*Monday, October 13, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Greg Melville, Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future

Tuesday, October 14, 10:30 am, Porter Square Books
Susan Goodman, See How They Run

Tuesday, October 14, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love: A Novel

Tuesday, October 14, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
William Conescu, Being Written
Diana Spechler, Who By Fire

Tuesday, October 14, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Dustin Smith, Penelope Robinson, and Richard Hoffman

Wednesday, October 15, 9:30 am, Porter Square Books
Graeme Base, Enigma: A Magical Mystery

Wednesday, October 15, 12:30pm, Borders Back Bay (511 Boylston Street)
Christopher Klein, Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands: A Guide to the City’s Hidden Shores

May include pirate talk!

Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

Wednesday, October 15, 7:30pm, First Parish Church
David W. Moore, The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls

Wednesday, October 15, 7:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $10
New York Review of Books and Guardian America Presidential Election Topics Panel with Mark Danner, Michael Tomasky, Peter W. Galbraith, Frances Fitzgerald

With live screening of the October 15th Presidential Debate

Wednesday, October 15, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Daniel Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

*Thursday, October 16, 6:00 pm, First Parish Church (Globe Corner Bookstore)
Wayne Bernhardson, Moon's Patagonia Handbook

Based in Buenos Aries, Bernhardson travels around South America six months of the year. Must be nice. Visit his blog and this presentation for the dish on these beautiful countries to our south.

Thursday, October 16, 6:00pm, McKim Orientation Room, BPL
David Liss, The Whiskey Rebels

Friday, October 17, 6:30 pm, Porter Square Books
John Green, Paper Towns
with Hank Green

Thursday, October 16, 3:00pm, Young Adult Room, BPL
Alisa Libby, The Blood Confessions

Thursday, October 16, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Russell Shorto, Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Thursday, October 16, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Sheila Brass and Marilynn Brass, Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters

Thursday, October 16, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Clayton Eshleman, Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader

Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm, Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall
Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

*Friday, October 17, 3:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Mark A. Noll, God and Race in American Politics: A Short History

We don’t know how this history could be short, but we look forward to finding out.

Friday, October 17, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

Friday, October 17, 7:00pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
Dennis Lehane, The Given Day: A Novel

OMG they made a movie about that one book of his! He must be good.

Saturday, October 18, 12:00pm, North End Branch Library
Grub Street Writer's Circle, Born Before Plastic: Stories from Boston's Most Enduring Neighborhoods