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YATL

01/16/2019 Come to the Decatur Library Auditorium for a live talk show setup for readers and writers of Young Adult Literature with various activities featuring Georgia-based and best selling authors.

Sneed Collard ! Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding

01/17/2019 The Atlanta Audubon Society, Brickworks Gallery, and A Cappella Books present nature writer Sneed Collard and his novel Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding. The event is free admission but reserving a seat is strongly recomended.

Writers at the Wrecking Bar Presents Soniah Kamal ! Unmarriageable

01/17/2019 Hosted by the Writers at Wrecking Bar courtesy of Wrecking Bar Brewpub. Atlanta author Soniah Kamal will be there to discuss her new novel Unmarriageable due to launch this month.

Writers at the Wrecking Bar Presents Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable

01/17/2019 Atlanta author Soniah Kamal debuts her new novel "Unmarriageable" at the first Writers at the Wrecking Bar of 2019. It is a truth universally acknowledged in Atlanta that the Writers at Wrecking Bar fiction series has become the city's go-to literary event. That's why a partnership between A...

Hands Up! Book Release Party with Breanna J. McDaniel

01/20/2019 Join Charis in celebrating Atlanta author Breanna J. McDaniel's first book, Hands Up, a triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday lifehands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high fivebefore culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest... 
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The Palefsky Collision Project

01/21/2019 The Alliance Theatre and The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, invite you to celebrate King Day 2019 with a riveting performance from the Palefsky Collision Project. Members of the 2018 Collision Project, will reconvene with playwright Pearl Cleage and Director Patrick McColery to...

Writers at the Wrecking Bar Presents Kristen Roupenian ! You Know You Want This

01/22/2019 Kristen Roupenian comes to Wrecking Bar Brewpub to talk about her new novel You Know You Want This. Presented by Wrecking Bar Brewpub, Writers at the Wrecking Bar, and A Cappella Books.

Robert Friedman ! A Few Thousand Dollars

01/23/2019 Hosted in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library courtesy of the Carter Center to celebrate Robert E. Friedman and his new novel A Few Thousand Dollars.

Local Event for Mesha Maren, Author of Sugar Run

01/24/2019 Mesha Maren's short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Fiorty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and other literary journals. She was chosen by Lee Smith as winner of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Pricze and is the recipient of a...

Bob Friedman - “A Few Thousands Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone”

01/24/2019 Reading and Booksigning in the Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater to commemorate author Bob Friedman and his novel "A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone". 
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Jon Ward ! Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party

01/24/2019 Hosted by the Carter Center in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library for author Jon Ward in honor of his book Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party. 

Soniah Kamal

01/28/2019 Lecture in Decatur Library Auditorium about Soniah Kamal's novel Unmarriageable and it's retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan.

Keith Dunnavant, Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, The U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy

01/28/2019 Presented by CIBC Private Wealth Management lecture led by Keith Dunnavant discussing his novel. 

Ben Wynne ! The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis

01/30/2019 Hosted by the Carter Center in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in honor of Ben Wynne and his new novel The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis.

Tayari Jones

02/05/2019 A book discussion held at First Baptist Church Decatur led by Tayari Jones and leading a talk about her new novel An American Marriage. 
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Devi Laskar

02/07/2019 Lecture by author Devi Laskar about her new novel The Atlas of Reds and Blues in the Decatur Library Auditorium.

On the Come Up: Angie Thomas and Nic Stone in Conversation

02/09/2019 Join Charis and The Friends School of Atlanta in welcoming one of our all time favorite authors, Angie Thomas, to celebrate her new novel, On the Come Up with a very special conversation with Nic Stone (Dear, Martin, Odd One Out) and introduced by author and publisher, Denene Millner (Denene...

Marlon James Book Signing

02/12/2019 A Cappella Books and the Writing Program of SCAD Atlanta welcome Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "A Brief History of Seven Killings." James will be discussing and signing copies of his stunning first novel in the Dark Star trilogy "Black Leopard, Red Wolf." Billed as an...