Book Passage presents novelist and activist Cathy Rath reading from and discussing her debut novel, Ripple Effect, a complex story of family secrets and discovery set during the 1960s student rebellions in the United States, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, free, 4:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.bookpassage.com/event/cathy-rath-ripple-effect-corte-madera-store)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)