Peter Heller, "The Painter." 7 p.m. June 9. Lecture and signing. $10, reservations recommended. Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, 990 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, atlantahistorycenter.com/program/peter-heller-painter. Heller ("The Dog Stars") returns with a suspenseful second novel about an artist in rural Colorado who has a brutal encounter that forces him to act. In the aftermath, he learns that it is not possible to outrun his past.
Javon Reed, "The Unwritten Love Letter." 1 p.m. June 10. Talk and signing. Free. Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, College Park Branch, 3647 Main St., College Park. 404-762-4060, afplweb.com/college-park-branch. In Reed's book a young man has difficulty determining the difference between true love and infatuation.
Nicki Salcedo, "All Beautiful Things." 4 p.m. June 10. Talk and signing. Free. Atlanta-Fulton Central Library, 1 Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta. 404-730-1700, afpls.org/events. Salcedo will discuss her Atlanta-based first novel, which touches on love, race, crime and the search for truth.
Brittani Sonnenberg, "Home Leave." 7 p.m. June 10. Talk and signing. Free. Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library,1282 McConnell Drive, Decatur. 370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=696. In her debut novel, Sonnenberg portrays the ups and downs of expat life as she follows a family across three continents and through a tragedy that forces them to question the meaning of home.
Open mic poetry night. 8 p.m. June 11. $5, cash or check only. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Road N.E., Atlanta. 404-872-5338, Ext. 228; callanwolde.org/calendar. Open to the first 10 poets who sign up.
Mary Boyle and Ron Smith, "Atlanta Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Hub of the South." 7:15 p.m. June 11. Talk and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=694. Smith and Boyle review Atlanta's brewing culture from the 1850s to the recent rise of craft beers.
Anton DiSclafani, "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls." 6:30 p.m. June 11. Talk and signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. During the Great Depression, a teenager exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes grapples with what led her there.
Estelle Ford-Williamson and Majok Marier, "Seed of South Sudan." 7 p.m. June 12. Talk and signing. Free. First Baptist Church of Decatur, 308 Clairmont Ave., Decatur. 404-373-1653, georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=697. Also appearing: 3 p.m. June 14. Clarkston Library, 951 N. Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston. 404-508-7175, dekalblibrary.org/component/option,com_events/Itemid,133/agid,24277/day,14/month,06/task,view_detail/year,2014. Ford-Williamson ("Abbeville Farewell") tells the tale of Marier, an Agar Dinka who was 7 when civil war came to his village in southern Sudan, and who walked nearly 1,000 miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia before emigrating to the U.S.
Emily Giffin, "The One and Only." 7 p.m. June 12. Talk and signing. $28, includes copy of the book. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. Giffin's heroine's passion for her hometown football team has kept her from leaving. But when tragedy strikes her tight-knit community, she begins to wonder if the life she has chosen is really enough for her.
Jolina Petersheim, "The Midwife." 1 p.m. June 14. Talk and signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. The head of a Mennonite home for unwed mothers is torn between her responsibilities and her desire to conceal secrets from her past.
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