This week’s literary events

Robert Buccellato, “Jimmy Carter in Plains: The Presidential Hometown.”

3 p.m. today. Talk, signing. Free. Gwinnett County Public Library, 361 Main St., Suwanee. 770-978-5154, gwinnettpl.org. Buccellato looks at Carter’s populist campaign and its continuing relationship to Plains.

Read With the Rabbi: “After the Ecstasy the Laundry.”

3 p.m. today. Reading, discussion, snacks. Suggested donation: $5. Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404524-0304, charis books andmore.com. Rabbi Malka Packer will lead a discussion of the work of meditation master Jack Kornfield.

Joseph Skibell, “Six Memos From the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud.”

6 p.m. Monday. Reading, talk, signing. Free. A Cappella Books, 208 Haralson Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-681-5128, acappellabooks.com. Emory professor Skibell (“A Curable Romantic”) focuses on the lives of the legendary rabbis depicted in the Talmud.

Terry Kay, “The King Who Made Paper Flowers.”

7:15 p.m. Monday. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285; georgia center for the book. org. Kay’s latest novel, set in Savannah, features an array of eccentric characters.

Jessica Knoll, “Luckiest Girl Alive.”

7 p.m. Monday. Talk, signing. $10. Margaret Mitchell House, 979 Crescent Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-249-7015, atlantahistorycenter.com. Knoll’s book is the perfect summer read, full of dark secrets.

Jennifer Singh, “Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science.”

7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Suggested donation: $5. Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-524-0304, char is books and more. com. Singh examines the practices, politics and meanings of autism genetics.

Collin Kelley, “Leaving Paris,” and Erica Wright, “The Granite Moth.”

7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285; georgiacenterforthebook.org. In Kelley’s conclusion to his Venus Trilogy, Paris teeters on the brink of chaos. Wright’s private detective is on the trail of a deadly gangster.

Robert Morgan, “Chasing the North Star.”

7:15 p.m. Wednesday. Talk, signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-3070, Ext. 2285; georgiacenterforthebook.org/events. Morgan brings to life the story of a slave who flees the plantation where he was born, with no clear idea of where to head — except north.

Lee Smith, “Dimestore: A Writer’s Life.”

7 p.m. Thursday. Talk, signing. $10. Margaret Mitchell House, 979 Crescent Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-249-7015, atlantahistorycenter.com/program. Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music and her daddy’s dime store.

Kim Michele Richardson, “God Pretty in the Tobacco Field.”

6:30 p.m. Friday. Book launch. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock. 770-516-9989, foxtalebookshoppe.com/events. Richardson paints a picture of the hard life and bright dreams of a Kentucky teen in the summer of 1969.

Eric Jerome Dickey, “The Blackbirds.”

6 p.m. Saturday. Talk, signing. $5. Eagle Eye Book Shop, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur. 404-4860307, eagleeyebooks.com. Four women who are closer than sisters test what they thought was an unbreakable friendship.