Book It: Book Events May 24–30

Sunday, May 24

3:00 pm, Concord Free Public Library
*Robert Cording, Erica Funkhouser, Jeffrey Harrison, Gray Jacobik, and Daniel Tobin, Poets Guide to the Birds (151 contemporary poems, edited by the Poet Laureate of the U.S.). Free, book signing follows.

Wednesday, May 27

7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Ellen J. Langer, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Elinor Lipm, Brookline Booksmithan, The Family Man

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Teresa Cader and Fred Marchant, History of Hurricanes and The Looking House

Thursday, May 28

6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5
Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
George Pelecanos, The Way Home (and, of course, HBO’s “The Wire”)

7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
*Jose Luis Peixoto and Richard Zenith, The Implacable Order of Things

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Eric Bogosian, Perforated Heart