San Antonio College Library

History of Georgia from the colonial days to the present.

Traces the history and development of Georgia and discusses the state and its people today.

The history of Georgia as narrated by author from her founding through her participation in the Revolution.

A novel on a small town in Georgia. The protagonists are a peanut virologist who is fending off insects which threaten the town's livelihood and a woman painter of chickens with whom he has a romance. A third character campaigns to save vanishing typefaces.

"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.

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...