Patrick Allitt, "A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism." 7:15 p.m. March 31. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=678. Emory University professor Allitt shows that the environmental debates of the past half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering.
Michael Saag, "Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters With Death, Life and the U.S. Healthcare System." 7 p.m. April 1. Reading and signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, jimmycarterlibrary.gov/events. Saag, an internationally known expert on the virus that causes AIDS, shines a light on the dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
Jonathan Schanzer, "State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State." 7:30 p.m. April 2. Talk and signing. Free. Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive N.W., Atlanta. 404-252-3073, calendar.templesinaiatlanta.org/BrowseEvents.aspx. Schanzer offers a provocative look at the past, present and future of Palestine.
Kate Sweeney, "American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning." 6 p.m. April 3. Talk and signing. Free. SCAD's Ivy Hall Writers Series, Ivy Hall, 179 Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-253-3324, scad.edu/event/2014-04-03-murrow-award-winning-author-explores-american-afterlife. Sweeney's first book examines how Americans memorialize our dead, where these practices came from, and what this says about us.
Sue Monk Kidd, "The Invention of Wings." 6 p.m. April 3. Signing, art exhibit and Q&A. $10-$45. Registration suggested. The Nave, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 1790 LaVista Road N.E., Atlanta. 404-634-3336, commonground.episcopalatlanta.org/Content/Disciples_of_Christ_in_Community.asp. Kidd teams up with artist Curly Clark to celebrate the power of story and the myriad ways we invent our wings.
Beatriz Williams, "A Hundred Summers." 6:30 p.m. April 3. Signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. When a New York socialite visits an idyllic oceanfront community, the last thing she expects is to find her former best friend and her former fiancé — recently married — vacationing nearby.
Angela Jackson-Brown, "Drinking From a Bitter Cup: a Southern Novel of Redemption." 7:30 p.m. April 3. Reading and signing. $5 suggested donation. Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-524-0304, charis.indiebound.com/event/drinking-bitter-cup-southern-novel-redemption-angela-jackson-brown. In this coming-of-age story set in the 1970s-80s, a child whose mother has just died goes to live with the father she barely knows in Alabama, where she receives anything but a warm welcome from the man's wife.
Cornelius Eady, Patricia Smith and Kurtis Lamkin. 7:30 p.m. April 3. Poetry reading. Free. Kress Auditorium, Georgia Tech, 500 10th St., Atlanta. 404-894-2000, africaatlanta.org/calendar/event/poetrytech.
The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, "The Divided Mind of the Black Church." 7 p.m. April 3. Talk and signing. Free. Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-730-4001, Ext. 100; afpls.org/events-aarl. Warnock, senior pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, traces the historical significance of the rise and development of black theology.
Horace Henry, "One Day in January: A Collection of Images Taken at Dr. King's First Memorial Services." 3 p.m. April 5. Talk and signing. Free. Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-730-4001, Ext. 100; afpls.org/events-aarl.
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