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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

  • Irani and Sidhwa on the Song of Kahunsha

    Wed, May 2, 2007
    Bapsi Sidhwa and Anosh Irani, two of the most highly praised contemporary Indian authors, discuss their new work.
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    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Divided America: Ferocious Power Struggle in US Politics

    Tue, Mar 27, 2007
    Earle and Merle Black discuss growing political divisiveness, arguing that the race for the White House now rests on a handful of states in the Midwest.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • An Evening with Judson Mitcham

    Thu, Mar 29, 2007
    Georgia poet and novelist Judson Mitcham, the state's only two-time winner of the prestigious Townsend Prize, makes a special appearance to talk about his work and to answer questions.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Karen White: Learning to Breathe

    Wed, Mar 28, 2007
    Karen White reads from her new novel, *Learning to Breathe*, about a woman who finds that taking a leap of faith is better than wondering what might have been.
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    Partner:
    Georgia Center for the Book

  • 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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    Georgia Center for the Book

  • Kabul Beauty School

    Fri, Apr 13, 2007
    Deborah Rodriguez tells the story of how she gave up her job in Detroit to open a salon and cosmetology school in Kabul, Afghanistan. In *Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil*, Rodriguez explains why she opened the salon and school and how she and many brave women of Kabul continue to resist the resurgent, oppressive Taliban.
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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 2, 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
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