The Friends of the Newton County Library will host author Wright Gres at 7 p.m. April 16 in the meeting room of the Newton County Library.Gres is the author of "Macedonia Passage," a modern-day sailing adventure with a touch of Balkan politics and a hint of romance. The novel tells of Captain Frank Brown who is hired to captain a private yacht from the West Indies into the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. The mysterious cargo is a necessary ingredient of a plot to foment civil war and revolution in Greek Macedonia.