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A shiftless Georgia mountain man has set aside one acre of his land as income producer for the church. But the acre shifts in location according to his needs of the moment.

An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl's coming of age. Born in 1949 in a private blacks-only hospital in rural Georgia, Lena is the third child and longed-for first daughter of Nellie and Jonah, who own the local bar and liquor store. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Despite her extraordinary talent, Lena...

"A tragicomedy"--Cover subtitle. Over one weekend during a women's bodybuilding competition, Shereel Dupont, a secretary, has found a new life as a champion bodybuilding contender, but her Georgia family unexpectedly shows up and turns things upside down with their redneck antics.

In 1939, Mr Oto, a Japanese American with a secret past, becomes the gardener of Miss Anne, the leading citizen of Salty Creek, Georgia. The coming of World War II threatens his new life and his new love.

"The great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called 'Double Consciousness,' a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans--the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers--Ailey carries Du Bois's...

Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

"When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. As he journeys to his native Georgia in search of Cee, it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation....