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The Virginia Festival of the Book is a five-day long annual community-based event held in Charlottesville in the month of March. The festival, the largest book event in the Mid-Atlantic region, brings together authors and readers in order to celebrate books, literacy, reading, and literary culture. It is produced by the Virginia Humanities Council and is a program of the Virginia Center for the Book, which is affiliated to the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Every year, the festival attracts over 20,000 participants from more than 30 states and it presents an impressive list of authors, from international bestsellers to specialists on various topics and debut authors. Major festival programs offer discussions on significant current issues. The festival offers more than 250 programs and most of them are free. The programs include book discussions for every reader level and in every genre.
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