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Georgia Center for the Book

Founded in 1920, the Georgia Center for the Book, based at the DeKalb County Public Library, is the statewide affiliate of the Library of Congress with a mission of serving libraries, literacy and literature. We sponsor two popular literary competitions for students, develop and encourage programming for and other literary-related organizations and sponsor some 90 literary programs each year, bringing more than 125 authors to metro Atlanta and the state for free public events.

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Thinking Southern Football

Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Tony Barnhart discusses what makes sports different in the southern United States, and shares from his biography of UGA’s legendary football broasdcaster, Larry Munson. Munson was 43 when he became the Bulldog broadcaster, but his past is was full of color before that. He once played in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, backing Frank Sinatra; he got his first broadcasting job from another legend, Curt Gowdy; and he was one of the original announcers for the Braves when they moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee. See more on the [Georgia Center for the Book blog](http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Blog/?m=201006#sthash.QD82opZF.dpbs "").

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Caroline Miller's Lamb in His Bosom

Mon, Oct 29, 2007

Joye Cauthen, the great-niece of Georgia's first Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Miller, gives a costumed performance-presentation on Miller and her acclaimed 1933 novel, *Lamb in His Bosom*. Cauthen is an experienced performer and storyteller, and her informative program helps bring to life Miller's book and its characters.

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Everyday Miracles: Meditations on Living an Extraordinary Life

Wed, Oct 03, 2007

Ardath Rodale, nationally known author of a number of books on spirituality in modern life, discusses her latest, *Everyday Miracles: Meditations on Living an Extraordinary Life*. This collection, drawn from Rodale's monthly essays in *Prevention* magazine, offers graceful prose pointing readers to the potential for each of us to create, to share, to influence positive change in the world.

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Dallas Hudgens: Season of Gene

Tue, Oct 09, 2007

Dallas Hudgens, a Georgia native and author of the bestselling novel *Drive Like Hell* reads from his new novel, *Season of Gene*. *Season of Gene* is the tale of Joe Rice, owner of a car detailing service and manager of a beer-fueled baseball team, who finds himself in trouble with gangsters over a 1932 bat used by Babe Ruth.

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Mercy: Dying of AIDS in Africa

Mon, Sep 10, 2007

Lara Santoro, a veteran journalist, discusses her first novel, *Mercy*, a tragic and powerful story of what it is like to die of AIDS in Africa. *Mercy* offers a glimpse into the role played by the pharmaceutical industry and the US government against the interests of an entire continent, and gives a name and face to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This is a story Santoro has seen played out many times in her prize-winning coverage of Africa for *Newsweek* and the *Christian Science Monitor*. Her work has also appeared in *The Wall Street Journal*, *The New Republic* and the *London Sunday Times*.

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The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

Mon, Jan 12, 2009

Rudolph P. Byrd, professor of American studies at Emory University, discusses his new book, *The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson*. Johnson (1871-1938) was a novelist, poet, ethno-musicologist and one of the pioneering figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Jack Riggs: The Fireman's Wife

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Jack Riggs, writer-in-residence at the Writers Institute of Georgia Perimeter College, delivers the first public reading of his new novel, *The Fireman's Wife*.

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Robert Olen Butler: Hell

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler discusses his new novel, *Hell*. It's a romp about good, evil, and free will. The characters include a television news anchorman residing in hell and living with Anne Boleyn, surrounded by a remarkable cast including Shakespeare, Humphrey Bogart, most of the popes, and former US presidents.

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Civil War Wives

Mon, Oct 12, 2009

Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor at Baruch College in New York, discusses her revelatory new book, *Civil War Wives*. It focuses on the life and times of three wives -- Julia Dent Grant,wife Of U.S. Grant, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, and Angelina Grimke Weld, American politician, lawyer, abolitionist and suffragist -- whose lives offer a unique window on to our national past. Berkin's many notable books include *Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence*, and *A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution*.

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Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak: Saved by Her Enemy

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Emmy Award-winning CBS News Correspondent Don Teague and his Iraqi-born translator Rafraf Barrak discuss their book, Saved by Her Enemy: An Iraqi Woman's Journey from the Heart of War to the Heartland of America. The two met early in the Iraq War and were nearly killed by a terrorist bomb. Their friendship transcended cultural and religious differences but ultimately forced her to leave her family and seek protection in America. Her story about finding her place in American society is mesmerizing.

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