Titles

• Shelly Murphy
• Jeanette Pickering
• Gary Spillers
• T.L. Gray
• Georgia Adams
• Daniel L. Patrick
• Mary Saxon Wilburn
• Eleanor Wolfe Hoomes
• Jim Perry
• Steve Davis
• John Bell

                             

Author: Shelly Hargis Murphy grew up in the desert Southwest in a horticultural - challenged environment. She married her college sweetheart and they moved so often the next 25 years with his coaching career she only planted annuals in pots. It wasn’t until they settled in Georgia in 1993, that she could finally put down serious roots. By 2002, when she received certification as a Georgia Master Gardener, she’d made enough mistakes to fill a how-not-to-garden book. She and her husband, Ed, live in Carrollton.

ISBN:  978-1-938230-03-5

Date Published:  April 20, 2012

Status:  Available

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Description:Something’s always happening in a garden. Sooner or later it all turns to compost, including the gardener. After growing ornamentals a dozen years on a rocky hard clay slope, the queen of gardening gaffes confesses why: “I don’t do bugs, the buck stops here, some plants are X-rated and God will get even with you; attacks from crape murderers and a fat chance of rain may lead to horticultural holocaust and a decent burial; attitude is everything in a pricey pa$t-time that sure beats a shrink, may be in the genes and have one asking, ‘Can this disease be cured?’” 

Description:  One thing great men and women of the Bible such as Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Moses had in common… they all had God-pleasing faith.  You can too.

Discover the dynamic truths in this in-depth teaching taken from Hebrews 11, about what it truly means to have God-pleasing faith.

Author:  Daniel L. Patrick - Pastor Dan and his wife Carla have been married for over 40 years and have operated in the full time ministry for over 30 years. He and his family reside in Bowdon, Georgia and currently Pastor in Carrollton, Georgia.

 

ASIN:  B0074EC57Q

Date Published:  February 1, 2012

Status:  Available

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Author: T.L. Gray lives in Temple, GA.  She is a Member/Facilitator of the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, Contributing Writer for Impact Times Magazine, Meeting Coordinator for CINGI Lighthouse Entertainment.  Her debut novel The Blood of Cain was released in 2009.

ISBN:  978-0983433279

ASIN: B0073Z0TM4

Date Published:  January 31, 2012

Status:  Available

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Description:  Fourteen-year old Juniper "Junebug" Summerville loses her parents and her ability to talk in a car accident. Against her silent protests, she is sent to live in a remote swampland infamous for its ghosts, federal prison and insane asylum.

As Junebug struggles with her emotional scars, she begins to heal with help from six other orphans at Dearborn, a once famous Milledgeville Plantation. Just as she begins to enjoy the peace she’s long desired, she finds herself in a fight for her sanity when she stumbles upon a tear in the fabric that separates the possible from the impossible, and she must choose which to believe.

Milledgeville Misfit is a young adult novel that deals with grief and healing, and has an ending that leaves the reader with the choice of what to believe.

Author:  Jeanette Pickering - Jeanette Pickering has always been an adventurous person.  Having been raised in a small rural community and given the freedom of earlier times to explore her work, small though it may have been, prepared her for the enjoyment she would find in the larger world of her future.  She and her husband of forty-seven years raised their children over the funeral home they owned and operated most of her life.  After his death, Jeanette left grief and chose to see what else the world had to offer. She has visited Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe.  She's backpacked through the U.S. with her brother, enjoying the western mountains and deserts.  At the age of seventy, on a trip to the Caribbean, she met and married a sailor.  They sailed the waters in a small twenty-eight foot sloop for nearly eight years.  Jeanette authored a weekly column in her local newspaper telling stories of those adventures.

 

ASIN:  B00630ZMTK

Date Published:  November 2, 2011

Status:  Available

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Description:    Sweet Winds of Egypt is a personal travelogue of her adventures after passing the milestone of eighty.  "It's an amazing world out there, and there is still so much more for me to see."  Enjoy her travels as you read her views of the glorious past and evolving present.

