Friday, November 4, 2016

Kenny Loggins kicks off Book Festival of the MJCCA with book signing and performance in Dunwoody, Saturday Night.



Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
5342 Tilly Mill Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338 

For 24 successful years, the Book Festival of the MJCCA has provided our community with a literary extravaganza, featuring an exciting lineup of the year's most exceptional authors, celebrities, and influencers. Please join thousands of your fellow book lovers to listen, meet, and interact with your favorite authors in a variety of forums, including author meet-and-greets, book signings, a community read, panel discussions, and much more.


Schedule of Events 
Saturday, November 5

8:15 pm Opening Night
KENNY LOGGINS
Footloose Author Talk + Performance
Sunday, November 6

12:00 pm ROBERT WITTMAN, The Devil's Diary
BRIAN CURTISFields of Battle

3:30 pm Family Reading Festival Presents
HENRY WINKLER + LIN OLIVER, The Soggy, Foggy Campout CANCELLED

7:30 pm Esther G. Levine Community Read
YAEL DAYAN
, Transitions
Monday, November 7

12:00 pm ZOE FISHMAN, Inheriting Edith
JONATHAN RABB, Among the Living

7:30 pm HOWARD BLUM, The Last GoodnightURI BAR-JOSEPH, The Angel
Tuesday, November 8

12:30 pm DR. JOEL M. HOFFMAN, The Bible Doesn't Say That
Wednesday, November 9

12:30 pm ALYSON RICHMAN, The Velvet Hours B.A. SHAPIROThe Muralist

7:00 pm Besser Holocaust Memorial Kristallnacht Commemoration

7:30 pm JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, Here I Am
Thursday, November 10

10:30 am FRIEDA BIRNBAUM, Life Begins at 60MARLENE TRESTMAN, Fair Labor Lawyer

12:30 pm ADAM LEVIN, Swiped

6:00 pm Patron & Sponsor Reception

7:30 pm PETER BERGEN, United States of Jihad
Friday, November 11

12:00 pm ELLEN FELDMAN, Terrible Virtue
JENNIFER S. BROWN
, Modern Girls
Saturday, November 12

6:30 pm "Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon" Film Screening

8:00 pm SHEP GORDON, They Call Me Supermensch
Sunday, November 13

10:00 am "Breakfast at Ina's" Film Screening

11:30 am INA PINKNEY, Ina's Kitchen

3:00 pm JESSE ITZLER, Living With a Seal

7:30 pm DR. DANIEL GORDIS, Israel
Monday, November 14

12:00 pm VICTORIA KELLY, Mrs. Houdini
THELMA ADAMS, Last Woman Standing

7:30 pm Book Club Night
ALICE HOFFMAN
Faithful
Tuesday, November 15

12:30 pm DR. MACHE SEIBEL, M.D., The Estrogen Window

7:30 pm CARSON KRESSLEYDoes This Book Make My Butt Look Big?
Wednesday, November 16

12:30 pm LLOYD HANDWERKERFamous Nathan
INA YALOF
Food and the City

7:30 pm MEIR SHALEV, Two She-Bears
Thursday, November 17

10:30 am JEFFREY SELMAN, God Sent Me

12:30 pm LIANE KUPFERBERG CARTER, Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable

7:30 pm WILLIAM NOVAK, Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks MICHAEL KRASNY, Let There Be Laughter
Friday, November 18

12:00 pm CHRISTOPHER NOXON, Plus One
Saturday, November 19

8:00 pm JEFFREY TOOBIN, American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Sunday, November 20

12:00 pm JASON GEWIRTZ, Israel's Edge

3:30 pm HARRIET LEVIN MILLAN APPEARING WITH "LOST BOY OF SUDAN" MICHAEL MAJOK KUCH, How Fast Can You Run 
» 7:30 pm Eva & George Stern Lecture
ANDY COHEN
Superficial

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