John Fowler and David Parker, "Breaking the Heartland: The Civil War in Georgia." 7:15 p.m. Oct. 10. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Essays explore the impact of the war on Georgia and the state’s importance to the outcome.
William Kennedy, "Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes." 7 p.m. Oct 11. Lecture and signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
Pulitzer Prize winner Kennedy (“Ironweed,” “Legs,” “Very Old Bones”) sets his long-awaited new novel in Cuba in 1957, where American journalist Daniel Quinn has some legendary encounters and experiences, and meets the woman he will marry.
David Gessner, "The Tarball Chronicles." 7 p.m. Oct. 12. Lecture and signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
In his firsthand account of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gessner explores the ecosystem of the Gulf as a complicated whole and focuses on the people whose lives and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the spill.
Robert Morgan, "Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion." 7 p.m. Oct. 12. Discussion and signing. Free. Eagle Eye Book Shop, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur. 404-486-0307, http://eagleeyebooks.com.
The best-selling historian and biographer (“Boone”) explores the lives of 10 American legends, including Thomas Jefferson, David Crockett, Sam Houston and Kit Carson, without whom the U.S. might well have ended at the Arkansas border.
Ivy Hall Writers Series: Karen Russell ("Swamplandia!"). 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Signing. Free with SCAD identification, $15 general public. Welcome Center, second floor, SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St. N.W., Atlanta. 404-253-3100, www.artofrestoration.org/events/calendar.cfm.
Rebecca Stone, "The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South America." 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Lecture and book signing. Free. Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta. 404-727-4282, www.carlos.emory.edu.
John Sandford, "Shock Wave." 7:15 p.m. Oct. 13. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
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