The Chattahoochee River User’s Guide traces the 430-mile course of the Chattahoochee River from its headwaters at a spring on Coon Den Ridge near Jacks Knob in northeastern Georgia to its confluence with the Flint River--where they form the Apalachicola River--providing many little-known facts about Georgia’s rivers, bring to life these rivers’ cultural and natural history, and presenting river issues in an immersive and...

Mountain Spirits is a scholarly yet entertaining look into the folklore of moonshine and whiskey, chock full of interviews with actual moonshiners and documented history that allows one to take a trip through the mountains - and through history - to discover both the origins and development of the art of making whiskey. With a complete glossary, photographs, illustrations, and interviews, Mountain Spirits offers...

In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit, but there was a time when such stellar success seemed like a dream. In Things I Should Have Told My Daughter, a revelatory and deeply personal work, Cleage takes readers back to the...

Bestselling author Ann B. Ross is back with Etta Mae’s Worst Bad-Luck Day, another lively adventure set in Miss Julia’s Abbotsville. For the first time, though, she writes from the perspective of another resident: the hardscrabble, heart-of-gold Etta Mae Wiggins. A hilarious wild goose chase that takes us from the mansions of Abbotsville to the trailer park that Etta Mae calls home, Ann B....

Back by popular demand is one of our most exciting programs for the end of the summer. Representatives from America’s biggest publishers will return to the library to talk about the exciting new books that will be published this fall. It’s your unique opportunity to get an advance look at notable upcoming book titles in the fields of biography, fiction, history, young adult, mystery,...