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May 21 2013 - August 21 2013
Tuesday, May 21	Joe Cook :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur This is our second program that is part of the Decatur Arts Festival. Our author will be of special interest to those who care about the outdoors and our environment. Joe Cook is the executive director of the Coosa River Basin Initiative and coordinator of Georgia River Network’s Paddle Georgia Event. His new book, Etowah River User’s Guide, is an appealing and handy look at the biologically diverse and beautiful Etowah River in North Georgia. Printed on waterproof paper by the University of Georgia Press, the book offers a fascinating history of the area and information valuable for novice or experienced paddlers and fishermen. It also will help explorers... [ Read More ]
Wednesday, May 22	Susan Puckett :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur For two decades, Susan Puckett was the food editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and now she has crafted a new book that focuses on her native Mississippi Delta: Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler’s Journey Through the Soul of the South. It is part travelogue, part memoir and part photo gallery and captures all the contradictions in a region that is known for its poverty and racial divide and yet lures people who want to experience its music, art and food. There are lots of fascinating recipes here, but you don’t have to be a cook to enjoy all the book has to offer. This event is part of our observance of the annual Decatur Arts Festival week. [ Read More ]
Thursday, May 23	Bill Cheng :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur Cheng, began writing Southern Cross the Dog in 2008, while earning his MFA at Hunter College. He drew his inspiration for this story of a group of black, childhood friends, set in part against the backdrop of the 1927 Great Flood in Mississippi, from the great tradition of country/delta blues music. This debut novel has been praised by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward P. Jones, who calls Cheng’s prose, “lush and so very often poetic.” National Book Award-winner Colum McCann calls it, “an incredibly daring and powerful debut.” For collectors and fans of debut fiction, this is one book not to be missed! [ Read More ]
Friday, May 24	SCBWI Gallery Show :: Author Talks Family (All Ages) 7:00 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur Each year, the Southern region, including Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle, of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators hosts a gallery show. It features illustrations from children’s books by some of our top authors and illustrators. It’s an excellent introduction to art for children and their grown-ups! There will be reception on May 24.. The exhibit will run from May 24 to June 2 during library hours. Artists whose work will be on exhibit include: Mark Braught Jill Dubin Elizabeth O. Dulemba Laura Freeman Sarah Frances Hardy Alison Hertz Prescott Hill Laura Knorr Bill... [ Read More ]
Wednesday, May 29	Annalee Newitz :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur One of America’s top science journalists, Annalee Newitz, joins us with a program about her intriguing new book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. It’s a brilliantly speculative work of popular science that examines humanity’s success at dodging the bullet of extinction and suggests ways to keep doing it. That would seem to make her talk a pretty important one not to miss. She is the founding editor of the science website io9.com and a journalist with a decade’s experience in writing about science, culture and the future for publications such as Wired, Popular Science and The Washington Post. She is the editor of the anthology... [ Read More ]
Sunday, June 02	Susan Rebecca White :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:30 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur We are delighted to welcome Susan Rebecca White, one of Atlanta’s most popular authors, with a celebration of the release of her new novel, A Place at the Table. The doors open at 7:15 p.m., and she’ll appear on stage at 7:30 in conversation with another wonderful Atlanta writer, Susan Puckett. You won’t want to miss this! The new novel, following Bound South and A Soft Place to Land, moves from a freed-slave settlement in North Carolina in the 1920s to Manhattan in the 1980s, to present day Greenwich, with a story of three richly nuanced characters whose lives converge in a chic Manhattan cafe. It’s storytelling on a grand scale, and we invite you to join in the... [ Read More ]
Monday, June 03	Mary Hood presented by the Georgia Review :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur We are pleased to join the prestigious publication Georgia Review for a special evening with one of Georgia’s most gifted authors, Mary Hood. Her appearance crowns a new issue of Georgia Review that features a much anticipated new story and a new essay by Hood as well as a lengthy interview with the author and a selection of her letters. ”She is a most distinguished writer, and we are privileged to be able to present her,” says Stephen Corey, the noted poet and editor of Georgia Review. Work by Hood also appears in the recently published anthology, Stories Waiting to be Heard: Selected Fiction from the Six Decades of the Georgia Review. We hope you’ll take... [ Read More ]
Wednesday, June 05	Charlie Lovett :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur Nine months after the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, Peter Byerly isn’t sure what drew him into a bookshop in a small Welsh town. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to heal his wounds by losing himself collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Victorian in origin, the uncanny resemblance to his wife sets Peter on a quest, across England and the centuries uncovering the origins of the watercolor, and possibly the truth about Shakespeare’s identity. Charlie Lovett is a writer,... [ Read More ]
