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TEENAGE WASTELAND Koren Zailckas reads from and signs “Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood” (Viking Penguin), her memoir about teenage drinking. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Chelsea, 675 Sixth Ave. at 21st Street, 212-727-1227, free.
LOVE IN MANHATTAN Ayelet Waldman reads from her new novel, “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits” (Doubleday), about a Manhattan woman dealing with love, grief, and step motherhood. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
FREEDOM STORIES Raymond Arsenault discusses and signs his book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice” (Oxford University Press), a history of the freedom riders in Alabama and Mississippi. Tonight, 6 p.m., Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 125th Street, 212-665-7400, free.
LEFT BEHIND Military wife Kristin Henderson discusses and signs her book “While They’re at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront” (Houghton Mifflin). She is joined by the executive director and founder of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, Paul Rieckhoff, and Kathy Moakler of the National Military Family Association. The publisher of Mother Jones magazine, Jay Harris, serves as moderator. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-803-5890, free.
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