Author Appearance

November 16 @ 6:30 PM -- Davison Lecture Series Presents Best Selling Author Lauretta Hannon @ Dalton-Whitfield Public Library, 103 Cappes St., Dalton

October 7 @ 6:30 PM -- Davison Lecture Series Presents Clent Coker, Barnsley Garden Historian, Lecturer and Author @ Dalton-Whitfield Public Library, 103 Cappes St., Dalton

September 23 @ 6:30 PM -- Davison Lecture Series Presents Best Selling Author Joshilyn Jackson @ Dalton-Whitfield Public Library, 103 Cappes St., Dalton

Joe Dabney, retired journalist and nationally acclaimed author, will present his new book, "The Food, Folklore and art of Low Country Cooking" July 15 at the Cartersville Public Library in a progra

Diana Palmer, best-selling author of popular novels of romance and suspense, will visit the Fayette County Public Library on Friday, July 9 at 1 p.m.

Jonathan Tropper, whose popular novels include Plan B and The Book of Joe, returns with a new book, This is Where I Leave You. It's an "uproarious, sophisticated, deeply moving novel with a sense of humor and deft touch" that may remind readers of early John Irving and Michael Chabon. The story centers around a very dysfunctional family forced to spend time together by the death of one of their own. We know you'll enjoy this program.

Amanda C. Gable. Welcome Atlanta author Amanda Gable, with her richly imagined and heartwarming new novel, The Confederate General Rides North. It's a whimsical, totally original story about an endearing young heroine, 11-year-old Katherine McDonnell, a precocious Civil War buff, and her touching relationship with her mother. It's set in Georgia in the 1960s, and we're predicting it will emerge as one of the finest debut novels of the year! Join us to welcome this gifted new writer. Charis Books will have copies of the novel for sale and signing.

James C. Cobb is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia and one of the nation's finest historians of the South. He is the prize-winning author and editor of a dozen books including Georgia Odyssey, which is on the Center for the Book's current list of "25 Books All Georgians Should Read." His appearance is part of the "We the People" program funded by the Georgia Humanities Council.

Judson Mitcham, twice winner of the prestigious Townsend Award, is an acclaimed poet and novelist from Macon whose books include Sabbath Creek and The Sweet Everlasting. His new book of poetry, A Little Salvation, is on the Center for the Book's current list of "25 Books All Georgians Should Read." His appearance of part of the "We the People" program funded by the Georgia Humanities Council.

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James Braziel, author of the acclaimed novels Birmingham and 35 Miles, visits us with a powerful, mesmerizing new book, Snakeskin Road. It's a cautionary futuristic tale of a woman's harrowing journey of survival through a Southeastern United States that has been devastated by catastrophic climactic changes. It's a frightening depiction of a familiar landscape now turned lawless and corrupt and utterly dangerous.