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• Gone With the Wind

  Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949

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  A spoiled young Southern belle vows to rebuild her family plantation home after the Civil War and is swept off her feet by a man who infuriates her.

• Savannah Blues

  Andrews, Mary Kay, 1954-

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  Follows Eloise "Weezie" Foley, an antiques picker, as she deals with a huge estate sale, eccentric relatives, a sexy ex-boyfriend, and her ex-husband and his new girlfriend, unexpectedly discovering love is much better the second time around.

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  a Savannah Story

  Berendt, John

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  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city is certain to become a modern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Railroad

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  After Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South.

• Undone

  Slaughter, Karin, 1971-

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  Fleeing to Atlanta to seek refuge in the aftermath of a violent act, Sara Linton becomes unwittingly enmeshed in a case involving a tortured young ER patient, a situation that is investigated by special agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell.

• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.

• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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  When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poisonwood Bible

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives forever transformed over the course of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Night in Georgia

  a Novel

  Norfleet, Celeste O,

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  In the summer of 1968 three Manhattan co-eds embark on a road trip to Atlanta and find tensions running high as they make their way south via racially friendly locations for gas, rest and food.

• High Noon

  Roberts, Nora

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  Attracted to a talented police lieutenant who serves as Savannah's top hostage negotiator, Duncan Swift endeavors to become a part of Phoebe MacNamara's solitary life in both her personal and professional arenas.

• Death on the Family Tree

  a Family Tree Mystery

  Sprinkle, Patricia Houck

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  After her Aunt Lucy dies, Katharine Murray discovers her aunt's possessions, and her search to find out about the artifacts leads to the discovery of the murder of Lucy's brother, the theft of the objects, and the prime suspect's murder.

• The Hand I Fan With

  Ansa, Tina McElroy

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  A love story set in a small Georgia town filled with eccentric residents follows the romance between a generous, large-hearted woman and a ghost from one hundred years ago.

• Lost Lake

  Allen, Sarah Addison

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  Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal.

• The River of Kings

  a Novel

  Brown, Taylor, 1982-

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  Two brothers, a college student and a Navy SEAL, travel the storied past and present of Georgia's "Little Amazon" Altamaha River to scatter their enigmatic father's ashes while exploring the work of 16th-centry artist Jacques Le Moyne and sharing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Sassy Tree

  Burns, Olive Ann

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  One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around - fast. On July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day that E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tailspin

  Brown, Sandra, 1948-

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  Hired to deliver a mysterious box to a fogbound Georgia town, daredevil pilot Rye Mallett is targeted by saboteurs and law enforcement before teaming up with an attractive but suspicious doctor to determine the box's significance.

• The Hornet's Nest

  a Novel of the Revolutionary War

  Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024

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  In 1766 Ethan Pratt and his wife move from Philadelphia to North Carolina and then to Georgia. There they form friendships with their neighbors Kindred Morris and his wife. Through Kindred and his Indian friend, Ethan learns about the frontier and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Mist

  Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

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  As she investigates the murder of her former deputy chief, Kay Scarpetta discovers links a series of otherwise unrelated killings, and soon finds herself unraveling a global terror conspiracy.

• Deliverance

  Dickey, James

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

  a Novel

  Hoffman, Beth

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  For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To…Read moreRead more of this annotation