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TITLE: Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

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TITLE: Vault of Secrets

WHO: Augusta author Hawk MacKinney

WHAT: Thriller about a part-time investigator and retired Navy SEAL who seeks the connection between murders and a banking conspiracy.

WHEN: Oct. 1

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TITLE: Imagia and the Magic Pearls

WHO: Written and illustrated by Georgia native Monroe S. Tarver

WHAT: It's the first in the Mapmaker adventure series, and it fulfilled Mr. Tarver's wish to have a children's book published about a princess who is black.

RELEASED: October

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TITLE: Screwing the Pooch

AUTHOR: Aiken resident J.B. Bergstad

WHAT: A collection of short stories. Topics vary, but each features a catastrophic error that moves the story along.

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TITLE: Don't Sell Yourself Short... Be All That You Can Be!

AUTHORS: Georgia native Jim Gill and Steve Carroll

WHAT: Information on how to succeed in business

RELEASED: September

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TITLE: Soul Catcher

AUTHOR: Leigh Bridger, the pseudonym of Georgian Deborah Smith

WHAT: Novel about a reincarnated woman haunted by a demon she seeks to vanquish. The novel is set in the mountains around Asheville, N.C.

RELEASED: Oct. 20

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TITLE: Plain Talk: Everything You Ever and Never Wanted to Know About Racism and Stereotypes, Vol. 1

AUTHOR: Augusta resident and Tutt Middle School social studies teacher Corey Washington

RELEASED: Self-published, Nov. 10

WHAT: The book discusses racism and stereotypes in hopes of creating conversation and self-evaluation.

AUTHOR: Celia Pearce

WHAT: The book discusses online games, the sense of community that gaming engenders, and emergent fan cultures

PUBLISHED: Oct. 30

IT'S A FACT: The author is director of Experimental Game Lab and assistant professor of digital media at Georgia Tech.

TITLE: Eastbound

AUTHOR: Mark Slomiany

RELEASED: August

WHAT: The novel is a sequel to his previous work, West of 16W. The narrator is a man in his late 20s experiencing the unique economic situation and pressures facing his generation.

IT'S A FACT: The author is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics for the Medical College of Georgia and associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology for the Medical University of South Carolina.

TITLE: Small Waves

WHO: Augusta and Batesburg-Leesville, S.C., resident Linda Lee Harper

WHAT: Poetry about the beach and sea

RELEASED: Nov. 13

TITLE: Circling the Savannah: Cultural Landmarks of the Central Savannah River Area

WHEN: Nov. 6

AUTHOR: Tom Mack

WHAT: The author, an English professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken, writes about area landmarks such as the winter colony in Aiken and Augusta's Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson.

TITLE: Cassiopeia, Flight from Savannah

WHO: Aiken resident Don Bozeman

WHAT: Part romance, part adventure, centered on the 1779 Battle of Savannah