Author: Gary Spillers -  CCIM, President of Collegiate Ventures LLC, lives on Lake Sinclair, located just north of the beautiful historic city of Milledgeville, Georgia. Gary currently splits his time between Atlanta and Milledgeville in pursuit of commercial/investment real estate opportunities. In his spare time, he enjoys writing “mostly true” tales about himself and his interesting array of suspect friends and the “messes” they used to get into.

 

ISBN:  B005X2D3YK

Date Published: October 14, 2011

Status:  Available

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Description: Gary Spillers has turned a hobby of writing about his college football days and life after college in the ’70s into this masterful novel that blends poignant stories of small-town southern life with hilarious, “mostly true” tales about the excesses of those college years and the escapades of his youth. Weaving through the novel is a love story that takes us back to the ’70s, while road-tripping westward across the country in a beat-up, 1967 Chevy.

Author: T.L. Gray lives in Temple, GA.  She is a Member/Facilitator and Newsletter Editor of the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, Contributing Writer for Impact Times Magazine, Meeting Coordinator for Keith Hudson Ministries (parents to pop star Katy Perry), and Meeting Coordinator for CINGi Lighthouse.  Her debut novel The Blood of Cain was released in 2009.

ISBN:  978-0-9834332-4-8

Date Published:  September 2011

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Description:  Woo-Hoo!  Keezy just turned 16 and look out world she's now on the market!  HOLD THE PRESSES!
There is something terribly wrong!  Keezy's discovered a really, really, REALLY catastrophic problem that is on the verge of totally destroying her whole teenaged dream; something that has thrown the biggest monkey wrench the world has ever seen right in the middle of her social wheel.  DATING HAS DISAPPEARED!  It's ka-put, vanished, deleted, zapped, mutated and completely departed the hemisphere, at least in her neck of the woods.  Keezy's not lying, she's not exaggerating, and worst of all... she's not sure if it can ever truly be rescued in this wacky world ruled by the social networks.  Generation Y - take a journey with Keezy as she talks about 10 different topics that has threatened twenty-first century dating.

 

Author:  Georgia Adams (Patricia Melton Browning, Joann Wasem Dunn & Karen Purnell McColgan)

ISBN:  978-0-9834332-2-4

Date Published:  June 2011

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Author:  Eleanor Wolfe Hoomes - Eleanor writes in a variety of genres.  During her educational career she was published in several educational journals. All fourteen of the educational books she wrote based on the activities she developed with her gifted students in Heard County, Carroll County, and Marietta City School Systems in Georgia are still available from Educational Impressions.  For three years after Eleanor retired, she wrote a monthly column, "Vintage Finds," on antiques and travel for the VINTAGE TIMES, an antiques and collectibles trade paper.  Next, Eleanor turned her pen to poetry. BREAD AND ROSES, TOO was published in 2005. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (2010) and GREEN THUMBS (2011) are now available. "I Want to Dance" (page 10, BREAD AND ROSES, TOO) won the Gwin Anderson Oliver Poetry Award. Several other poems have been published individually. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is a nominee for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.  Eleanor also writes essays, short sketches, and short stories. She is a member of the Carrollton Creative Writers Club.

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-6-1

Date Published:  October 2010

Status:  Available

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Description:  The poems in EYE OF THE BEHOLDER are about the nature of perception-- how we view ourselves and others and how they view us and how we interact with each other and the world because of our perceptions.  

Author:  Jim Perry

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-5-4

Date Published:  May 2009

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Author:  Steve Davis - Steve Davis was born in Dothan, Alabama. He graduated from Samford University and has his seminary degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div.) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (Th. D.). He now lives in Carrollton, Georgia with his wife Sheri, son Tyler, and daughter Natalie.

