of every relationship, gay or straight. "You're really not as bright as I am and that's a problem," they both think, being "honest" with themselves, then wonder: "Why do men stay together?" The easy answer, of course, is that they love each other. The more complicated one is that, in living together, they've begun to dream the same dreams, breathe in rhythm, lay down "crevices" inside themselves in the shapes of each other. This, Dan thinks, is enough: "enough, without words, to keep them silent about the fact of their hates and their fears, their deep concerns about each other, and the certainty that one of them would die first and neither of them knew which one it would be."
The novel's prose is workmanlike at its best, but Grimsley's understanding of the human heart is deep and rich. His book refuses easy answers and stereotypes; for example, the mysterious trauma in Dan's childhood stays in the background, where it belongs. A lesser writer would have chosen to make its revelation the book's climax--the epiphany that explains Dan's character--but Grimsley knows that childhood pain is only one of many things that make us who we are. Such is the difference between fiction that seeks to tell us who we are and fiction that knows what a mystery we are at our core. Comfort and Joy is not just a book for gay readers: it's a book for everyone who's ever been in love, who's ever had a family, who's ever wanted to find some kind of refuge from the world. --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Confessions Of A Recovering Slut: And Other Love Storiesby Hollis GillespieISBN 0060834382 (0-06-083438-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories'Book summary:The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie.
Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to BleachyHaired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that home just happens to be in one of Atlanta's most dangerous crack neighborhoodsbut the place is bound to improve, right?
Wrong. In Confessions, Gillespie is plagued by missing human torsos, murdered policeman, and a drug dealer who keeps setting fire to her neighbor's houseand all this after Hollis discovers that she is inexplicably (except, maybe, for all that acrobatic sex) pregnant. While the neighborhood might have been fine when she was a childfree urban pioneer, it's a nightmare for a mother with nothing but cake pans to bulletproof the baby's room. Gillespie must depend on her three best friends, Daniel, Grant, and Lary, to help heralthough Lary makes it no secret that he hopes the paint fumes she inhaled early in her pregnancy will cause the baby to be born inside out"that way it'll be easier to sell for parts."
Will Gillespie ever feel safe? No matter, she's still Hollis at heartand, as Lary points out, if not safe, at least "safe from ever being normal."
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The Crackers: Early Days Of Atlanta Baseballby Tim Darnell, Dews, Bobby (AFT), Bill ShippISBN 1588181014 (1-58818-101-4)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crackers: Early Days Of Atlanta Baseball'Book summary:[via]Beginning in an era before traffic jams, air-conditioning, and Atlantas ascension to international fame, Tim Darnell chronicles the emergence of amateur and minor-league baseball in various forms in Atlanta from just after the Civil War through the rise of the Crackers (190165).
Through never-before-published player interviews, rare illustrations, extensive charts and statistics, and thorough research, Darnell examines the drama and politics that affected the Crackers over the years. Also profiled is the Black Crackers, Atlantas Negro Southern League franchise whose success and popularity paralleled those of their white counterparts.
The Crackers is a light-hearted, fun, and engrossing history of a time, a people, and one very special centerfield magnolia tree whose stories are legend to this day.
Includes a Crackers Trivia Quiz, and appendices with records and statistics.
