MONDAY:

Moustafa Mohamed Bayoumi, a professor of English at Brooklyn College, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, the story of seven young Arab and Muslim Americans forging lives for themselves in the U.S. post-9/11. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:

Betsy Hartmann will be at Busboys and Poets to sign and discuss her novel, Deadly Election, the story of a mysterious suicide in a military prison, a president whose thirst for alcohol may overwhelm his thirst for power and a White House adviser who takes matters into his own hands. 6 p.m.

Criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith makes an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Story, Smith’s story of how she helped free a woman jailed for 28 years for a crime she did not commit. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:

Nancy Whitney-Reiter will be at the Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to talk about her ode to the process of self-discovery, Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment. 7 p.m.

Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen, exposes more sexy secrets — this time the biography of a powerful yet little-known woman known as the secret female Pope. Herman will be at Politics and Prose to talk about Mistress of the Vatican. 7 p.m.