Conversations
V. E. Schwab
Come celebrate V.E. Schwab's new novel, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil! V.E. Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Her newest, genre-defying novel is about immortality and hunger.
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Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock
On April 19 at 2:00 pm (after our Easter Egg Hunt), join us in the Sanctuary for a Conversations event with Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock, who will be discussing his newest picture book, Leo's Lunch Box! This story is a timely tale of empathy, community, and caring for others. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez with Tayari Jones
Join us for an evening with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. Perkins-Valdez will be in conversation with Tayari Jones to discuss her riveting new novel Happy Land, the story of a woman who learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom.
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Elaine Pagels
From Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University Elaine Pagels, recipient of honors including the National Humanities Medal, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellowships, as well as both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, now comes the highly anticipated new book Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus, a spellbinding and deeply-researched epic that sets out to answer the question of how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
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Kendra Adachi
Kendra Adachi: The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius. The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her signature Kind Big Sister Energy to a practical time management book for people weary of productivity but eager to live a good life.
The Verts
The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts. This book tells the story of two siblings, Estie and Ivan. When Estie tries to plan Ivan’s birthday party, both siblings learn how to be themselves.
Ann Pachett is the bestselling author of novels (most recently Tom Lake), nonfiction, and children’s books. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden in recognition of her contributions to American culture. Robin Preiss Glasser has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including the bestselling Fancy Nancy series, Lambslide, Escape Goat, and Grand Jeté and Me: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids. She won the Children’s Choice Award for Best Illustrator of the Year for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet.
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston
Charis and the Georgia Center for the Book welcome Casey McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue) for a celebration of The Pairing. In the #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a competition to prove they're over each other—except they're definitely not. This event is free (unless you choose to purchase the book), but registration is required.
Deb Miller Landau with Jill Cox Cordova
Deb Miller Landau in Conversation with Jill Cox Cordova
Award-winning magazine writer Deb Miller Landau celebrates the release of her debut book, A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton, a riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan—and the journey to bring her true killer to justice.
Mo Rocca
From beloved “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller “Mobituaries,” comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.
WABE, Georgia Center for the Book, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and A Cappella Books proudly welcome the author to the First Baptist Church of Decatur in honor of his latest book, “Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs.” Rocca will appear in conversation with Lois Reitzes, host of WABE's “City Lights.”
Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project.
Rubin’s Life in Five Senses explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world. It is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives—and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love.
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Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo is the bestselling author of The Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn-Dixie, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, the Mercy Watson series, and so many more beloved classics of children’s literature. To learn more, visit the Decatur Children’s Book Festival website, and be sure to follow them on social media.
Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Greg Bluestein
Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Greg Bluestein - Find Me the Votes
Two years of immersive reporting by veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president’s conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor—a daughter of the civil rights movement—decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. With original reporting and exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings, Find Me the Votes is investigative journalism at its finest. Michael Isikoff will be in conversation with Greg Bluestein, AJC journalist.
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Ayesha Rascoe with Dr. Beverly Tatum
Ayesha Rascoe with Dr. Beverly Tatum - HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College ExperienceIn this joyous collection of essays, edited by the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Ayesha Rasco, alumni of historically Black colleges and universities write testimonials about the schools and experiences that shaped their lives and made them who they are today. For many, the choice to attend an HBCU was a careful commitment to be educated in a place where they would never have to justify their presence. Ayesha Rasco will be joined in conversation onstage with Spelman College President Emerita Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum.
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Ijeoma Oluo with Oriaku Njoku
Ijeoma Oluo with Oriaku Njoku - Be a Revolution
Author Ijeoma Oluo joins Oriaku Njoku onstage for a conversation about how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Aiming to inspire action and change, Oluo takes our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both a chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.
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Tracy K. Smith with Jericho Brown
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet: a stunning meditation on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—together—come to a new view of our shared past. In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching, and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the “din of human division and strife.” With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking—personal, documentary, and spiritual—to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.
To Free the Captives begins this journey by assembling a new terminology of American life. Parsing the difference between the Free and the Freed, and the distance between Time Ago and Soon, Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment and offers a compelling argument for the vocabulary of the soul as a tool for fulfilling our duties to each other and to the future.
Jesmyn Ward with Regina N. Bradley
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.