Mark Kurlansky Coming to Carter Library Monday
Author of "Cod" & "Salt" talks Baseball

Atlanta, GA.- The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library is proud to welcome best-selling author Mark Kurlansky for a reading and book signing on Monday, April 26th at 7pm in the library theater. Kurlansky is best-known for his fascinating books of how Cod and Salt help shape the history of the world. Now he looks at how baseball shaped a small town in the Dominican Republic and how that town helped change baseball.

His new book is The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís.  In a starred review Publishers Weekly wrote: "As he has done so masterfully in his earlier bestselling books on cod, salt, and oysters, Kurlansky homes in on a singular subject and magnifies its every facet under the brilliant light of his investigative reporting, his historical sensibility, and his lively storytelling."
  You can hear a preview of Monday's reading from NPR at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125999102
  The reading and book signing is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30. ACappella Books will be selling copies of The Eastern Stars at the reading.

Upcoming author readings include*.
         May 5th*. Hampton Sides* "Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Search for his  Assassin"
        May 12th*.Ronald White*"A. Lincoln"
        May 13th* David Donovan*"Murphy Station"
        May 14th*. Larry Tye*."Satchel"
        May 17th*..Anya Kamenetz*"DIY U"
        May 24th*.Wes Moore*"The Other Wes Moore"
        May 25th*.Wilbert Rideau*"In The Place of Justice"

See information about all our upcoming events at www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov and visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library on Facebook.

Contact Tony Clark with questions at 404-865-7109.