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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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George Singleton: Work Shirts for Madmen

Tue, Oct 2, 2007

George Singleton reads from his new novel *Work Shirts for Madmen*. *Work Shirts for Madmen* is the story of renegade artist Harp Spillman, who undertakes a crazy commission to weld a series of 12-foot metal angels for the city of Birmingham. Singleton's earlier books include *The Half Mammals of Dixie* and *Drowning in Gruel*.

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Jimmy Carter: Prophet from Plains

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Frye Gaillard explores the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter in his new book, *Prophet from Plains*. Frye Gaillard, a writer of Southern culture and politics, assesses the life and work of Carter through his stubborn, faith-driven integrity, which is at once his greatest asset and most serious flaw. Among 20 other books that Gaillard has written is *Cradle of Freedom*, winner of the Lillian Smith Award.

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James Peacock: How the US South Embraces the World

Sun, Aug 12, 2007

James Peacock discusses his new book, *Grounded Globalism: How the US South Embraces the World*, and questions whether globalism is stealing Southern jobs and homogenizing the culture, or transforming the South for the better, raising income levels, and bringing a healthy diversity. Peacock asserts that the South, because of its history and culture, can respond to the challenges of increasing global interconnectivity more positively and successfully than other regions of the US. **James L. Peacock**, received his BA in Psychology from Duke University and his PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, with fieldwork done in Southeast Asia and the United States. His fieldwork includes studies of proletarian culture in Surabaja, Indonesia; of Muslim reformation in southeast Asia; of symbols in social life; and of Primitive Baptists. He is also the author of *The Anthropological Lens*.

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Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South

Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Catherine Oglesby, professor of history at Valdosta State University, reads from her biography, *Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South*, which tackles the complexities of race, class, and gender. Nearly forgotten Georgia author Corra Harris was one of the most widely published writers in the US. Harris' *A Circuit Rider's Wife* was Georgia's most celebrated novel for nearly three decades.

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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 3, 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 9, 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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Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South

Wed, Sep 12, 2007

Kenneth J. Bindas examines the lives of rural Georgians and others in his new collection of more than 600 oral histories, *Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South*. Bindas provides a detailed, personal chronicle of the 1930's from a rural Southern perspective and captures an important historical era and its impact. These reminiscences were collected over a four-year period in the late 1980's as people looked back over their lives and those of their families.

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Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak: Saved by Her Enemy

Thu, Mar 4, 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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Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

Thu, Nov 15, 2007

David Blight discusses his latest work *Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom*. His new book includes previously unpublished narratives from two former slaves, offering readers a poignant, painful story of lives at once heroic and inspiring.

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