SUNDAY

Chris Edwards (“Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some’’) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester

MONDAY

George Scialabba (“Low Dishonest Decades: Essays, Reviews 1980-2015’’) in conversation with Randall Kennedy at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Neal Shusterman (“Scythe’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley ($5 ticket at http://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/neal-shusterman) … Paul Breslin (“Between My Eyes and the Light’’) and Amy Dryanksy (“Grass Whistle’’) read at 8 p.m. at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge ($3 admission)

TUESDAY

Laurie Hess (“Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor’’) in conversation with Irene Pepperberg at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass.

Ave., Cambridge … Jeremy Sewall (“Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jerry Thornton (“From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots’’) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Melrose Public Library, 69 West

Emerson St., Melrose

WEDNESDAY

Henry Steiner (“Eyeing the World’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Jane Kamensky (“A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

THURSDAY

Ann Hood (“The Book That Matters Most’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Waban Library, 1608 Beacon St., Waban … Jilly Gagnon (“Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays’’)

reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … David France (“How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Scientists Tamed AIDS’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

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