Book events

Book Passage: 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera; 415-927-0960; bookpassage.com. Feb. 16: Janet Constantino discusses “Becoming Mariella” with Woodacre resident Molly Giles. 1 p.m. in person; Feb. 18: Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses “Cleavage” with Caro de Robertis. 6 p.m. in person; Feb. 22: Woodacre residents Leonard Leinow and Juliana Birnbaum discuss “CBD.” 11 a.m. in person; Feb. 22: Stephen B. Shepard discusses “Salinger’s Soul.” 1 p.m. in person; Feb. 22: Michael Hiltzik discusses “Golden State.” 4 p.m. in person; Feb. 23: Maria van Lieshout discusses “Song of a Blackbird.” 1 p.m. in person; Feb. 23: Mill Valley resident Jenna Ann Miller discusses “The Phenom’s Wife.” 4 p.m. in person.

Mill Valley Public Library: 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415-389-4292; millvalleylibrary.org. Feb. 22: Kevin Fagan discusses “The Lost and the Found” with Gary Naja-Riese. 12:30 p.m. in person. Register online.

Osher Marin JCC: 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael; 415-444-8002; marinjcc.org. Feb. 19: Rabbi Alyson Solomon discusses Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s “The Triumph of Life.” 1 p.m. in person. Register online.

Sausalito Books by the Bay: 100 Bay St., Sausalito; 415-887-9967; sausalitobooksbythebay.com. Feb. 18: Sausalito resident David Marlatt discusses “Essays & Essais” with Michael Hennessey. 6 p.m. in person; Feb. 19: Novato resident Tommie Whitener discusses “The Bar Pilot.” 6 p.m. in person; Feb. 20: Poetry reading with Randy Prunty, Elizabeth Robinson and San Rafael resident George Albon. 6 p.m. in person.

VenturePad: 1020 B St., San Rafael; marinphilosophicalsociety.com. Feb. 17: Alva Noë discusses “The Entanglement” at the Marin Philosophical Society event. Noon in person. Admission is $20. Register online.

Other talks

College of Marin: Academic Center, room 255, 835 College Ave., Kent?eld; 415-457-8811; marin.edu. Feb. 21: Marin resident Michael Pritchard shares “Lessons from the Heart,” sponsored by the Emeritus Students College of Marin. 10 a.m. in person and online. Register at events@escomnews.com.

Dominican University of California: Creekside Room, 100 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael; commonweathclub.org. Feb. 20: Tiburon resident Guy Toby Marion discusses the war in Afghanistan, presented by the Marin chapter of the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California. 7:15 p.m. in person. $15 ticket; free for students. Register online.

HopMonk Tavern: 224 Vintage Way, Novato; 415-892-6200; hopmonk.com/novato. Feb. 18: Wonderfest presents a talk by biological anthropologist Julie Hui on “Other Humans.” 7 p.m. in person.

San Rafael Pop-Up Library: 1009 Fourth St., San Rafael; 415-485-3323; srpubliclibrary.org/events. Feb. 22: John William Templeton discusses Marin County’s Black labor pioneers. 11 a.m. in person.

— Compiled by Daniel Bromfield

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