Georgia Books

Dr. Leeds has completed a work that has long been missing. Her book is scholarly and insightful. I highly recommend it. Let's hope we see more books from Dr. Leeds.

I recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of the Cherokee Nation. Dr. Leed's love and understanding of the Cherokee's is obvious upon reading this book. I found this book interesting and well written.

Bought this for my dad, what a great book. It contains an amazing history
of UGA football and has fun tidbits tucked inside like a scrapbook.
I'd recommend this for any UGA fan that "has everything". This is one item they are sure to love.

What do you keep in a vault? Treasures? Well, this vault contains treasures for the Bulldog fan! I bought three of these and the recipients were very happy with the gift! Loren Smith is a well-known Georgia 'landmark' and has been Larry Munson's sideline sidekick for years. I can still hear Larry Munson saying, "How about it, Loren?" He has compiled a wonderful collection to bring the history of Georgia football alive for all who read it. Thanks, Loren!

As a child, J. J. Haverty witnessed the burning of Atlanta; as an adult, he played a key role in creating its enduring icons. Haverty Furniture Company, Atlanta's High Museum, the Cathedral of Christ the King, and the giant carving the side of Stone Mountain (to name just a few) can all be traced back to his vision and efforts. Villa Clare tells the story of Haverty's life, with emphasis on his love for art, his vision for Atlanta as an art center, and the seeds he planted that brought his vision to life. William Rawson Smith brings this story to life with an objective, but warm-hearted look at how Haverty rose from a child left homeless by war to one of Atlanta's great historical figures. Anyone with an interest in the history of Haverty Furniture Company, the Haverty family or Atlanta's art community should add this book to their "must read" list.

This is not an old boring history book. It's a good, interesting book. You will love it.

Kromer's account of homelessness is so accurate and insightful that the reader is thrown into the despairing life of the narrator with nothing to hold onto. The mysterious and faceless narrator serves as the most useful tool in conveying the hopeless existance of the "hobo." Written using the slang true to his featured characters, Kromer has painted a truly acurate and at times disturbing portrait of life as a railriding begger. Take time to read his biographical information and decide for yourself if this novel is indeed fiction or not. I could say so much more, having studied and re-read the book for years, but space is limited.

Kromer's writing is impressive, in that it fully exposes the atmosphere of a "stiff" struggling to eat, sleep, not get caught and whisked away to jail. The vignettes of Waiting for Nothing are absorbing and keep you feeling cold and waiting for nothing with him. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to the history of the depression. It truly makes it more real.

I've met the author of this book and I can truely appriciate his views and the way he is able to leave his mark on a book that is basically history. All the books he has written are wonderful. They are among my favorite books.

A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia is a great gift for any alumni or prospective student. UGA is the nation's oldest state charted public University, founded in 1785, and it is a major university today, with 30,000 students enrolled and over 14,000 applying for admission each year. This book offers a concise history of all parts of the 600+ acres of the beautifly landscaped University of Georgia and is easy to carry around if you're touring the campus. It is a lot more limited in scope than Professor Boney's other book on UGA - A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA - which offers a wealth of information, but is not easy to carry as you walk through the campus. -UGA Alumnus

This is a wonderful little story (summarized well, above) of a girl who spots tadpoles and the next day, collects some up and brings them to school. The colorful and detailed illustrations burst off the page and involve children ages 3-5 with her independent ideas and spirit.

The children and teacher demonstrate a variety of cultural styles, the teacher gets right into the spontaneous teaching opportunity Wanda has provided, the parents are warm and loving.

This book reminds me of another wonderful series by Vera Rosenberry (Vera's Baby Sister, Vera Rides a Bike, When Vera Was Sick, Vera Goes to the Dentist, Vera's First Day at School), which are definitely worth a look.

I think this Wanda book is much better than the first (which has a strange story: she gets an earring stuck in her hair and is embarrassed about it at school) and I hope the author writes more in the series.

The delightful sequel to the highly recommended "Wanda and the Wild Hair", Wanda and the Frogs is the latest picturebook featuring the adventures spunky young Wanda, who is completely enchanted with all the trappings of spring - especially its rain puddles and wriggling black tadpoles! When she brings tadpoles in a sand pail to her teacher, her class is allowed to care for them until they become frogs. But then what will happen to the frogs? Wanting to keep the frogs, Wanda devises a scheme to move them into her own bedroom - with hilarious results! Bright color illustrations add a festive touch to this exuberant story with a touching moral about compassion. "'Now Wanda' he said, taking her by the hand. 'Let's get dressed and take the frogs back to the creek. Frogs don't like living in houses. They'll be much happier at the creek.' 'Okay,' said Wanda. 'But I'll be able to visit them, won't I?'"

I read this book while on vacation. It is a wonderful book on the role of the Georgia colony in the colonization competition between Spain and England. I loved it because it gave an insight into the man of James Oglethorpe.

Action, adventure, history. I loved this book! Based on the life of James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia. It's hard to put the book down after the first page.

I absolutely LOVE this book. It's an adorable sing songy rhyming story written with childlike wild imagination and great pictures. It's a story they will never tire of hearing. It's perfect for a child expecting a new baby sibling but we are not and it's still one of our favorite books to read! Great baby shower gift.

