September Schedule

(All events free; no tickets or reservations necessary)

Monday, September 22: RICK ATKINSON, Pulitzer Prize winning author, discusses his latest book, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. It is volume two of his acclaimed Liberation Trilogy, which began with An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. 7:15 P.M., Decatur Library

Wednesday, September 24: STUART WOODS, international best-selling author, is back with an entertaining new Stone Barrington novel, Hot Mahogany, Woods' 30th novel cleverly mixes spying and Army intelligence with an unusual hobby -- antique furniture -- to give readers another fast-paced adventure. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Monday, September 29: ANNETTE GORDON-REED, historian and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, talks about her new book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The author brings to life the tangled and controversial relationships between Jefferson and his slave family. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

October Schedule

(All events free; no tickets or reservations necessary)

Thursday, October 2: DEXTER FILKINS, "the preeminent war correspondent of this generation," discusses his powerful 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, and it is is an eye-opener in its vast scope and revealing, intimate detail. 7:15 P.M., Decatur Library

Tuesday, October 7: ANNE BYRN, the author of The Cake Mix Doctor, Cupcakes and The Dinner Doctor, joins us for conversation about her latest book, What Can I Bring? Cookbook. It's filled with practical, tasty recipes, and we'll have some samples to whet your appetite! 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Thursday, October 9: OMAR TYREE, New York Times' bestselling author, returns with a hot new novel, Pecking Order. The popular author of Single Mom and The Last Street Novel, writes about an ambitious young accountant who jumps into the high-stakes racket of celebrity parties in Southern California. 7:00 p.m., Wesley Chapel Library, 2861 Wesley Chapel Road

Friday, October 17: A NOVEL AFFAIR, a special fund-raising event for the DeKalb Library Foundation at Callanwolde Arts Center, features reception and dinner with authors Terry Kay, Natasha Trethewey, Mary Kay Andrews, J. Tom Morgan and Carmen Deedy. The event begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $150 and $200 per person. For information, call 404-370-8450, ext. 2238.

Monday, October 20: MICHAEL LARGO, whose book The Portable Obituary chronicled how the rich and famous died, returns with an entertaining new book, Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages. It's about how the famously talented mixed their genius with an urge for self-destructiveness. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Tuesday, October 21: RUSSELL SHORTO, the author of the terrific popular history The Island at the Center of the World, discusses his engaging new intellectual detective story, Decartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason. It's an amazing story that examines how the skull of the 17th Century French thinker became separated from the rest of his remains and where it is today. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Wednesday, October 22: STEVEN T. WAX, federal public defender who represented some inmates at Guantanamo Bay, "masterfully delivers a harrowing story of the erosion of civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks." His gripping new book is Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Saturday, October 25: GEORGIA LITERARY FESTIVAL, moves to Bainbridge in Southwest Georgia for a fun day packed with author readings, signings and workshops featuring Mary Kay Andrews, NBC space correspondent Jay Barbree, children's book illustrator Michael P. White, mystery author Claire Matturo and 15 others. It's our free, all-day event. Click on the link on this page for details.

Monday, October 27: PAUL LOMBARDO, professor of law at Georgia State University, writes about a shameful moment in American history in his new book, Three Generations: No Imbeciles. It's a powerful chronicle of the 1927 Supreme Court case that approved laws allowing states to perform surgery to prevent "feebleminded and socially inadequate" people from having children. The law has never been overturned. 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library

Tuesday, October 28: GEORGE C. HERRING, the distinguished, award-winning historian, gives us an engrossing overview of American diplomacy in his new book, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. It's the latest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, "the most respected multi-volume history of our nation." 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library