Local Authors
A Sampling of Authors from Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Heard, & Paulding Counties

Fiction
Barber, Charlotte.
Coming to Georgia. FIC BARBE

Billings, Maxine. 
A Measure of Faith. FIC BILLI

Doxey, Charles.
Sunset Point. FIC DOXEY

Doxey, William.
Cousins to the Kudzu. FIC DOXEY

Jones, Betty Collins. 
Clouds Across the Moon.  FIC JONES

Jones, Betty Collins.
Carole. FIC JONES

Miles, Harold. 
Bad Ol’ Boy. FIC MILES

Perritti, Martha Lou.
Crossing in the Rain. FIC PERRI

Watson, Gary.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame.  FIC WATSO

Wilburn, Mary.
Blood Kin.  FIC WILBU

Biography
Byron, Dora.
Bishop of Heard County: the Story of J.C. Adams, Georgia Circuit Rider. ADAMS BYR

Ferling, John.
The First of Men: a Life of George Washington WASHINGTON FER

Ferling, John.
John Adams: a Life ADAMS FER

Garrett, Shirley.
A Tap Water Girl in a Bottled Water World.  GARRETT GAR

Moore, Dot.
Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster LANCASTER MOO

Stallings, Tracy.
Uncle John and Me. STALLINGS STA

Poetry and Literature
Taylor, Mary.
George MacDonald Exposes False Conflicts. 230.01092 TAYLO

New Voices. 808.88 NEW

Birge, Jack E.
Murder Without Death. 818 BIRGE

Foster, Edith. 
To Touch a Star. 811 FOS

Foster, Edith.
To Wind A Chain: Poems of Love and Nature. 811 FOSTE

Magenheimer, Kay.
Born Again. 811 MAGEN

Hoomes, Eleanor.
Bread and Roses, Too.  811 HOOME

Boring, Ronald.
Songs of Sweetwater. 811.08 SONGS

Pafford, Ward. 
The Unforgettable. 814.54 PAFFO

Miles, Harold.
The Devil and Uncle Will. 818 MILES

Wilbanks, Pat. Stray Cats and Lightning Bolts.  818 WILBA

History
Foster, Edith.
Yonder She Comes! A Once Told Li’bry Tale.  027.4 FOSTE

Adams, J.C.
The Bishop of Heard County Preaches 252 ADAMS

Ferling, John.
Adams vs. Jefferson: the Tumultuous Election of 1800 324.973 FERLI

Bonner, James, Myron House & James Mathews.
From A & M to State University. 378.9758 BONNE

Cobb, Joe.
Carroll Co. and Her People 929.375839 COBB

Martin, Mac.
World War II Ordinary Heroes, Carroll County, Georgia. 940.5481 MARTI

Ferling, John.
A Leap in the Dark: the Struggle to Create the American Republic. 973.3 FERLI

Ferling, John.
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American Revolution. 973.3 FERLI

Peddy, George.
Saddle Bag & Spinning Wheel: Being the Civil War Letters of George Peddy... 973.7 CUT

Goodson, Steve.
Highbrows, Hillbillies & Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930. 975.8231 GOODS

Griffith, Ben.
At Home in Carrollton 975.839 AT

Bonner, James Calvin.
Georgia’s Last Frontier: the Development of Carroll County. 975.839 BONNE

Holder, Burell Williams.
A Historical Sketch of Temple. 975.839 HISTO

Overton, Tom.
Looking Back: a Pictorial History of Carroll County.
975.839 LOOKI

Whatley, Vachel.
The March of Time. 975.839 WHATL

Wiggins, David.
Carroll and Haralson County in Vintage Postcards. 975.839 WIGGI

Starnes, Sarah.
Ragged Pages: a History of Glenn, Georgia in Heard County. 975.8422 STA

CD
Buck, James Michael, compiler.
Everybody’s Tuned to the Radio: Rural
Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947-1979.  CD 781.544 EVERY