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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

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Robert E. Lee: Reading the Man

    Tue, May 15, 2007
    Elizabeth Brown Pryor discusses her new book,*Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters*. Georgia Center for the Book presents E. Pryor, former diplomat and historian (*Clara Barton: Professional Angel*) and her new look at Robert E. Lee. In her new book, Pryor draws from previously unpublished correspondence, which reveal more fully than ever Lee's life and beliefs before, during and after the Civil War.
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  • William Starr: Whiskey, Kilts, and the Lochness Monster

    Mon, Dec 6, 2010
    William Starr, executive director of Georgia Center for the Book, discusses his book, *Whiskey, Kilts and the Lochness Monster: Traveling Through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson.* It’s an account of the author’s re-tracing of the amazing 1773 journey through the Scottish Highlands by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Part travelogue, part literary journal, it’s a ”celebration of Scottish life and a spirited endorsement of the unexpected discoveries to be made through good travel and good literature.”
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  • Wayne Greenhaw: Fighting the Devil in Dixie

    Tue, Feb 8, 2011
    Wayne Greenhaw, distinguished writer and former newspaper reporter, discusses his book, *Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama*. He tells how the Klan, empowered by Governor George Wallace’s defiance of civil rights laws, grew more violent until confronted by a courageous, determined coalition of blacks and whites. Greenhaw tells the full story, from the Klan’s bombings and murders in the 1950s to Wallace’s run for a fourth term as governor in the early 1980s, when he asked for forgiveness and won re-election with the black vote.
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  • Patricia Sprinkle: Friday’s Daughter

    Tue, Mar 8, 2011
    Atlanta’s popular author of many delightful novels, Patricia Sprinkle, talks about her latest: *Friday’s Daughter*. It’s a contemporary tale of sisterhood, the South, and matters of the heart centering on the youngest of three sisters who is determined to claim a life of her own in the wake of the death of her father and an unusual bequest. Sprinkle is the author of more than a dozen books including such well-regarded mysteries as *Death on the Family Tree* and *What Are You Wearing to Die?* Her most recent book was *Hold Up the Sky*, which fellow Atlanta author Patti Callahan Henry called ”a beautiful and thoroughly Southern story.”
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  • Bill Briggs: The Third Miracle

    Thu, Feb 3, 2011
    Bill Briggs, a veteran journalist and writer for MSNBC.com discusses his fascinating new book, *”The third Miracle: An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith.”* Part detective story and part courtroom drama, the book exposes for the first time ”the secret rituals and investigations the Catholic Church today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.” Briggs gives us a rare insider’s look at one of the very foundations of the church and one of its most closely held secrets. It is a book that examines the clash between faith and science.
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  • Edward Glaeser: Triumph of the City

    Tue, Feb 22, 2011
    Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser discusses his new book, *Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier*. It’s a book that faces up to the bad rap America’s cities get: they’re dirty, poor, crime-ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Glaeser shatters these myths and demonstrates that cuities are actually the healthies, greenest and richest -- in cultural and economic terms -- places to live. Glaeser is the Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard who studies the economics of cities, segregation, crime and innovation. He also serves as director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
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  • Daniel K. Williams: God's Own Party

    Wed, Nov 3, 2010
    Daniel K. Williams, Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, discuss his book *God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right.* It's a sweeping history of how the Republican Party has become the party of the Christian Right movement. He traces the Christian Right all the way back to the 1920s and argues that the movement is likely to remain a potent force in American politics for years to come. Based on archival research, Williams’ book shows how difficult it has become for any Republican to win without its support, and examines the growing connections between American religion, culture and politics.
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