Discusses the trial of Anjette Lyle, who was charged with the murders of two husbands, her mother-in-law, and her nine-year-old daughter

Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjetee Lyles

Biographies & Memoirs

White, Jaclyn Weldon

True Crime

Mercer Univ Pr

On July 3, 1992, seven-month-old Haley Hardwick was reported kidnapped. Her father Kenny Hardwick told police that he had stopped to assist two stranded motorists and, upon returning to his vehicle, discovered his daughter missing. The case became a media sensation overnight. People in the metropolitan Atlanta area became obsessed with the mystery of the baby's disappearance. Huge searches by hundreds of volunteers produced no trace of the child. Although they spent hundreds of man-hours following up leads about the kidnapping, the police began to believe that the father was responsible and, with the media, began a campaign to pressure him into revealing the truth. Numerous interviews with the lead investigators and the child's mother have provided in-depth insight into the case from two very different perspectives. While the police followed one lead after another, the child's mother was torn between believing a husband she loved and the authorities who kept telling her he was responsible for the baby's disappearance. As the investigation dragged on, Haley Hardwick became everybody's baby.

The Empty Nursery: The Disappearance of Haley Hardwick

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In October 2000, Emily and Remer Crum announced that they planned to bequeath the sprawling 83-acre Century Center Office Park in Atlanta jointly to Mercer University and LaGrange College. The administrations of both schools were thrilled with such a remarkable gift and the future possibilities it presented to both schools. However, few people knew that the seeds of the gift were sown nearly 200 years earlier in a tiny northeast Georgia community and were nurtured through five generations of a very special family.A Special Gift takes the reader on a long, winding trip from a hardscrabble farm in the North Georgia mountains through wartime Hawaii to present-day Atlanta. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century the book follows the lives and fortunes of the Hemphill, Ayers, Fisher and Crum families. From the unwavering loyalty of Nancy Hemphill and the irrepressible spirit of orphaned Bessie Ayers to the adventurous lives of Bessie and T. Orr Fisher and Emily and Remer Crum, this is a fascinating tale of everyday people who accomplished extraordinary things.

A Special Gift: The Story of the Legacy of Emily Fisher Crum and Remer Hamilton Crum

Historical

Mercer University Press

Bestest: The Life of Peyton Tooke Anderson, Jr.

Professionals & Academics

William Lawrence Stribling, Jr., known as Young Stribling, was born in a small southern Georgia town in 1904. The son of a store clerk and a farmer s daughter, he should have lived out his years in that rural setting, but he was performing in vaudeville before his fourth birthday and was a professional prizefighter by the age of sixteen. His rise through the boxing ranks and classifications was meteoric and he soon earned himself a place among the top fighters in the world. Stribling married his high school sweetheart and the couple had three children. Over the course of his career, Young Stribling traveled the world, rubbing shoulders with celebrities, sports legends, even royalty. Jack Dempsey counted him a close friend and Al Capone wanted to buy his contract and manage his career. Stribling was also a championship basketball player, an accomplished golfer, an exceptional tennis player, a pilot, and a speedboat racer. He even attracted the attention of Hollywood and was approached to star in a movie about himself. But he was always happiest at home in Macon, Georgia, with his family and friends. Young Stribling s boxing career spanned twelve years. During that time he fought 287 matches, winning 224 and losing only 12. The rest were draws or no decision fights. Although he never achieved the championship title he sought, Young Stribling was true to himself and the values with which he had been raised. The most important things in his world were sportsmanship, honor, and doing his best. He never did less.

The Greatest Champion That Never Was: The Life of W. L. "Young" Stribling

Former Atlanta Police Detective Dixie McClatchey moves to Macon in search of a quiet life as a bookseller and is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a murder among the Friends of the Library Association.

Mockingbird in the Moonlight

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Henchard Pr Llc

After thirty years in law enforcement, Emily Christopher is ready for retirement in Marchpoint Manse, an active-adult community north of Atlanta. But a dead friend's last request for justice sends her south to Ben Hill County where, determined to right a wrong, she takes on a powerful local developer. She's helped in her mission by a few good friends and a kind woman known as the local witch. Meanwhile, things are getting interesting at Marchpoint. Along with tennis, swimming, and countless social activities, the neighborhood is experiencing a rash of petty thefts and burglaries. And who was that naked man seen slipping into the woods? The Witch of Ben Hill County is a fast-moving mix of suspense, humor, and romance that proves "over 55" doesn't mean over the hill.

The Witch of Ben Hill County

Literature & Fiction

Deeds Publishing

When two murders shock the active-adult community where Emily Christopher lives and her ex-husband turns out to be the prime suspect, she is put into the uncomfortable position of trying to solve the mystery. Using her contacts in the police department and her own investigative experience, she must unravel the connection between the two victims and the strange gatherings occurring in the neighborhood. The information she uncovers sends her to the North Georgia mountains and the small town of Blue Ridge in search of strange stones called fairy crosses. With the assistance of her best friend Linda--an "expert on superstitions"--and her very patient boyfriend Nick, Emily discovers the truth behind the criminal activity taking place in her community. But before identifying the murderer, they must weather a violent storm and unmask a stalker.

The Fairy Crosses of Fannin County

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