This was my son's favorite story the months before I had my second son. A tired, rather pregnant mother doesn't have the energy to play with her son, so he imagines that having playmates like a moose, a chimp, birds or even a crocodile would be great. Lynne Fairbridge does a wonderful job of rhyming and repetition. Even after the 100th reading (I swear I'm not exaggerating), the story still brings a smile to my face. Not to ruin the surprise ending, but when God send a "brand new baby brother", my children shout out the ending. They even ran into the hospital room after the birth of their brother,shouting, "Where's my brand new baby brother?"

Enter, if you dare, the mind of a teenaged boy with all its conflicting tenderness, violence, sexuality and vulnerability. Author Larry Hand has not so much painted as etched in hard lines, a portrait of Buddy Barnes, one of four sons of a south Georgia tobacco farmer.
Hand takes a character that could have been easily stereotyped into a 1950’s James Dean rebel and gives him edges and angles to be explored and depths to be plumbed. His vivid images will both terrify and delight the reader. Buddy learns early to cope with the harsh realities of life among the laboring class by developing an imagination that channels his violent inclinations into fantasies. When singled out for derision by his first-grade teacher who labels him “backwards,” Buddy pictures her being eaten by a giant praying mantis. “The big green thing turned, reached out its long arms, grabbed Miss Pritchard by the head, and ripped it straight up off of her body. A shower of crimson liquid spewed all over her desk and splattered some of those snotty little rich kids sitting up there in the front row. Then it placed its gigantic jaws around her head and clamped down, the way a hog bites into a watermelon. Her brain splattered across the chalkboard and made little puddles all over the floor.”
Yet when Buddy later speaks of the girl who would break his heart, he reveals a poetic soul at odds with his violent imaginings. “When I first saw the girl I would love forever, she had jewels in her mouth.” He later explains as he sips water in a sweltering tobacco warehouse, “… She used to wear braces on her teeth. When I kissed her, she tasted just like metal. It used to remind me of drinking water like this. … out of a tin dipper. …always cool…and sweet.” However, when taunted by his cousin about losing the love of his life, Buddy turns again to his murderous fantasies. “I didn’t say anything, but in my mind I stuck a pitchfork into his belly and twisted, allowing his guts to spill out onto the patch of white sand next to his car.”
The year Buddy graduates from high school, he must decide what really makes a boy a man. When threatened with a gun by his cousin, Buddy considers making his illusory massacres real, which would certainly start a family war. “That’s the way it ought to be … the way it’s always been. Brothers taking up for brothers. Cousins taking up for cousins.”
Larry Hand writes from personal experience and a sensitivity that allows the reader to smell the pine trees, tar, and tobacco fields of south Georgia and to feel the angst of a young man in conflict with his own soul.

Enter, if you dare, the mind of a teenaged boy with all its conflicting tenderness, violence, sexuality and vulnerability. Author Larry Hand has not so much painted as etched in hard lines, a portrait of Buddy Barnes, one of four sons of a south Georgia tobacco farmer.
Hand takes a character that could have been easily stereotyped into a 1950's James Dean rebel and gives him edges and angles to be explored and depths to be plumbed. His vivid images will both terrify and delight the reader. Buddy learns early to cope with the harsh realities of life among the laboring class by developing an imagination that channels his violent inclinations into fantasies. When singled out for derision by his first-grade teacher who labels him "backwards," Buddy pictures her being eaten by a giant praying mantis. "The big green thing turned, reached out its long arms, grabbed Miss Pritchard by the head, and ripped it straight up off of her body. A shower of crimson liquid spewed all over her desk and splattered some of those snotty little rich kids sitting up there in the front row. Then it placed its gigantic jaws around her head and clamped down, the way a hog bites into a watermelon. Her brain splattered across the chalkboard and made little puddles all over the floor."
Yet when Buddy later speaks of the girl who would break his heart, he reveals a poetic soul at odds with his violent imaginings. "When I first saw the girl I would love forever, she had jewels in her mouth." He later explains as he sips water in a sweltering tobacco warehouse, "... She used to wear braces on her teeth. When I kissed her, she tasted just like metal. It used to remind me of drinking water like this. ... out of a tin dipper. ...always cool...and sweet." However, when taunted by his cousin about losing the love of his life, Buddy turns again to his murderous fantasies. "I didn't say anything, but in my mind I stuck a pitchfork into his belly and twisted, allowing his guts to spill out onto the patch of white sand next to his car."
The year Buddy graduates from high school, he must decide what really makes a boy a man. When threatened with a gun by his cousin, Buddy considers making his illusory massacres real, which would certainly start a family war. "That's the way it ought to be ... the way it's always been. Brothers taking up for brothers. Cousins taking up for cousins."
Larry Hand writes from personal experience and a sensitivity that allows the reader to smell the pine trees, tar, and tobacco fields of south Georgia and to feel the angst of a young man in conflict with his own soul.

This is a brilliant observation of rural Southern life from dark to side-splitting; always affectionate and often surprising. It is infused with the compassion of a skilled but humble healer. It is an unusual juxtaposition of broad literary and poetic references and the unique rural, Southern witticisms and dialect.

This was my first exposure to Ferroll Sams and a couple of the stories will stick with you forever. You will have to figure this out for yourself. I recently listened to a recording of these stories and was surprised all over again just how wonderful they are.

Most of these incorporate Southern quirkiness. There is one very moving story in the form of a letter to the author from a young doctor who treats Sams. These are original and well-written stories and provide a sample of Dr. Sams' writing skill. His three autobiographical novels that followed these stories are worth looking for.