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	Southern Selves, A Collection of Autobiographical Writing  •  James H. Watkins ANTHOLOGY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 377 PAGES A collection of 31 brief memoirs by such prominent southern literary figures as Mark Twain, Kaye Gibbons, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty and Maya Angelou. Spanning roughly 100 years, each selection resonates with the distinctly unique experience of growing up in the South. (USS67, $14.00)
	Confederates in the Attic  •  Tony Horwitz HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 406 PAGES Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book conjures the remarkable interest of the re-enactors, unreconstructed confederates and others, rational and not-so-rational, in the Civil War. Horowitz, who combines trademark humor with investigative journalism, draws much history into this account of travels from Antietam to Gettysburg and Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge. (USS35, $14.95)
	A Turn in the South  •  V.S. Naipaul TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1990 •  PAPER  • 307 PAGES First published in the "New Yorker," this is Naipaul's wandering travel narrative that reveals both a poetic and disturbing portrait of the American South. In his first book devoted to the United States, Naipaul journeys to Atlanta, Charleston, Tallahassee, Tuskegee, Nashville, and Chapel Hill. (USS65, $14.00)
	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)
	United States Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Map  •   Hallwag MAP A detailed road map of the eastern United States stretching from the northern half of Georgia to the southern part of New York and west to Indiana and Mississippi, at a scale of 1:1,200,000. It includes city insets and a helpful road guide with travel tips. (USS57, $12.95)

	Florida Map with Florida, South Carolina, Georgia  •   Hallwag    •  A detailed map of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. (USS218, $12.95)
	Insight Guide Old South  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated overview of the Old South with essays on its attractions, history and culture. (USS04, $22.95)
	The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide  •  Cecily McMillan  •  Wade Spees   • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	The Southeast, National Geographic Guides to America's Outdoors  •  Raymond Gehman  •  John M. Thompson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A nature-oriented practical travel guide to the southeastern states, featuring reliable National Geographic attention to maps and color photography. (USS256, $24.00)
	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)
	Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era  •  James McPherson   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive, vivid history of the Civil War, its genesis, battles, politics and personalities from the war with Mexico to Appomattox. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book may be 900 pages long but it reads like a good novel. (USS37, $19.95)
	Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Missippi, 1770-1860  •  Christopher Morris   • HISTORY  •  A cultural study of Mississippi in the 18th and 19th century. (USS160, $45.00)
	Fabulous New Orleans  •  Lyle Saxon   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  First published in the 1920's, this charming book by local journalist and literary personality Lyle Saxon is a lovely, impressionistic chronicle of the city, its people and its culture. The book is divided into a series of tales grouped by subject (Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, etc.). (USS01, $14.95)
	Our Southern Highlanders  •  Horace Kephart   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A classic book of history and folklore of the mountaineers of the southern Appalachians. Kephart is considered the premier folklorist and historian of the area. (USE22, $16.95)
	Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America  •  John M. Barry   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time. (USS48, $17.00)
	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 Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, A Story of George Washington's Times  •  Charles Royster   • HISTORY  •  The story of an enterprise that was conjured by "schemers and dreamers" to drain and develop the Dismal Swamp, a vast area along the Virginia and North Carolina border. (USS54, $16.00)
	The South in Modern America, A Region at Odds  •  Dewey Grantham   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive, well researched survey of the South from the time of Reconstruction to the late 20th century. Grantham captures the politics, history, and psychology of the lower half of the country. (USS66, $19.95)
	Trail of Tears, The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation  •  John Ehle   • HISTORY  •  The history of the Cherokee, from their first settlement in the Southeast to their forced exile from Georgia to the West; it makes for a heartbreaking story of history, politics and power. (USE21, $15.95)
	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)
	A Walk in the Woods  •  Bill Bryson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The entertaining account of Bryon's hike up the Appalachian trail, combining biting satire with a certain warmth. A fond memoir and a very entertaining read. (USE01, $14.95)
	Life on the Mississippi  •  Mark Twain   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic marking Twain's return to the days of his youth spent on the Mississippi. Full of historical information, anecdotes, character sketches and fond memories, it's an enjoyable look back at the Old Mississippi. (USS05, $9.95)
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  •  John Berendt   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
	Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi  •  Jonathan Raban   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Raban tackles the "Mighty Mississippi" aboard a 16-foot motorboat in this entertaining travelogue, featuring places and people he encounters along the way. (USS42, $15.00)
	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)
	Cold Mountain  •  Charles Frazier   • LITERATURE  •  Set in North Carolina, this is the best-selling novel of a wounded Confederate soldier who abandons the front line and journeys home to his prewar sweetheart. In spare, eloquent prose, Frazier describes the strong bond between a man and the land. (USS74, $14.95)
	Flashman and the Angel of the Lord  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this 10th installment in the entertaining, meticulously researched series. Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about reluctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. (USS371, $15.00)
	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)
	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 Sound and the Fury  •  William Faulkner   • LITERATURE  •  Faulkner's classic novel is a psychological study of the Compson family. (USS70, $11.95)
	The Everglades, River of Grass  •  Marjory Stoneman Douglas   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The prophetic work on Everglades conservation published over 50 years ago. (EGL01, $18.95)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide published by the National Geographic Society, now in its fifth edition (with tabs!), is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)

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