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Greater Boston author readings April 29-May 5
By Robert Steiner
 Globe Correspondent

SUNDAY

James Comey (“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership’’) reads at 4 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St. Tickets at www.eventbrite.com … Jewell Parker Rhodes (“Ghost Boys’’) reads at 3 p.m. at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge

MONDAY

Patricia Vigderman (“The Real Life of the Parthenon’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Tarfia Faizullah and Jana Prikryl read poetry at 8 p.m. at 56 Brattle St., Cambridge … Shahriar Mandanipour (“Moon Brow’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline … Christopher Moore (“Noir’’) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. Tickets at brooklinebooksmith.com/events … Vera Hildebrand (“Women at War’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop, Level 3 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge … Ken Bresler (“Poetry Made Visible’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd., Newton. 

TUESDAY

Meredith Goldstein (“Can't Help Myself’’) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main St., Waltham … Shahriar Mandanipour (“Moon Brow’’), in conversation with Claire Messud (“The Burning Girl’’), reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books… Leila Sales (“If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Issa Kohler-Hausmann (“Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Marianne Leone (“Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back’’) reads at 7 p.m at Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St., Belmont … Chris Daly (“Covering America’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books. 

WEDNESDAY

Suzanne Leonard (“Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the 21st Century’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Tori Telfer (“Lady Killers’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books … Curtis Sittenfeld (“You Think It, I’ll Say It’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURSDAY

Rachel Kushner (“The Mars Room’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Steve Almond (“Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country?’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main Street, Concord … Mike Lupica (“The Zach and Zoe Mysteries’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Jess Kidd (“Mr. Flood’s Last Resort’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

 FRIDAY

John Connolly (“He’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Luljeta Lleshanaku (“Negative Space’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jane Dykema, Stefan Kiesbye, Derek Nikitas, and Jeff Parker (“Cover Stories’’) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Sigrid Schmalzer, Daniel S. Chard, and Alyssa Botelho (“Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists’’) read at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Joseph Rosenbloom (“Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours’’) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. 

SATURDAY

Susan Tan (“Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book Is a Classic’’) reads at 11:30 a.m. at Newtonville Books … Maddie Frost (“Animobiles’’) reads at 10:30 a.m. at Book Ends.

Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at www.bostonglobe.com /arts/books.