Georgia Books

I happen to be in this book. Two cousins of mine contributed some of the material for this book and included some of my achievements. Ironically, the first person shown in the book is an old man to whom I used to take meals when I was seven- or eight-years old (prepared by my mother or grandmother, of course). I agree that the educational system during my childhood was pretty good. I left Brunswick, Georgia with only an eighth grade education, yet found that I could compete in the workforce with college graduates. I intend to get copies of this book for my children and grandchildren so they can visualize my origins. Major E. Magwood

This is an excellent historical account of blacks in Glynn County and is a valuable tool for African Americans. It dispells the many myths that have existed for years concerning the quality of separate education. Many of the blacks featured here excelled in their efforts long before intergration. I applaud the
private schools that cared enough to give the best and I applaud those early settlers who demonstrated courage and valour. In addition I thank the author for having the insight to record the events that most history books refuse to tell. This is a first for blacks in Glynn County.

When I returned home to Savannah after being gone almost 25 years, the first place I wanted to visit was Gottlieb's Bakery. Sadly, a short time later, they closed their doors for the last time. I brought my NY-born daughter with me and wanted her to try my favorite dessert in the world. She had heard about it all her life. While it was still unique and delicious, not sharing it with my mom took away a little of the magic. But having my own daughter to share it with made up for that. A cookbook filled with childhood memories of a bygone time. Now everyone in the US and beyond can savor the recipes I grew up on. Wonderful book. Wonderful memories.

I have had this cookbook for about 10 years. I am always using it for the pastry recipes. I honestly feel that my reputation as a GREAT baker has been established by the use of this book. The writing style is wonderful and warm, such as, 'don't even think of using butter flavor shortening!' I love it and would recommend it to everyone, new and experienced bakers!

Grace under Fire by Charlotte Russell Johnson will show you first hand how to make any homegoing a celebration of life. A funeral should be a time for a family to bond. Planning a funeral is very complicated. It involves a great deal of coordination and organization at a time when you are probably not feeling very organized. Surviving the death of a loved one is very difficult. You experience so many emotions including anger, death, sadness, remorse, and even relief if the loved one was suffering. Now add additional family problems to the equation and you will need to experience Grace from God while under Fire. Ms. Johnson does not demean the experience, but rather offers humor as a way of relieve the pain. Even the Bible says, "Laughter doeth good like a medicine Every funeral should be a celebration of life. This book changed my life and view of death.

Charlotte Johnson is a very talented author. She is able to capture the very essence of the tremendous triad of being African-American, female, and southern. The richness of her writings leans the reader into envisioning that they are sharing in each experience. This book is thought provoking, ensightful, and a much needed analysis of life long love, forgiveness, infidelity, passion, and the search for the perfect union and soulmate. I was hooked on the book after reading the Introducton on page 13. My desire is that every one that I know has an opportunity to experience life through the eyes of Charlotte Russell Johnson.


I have read each of Ms. Johnson's book. She is able to touch her readers in a very intimate way. Initially, I thought the book was about grief and then half way through the book it surprised me. Every reader can identify with being overwhelmed and pressured to make a life altering decision

I started reading this book in the beauty shop. I was so excited that I audibly exclaimed 'oh'. I wish Oprah would have a book this exciting on her show instead of some of her recent books. It was easy for me to see the main characters dilemna. I thing everyone has had to make a choice to trust and love or embrace loneliness. After reading the book, I was forced to ask myself some questions about my own romantic life.

Putting three women with the same name in a small town at one time may sound quirky, but Stewart manages to make it work. The eerie proposition of three husbands who could quite possibly be willing to commit murder kept me guessing until near the end. Marmalade, the library cat, manages to save the day and still stay a completely believable feline throughout the book.
I'd say this one is a definite to put on your reading list, even if you're not a cat person.
And don't forget to read the other colors in the series, too. Fran Stewart is a winner.

Fran Stewart does it again. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but each of her "Rainbow" series delights and entertains. I was introduced to her novels recently, and they've simply charmed my socks off. Or if I were wearing socks, they would. As far as what I think of the series as a whole?

