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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.

http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org

  • Southern Belly: Food Lover's Companion to The South

    Wed, Jul 11, 2007
    John T. Edge, writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, talks about his new book: *Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South*. The book features Atlanta institutions such as Mary Mac's Tea Room, The Varsity and Sweet Auburn Curb Market.
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    Food and Wellness
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Kurt Andersen: Heyday

    Wed, Jan 16, 2008
    Kurt Andersen, author of *Turn of the Century*, a cofounder of *Spy* magazine and former columnist for *Time* and *The New Yorker*, discusses his new novel, *Heyday*. Set in the midst of the 19th century, the book explores America's coming of age with a handful of memorable characters discovering the nature of freedom and true love. Andersen hosts the award-winning public radio program, *Studio 360*.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Brad Meltzer: Book of Lies

    Fri, Sep 19, 2008
    Brad Meltzer talks about his new novel, *The Book of Lies*. Meltzer's mystery poses questions about the link between murders separated by thousands of years going back to Cain and Abel.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Annette Gordon-Reed: Hemingses of Monticello

    Mon, Sep 29, 2008
    Professor of law at New York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University, Annette Gordon-Reed talks about her new book, *The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family*. In her new work, Gordon-Reed tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to the third US president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, but also their children and Hemings' siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Helene Cooper: House at Sugar Beach

    Mon, Sep 15, 2008
    Award-winning journalist Helene Cooper discusses her new book, *The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood*, a memoir of her youth in Liberia and what occurred after she and her family were exiled to America.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Dexter Filkins: The Forever War

    Thu, Oct 02, 2008
    War correspondent Dexter Filkins discusses his new book, *The Forever War*. It is a collection of the author's work for *The New York Times*, covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 1998.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Rick Atkinson: The Day of Battle

    Mon, Sep 22, 2008
    Pulitzer Prize-winning Rick Atkinson presents his latest book, *The Day of Battle*. He follows the strengthening American and British armies of WWII, as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

    Thu, Sep 18, 2008
    Thomas Frank, *The New York Times* bestselling author of *What's the Matter with Kansas?*, discusses his new book, *The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule*. The author argues that the same politicians who laughed at the mere idea of effective government have themselves created a government in which incompetence is the rule.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Glenda Gilmore: Defying Dixie

    Tue, Mar 18, 2008
    Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, a native North Carolinian and the C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, discusses her revealing new book, *Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950*, which looks at forgotten black and white southern activists, whose courageous work in the face of Jim Crow segregation laws, helped lay the foundation for the later civil rights movement.
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    Civil Rights Movement Series
    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • George C. Herring: From Colony to Superpower

    Tue, Oct 28, 2008
    Award-winning historian and author George C. Herring gives an overview of American diplomacy, as described in his new book, *From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776*. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from 13 disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. This book is the latest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series.
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    Georgia Center for the Book
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