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Death of a Dunwoody Matronby Patricia SprinkleISBN 1933523069 (1-933523-06-9)
Softcover, Bella Rosa Books
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Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864by Albert E. CastelISBN 070060748X (0-7006-0748-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Down on Ponceby Fred WillardISBN 1563524317 (1-56352-431-7)
Softcover, Longstreet Pr
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Encore!: The Inside Story of the Atlanta Braves' Second Consecutive National League Championshipby I.J. RosenbergISBN 1563520621 (1-56352-062-1)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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The Evidence of Things Not Seenby James BaldwinISBN 1568495757 (1-56849-575-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evidence of Things Not Seen'Book summary:This edition of a classic work by one of America s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter s skill and an essayist s insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings a city that claimed to be too busy to hate and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about justice for all. Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.[via]More editions of The Evidence of Things Not Seen:
Finding Lauraby Kay HooperISBN 1568955340 (1-56895-534-0)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Fire!: The 100 Most Devastating Fires Through the Ages and the Heroes Who Fought Themby Edward C. GoodmanISBN 1579121608 (1-57912-160-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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The 100 most infamous fires through the ages leap full-blown from the pages of FIRE!, complete with the ravages caused by the consuming infernos and the courage of the men and women who fought the conflagrations. Lively artwork and photographs on show blazing buildings, tragedy-stricken survivors, charred destruction, and firefighters in the heat of the battle. Fascinating history, along with technical information about the nature, causes and behavior of fires, take readers into the dangerous and complex world of firefighting, to examine the first fire engines and brigades; to understand how and why fires are sometimes set to put out fires; when airdrops are used; how to avoid dangerous backdrafts; and much, much more. The book features fires from the beginning of recorded history and includes the 1666 Great London Fire, the 1858 New York Crystal Palace Fire, the 1902 Atlantic City Fire, the
1906 San Francisco Fire, the World War II Dresden Firestorm, the 1980 MGM Grand Hotel and Casino Fire, the 1991 Oakland/Berkeley Hills Fire and the Los Alamos Wildfires of 2000. [via]
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Gone With the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0684826259 (0-684-82625-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone with the Wind'Book summary:An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Gone With the Wind: ISBN 0446365386 (0-446-36538-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Gone With the Wind: ISBN 0446675539 (0-446-67553-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Gone With the Wind: ISBN 0024894400 (0-02-489440-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Gone With the Wind: ISBN 0025853503 (0-02-585350-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Gone With the Wind: ISBN 0025853902 (0-02-585390-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Gone with the Wind: ISBN 0684826259 (0-684-82625-9)
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I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Storyby Rick BraggISBN 1400077478 (1-4000-7747-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story'Book summary:Private First Class Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue during the 2003 war in Iraq captured the attention and captivated the emotions of millions of Americans. Accounts of the actual events surrounding Lynch were wildly varied as some took her to be a symbol of American righteousness while others made her out to be a pawn of the US military. But the Lynch that emerges in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg's portrayal is an ordinary young woman caught up in an extraordinary series of events. Bragg, who had the cooperation of Lynch and her family in writing I Am a Soldier, Too intersperses her war story with a detailed portrait of the diminutive kid from Palestine, West Virginia who enlisted to see the world. What's truly remarkable about Lynch is how relatively unremarkable she is. She had a normal working class childhood, did fine in high school, performed capably in basic training, made some good friends, met a guy, and, like thousands of her contemporaries, was sent off to a war zone in the Middle East. But the story takes a sharp turn when her vehicle loses the convoy it was following near Nasiriyah, her four fellow soldiers are killed in the subsequent fighting, and Lynch is badly wounded and taken prisoner. Blacking out for three hours, she awakes in an Iraqi hospital where the tensions of war coupled with a lack of resources and a language and culture barrier make for a harrowing stay even as numerous medical personnel defy their own military to protect her and save her life. Finally, American troops captured Nasiriyah, kicked down the hospital doors (even as hospital workers tried to give them a master key) and airlifted Lynch out. Bragg also tells the story of the blue collar West Virginia town of Palestine and the Lynch family who the world watches, first as Jessica goes missing, then when she is rescued, and finally when she returns amid much fanfare. Bragg keeps the story telling pretty simple, avoiding an analysis of how the story was spun or the politics behind the war itself. In the end, Jessica Lynch is not, by her own insistence, a hero. Rather, she is a soldier with a remarkable story of survival to tell. Thankfully, she has now had the opportunity to tell it herself. --John Moe [via]
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I Rode The Pink Pig: Atlanta's Favorite Christmas Traditionby Hill Street PressISBN 1588180999 (1-58818-099-9)
Hardcover, Gibbs Smith
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Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreamsby Charles RutheiserISBN 1859841457 (1-85984-145-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Juventudby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 849793072X (84-9793-072-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Kennesaw Mountain June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibralter of Georgiaby Richard A. Baumgartner, Larry M. StrayerISBN 1885033257 (1-885033-25-7)