Fran Stewart has created a thoroughly endearing character in Biscuit McKee--fallible enough to be undeniably human and feisty enough to be thoroughly lovable. Biscuit wants nothing more than to live quietly in the small Georgia town of Martinsville with her husband and her Marmalade cat, but fate and family don't always cooperate. Biscuit faces each challenge life throws at her--and there are plenty of those--with determination and a little help from her cat.

Fran Stewart's Biscuit McKee stories are beautifully written, incorporating a blend of down-home wisdom and humor guaranteed to both charm and entertain.

Thank you, Fran, for your wonderful Biscuit McKee series!

GROUNDED GLOBALISM: HOW THE U.S. SOUTH EMBRACES THE WORLD is a pick for college-level libraries strong in either Southern history and culture or world history. It charts how the South and its peoples and businesses are 'going global', how it's been affected by demographic and economic changes, and how globalism has affected the southern sense of self. GROUNDED GLOBALISM comes from an anthropologist but crosses genres in examining history, religion, ecology and other influences on southern cultural evolution.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Grounded Globalism builds a fascinating model for the new South on an original insight: that globalization fundamentally transforms the region by transcending its oppositional identity to the North and subsuming it into the greater framework of the world as a whole. The crippling burden of history is lifted, freeing the South to soar, and yet to remain grounded in its regional specificity: the world is not truly flat, as Tom Friedman postulates.
Author James Peacock traces the forging of Southern history from its expansive early period to its nineteenth century definition by secession, civil war, reconstruction, and forward to its transformation by globalization in the new millennium. He makes a compelling case for the embrace of globalization by the new South, arguably contributing to its dominance in areas ranging from the economic to the political. Charlotte, North Carolina, is headquarters for Bank of America and Wachovia, Atlanta, Georgia for CNN, Raleigh for SAS. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Southerners both, ranked among the most intellectually impressive of American presidents.
The scholarly underpinnings of the book are enlivened by anecdotes and images, making for an insightful and informative contribution to the conversation on regional identity in a globalized world.

This volume of regimental histories of Georgia units in the Civil War is a gem. James Madison Folsom traveled to Virginia near the end of the war and worked directly with the regimental leaders of the units included to compile these histories, along with statistics (e.g., number of men enlisted, killed, wounded, etc.). Civil War history buffs will enjoy reading the histories. Family historians will be especially interested in the histories. My great-great grandfather was a member of the 6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and its regimental history is 11 pages in length. Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia provides the most complete source of information about the 6th Georgia regiment that I have been able to find.

Because of the extreme scarcity of the original edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia, few historians have heard of or utilized the book. This is unfortunate, for this volume stands as one of the most important published sources on Georgia troops in the Army of Northern Virginia. Included in Heroes and Martyrs are eighteen detailed histories of infantry, cavalry, and artillery units, most of them written in the summer of 1864 by Confederate officers in the trenches at Petersburg. The author of Heroes and Martyrs, James M. Folsom, originally intended on issuing multiple volumes that would chronicle the service of every military unit raised in Georgia during the Confederacy. Wartime exigencies, including the destruction of his manuscripts at the hands of Sherman's men, and postwar poverty prevented Folsom from ever completing his project. The one volume he was able to publish through the firm of Burke, Boykin, and Company of Macon, Georgia, appeared for sale in the spring of 1865, only weeks before Appomattox. Today fewer than a dozen original copies of Heroes and Martyrs are known to exist in public repositories. This new edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia contains a new introduction and index prepared by Keith S. Bohannon, a doctoral student in the history department at Penn State University and a seasonal historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

An underlying sense of tension and urgency runs like a thread through this exciting mystery and carries you to the surprise ending. I would never have guessed the outcome. Interesting characters and an intriguing plot make this a mystery you won't want to put down.

The characters are intriguing and you won't want to put it down until you find out "who dunnit"!

Twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner has grown up on a farm in Jubilee, Georgia, keenly attuned to nature. Through her eyes we experience the simple majesty of her seasonal life from summertime katydids to a unique gift of a wintertime hummingbird named Zipp. March Anne's life has always been predictable; but as she grows and feels the haunting call of the lonesome train whistle, things are beginning to change. Her grandmother Grenna, the only mother she and her brother have ever known, suffers a debilitating heart attack, and now she must face an inevitable loss. Throughout the summer and winter season, March Anne and her friends Meg and Laverne, otherwise known as the Pseudonymphs, are all edging towards adolescence and are seeking a sense of identity as their lives begin to unfold before them. However, in the midst of turmoil and confusion, March Anne finally heeds the mysterious call of the train whistle and is led to a deeply touching and heartfelt discovery. This book offers both laughter and tears, and through March Anne's journey, the reader experiences a sweet and tender view of life, loss, and grace. A must read for adolescents and adults alike!

A wonderful read for the pre-adolescent about the acceptance of self and one's place in the cycle of life. Twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner's life on a watermelon and pumpkin farm in rural Georgia is filled with friends, school projects, chores and farm animals, along with a true sense of family. When her beloved maternal grandmother, Grenna, who has raised her following the death of her mother at age three, suffers a heart attack with irreparable damage, March Anne must come to terms with the delayed response to grief for her own mother as well as the impending loss of her grandmother. This beautifully woven story of seasons, family life, and friendships makes this a real page-turner, for the reader quickly comes to care for the wonderfully-developed characters from the protagonist to the hummingbird named Zipp. As a former middle-school librarian, I heartily recommend that every library serving the preteen population have Hummingbird in its collection. I look forward to future contributions by this exciting new author of children's and young adult literature.

If you want to teach yourself to knit, this is it--the absolute BEST and clearest book on how to knit for the absolute beginner. It clearly and lucidly shows both Continental and American styles of knitting, so that you can EASILY and effortlessly learn either or both styles.

I made 3 attempts and spent quite a few unnecessary dollars on other books, but couldn't learn until I bought this one. And within 10 minutes, I was knitting with ease! I had no prior knitting experience, either.

I wish I had saved my money on the other books and just purchased this one. You can't go wrong with this $9 investment in one of the most rewarding hobbies on the planet.

I see that there is a newer, updated version of this book. I don't have it and can't comment on it specifically, but if the knitting directions are the same, then it is well worth the money. My guess is that they have simply updated the patterns in the book.

In any case, this is the only book you will need to learn the basics, and a few advanced techniques as well, of knitting.

I had learned the basics of knitting long ago, but needed a reminder and some help with casting on. Although it is a very corny title, it is a great little book at a reasonable price. It explains casting on very clearly, with good diagrams. It also explains all of the other basic stitches. There are even a few patterns included. There is an updated edition of this book, which I haven't seen. I expect the projects included in the new edition would be more stylish. But the new book is a bit more expensive. If you are just looking for some instructions but are using other patterns, this book would be a good addition to your library (either edition, I'm certain).

If you're a native Atlantan there are a few things that you will hold dear to your heart--the swan-shaped cream puffs at the Swan Coach House at the Atlanta Historical Society, the Ladies Lounge at the Fox Theatre, the frozen chicken salas at Rich's Magnolia Room, the old magnolia tree at the old Ponce de Leon Ball Park, Mary Mac's pimento cheese, and--at the top of the list--Priscilla the Pink Pig Flyer at Rich's. It's just the most unique thing about Christmas in the city. We might not have snow or ice skating, but we have Priscilla!!! This book is just adorable. The book has a scrapbook section in the back so I printed out photos of my daughters on Santa's knee (in 1964!)and the photos we took of my grandbabies Kylie, Josh, and Paige at the Pink Pig last year (the 50th anniversary)and gave copies to each of those grandchildren. They just though it was so "cool" to see their mommies at their age--in a Mini-skirt kilt and saddle shoes and horn-rimmed glasses! This book is such a blessing and a treasure!

If you're an Atlantan--a true, old-line Atlantan, that is--you'll love this book! Riding the Pink Pig was THE way to get into the Christmas spirit for anyone who grew up in the 1950s or 1960s (although the ride continues to the present day). This book is packed with so many memories, pictures of Santa's Secret Shop, recipes from the old Magnolia Room downtown (remember the frozen chicken salad), it just about made this old fool cry. Although the Rich's name is not going to be around too much longer--which is a crying shame itself!--the Pink Pig Flyer continues and this book is a must-have celebration of something uniquely Atlanta and too rapidly disappearing.