Saturday, June 08	Janis F. Kearney - Daisy: Between a Rock and a Hard Place :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 2:00 pm—4:00 pm at Stonecrest Presidential diarist and author Janis F. Kearney will discuss her newest book, Daisy: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. This biographical memoir chronicles the life and times of Daisy Gatson Bates. Ms. Bates was one of the American South's most renowned female civil rights leaders. Kearney chronicles the life of the remarkable Bates, from a tragic childhood to her death in 1999, and carefully transforms her mentor's life from black and white to living color. Funding provided by the Friends of the Stonecrest Library and the City of Lithonia. [ Read More ]
Monday, June 10	Daniel James Brown :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur Author Daniel James Brown tells a remarkable true story in his fascinating new book, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The story centers around the University of Washington’s oar crew, a team that transformed the sport and helped take the spotlight from Hitler’s Germany. This emotional story tells how the sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers defeated elite rivals from eastern and British universities and eventually claimed the gold for the U.S. over a heavily-favored Nazi crew. Brown is the author of two acclaimed nonfiction books, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride and... [ Read More ]
Tuesday, June 11	Anton DiSclafani :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:00 pm—8:00 pm at Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams The Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to host a reading for one of the most anticipated books of the summer, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. A graduate of Emory University, author Anton DiSclafani sets this coming-of-age story against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Because of her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed, fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell is cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrian boarding school for Southern debutantes high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and friendships, is far removed from the free-roaming, dreamlike... [ Read More ]
Wednesday, June 12	Rick Atkinson :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:15 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rick Atkinson visits us with the triumphant final volume in his celebrated World War II trilogy, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. It is a revealing, detailed and brilliant narrative of the war’s bloody final year. ”It is hard to imagine a better history of the western front’s final phase,” writes the critic for Publishers Weekly. It follows his two acclaimed earlier volumes on American armies, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1943-1943, and The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1934-1944. Atkinson is a winner the Pritzker Military Book Award and, as a writer and foreign correspondent for... [ Read More ]
Saturday, June 15	Black Science Fiction Forum :: Author Talks Family (All Ages) 2:00 pm—4:00 pm at Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Join black science fiction writers Alan Jones, Alicia McCalla, Balogun Ojetade, Ed Hall and Milton Davis as they discuss the current state of Black Science Fiction as well as their present and upcoming projects and books. [ Read More ]
Wednesday, June 19	Temple Grandin :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:00 pm—9:00 pm at First Baptist Church Decatur Temple Grandin is one of the world’s best-known adults with autism and author of the new book The Autistic Brain. With a PhD in animal science, six bestselling books to her credit and a selection by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the year, she is an accomplished figure who is in demand for lectures around the country. Her work has been noted in major newspapers and magazines, and the HBO movie about her life received seven Emmy Awards. We are pleased to have her make a special appearance for the Georgia Center for the Book. [ Read More ]
Thursday, June 20	"Jordan Is So Chilly" by Brenda Bynum :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 7:30 pm—9:00 pm at Decatur We are pleased to welcome back actor Brenda Bynum to the Georgia Center for the Book for a truly special presentation. Bynum will give life to the literary artistry of Clayton County native Lillian E. Smith with her performance, “Jordan Is So Chilly: An Encounter with Lillian Smith," based on the writings of the author of Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream. Bynum has given dramatic readings from the letters of Flannery O’Connor at Emory University, and she portrayed Violet Weston in the Atlanta premiere of the Tony-winning ”August: Osage County” at the Alliance Theater. Clayton County is home to the Lillan E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, a place on Old... [ Read More ]
Monday, June 24	Atlanta Walk in Decatur :: Author Talks Adult (18+) 6:30 pm—7:30 pm at Decatur Join us for what will be one of our most interesting presentations at the Georgia Center for the Book…and don’t forget to wear a pair of comfortable shoes! We'll have the two authors of Atlanta Walks: A Comprehensive Guide to Walking, Running, and Bicycling the Area's Scenic and Historic Locales. Ren and Helen Davis will join us for a half-hour presentation about their book, which divides the metropolitan area and surrounding counties into a variety of walks that reveal the history, architecture, and great beauty this area has to offer. We will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a book signing, followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Then at 7:30, we will put on our walking... [ Read More ]

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