Softcover, Blue Acorn Pr
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Kill the Competitionby Stephanie BondISBN 157490583X (1-57490-583-X)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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King's Drawing from the Musee Du Louvreby Varena Forcione, Catherine LoiselISBN 1932543090 (1-932543-09-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Leaving Atlantaby Tayari JonesISBN 0446690899 (0-446-69089-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Little Bitty Lies: A Novelby Mary Kay AndrewsISBN 0060566698 (0-06-056669-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via] -
A Man in Full Pt. 1: A Novelby Tom WolfeISBN 0374270325 (0-374-27032-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Mobil Travel Guide 1996: Southwest and South Central Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, TexasISBN 0679030492 (0-679-03049-2)
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A Mystery Bred in Buckhead: A Southern Mysteryby Patricia SprinkleISBN 1933523077 (1-933523-07-7)
Softcover, Bella Rosa Books
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906by Mark BauerleinISBN 1893554546 (1-893554-54-6)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Nosferatuby Gherbod FlemingISBN 1565048350 (1-56504-835-0)
Softcover, White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated
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The Old Religionby David MametISBN 1585671908 (1-58567-190-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Peachtree Roadby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061097233 (0-06-109723-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Pouce Deleon: An Intimate Portrait of Atlanta's Most Famous Avenueby George MitchellISBN 0915063018 (0-915063-01-8)
Softcover, Argonne Books
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Princess Naughty and the Voodoo Cadillacby Fred WillardISBN 1563526220 (1-56352-622-0)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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Race and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Atlantaby Ronald H. BayorISBN 0807822701 (0-8078-2270-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riotby Rebecca BurnsISBN 1578602688 (1-57860-268-8)
Softcover, Emmis Pr
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Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988by Clarence N StoneISBN 0700604162 (0-7006-0416-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Sherman's Battle for Atlantaby Jacob D. CoxISBN 030680588X (0-306-80588-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Windby Darden Asbury PyronISBN 1588180972 (1-58818-097-2)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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The Spectra Hoaxby William Jay Smith, Arthur Davison FickeISBN 1885266847 (1-885266-84-7)
Softcover, Story Line Pr
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Sprawl City: Race, Politics, & Planning in Atlantaby Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. TorresISBN 1559637900 (1-55963-790-0)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Stayby Nicola GriffithISBN 140003230X (1-4000-3230-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stopping Karp, a task for which Aud is uniquely suited, tests her strength and her sanity; by transforming her grief into vengeance, she's forced to come to terms with the violence and brutality that are as central to her character as tenderness, sensuality, and vulnerability. Tautly plotted and pulsating with energy, this is a novel that won't let go, alternately searing and shocking as well as soaring with lyrical prose that's close to poetry in places. Aud, Nicola Griffith's complex protagonist who made her first appearance in The Blue Place, is never less than compelling in this stunning sequel. --Jane Adams [via]
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Toreadorby Stewart WieckISBN 1565048016 (1-56504-801-6)
Softcover, Psi
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Trackside around Atlanta, 1956-1976, with Howard Robinsby Howard Robins, Paul FaulkISBN 1582481318 (1-58248-131-8)
Hardcover, Morning Sun Books
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Familyby Gary M. PomerantzISBN 0140265090 (0-14-026509-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga Of Two Families and The Making Of Atlantaby Gary M. PomerantzISBN 0684807173 (0-684-80717-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fireby Sam Heys, Allen B. GoodwinISBN 1563520699 (1-56352-069-9)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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You Were Born Again to Be Togetherby Dick SutphenISBN 0671648462 (0-671-64846-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Zagatsurvey 2000/2001 Atlanta RestaurantsISBN 1570062293 (1-57006-229-3)
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Juventud/ Youthby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 9700517004 (970-05-1700-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Lo Que El Viento Se Llevoby Margaret MithcellISBN 8466306641 (84-663-0664-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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UN Homme, UN Vraiby Tom WolfeISBN 2266100114 (2-266-10011-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'UN Homme, UN Vrai'Book summary:1013pages. poche. broché. Charlie Croker, richissime promoteur de soixante ans, a bâti son immense empire à Atlanta. Il est le symbole de l'Amérique blanche triomphante -jusqu'à ce qu'un placement immobilier hasardeux le menace de banqueroute. Fareek Fanon, célèbre footballeur noir tout droit sorti du ghetto d'Atlanta, est accusé de viol par une riche et influente Blanche. Les émeutes raciales menacent la ville: Atlanta la Blanche, ville de pouvoir et d'argent, s'oppose à Atlanta la Noire. Charlie Croker, ancien champion universitaire de football, ne pourrait-il pas réconcilier les deux partis ? La confrontation entre ces deux univers, orchestrée par un jeune et brillant avocat de la bourgeoisie noire, dévoile une Amérique cosmopolite, gangrenée par le racisme et la violence, dans laquelle se joue une inoubliable comédie humaine. [via]
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