TUESDAY:
Bobby Austin will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss Circus Clowns & Carnival Animals: Growing Up in the Ebb and Flow of Rural Black Life. 6 p.m.

Daniel Mendelsohn, the best-selling author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest collection of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Pollster John Zogby has an idea of where contemporary American life is heading. Why? Because a poll told him, of course. It's the subject of his book, The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. Politics and Prose. 7 p.m.

Author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner makes an appearance at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of Abortion & Life. 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Alexandra Kerry talks about her father's campaign for the presidency, from its infancy to defeat — the subject of her new book, Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out. L Street Borders. 6:30 p.m.

Qanta A. Ahmed makes an appearance at the downtown Barnes and Noble to talk about In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom. 6:30 p.m.

Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Fate, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest, The Book of Lies. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
Victor Navasky, former editor and publisher of The Nation, and Christopher Cerf will make an appearance at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to talk about their book, Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak. 6 p.m.

Political humorist Christopher Buckley returns with another Washington satire, Supreme Courtship, the story of how the president nominates a popular TV judge to the Supreme Court after all his other nominees are rejected. Buckley will be at Politics and Prose to discuss and sign copies of the book. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY:
Author Alan Weisman will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his book, The World Without Us, which examines what planet Earth would be like without human beings. The word "happier" comes to mind. 1 p.m.