:Events:
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May
Ron Tanner, May 14th
Ten years ago Ron Tanner and his new girlfriend deicded to buy a big Baltimore brownstone, formerly home to a notorious fraternity now abandoned, and restore it. The only problem: neither knew anything about fixing up old houses. What happened then -- the deeply personal challenges they faced -- is the subject of Tanner’s delightful new book, ”From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story.” For their labors of body and heart, they got...
Read MoreRon Rash & Michel Stone, May 15th
One of our finest and most popular writers, Ron Rash, returns to us with a powerful new novel, ”The Cove.” And he’ll be joined by a close friend and talented young writer, Michel Stone, whose first novel ”The Iguana Tree” is drawing high praise around the country. In his much anticipated new book, Rash, the New York Times bestselling author of ”Serena” and ”Saints at the River,” tells the story of a blazing but doomed...
Read MoreKayte Terry, May 21st
Kayte Terry’s new book is one of the most imaginative, innovative books ever on the topic of paper craft. And why paper craft? Well, it’s Decatur Arts Festival week, and this program is part of the festival, which brings dozens of crafters and artists to the area, so we thought this might be an especially welcome program. The author’s book is called ”Paper Made,” and if her name seems familiar, it may be because she...
Read MorePoetry Atlanta Presents..., May 22nd
For the next installment of our popular series Poetry Atlanta Presents, we’ll be moving to the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library for some exciting, inspiring poetry from some of the very best writers around the Atlanta area and beyond. A Face to Meet the Faces is a contemporary anthology of persona poetry co-edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz from The University of Akron Press. Poets from the anthology to be featured...
Read MoreRobert M. Craig, May 23rd
Robert Craig is the author of a new book about one of the premier early 20th century architects of the American South, Francis Palmer Smith. It is what critics call ”a thoroughly captivating and beautifully illustrated study” of an architect who taught generations of students at Georgia Tech and built hundreds of houses of all styles, churches, cathedrals, schools. Coca-Cola bottling plants and high rises. Smith was a true architectural pioneer, and this biography --...
Read MoreSamuel L. Popkin, May 31st
Political junkies in an election year won’t want to miss this program. It features a talk by Dr. Samuel Popkin, author of a new book, ”The Candidate: What It Takes to Win -- and Hold -- The White House.” Popkin is a California political scientist who has served as a consultant to the Clinton campaign and an analyst for CBS News. His book offers lots of inside information about presidential campaigns drawing on his own...
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Henry A. Crumpton, June 1st
Our guest this evening is a legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert who has written a spine-tingling, action-packed autobiography, ”The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service.” We are pleased to co-sponsor this program with our partners at the Jimmy Carter Library, and we hope you’ll join us there to meet and hear about this extraordinary true-life adventure. Crumpton has worked with the CIA in efforts to combat Al Quaeda...
Read MoreWill Allen, June 4th
Former pro basketball star and business executive Will Allen joins us to talk about his delightful and important new book, ”The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities.” Allen, a pioneering urban farmer and winner of a MacArthur ”genius” grant, has written a powerful plea for the development of healthy food systems across the country. The son of a sharecropper, Allen was an executive at Kentucky Fried Chicken and Proctor & Gamble who...
Read MoreJillian Medoff, June 5th
Jillian Medoff, the acclaimed author of ”Hunger Point” and ”Good Girls Gone Bad,” joins us with an absorbing new novel about family identity and relationships, ”I Couldn’t Love You More.” The story’s focus is a 38-year-old working mother and stepmother in Atlanta, struggling to keep her family functioning when her long-lost first love suddenly appears, throwing the family’s lives into turmoil. Critics call the novel ”a captivating page-turner” that digs deeply into the intricacies...
Read MoreLindsey Hilsum, June 6th
English television journalist and international correspondent Lindsey Hilsum has written a powerful new book about the remarkable upheaval in Libya, ”Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.” She’ll make her first appearance with the Center for the Book to discuss her just-published book based on her reporting from Libya and throughout the uprisings that have been part of the Arab Spring. She has reported from hot spots around the world including Iran, Rawnda, Zimbabwe and...
Read MoreClaire Cook, June 11th
Popular author Claire Cook (”Must Love Dogs”) comes to us with a delightfully engaging new novel, ”Wallflower in Bloom,” It’s a witty, lively story of a woman who emerges from the shadow of her overbearing family and a misbehaving boyfriend to find herself ”dancing with the stars.” Literally. She wrangles her way onto the television program and discovers her 15 minutes of fame changes her life completely! It’s great fun and an absiolutely irresistible...
Read MoreSam Bracken, June 25th
”Abandoned at age 15, Sam Bracken battled homelessness, poverty and abuse to successfully earn a full-time football scholarhsip to Georgia Tech. When he left for college, everything he nowned fit into an orange duffel bag.” Now, in an award-winning illustrated memoir, ””My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change,” he charts his personal life transformation. It’s a fascinating and inspirational story, giving anyone the motivation and hope they need to make dramatic changes in...
Read MoreDavid Maraniss, June 26th
We welcome the preeminent journalist and modern historian David Maraniss, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, with his much-anticipated new biography, ”Barack Obama: The Story.” It is a deeply researched and brilliantly written generational biography of the President filled with fresh insights and revealing information, and it couldn’t be more timely. The book is based on hundreds of interviews including talks with President Obama in the Oval Office, and a trove of personal and official letters,...
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