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A work of art as well as a work of literature, A YEAR OF BIRDS will be welcomed by nature lovers, art lovers, and birders. With 150 color illustrations by renowned bird artist Barry Van Dusen and a...

In a small town in central Virginia, during the summer of 1958, something took place that is now forgotten or dismissed by the few who are still around to recall it. A local church burned to the...

During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a...

All manner of ghosts haunt the poems in Jack Bedell's new collection, GHOST FOREST. From memories of lost loved ones, to the ghosts of heroes, to the remnants of an eroding coastline, these spectres...

Xenophon (430-354 BCE) was a man of many modes: follower of Socrates, Athenian General, friend to Sparta, philosopher, political theorist, military historian, and writer. This collection of essays...

Ann Hite takes her readers back to Black Mountain with this haunted short story collection. An array of new characters on the mountain experience ghostly encounters. The collection took inspiration...

Edgar Allan Poe's legacy continues to thrive more than one hundred seventy years since his mystery death. Poe's ubiquitous presence is evident in not only literature published today but also film,...

While 1920s Charlottesville, Virginia, is a charming place to grow up, there's one thing Carrie Buck doesn't like about her hometown--her home. Taken from her mother, Carrie is put up for fostering...

Pure Evil: The Machetti Murders Of Macon, GeorgiaAuthor: Jaclyn Weldon WhitePublisher: Mercer University PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2021Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Imagine the relationship triangle from "East of Eden" and set it deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Add a couple of ghosts, a good measure of dysfunction, and a whole lot of twists and turns, and you...

Civil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. There are two versions of events: Confederate commanding General Joseph E. Johnston's story,...

Baptists have a well-earned reputation as a contentious people. Lacking a centralized authority to settle disputes, and defending the conscience of each believer, they have excelled at conflict and...

John Wesley O'Toole, a disbarred former attorney, continues to struggle to build a new life as an art dealer after his release from prison. In this, the third book in the series, O'Toole has made the...

In these poems written over the course of a year, Holly Haworth trace[s] the moon through the traceless sky" in a meditation both on time's cyclical nature and how it slips away-and on writing as a...

Join Mercer University's mascot, Toby, on a fun-filled tour around campus, stopping at all his favorite places on the way to the big game. Explore the highlights of Mercer University's main campus in...

If festschrifts celebrate a person for their life's work, few are more worthy of the honor than William J. Leonard. He is equal parts teacher, minister, and administrator, all with a style that is...

Wofford's Blood is an epic family saga saturated in Cherokee and North Georgia history. It is 1815, in the contested borderland between the state of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation, and 13-year-old J...