If you believe in fairy tales, this one’s for you. It’s Peggielene Bartels, the author of ”King Peggy,” the charming true story of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. The story has a sweetness and quirkiness that will remind many of ”The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” and it’s...

Lilly Ledbetterer, who has become a celebrated icon for women facing daily salary discrimination and sexual harassment issues, will present a lecture on her new book, ”Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond.” The book is the courageous woman at the center of the historic legal discrimination case that inspired the Obama administration’s Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay...

”The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly alive in this masterfully written new novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer.” We know you’ll want to hear Mississippi writer Jonathan Odell talk about his latest book, ”The Healing,” which already is collecting rave reviews from critics and readers.Rich in mood and atmosphere, the story focuses on he purchase of a slave girl, known as a healer,...

What are the mysterious Georgia Guidestones? And what are the secrets they hold? We invite you to a special program with Raymond Wiley, an historian, broadcaster and producer based in Athens who is arguably the foremost expert on those Guidestones. He is the author of a new book, ”The Georgia Guidestones,” written with KT Prime, that carefully examines these remarkable standing stones near Elberton....

Prize-winning novelist Anne Lamott, the author of more than a dozen bestselling books, pays us a visit with a surprising and delightful new nonfiction work, ”Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son.” It is a vibrant, sweet and often funny account of a new and unexpected chapter in her life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son Sam is about to...