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-4-7

Date Published:  August 2008

Status:  Available

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Description:  In 1992, Gatorade ran a series of ads about the legendary basketball player and icon, Michael Jordan. The series was called Be like Mike. I tried. I went to the backyard with my basketball and tried the alley oop but there was more alley than oop. I tried his 360º wind-mill dunk, but did more like a 10º lay-up. I tried his long-range threes and came up with short-range twos. As hard as I tried, I couldn t be like Mike. Which brings me to my older brother, Mike. He introduced me to sports, which he loved dearly. Because of his recent death, I am dedicating the book to his memory. And I am also going to try to be like Mike in the way that he nurtured his friendships. People are lucky if they have one or two really good friends. Mike had several. Some had been friends for fifty years. One of his friends said at his funeral, Mike was the most loyal friend I ever had. I m going to nurture my friendships in memory of my brother. All of these stories in this book have appeared in my church s newsletter over the years and as such, are a reflection of what was happening in my life at a particular point in time. They also reflect the sports that either I or our son, Tyler, (please forgive the constant references to him, my wife, Sheri and our little girl, Natalie) have played or loved. With that in mind, if you love tennis or gymnastics, then accept my apologies. Those sports, and some others, are not in the book. I trust that this book will be helpful to moms and dads, coaches and to the many kids and adults, like me, who love to play the game.

Author:  Steve Davis - Steve Davis was born in Dothan, Alabama. He graduated from Samford University and has his seminary degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div.) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (Th. D.). He now lives in Carrollton, Georgia with his wife Sheri, son Tyler, and daughter Natalie.

ISBN:  978-0-971224-3-0

Date Published:  April 2006

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Description:  When Steve Davis became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Georgia in 1995, one of the first things he learned was the expectation that he was to write a weekly newsletter column. They were to be about 300 words and could be on any topic he chose. Some pastors make these columns into promo pieces about upcoming church events. But Steve decided that this would be a good opportunity to bring a smile to the faces of parishioners and bring a touch of inspiration as well. Steve had never done much writing but nonetheless undertook the weekly assignment with enthusiasm. He began to get much positive feedback, which only inspired him more. Over the years, his articles have covered topics such as Christian living, Church, Sports, Holidays, and Family. Many people in the church had encouraged him to put his articles in a book. Well, after about ten years of articles and some prodding from others, he did just that. He chose to focus, in the first book, on articles dealing with the subjects of Church and Christian Living. When searching for a book title, he came across one of his articles with the title, Steeple People, and he quickly settled on that. You will find these articles easy to read, humorous and inspiring. They will make excellent stories for preachers and teachers who need to illustrate a particular point.

Author:  John Bell

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-2-3

Date Published:  June 2003

Status:  Available

Retail price:  $34.95

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Description:  This 504 page book is a statistical history of the Georgia-Alabama, Georgia-Florida, and Georgia State Baseball Leagues spanning from 1906 to 1963. It features player statistics for nearly every player who ever pitched, batted, or took the field in one or more of these leagues. Also featured are recaps of each year and league, team rosters of each team, season and all-time league leaders and records, league all-star teams, maps of each league by year, players who played/managed at the major league level, and more.

See the stats of Willie McCovey from his first professional baseball assignment in Sandersville, Georgia in 1955. Check out the early managerial numbers of Earl Weaver when he played and managed for Fitzgerald and Dublin in 1957 and 1958. Another Hall-of-Famer named Red Schoendienst made his professional debut down in Albany, Georgia in 1942. Numerous big leaguers got their start playing class-D baseball in one of the small Georgia cities.

League cities in Georgia include: Albany, Americus, Baxley, Brunswick, Carrollton, Cedartown, Columbus, Cordele, Douglas, Dublin, Eastman, Fitzgerald, Griffin, Hazlehurst, Jesup, LaGrange, Lindale, Lyons, Moultrie, Newnan, Rome, Sandersville, Sparta, Statesboro, Thomasville, Thomson, Tifton, Valdosta, Vidalia, and Waycross. Cities who participated from other states include from Alabama: Alabama City, Anniston, Attalla, Dothan, Gadsden, Huntsville, Lanett, Opelika, Selma, Talladega, Tallassee, and Valley; and from Florida: Gainesville, Panama City, and Tallahassee.

