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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

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    Russell Shorto: Descartes' Bones

    Tue, Oct 21, 2008
    Russell Shorto, author of *Decartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason*, discusses the new intellectual detective story. It examines how the skull of the 17th century French thinker became separated from the rest of his remains and where it is today. Shorto is also the author of *The Island at the Center of the World*.
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  • Jacqueline Winspear: Messenger of Truth

    Fri, Mar 14, 2008
    Jacqueline Winspear, one of the country’s most popular and most honored mystery authors, discusses her latest book, *Messenger of Truth*. It is a novel featuring Maisie Dobbs, Winspear’s psychological investigator, enmeshed in a whodunit tale. Winspear’s books, *Maisie Dobbs*, *Birds of a Feather*, and *Pardonable Lies* have won Agatha, Alex and Macavity Awards and been nominated for an Edgar for best novel.
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  • Michael Largo: Genius and Heroin

    Mon, Oct 20, 2008
    Author Michael Largo discusses his new book, *Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages*, which describes how the famously talented mix their genius with an urge for self-destructiveness. Largo's other work, *The Portable Obituary*, chronicles how the rich and famous died.
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  • Joshilyn Jackson: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

    Wed, Nov 5, 2008
    Author and Georgia Perimeter College Writer-in-Residence Joshilyn Jackson talks about her latest, *The Girl Who Stopped Swimming*. Jackson is also the author of *Gods in Alabama* and *Between Georgia*. Jack Riggs, also a writer-in-residence at Georgia Perimeter College, interviews Jackson about her writing and techniques.
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  • Steven T. Wax: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

    Wed, Oct 22, 2008
    Public defender and author Steven T. Wax talks about his book, *Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror*. He reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded and how each of us can make a difference. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his legal team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born, small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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  • Ron Rash: Serena

    Thu, Oct 30, 2008
    Ron Rash, the Appalachian storyteller, discusses his fourth novel, *Serena*, a tale of of violence and beauty, love and honor. The story unfolds in 1929 and focuses on a beautiful and ruthless wife, Serena.
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  • Two Poets: David Bottoms and William Walsh

    Thu, Jan 25, 2007
    Poets David Bottoms and William Walsh read from their works.
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  • Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

    Wed, Jan 17, 2007
    Kurlansky, the prize-winning author of *Nonviolence*; *Salt: A World History*; and *The Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry*, discusses his latest book, *Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell*. The book is described as a 'chatty, free-wheeling history of New York City told from the humble perspective of the once copious, eagerly consumed, now decimated eastern oyster.'
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  • Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War

    Tue, Apr 17, 2007
    Andrew Carroll reads from his new book, *Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War*, a moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revolution to the fighting in Iraq. The letters capture the spirit, the humor, and the courage of the men and women on the front line.
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  • Hitler's Filmmaker: A Biography of Leni Riefenstahl

    Wed, Apr 25, 2007
    Steven Bach, author of *Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend*, offers a stunning new biography of one of the 20th century's most fascinating and controversial figures, known as "Hitler's filmmaker", Leni Riefenstahl. In his superbly written *Leni: The Life And Work of Leni Riefenstahl*, Bach debates the moral intricacies of this artist working under the Nazi regime, and presents evidence that Riefenstahl was herself, part Jewish.
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