Arts & Entertainment

24th Annual MJCCA Book Festival: Everything You Need to Know

The event kicks off on Thursday, Nov. 5, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 22.

The 24th annual Marcus Jewish Community Center Book Festival begins on Thursday, Nov. 5.

Most events will be held at the center at 5342 Tilly Mill Road in Dunwoody. To purchase tickets, call 678/812-4005 or visit online at www.atlantajcc.org/bookfestival.

For the full lineup, click here.

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Here’s the daily schedule:

Thursday, November 5

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6:00 pm - Patron & Sponsor Reception

7:30 pm DAVID GREGORY, How’s Your Faith?

Friday, November 6

12:00 pm NOMI EVE, Henna House

Saturday, November 7
8:00 pm JUDY BLUME, In the Unlikely Event

Sunday, November 8

10:30 am MIKE WIEN, The Specific Edge

2:00 pm RABBI AVRAHAM WEISS, Open Up the Iron Door

7:30 pm JOE KLEIN, Charlie Mike

Monday, November 9

12:00 pm NAOMI RAGEN, The Devil in Jerusalem

7:30 pm DENNIS ROSS, Doomed to Succeed

At the Temple, 1589 Peachtree St.

Tuesday, November 10

12:30 pm LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN, Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate

RONALD H. BALSON, Saving Sophie

7:00 pm Besser Holocaust Memorial Kristallnacht Commemoration

7:45 pm Esther G. Levine Community Read DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER, The Doctor Is In

Wednesday, November 11

12:30 pm ARCHIE RAND, The 613

7:30 pm DR. MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR, No Mission is Impossible

Thursday, November 12

10:30 am CHANA SHAPIRO META MILLER, Fruitfly Rabbi

12:30 pm MICHAEL SOLOMONOV, Zahav

7:30 pm JONATHAN, FAYE & JESSE KELLERMAN, The Theory of Death, The Golem of Paris`

Friday, November 13

12:00 pm DANIEL TORDAY, The Last Flight of Poxl West
ALEXIS LANDAU, The Empire of the Senses

Saturday, November 14

8:00 pm Eva & George Stern Lecture
MITCH ALBOM, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Sunday, November 15

10:00 am-1:00 pm MJCCA Family Reading Festival

3:00 pm DAN EPHRON, Killing a King
MIKE KELLY, The Bus on Jaffa Road

7:30 pm ARLENE ALDA, WITH ALAN ALDA, Just Kids from the Bronx

Monday, November 16

12:00 pm ANTHONY DAVID, An Improbable Friendship

7:30 pm TESS GERRITSEN, Playing With Fire

Tuesday, November 17

12:00 pm JO IVESTER, The Outskirts of Hope
ANDREW FEILER, Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color
7:30 pm JUDITH VIORST, Wait for Me...
DANI KLEIN MODISETT, Take My Spouse, Please

Wednesday, November 18

12:30 pm SHULEM DEEN, All Who Go Do Not Return

7:30 pm STEVE KATZ, Blood, Sweat and My Rock ‘n Roll Years

Thursday, November 19

10:30 pm ROBERT WEINTRAUB, No Better Friend
HARRY LEMBECK, Taking on Theodore Roosevelt

12:30 pm STEPHEN SILVERMAN, The Catskills

5:00 pm “Inheritance” Film Screening

7:30 pm JENNIFER TEEGE, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

Friday, November 20

12:00 pm JAMI ATTENBERG, St. Mazie
JILLIAN CANTOR, The Hours Count

Saturday, November 21

8:00 pm ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Abraham

Sunday, November 22

10:30 am JOSH LEVS, All In

2.30 pm LAURIE ANN LEVIN, Life in Life
JOEY REIMAN, Thumbs Up!

7:30 pmTED KOPPEL, Lights Out!

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