AJC Decatur Book Festival | September 2-4, 2011 | The Largest Independent Book Festival in the Nation

AJC Decatur Book Festival Hosts National Book Award Winner Charles Frazier

The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical will host National Book Award Winner Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain, on the second stop of a national tour for his long-awaited novel, Nightwoods, Wednesday Oct. 5 at Georgia Perimeter College.

He will address Atlanta-area fans at 8 p.m. Oct. 5, at Georgia Perimeter College’s Cole Auditorium (555 N. Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021).

This is a free, non-ticketed event, and is first-come, first-served.

The Sixth Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival Was a MONSTER Success!

Festival organizers would like to thank everyone who made this great event possible, including the volunteers, attendees, our sponsors — particularly the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and DeKalb Medical — and of course, the authors. We couldn’t have put on the Largest Independent Book Festival in the Country without your help!

Book Lovers: Get ready for another monstrous Labor Day Weekend at the Sixth Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival! Come celebrate this year’s Keynote Speakers with us: Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) and acclaimed illustrator Carson Ellis, the nationally renowned pair behind a new book of bravery and adventure for families, kids, and adults alike: Wildwood.

This year’s featured authors:

Cover of A Dream Come True: My Very Good Life

Cover of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

Cover of Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace

Cover of The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

Cover of The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot

Cover of Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster

Cover of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

Cover of Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next

Cover of My Week at the Blue Angel: And Other Stories from the Storm Drains, Strip Clubs, and Trailer Parks of Las Vegas

Cover of The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy

Cover of The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities

Cover of Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life

Cover of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

Cover of Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers

Cover of Quick-Fix Southern: Homemade Hospitality in 30 Minutes or Less

Cover of Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life

Cover of Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation

Cover of You Can Beat the Odds: The Surprising Factors Behind Chronic Illness and Cancer

Cover of Owly & Wormy, Friends All Aflutter!

Cover of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Cover of Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit

Cover of Damn Good Dogs: The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia's Bulldog Mascots

Cover of The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

Cover of Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

Cover of Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South

Cover of The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady

Cover of The American Essay in the American Century

Cover of Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse

Cover of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

Cover of The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists

Cover of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood

Cover of Atlanta's Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History

Cover of Images of America: Virginia-Highland

Cover of Ellie McDoodle: Best Friends Fur-Ever

Cover of The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media

Cover of Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder

Cover of Teasing the Grace: poems and stories

Cover of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Cover of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

Cover of Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie

Cover of Slow Light: Invisibility, Teleportation and Other Mysteries of Light

Cover of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Cover of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

Cover of Life Traces of the Georgia Coast

Cover of The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer's Memoir

Cover of Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People

Cover of Freedom: An African-American History of Georgia, 1733-1865

Cover of Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes

Cover of Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life

Cover of Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You

Cover of The House that Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923

Cover of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Cover of Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

Cover of Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation

Cover of This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood

Cover of A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Cover of Sandstorm: A Forgotten Realms Novel

Cover of School for Startups: The Breakthrough Course for Guaranteeing Small Business Success in 90 Days or Less

Cover of A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom: Teach Yourself (and Your Kids) How to Live Wealthy with Little Money

Cover of Talking About Movies With Jesus

Cover of How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)

And that’s just the start. Check out our full author listing here.

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