Sonya Jones, "Sweet Auburn Desserts: Atlanta's Little Bakery That Could." 12 p.m. Nov. 27. Signing. Free. Cook's Warehouse, Merchant's Walk Shopping Center,1311 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 568, Marietta. 770-565-8005, www.cookswarehouse.com. Also appearing: 4 p.m. Nov. 27. Signing. Free. Sweet Auburn Bread Co. www.sweetauburnbread.com. And 1 p.m. Dec. 3. Signing. Free. High Museum of Art. www.high.org.
John Siegfried, "Six Degrees of the Bracelet: Vietnam's Grip." 7 p.m. Nov. 28. Free. Peerless Book Store, 8465 Holcomb Bridge Road, Alpharetta. 770-650-7323, www.peerlessbookstore.com.
Siegfried’s interviews with a wide range of Vietnam vets yielded a powerful collection of firsthand accounts of life during wartime.
Peter Godwin, "The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe." 7 p.m. Nov 29. Signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
In 2008, when dictator Mugabe launched a campaign of widespread terror against his own people -- a period that Zimbabweans call, simply, the Fear -- journalist Godwin (“When a Crocodile Eats the Sun”) returned to his homeland. His book documents the horrors, as well as the remarkable resilience and courage of his countrymen.
Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, "The Cupcake Diaries." 8 p.m. Nov. 29. Lecture and signing. Members $5, nonmembers $10. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road N.W., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, www.atlantahistorycenter.com.
The story of how two sisters risked it all to open a small and profitable cupcake bakery.
Chip Bishop, "The Lion & the Journalist." 7 p.m. Nov. 30. Reading and signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
Bishop chronicles the little-known friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and newspaperman Joseph Bucklin Bishop.
Nassir Ghaemi, "A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness." 7 p.m. Dec 1. Reading and signing. Free. Carter Presidential Library, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
Drawing from the careers of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and others, Ghaemi builds a compelling argument: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis.
Storytime with Carmen Deedy, "The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale." 1 p.m. Dec. 3. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
Decatur storyteller Deedy reads her Victorian tale of an ambitious cat, a precocious mouse and a wounded raven.
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