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Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb Country Public Library are pleased and honored to be the hosts of the 2017 Book As Art: Illuminated exhibit! The exhibition is located in the Periodicals Gallery at the Decatur Library through September 29, 2017. Artist books take many forms – from handmade and lusciously tactile to linear and informative, abstract and questioning to sculptural and monumental....

Back once again by popular demand is one of our most exciting programs for the end of the summer. Representatives from America’s biggest publishers will return to the library to talk about the exciting new books that will be published this fall. It’s a unique opportunity to get an advance look at notable upcoming book titles in the fields of biography, fiction, history, young...

Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb Country Public Library are pleased and honored to be the hosts of the 2017 Book As Art: Illuminated exhibit! The exhibition is located in the Periodicals Gallery at the Decatur Library through September 29, 2017. Thursday evening, September 7, 2017, we will host the first ”White Glove Night”, when we put away the ”do not touch” signs,...

New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson discusses The Twelve Mile Straight, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition. Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind...

In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. In Locking Up Our...