Book It: Book Events October 27-31

Monday, October 27, 6:00pm, BPL
Kevin Funk and Steven Fake, Scramble For Africa: Darfur - Intervention and the USA

Monday, October 27, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Amy Bloom's Away

Monday, October 27, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
John Demos, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World

Monday, October 27, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Michelle Nicholasen and Barbara O'Neal, I Brake for Meltdowns

Tuesday, October 28, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $27*
Roy Blount Jr., Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

* redeem your ticket for a copy of Alphabet Juice

Tuesday, October 28, 6:30pm French Alliance Boston, $10 ($5 FAB members)
Hervé Kempf, How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

Tuesday, October 28, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Rosamond Purcell, Egg and Nest

Tuesday, October 28, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Susan Squire, I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage

Wednesday, October 29, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Doria's Halloween Family Storytelling Performance

Wednesday, October 29, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
James Wood, How Fiction Works

Wednesday, October 29, 7:30pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse
Linda J. Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Wednesday, October 29, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Win McCormack, You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values

Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm, First Parish Church, $5
Irene Pepperberg, Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm, Brighton Branch Library
Stefanie Koorey, The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden's Journal of Murder, Mystery and Victorian History.

Thursday, October 30, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story

Thompson met her Maori husband in New Zealand nearly 20 years ago; here, she tells the tale of that meeting but also of Maori culture and its contrasts with our own.

Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Elise Tripp, Melinda & Carlos Arredondo, and guests, Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories

Friday, October 31, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Dracula
followed by a Lit-Inspired Costume Party

Friday, October 31, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Breakwater Reading Series featuring MFA students from Bridgewater and Emerson Colleges