A portion of your purchase supports the AJC Decatur Book Festival so please buy the DBF books from our local booksellers. First Baptist Sanctuary Session Time Author Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change Sat 10:00-10:45a Stacy Abrams Ordinary Lives, Writing Friends: Late Migrations & I Miss You When You Blink Sat 11:15-12:00p Margaret Renkl, Mary Laura Philpott Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief, Sponsored by Sat 12:30-1:15p Doris Payne Griffin & Company Insurance Inland Sat 1:45-2:30p Tea Obreht The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Sat 3:00-3:45 Kelli Harding Kindness Literary Adventure and the American West Sat 4:15-5:00p Karl Marlantes, William Krueger Dr. Elizabeth M. Bounds, Dr. Dianne Stewart, Dr. Raphael Celebrating James H. Cone, Presented by Candler School of Theology, Emory University Sat 5:30-6:15p Warnock, Dr. Dwayne Meadows, Dr. Jacquelyn Grant Holy Envy & Wild Mercy Sun 12:00-12:45p Barbara Brown Taylor, Mirabai Starr The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged Sun 1:15-2:00p Sam Kean the Nazi Atomic Bomb Ten Men You Meet in a Huddle: Lessons from a Football Life Sun 2:30-3:15p Bill Curry Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 Sun 3:45-4:30p Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves Sun 5:00-5:45p Frans de Waal Tidelands Sun 6:30-7:15p Philippa Gregory Carrekker Stage Session Time Author Reflecting on Howard Thurman and St. Francis Sat 10:00-10:45a Kipton Jensen, David Gowler, April Love-Fordham Never Have I Ever: A Novel Sat 11:15-12:00p Joshilyn Jackson Gather at the River: 25 Authors on Fishing Sat 12:30-1:15p Scott Gould, Jim Minick, Drew Lanham, J.C. Sasser Searching for Community and Home Amid Displacement, PEN America Immigration Track Sat 1:45-2:30p Devi Laskar, Tope Folarin Invisible As Air, Things You Save In A Fire, The Favorite Daughter Sat 3:00-3:45p Zoe Fishman, Katherine Center, Patti Callahan Henry A Baptist Preacher's Bhuddist Teacher: How My Interfaith Journey with Daisaku Ikeda Made Sat 4:15-5:00p Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. Me a Better Christian Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, Sponsored by The Ossabaw Island Foundation and Educa- Sat 5:30-6:15p Paul M. Pressly, Paul S. Sutter, Janisse Ray tion Alliance The Care & Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, Unmarriageable, The Sisters of Summit Sun 12:00-12:45p Anissa Gray, Soniah Kamal, Lynn Cullen Avenue Southern Conservatism and Its Impact on Today's Politics Sun 1:15-2:00p Kevin M. Kruse, Joe Crespino After the Fall: Stories Amid the Echoes of Collapse Sun 2:30-3:15p Julia Phillips, Ingrid Rojas Contreras Poetry Reading: Jacqueline Osherow and Ilya Kaminsky Sun 3:45-4:30p Jacqueline Osherow, Ilya Kaminsky Bringing the Past to Life Sun 5:00-5:45p Kris Waldherr, Crystal King, Christopher Tilghman City Hall Stage Session Time Author Burying the Past Doesn’t Mean it’s Dead Sat 10:00-10:45a Miciah Bay Gault, Chanelle Benz Poetry Reading with Brigitte Byrd and David Kirby Sat 11:15-12:00p Brigitte Byrd, David Kirby Atlanta Writers Club Contemporary Fiction Sat 12:30-1:15p Beth Duke, Mary Becker, Marilyn Baron Treasures in Earthen Vessels: Three Memoirs Sat 1:45-2:30p Christine Ristaino, Eva Hagberg Fisher, Beverly Willett Atlanta Writers Club Historical Fiction Sat 3:00-3:45p Alayne Smith, Anne Lovett When the Vow Breaks, Sponsored by ATL Mortgage Sat 4:15-5:00p Mickey Dubrow, Kimberly Belle Narrative Voices of the South Sat 5:30-6:15p Mary Miller, George Singleton Atlanta Writers Club Nonfiction Sun 12:00-12:45p Sharon Marchisello, Patricia Martin Holt, Jonathan Ingram Moral Machines: How is AI Pushing our Ethical Boundaries?, Presented by Emory University’s Paul Root Wolpe, Phd, John D. Banja, PhD, Nassim Parvin, Sun 1:15-2:00p Center for Ethics Phd Suppressed History and Memory Come Back with a Vengeance Sun 2:30-3:15p LeAnne Howe, Mamta Chaudhry Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman, Rabi'a Sun 3:45-4:30p Rkia Elaroui Cornell Book Marketing on a Budget Sun 5:00-5:45p Angela DeCaires .