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	The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide  •  Cecily McMillan  •  Wade Spees GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 244 PAGES • COMING IN OCTOBER An excellent, locally produced travel guide mixing history, culture, and anecdote with a shipload of up-to-date practical information. It does justice to this area's rich traditions and food. (USS13, $18.95)
	A Short History of Charleston  •  Robert Rosen HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES A short, authoritative, and lively history of Charleston by a native son. Rosen, a third-generation Charlestonian, recounts Charleston's history, communicating the town's considerable flavor. Well illustrated with 84 black-and-white photos. (USS12, $16.95)
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  •  John Berendt TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 386 PAGES If you haven't already read this mega-bestseller, you're in for a treat. Berendt magically turned his relatively brief stay in Savannah into a rollicking and sensitive portrait of the city, capturing a great variety of colorful characters and the spirit of the place. (USS09, $14.95)
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States  •  Peter Alden FIELD GUIDE •  1999 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 446 PAGES Covering everything from the birds and bees to flowers, trees, mammals and fish, this compact guide features 1,500 photographs, concise descriptions and an overview of the natural history and protected areas of the Southeast from Mississippi and Georgia to North Carolina. Take it along. (USS31, $19.95)

	Charleston Map  •   Navigator Maps    •  A clear, easy to use souvenir map of Charleston, featuring the city center and well marked places of interest. (USS312, $7.95)
	Savannah Map  •   Navigator Maps    •  A clear, easy to use map of the city center, featuring well marked places of interest. (USS340, $7.95)
	Fodor's Pocket Savannah & Charleston  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The sixth edition of the popular compact guide, slim in size but chock-full of useful information, attractions and sightseeing details. (USS24, $10.95)
	The Intracoastal Waterway, Norfolk to Miami  •  Jan and Bill Moeller   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A spiral-bound, mile-by-mile guide to the Intracoastal Waterway intended for sailors. (USS30, $19.95)
	The National Trust Guide to Savannah  •  Roulhac Toledano   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to the architectural culture and history of Old Savannah. With 200 archival photographs and maps, it includes chapters on historic preservation, famous visitors, and a comprehensive tour of architectural styles. (USS26, $26.95)
	Very Charleston, A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm  •  Diana Hollingsworth Gessler   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A quirky overview of the city and its attractions. (USE402, $15.95)
	Southern Food, At Home, on the Road, in History  •  John Egerton  •  Al Clayton   • FOOD  •  An appreciative book on Southern cuisine. (USS223, $24.95)
	Africans in America, America's Journey Through Slavery  •  Charles Johnson  •  Patricia Smith  •   WBGH Series Research Team   • HISTORY  •  A powerful collaborative effort that paints a vivid picture of the history of slavery in America, and celebrates the brave Africans who managed to preserve their heritage as they endured so many hardships. (USS53, $17.00)
	Confederate Charleston, An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War  •  Robert Rosen   • HISTORY  •  A lavishly illustrated history of Charleston during the civil war, this is an illuminating portrait of the times, the war, and, of course, the great city. (USS11, $39.95)
	Confederates in the Attic  •  Tony Horwitz   • HISTORY  •  Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book conjures the remarkable, ongoing interest in the Civil War. Horwitz draws much history into this account of travels through former battlefields. (USS35, $14.95)
	Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles  •  Burnette Vanstory  •  Eugenia Price   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  First published in 1956, this is a rich portrait of the sea islands off of Georgia's coast. Each island gets its own chapter, detailing its history, with information on the native peoples, early settlements and slave plantations. (USS63, $18.95)
	Praying for Sheetrock  •  Melissa Fay Greene   • HISTORY  •  The story of Georgia's McIntosh County in the 1970s, and the struggle for civil rights, led by a passionate African American man. An engaging, eye-opening account of race relations in the South. (USS86, $14.00)
	Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom  •  William S. McFeely   • HISTORY  •  A history of the people of Georgia's Sapelo Island. (USS78, $11.00)
	Savannah in the Old South  •  Walter Fraser   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive history of Savannah from its early days as an Indian trading center to the end of the Civil War. (USS366, $22.95)
	The Civil War, An Illustrated History  •  Geoffrey C. Ward  •  Ken Burns   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated, comprehensive social history of the Civil War by the now-famous team of Ward and Burns. With 500 photographs and maps, extensive text and original essays by contributing experts. (USS27, $29.95)
	The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires  •  June Hall McCash  •  William Barton McCash   • HISTORY  •  A history of the legendary Jekyll Island Club, the group of powerful millionaires (including Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Pulitzer) who vacationed on the small island off the coast of Georgia. (USS75, $39.95)
	Architecture of the Old South  •  Mills Lane  •  Van Jones Martin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated survey of the glorious architecture of the Old South. With an authoritative text by a Savannah native, and 250 sumptuous color photographs of antebellum architecture. (USS19, $75.00)
	God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island  •  Cornelia Walker Bailey   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An evocative memoir from a native of Sapelo Island, which gives a glimpse into the Geechee (or Gullah) heritage of the region. Cornelia Walker Bailey does more than tell her story, she tells the story of a nearly forgotten people. (USS77, $14.95)
	Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden  •  Emily Whaley  •  William Baldwin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The thoughts and reflections of 85-year-old Mrs. Emily Whaley, a giant in the Charleston gardening community -- and owner of one of the most visited private gardens in America. (USS311, $14.00)
	Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain Dubignon of Jekyll Island  •  Martha L. Keber   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A history of 18th-century sea-trade and a biography of Christophe Poulain Dubignon, a Frenchman whose adventures took him from his home in Brittany into the service of the French India Company and finally to a life on Georgia's Jekyll Island. (USS368, $39.95)
	Slaves in the Family  •  Edward Ball   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Ball, a young privileged white man, embarks on a journey to uncover his family's slave-owning past in this probing, emotional memoir, the result of extensive research and travels in search of the descendents of the Ball-family slaves. (USS25, $17.95)
	Literary Charleston, A Lowcountry Reader  •  Curtis Worthington  •  Louis D. Rubin, Jr.   • LITERATURE  •  A lovingly edited anthology of writing about Charleston, arranged chronologically and including heavyweights such as Henry James and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as less known writers. (USS18, $24.95)
	Literary Savannah  •  Patrick Allen   • LITERATURE  •  An anthology of fiction and non-fiction set in Savannah, portraying the city, its people and culture. With contributions by Henry James, Margaret Mitchell, and Flannery O'Connor. (USS20, $16.95)
	Mama Day  •  Gloria Naylor   • LITERATURE  •  A glorious novel populated by the vibrant inhabitants, especially the women, of Willow Springs -- a fictional barrier island off the Atlantic coast between Georgia and South Carolina. (USS23, $13.95)
	Savannah  •  Eugenia Price   • LITERATURE  •  The first volume of the Savannah Quartet series, this novel documents thirteen years of Savannah's 19th-century history as seen through the eyes of a young orphan. (USS121, $7.99)
	The Jekyl Island Club, A Novel  •  Brent Monahan   • MYSTERY  •  A murder mystery firmly set in the haughtily exclusive club on Georgia's Jekyl Island in 1899. Monahan's detective goes up against the likes of J.P. Morgan and other real-life members of the club in this page-turner which interweaves actual events. (USS59, $14.95)
	The March  •  E. L. Doctorow   • LITERATURE  •  In this powerful historical novel, Doctorow captures the drama and import of General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War. (USS373, $14.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)

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