MONDAY: Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South Boston Branch, Boston Public Library, 646 E. Broadway, South Boston … Dennis Nurkse (“A Night in Brooklyn”) and George Kalogeris (“Dialogos”) read at 8 p.m. at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St. ($3 tickets) … Brian McGrory (“Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Richard Kramer (“These Things Happen”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Michael Rockland (“An American Diplomat in Franco Spain”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
TUESDAY: Eric Jay Dolin (“When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley … Carolyn Roy-Bornstein (“Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief to Gratitude”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Worcester Jewish Community Center … Tom Farmer and Marty Foley (“A Murder in Wellesley”) reads at 7 p.m. at Tufts Library of Weymouth Public Libraries, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … Chico Mattoso, Cristhiano Aguiar, and John Freeman (“GRANTA: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Deb Perleman (“The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook”) reads at 7 p.m. at Miele Kitchen Gallery, 555 Washington St., Wellesley … Lauren Slater (“The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … John Ross (“Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Lawrence Millman (“Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers”) reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Paul Reid (“The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
WEDNESDAY: Carol Aebersold (“The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition”) reads at 4 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St. Winchester… Deb Perelman (“The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre … Noah Gordon (“The Winemaker”) reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Maryanne O’Hare (“Cascade”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Richard Mason (“History of a Pleasure Seeker”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Mark Anthony (“Never Letting Go: Heal Grief with Help from the Other Side”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … James Wood (“The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … George Rosen (“The Immanence of God in the Tropics”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester Writers Center, 8 Norwood Ct., Gloucester … Poets Bonnie Bishop, Polly Brown, Susan Donnelly, John Hildebidle, John Hodgen, David McCain, Deborah Melone, Con Squires, and Ellen Steinbaum read at 7:30 p.m. at Café of the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville
THURSDAY: Dennis Lehane (“Live By Night”) reads at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … Anthony D’Aries (“The Language of Men”) and Meg Kearney (“The Girl in the Mirror”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Lee Woodruff (“Those We Love the Most”) reads at 7 p.m. at Weston Public Library, 87 School St., Weston … Marcia DeSanctis, Ann Hood, and Carol Reichart (“Best Women’s Travel Writing”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … George Howe Colt (“Brothers”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord
FRIDAY: Celeste-Marie Bernier (“Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Matthew Guerrieri (“The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Michael Blumenthal (“No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … James Redfearn (The Rising at Roxbury Crossing) reads at 7 p.m. at the Irish Cultural Center of New England library, 200 New Boston Dr., Canton.
SATURDAY: Amanda Cohen (“Dirt Candy Cookbook”) reads at 3 p.m. at Sophie Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford
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