Matt Kepnes, "How to Travel the World on $50 a Day." 7 p.m. Feb. 2. Reading, discussion, signing. Highland Inn Ballroom, 644 N. Highland Ave., Atlanta. 404-681-5128, acappellabooks.com/event/matt-kepnes-book-signing. Based on more than seven years of world traveling, Kepnes' guide is a must-have for anyone headed abroad on a budget.
Jonathan Odell, "Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League," and Margaret Block. 7 p.m. Feb. 6. Discussion, signing. Free. Gwinnett County Public Library, 361 Main St., Suwanee. 770-978-5154, gwinnettpl.org/event/author-jon-odell-and-margaret-block. Other appearances by Odell (without Block): 7:15 p.m. Feb. 3. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=756. 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5. Signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. Odell's new novel (after "The Healing") tells the story of two young mothers whose unlikely friendship explores the roots of the civil rights movement in the South. Block, a poet, served as the secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s.
Sheila McCauley Keys and Edward B. Allen Jr., "Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons." 7 p.m. Feb. 3. Reading, signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, jimmycarterlibrary.gov/events. A collection of personal remembrances and never-before-seen photos and letters.
Andrew Maraniss, "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South." 7:15 p.m. Feb. 4. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=757. Maraniss' biography of the first African-American basketball player in the SEC digs beneath the surface of a complicated story of sports pioneering.
Lisa Gardner, "Crash & Burn." 7 p.m. Feb. 4. Talk, signing. $5. Eagle Eye Book Shop, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur. 404-486-0307, eagleeyebooks.com/calendar.html. In Gardner's third Tessa Leoni mystery, the survivor of a terrible car wreck claims her daughter is missing — though her husband says she has no children.
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, "Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre." 8 p.m. Feb. 5. Talk, signing. $10. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road N.W., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, atlantahistorycenter.com/visit/event/603?calendar=month. This collection looks at a popular new form of Colombian music.
Harry Lembeck, "Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics." 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7. Discussion, signing. Free. Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Highway 41, Marietta. 678-264-8575, mynertamid.info/cnt-news. Roosevelt historian Lembeck of Marietta investigates the president's decision in 1906 to dishonorably discharge 167 black soldiers and how this affected African-American support for the Republican party.
Kristin Hannah, "The Nightingale." 1 p.m. Feb. 7. $30, includes a copy of the book. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. Hannah ("Firefly Lane") tells the stories of two sisters who struggle to survive in German-occupied France in World War II.
