savannah (ga.)

An illustrated biography of civil rights leader Wesley Wallace Law, who helped to end segregation in Savannah, Georgia during the 1960s.

Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.

Historical photographs and text describe the Weeping Time in which 436 slaves were sold on a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, in 1859.

"Girl Scouts flood Savannah, Georgia, for the big 100th Anniversary Camporee! Mystery writer Mimi lives just a few blocks from the famous Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. Her Girl Scout granddaughters and friends camp out downstairs and take Savannah by storm--finding clues that lead them around the town where girls scouting was born--on a mystery that takes all the scouting skills they have to solve!"--Cover p. [4].

Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.

To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South. Despite being powerless herself, of course. Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when a series of mishaps--culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch--leaves a vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into a mystery that could shake her family apart...and unleash a darkness the line of Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations.

After her best friend dies in a hurricane, high schooler Dovey discovers something even more devastating--demons in her hometown of Savannah.

Both haunted and inspired by the shadow of his best friend, Melanie, since her disappearance and presumed death when they were six, Richard, now sixteen, is completely unprepared when a new classmate, Melanie, arrives at Savannah Arts Academy High School claiming to be that same friend.

Saga of Sara and her daughter Hannah's fight to save the family rice plantation amidst Sherman's destructive 1864 march from Atlanta to the sea.