atlanta (ga.)

Mercenary Kate Daniels finds herself in the middle of a war between two gods when she accepts a job from Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shapeshifters to track down a set of stolen maps.

Kate Daniels, a mercenary who makes her living cleaning up paranormal problems left behind in Atlanta when magic began to recede and technology returned to the city, finds herself in over her head when her guardian is killed and she becomes caught up in a standoff between the Masters of the Dead and the Pack.

Lawyer and civil rights worker Vernon Jordan tells his life story, from his childhood in Atlanta to his years as a leader in the NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, and the National Urban League and as an advisor to both businessmen and presidents.

Three African-American men examine their lives when they are faced with life-changing conflicts: Prodigy Banks' violent, promiscuous past has come back to haunt him; Bernard Charles' workaholic tendencies have led his wife to infidelity; and Winston "Poppa Doc" Fuller must resolve issues with his son before he dies of lung cancer.

One-time Atlanta police officer Callahan Garrity and her crew of House Mouse employees set out to investigate when Callahan's former partner Bucky is shot in a liquor store holdup and reports begin to circulate that he was a cop on the take.

Winnie Perry is certain that she will gain more courage and responsibilities with her tenth birthday and, with her best friend Amanda by her side, Winnie is determined to make the most of her last year of elementary school.

Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-year-old printer who rents a house in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta, a short distance from the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is frustrated when he tries to buy the house only to find that the neighborhood has been "discovered" by yuppies, causing prices to skyrocket, and his feelings become even more confused when he forms a cautious friendship with the young, white couple who moves in next door.

While on a European cruise, Atlanta lawyer Katherine Adams meets former New York detective John Delaney, and together, they investigate the death of a fellow passenger.

Investigates the case of Michael Lewis, known as "Little B," who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison at the age of fourteen for shooting a man to death in "The Bluff" neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, and attempts to understand why the city, and especially its African-American population, rushed to condemn the young man.

A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families, the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters, the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle, she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another's lives. At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers--think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye--Jones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women, just not as their mothers.