THIS WEEK’S LITERARY EVENTS

Patricia Martin Holt, “Empower a Refugee: Peace of Thread and the Backyard

Humanity Movement.” In the story behind the Clarkston, Georgia, nonprofit that empowers refugee women to make a new life for themselves and their families, Holt demonstrates that people can overcome the national climate of fear and bigotry toward refugees. 7 p.m. March 9. Talk, signing. Free. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, 441 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE, Atlanta, 404-865-7100, jimmycarterlibrary.gov/events/

Therese Anne Fowler,“A Good Neighborhood.”

Fowler’s (“Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”) new novel explores the effects of class, race and love, while asking an important question about life in America today: How can we be good neighbors when we don’t see eye to eye? With Jessica Handler (“The Magnetic Girl”). 7:15 p.m. March 11. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur, 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285, georgiacenterforthebook.org/

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen,“You Are Not

Alone.” The authors of“The Wife Between Us”return with a novel about a woman who meets two glamorous sisters whose company she would die for — and might have to. 1 p.m. March 12. Talk, signing. Free. East Cobb Public Library, 4880 Lower Roswell Road Ste. 510-B, Marietta, 770-509-5611, bookmiser.net/book-events. html

Gretchen Sorin,“Driving While Black: African American Travel and the

Road to Civil Rights.” Sorin reveals how the automobile fundamentally reshaped African American life as it created a parallel, unseen world of black motorists who relied on travel guides, blackonly businesses, and informal communications networks to keep them safe. 7:15 p.m. March 13. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur, 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285, georgiacenterforthebook.org/