Bookings

TODAY: Jane Sciacca lectures on the Hawthorne children and the Wayside, at 2 p.m., at the Minute Man Visitor Center, Route 2A, Lexington. . . . Robert McCauley discusses ''All Enemies," at 2 p.m., at the Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St., Quincy Center.

TOMORROW: Patrick Moore reads from ''Beyond Shame," at 6:30 p.m., at We Think the World of You, 540 Tremont St.

TUESDAY: James Cuno discusses ''Whose Muse?" at 6 p.m., at the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge. . . . David Shipler discusses ''The Working Poor," at 7 p.m., at WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle St., Cambridge. . . . Mike Heppner (''The Egg Code") and Starbuck O'Dwyer (''Red Meat Cures Cancer") read at 7 p.m., at the Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline.

WEDNESDAY: John Barry discusses ''The Great Influenza," at 7 p.m., at WordsWorth. . . . Paco Underhill discusses ''The Call of the Mall," at 6 p.m., at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge.

THURSDAY: Valerie Boyd discusses ''Wrapped in Rainbows," at 7 p.m., at WordsWorth. . . . Steven Johnson discusses ''Mind Wide Open," at 6 p.m., at the Harvard Book Store.

FRIDAY: Jean M. Humez (''Harriet Tubman") and Kate Clifford Larson (''Bound for the Promised Land") speak at 3 p.m., at the Harvard Book Store. . . . Casey Sherman discusses ''A Rose for Mary," at 7:30 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, 98 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington.

SATURDAY: Christopher Paolini discusses ''Eragon," at 1 p.m., at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley. . . . Patricia Powell (''Me Dying Trial") reads at 3 p.m., at Jamaicaway Books, 676 Centre St., Jamaica Plain.

Announcements must be received two weeks before publication date. Events are subject to change.