This book is loaded from cover to cover with statistics and information about these three great class-D minor leagues. Sorry, there aren't any pictures except on the cover. Hoping to have a photographic history of the leagues in the near future.

Author:  John Bell

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-1-6

Date Published:  August 2002

Status:  Available

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Description:  Before television came along, baseball proved to be a primary source of entertainment in small towns around America. Carrollton, Georgia was no exception having had teams in the Georgia State League in 1920-21, and in the Georgia-Alabama League in 1928-30 and again in 1946-50. In this book, author John Bell has taken an in-depth look at each of these seasons as well as the "in-between" years when semi-pro and industrial league baseball provided the fans with their diamond entertainment.

PICKLE IT! features a detailed recap of each season including league standings, team rosters, astounding baseball feats, on-field marriages, and fans attacking the umpire for making a bum call. There is also a Carrollton player statistics section that includes every player that took the field in a Carrollton uniform; a player register section with listings of all the different teams the Carrollton players played for; and league opponent rosters for each season. There is a photograph section with eighteen pages of rare photographs of the Carrollton teams through the years including a shot of Commissioner Happy Chandler on a visit in 1948, and a section of Carrollton team and league records. Learn about major leaguers who came through Carrollton such as Merrit "Sugar" Cain, Ed Chaplin, Carl East, Lou Finney, Paul Fittery, Charles "Red" Roberts, Jo-Jo White, Kemp Wicker, and others. Also learn about Bing Russell, actor Kurt Russell's father, and his playing days in Carrollton before he went on to star on the TV show Bonanza. And find out the answer to the burning question, "Why is the book called PICKLE IT!"

If you're a fan of minor league baseball, you'll love reading PICKLE IT!

Author:  John Bell - John Bell was born in Americus, Georgia in 1969 and lived there until 1995. He graduated from Americus High School in 1987 and earned a B.S. in Political Science with a minor in History from Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus in 1993. John is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Now living in Carrollton, Georgia, John and his wife Virginia have two sons, Jacob and Andrew. Together, they run Vabella Publishing.

 

ISBN:  978-0-9712204-0-9

Date Published:  July 2001

Status:  Available

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Description:  In the summer of 1923, Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was banned from organized baseball in 1921 for his alleged participation in the 1919 Chicago Black Sox World Series scandal, was signed on to play baseball for the Americus, Georgia semi-pro team of the independent South Georgia league. With the Americus club struggling, Joe Jackson came on board and turned things around not only for the team but the entire league. There was controversy with his playing at first, but it soon settled and made way for an astounding run of our national pastime. Shoeless Joe's time in Americus was capped off by leading the team to the league championship at the end of the season.

Shoeless Summer, written by Americus native John Bell, tells the fascinating story of Shoeless Joe Jackson's days playing baseball in Americus in 1923. This book features a day-to-day chronology of the season with emphasis on the uproar that followed Americus signing the famed baseball outlaw to play for the team. Statistics and biographies of each of the Americus players, daily lineups and box scores, and the only photograph of Shoeless Joe with the Americus team in uniform known to exist make this a well-rounded piece of baseball history. The cities of Albany, Americus, Arlington, Bainbridge, Blakely, and Dawson each had teams in the South Georgia league. Shoeless Summer includes a complete list of players from each team as well as those who played in the major leagues. Baseball fans young and old will enjoy this factual account of one magical summer in a rural, baseball-crazed region on the country.

"...He came to Americus, Georgia in 1923 and helped a struggling, hometown baseball team get back on its feet and win the league title from its chief sports rival. None of the fans really cared what he was accused of or what he did or didn't do. All they knew was that he was the greatest ball player they had ever seen, and for a short time, they could call him their own. When Shoeless Joe Jackson left Americus, he left memories of a hero to a small baseball town -- memories of a Shoeless Summer."