Harold Michael Harvey, "Paper Puzzle." 7 p.m. May 2. Meet and greet. Free. Cafe Hortensia, Healy Building, 57 Forsyth St., Atlanta. 404-588-0411, www.cafehortensia.com.
Harvey's Southern mystery centers on two newspaper editors and a series of murders spanning 40 years.
Debbie Macomber, "A Turn in the Road." 7 p.m. May 2. Signing. Free. Barnes & Noble Buckhead, 2900 Peachtree Road N.E., Atlanta. 404-261-7747, http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/1907. Also appearing: 7 p.m. May 3. Talk and signing. Free, must register via website. Mount Bethel United Methodist Church Sanctuary. www.mtbethel.org.
Andrea Levy, "The Long Song." 7:15 p.m. May 3. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Levy uses a fictional memoir to re-create the life of a Jamaican slave in 1832.
Geraldine Brooks, "Caleb's Crossing." 7:30 p.m. May 4. Talk and signing. Members $11, nonmembers $16. Marcus Jewish Community Center, Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. 678-812-4000, www.atlantajcc.org.
Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks (“People of the Book,” “Year of Wonders”) tells the 1655 story behind the first Native American to graduate from Harvard.
Karen White, "The Beach Trees," and Wendy Wax, "Ten Beach Road." 6:30 p.m. May 3. Book launch and signing. $5. Book Exchange, 2956 Canton Road, Marietta. 770-427-4848, www.bookexchangemarietta.com/Events.html. Also appearing: 7 p.m. May 4. FoxTale Book Shoppe, www.foxtalebookshoppe.com.
William J. Holstein, "The Next American Economy." 7:15 p.m. May 5. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Jen Lancaster, "If You Were Here." 7 p.m. May 5. Talk and signing. Free. Barnes & Noble Buckhead, 2900 Peachtree Road N.E., Atlanta. 404-261-7747, http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/1907.
Popular blogger and author Lancaster (“Bitter Is the New Black”) follows a writer through the process of renovating her first home.
Terra Elan McVoy, "The Summer of Firsts and Lasts." 7 p.m. May 6. Free. Little Shop of Stories, 133A E. Court Square, Decatur. 404-373-6300, www.littleshopofstories.com.
Three sisters narrate the third young adult novel by McVoy (“Pure,” “After the Kiss”), about summer romances at camp.
Kelly O'Connor McNees, "The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott." 1 p.m. May 7. Discussion and book signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, www.foxtalebookshoppe.com.
First-novelist McNees creates a previously unknown romantic affair for the author of “Little Women.”
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