Events

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

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

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.

Bay Area Travel Writers Meeting: CANDY HARRINGTON will talk about how travel writers can find a niche, build a platform and establish a brand, and how this will help beef up our botto

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

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

The World Affairs Council Book Club will discuss Amerigo by FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO.

The Wild Girls Mother Daughter Book Club will discuss The Georges and the Jewels by JANE SMILEY.

World Affairs Council presents CHARLES EMMERSON, author of The Future History of the Arctic.

The Fourth Tuesday (Margie's) Book Club will discuss The Spare Room by HELEN GARNER.

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

World Affairs Council (WAC) presents IAN BURUMA author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.

KRISTEN HORLER discusses Baby Boot Camp, a safe and highly-effective fitness program that enables moms to get back in shape.

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.

KRISTEN HORLER discusses Baby Boot Camp, a safe and highly-effective fitness program that enables moms to get back in shape.

The Hands On Bay Area Book Club will discuss In a Sunburned Country by BILL BRYSON.

City Arts and Lectures presents HAROLD VARMUS with ROY EISENHARDT discussing Art and Politics of Science.

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

The SF Travel Book Club and Lecture Series features photographer BARB TRAUB of Desert to Dream, an unprecedented photographic record of an evolving decade of

Classics I Forgot to Read Book Club will discuss Maus I by ART SPIEGELMAN.

City Arts and Lectures presents RICH COHEN with MICHAEL KRASNY discussing Israel is Real.