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Greater Boston author readings Jan. 7- 13
Dan Rather will read from “What Unites Us’’ at the Berklee Performance Center on Thursday. (Getty Images)
By Terence Cawley
Globe Correspondent

Sunday

Mark Schneider (’’Gerry Studds: America’s First Openly Gay Congressman’’) reads at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Road, Cohasset ... Jane Brox (“Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light’’) and Kate Snodgrass (“Que Sera, Sera’’) read at 6:30 p.m. at Marran Theater, Lesley University, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge.

Monday

Tracey Baptiste (“Rise of the Jumbies’’) and Michael Lowenthal (“The Paternity Test’’) read at 6:30 p.m. at Marran Theater, Lesley University, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge.

Tuesday

Anthony Sammarco (“Jordan Marsh: New England’s Largest Store’’) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Peabody Institute Library- West Branch, 603 Lowell Street, Peabody ... Douglas Heath and Alison Simcox (“The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells’’) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Tara Skurtu (“The Amoeba Game’’) and Lloyd Schwartz (“Little Kisses’’) read at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge.

Wednesday

Laurie Foos (“The Blue Girl’’) and Rachel Manley (“The Black Peacock’’) read at 7 p.m. at Marran Theater, Lesley University, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge ... Lauren Markham (“The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Julie Rosenberg (“Beyond the Mat’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith...Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild (“The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose - and Live a Happier, Healthier Life’’) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.

Thursday

Rachel Herz (“Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ... Dan Rather (“What Unites Us’’) reads at 8 p.m. at Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston ($32 tickets at https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do?method=switchSelectionMethod&selection_method=byManifest)

Friday

Laura Young (“Boston Ballerina: A Dancer, a Company, an Era’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ... Alan Smith Soto (“Libro de Lago’’), Tim Suermondt (“The World Doesn’t Know You’’), and Pui Ying Wong (“Yellow Plum Season’’) read at 7:30 p.m. at Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain

Saturday

Tara Skurtu (“The Amoeba Game’’) reads at 4 p.m. at Porter Square Books

Send announcements to boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at www. bostonglobe. com/arts/books