BODY SHOPS Annie Cheney discusses, reads from, and signs her new book, “Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains” (Broadway), which explores the macabre market of “body brokers” who provide human body parts to scientists, medical schools, and even the Army. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-803-5890, free.

… AND READ ABOUT ALL OVER Deborah Davis reads from and signs her book “Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-White Ball” (Wiley), which documents the lavish party that Capote threw in 1966 at the Plaza Hotel. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.

THE BATTLE COMES HOME Eyal Press discusses and signs his memoir “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America” (Henry Holt). Mr. Press grew up in Buffalo, where his Israeli-born father was one of only two doctors in town who performed abortions. The city’s only other abortion provider, Bernard Slepian, was murdered by a sniper in 1998, and the Press household was subsequently put under federal surveillance. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.

HIDDEN HISTORIES Harry Bruinius discusses his book “Better For All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity” (Knopf). He is joined by Cynthia Carr, who presents her book “Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America” (Crown).The event is part of a nonfiction reading series. Tonight, 7 p.m., KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. at Second Avenue, 212-505-3360, free.

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