Events

The World Affairs Council (WAC) presents STEVEN HILL, author of Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age.

Picture Book Pals will take place at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.

Alameda Storytime will take place at Books Inc. in Alameda.

The Young@Heart Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

The World Affairs Council Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

MICHELE MCSWEEN GORDON author of Gordon &
Li Li: Words for Everday, Gordon & Li Li Learn Animals in Mandarin,

The Wild Girls Mother Daughter Book Club will discuss The Unfinished Angel by SHARON CREECH.

The Hands On Bay Area Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

The World Affairs Council presents JULIA SWEIG, discussing Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know.

The 4th Tuesday Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

The JCCSF presents ABRAHAM VERGHESE, author of Cutting for Stone, an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, e

The Graphic Content Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

The Other Realms Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

The Classics I Forgot to Read Book Club will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

Mr. Bookclub will meet to discuss this month's reading selection.

City Arts and Lectures presents ASTRA TAYLOR with JUDITH BUTLER and SUNAURA TAYLOR, discussing Examined Life.

The JCCSF presents ANNIE BARROWS, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Alameda Storytime will take place at Books Inc. in Alameda.

This week's Storytime features THACHER HURD, reading from Bad Frogs.

Picture Book Pals will take place at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.

Oh My Gosh! Stories at Chestnut will take place at Books Inc. in the Marina.

The First Fiction Book Club will discuss The Piano Teacher by JANICE Y. K. LEE.

City Arts and Lectures features MICHAEL POLLAN and MICHAEL SCHWARZ hosting a hilm screening for The Botany of Desire.

The SF Travel Book Club will discuss The Road to Oxiana by ROBERT BYRON.

Caldecott Award-winning illustrator KEVIN HENKES is coming! His gorgeous new picture book, My Garden, pays tribute to a child's imagination and independence.

City Arts and Lectures presents JEFFREY TOOBIN with CHRISTOPHER EDLEY, discussing The Nine, a timely and provocative state of the union abou

The First Saturday Book Club will discuss this month's reading selection.

Picture Book Pals will take place at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.

Alameda Storytime will take place at Books Inc. in Alameda.

The Quick and the Read Short Story Book Club will discuss The Tent by MARGARET ATWOOD.

ZOE CARTER presents Imperfect Endings, a wrenching memoir about a family coming to terms with their mother's plan to commit suicide.

The Down to a Science Book Club will discuss Galileo's Daughter by DAVA SOBEL.

City Arts and Lectures presents a celebration of the life and work of HOWARD ZINN with Alan Jones.

The Marines' Memorial Club presents JOHN SHIVELY discussing The Last Lieutenant.

The Book Busters Middle Reader Book Club (ages 9-12) will discuss The Ruins of Gorlan by JOHN FLANAGAN.

The JCCSF presents Lunch with PAULA WOLFERT, author of Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking: Traditional and Modern Recipes to Savor and Share.

City Arts and Lectures presents DAVE EGGERS with ABDULRAHMAN and KATHY ZEITOUN.

The Second Saturday Book Club will discuss Let the Great World Spin by COLUM MCCANN.

Picture Book Pals will take place at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.

Oh My Gosh! Stories at Chestnut will take place at Books Inc. in the Marina.

Alameda Storytime will take place at Books Inc. in Alameda.

The YOUNG@HEART Book Club will discuss Some Girls Are by COURTNEY SUMMERS.

Not Your Mother's Book Club (NYMBC) is throwing a launch party for local YA author JANDY NELSON whose debut novel, The Sky is Everywhere, is a touching (and

Celebrate Moodymania with author MEGAN MCDONALD! It's the extremely non-boring 10th anniversary of everyone's favorite big sis!

The Foreign Intrigue Book Club will discuss this month's reading selection.

World Affairs Council presents ROBERT MNOOKIN,  author of Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight.

City Arts and Lectures presents ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU and the REVERAND MPHO TUTU at the Davies Symphony Hall.