Here are a few events for the coming week:

Tuesday, October 28, 3:00 PM
T. A. Barron – Merlin’s Dragon at Hicklebee’s, 1378 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose

Wednesday, October 29, 5:30 PM
David Farland – The Wyrmling Horde & Brandon Sanderson – Hero of Ages at Dark Carnival, 3086 Claremont Avenue, Berkeley

Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 PM
Barry Gifford at The Hosfelt Gallery, 430 Clementina Street, between Howard and Folsom, and 5th and 6th Streets, south of Market Street (Clementina is a one-way street; enter off of 6th Street.)
For more information, call the gallery at 415.495.5454

BOOK CLUB MEETING
Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 PM
Desert Island Book Club reads Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury at Books Inc., 344 Park Street, Alameda

Thursday, October 30, 6:00 PM
Marilyn Yalom and Reid Yalom – The American Resting Place

On the “eve” of Halloween, experience a moving, majestic, and macabre history of America gleaned from the gravestones, graveyards, and burial sites across the country. Illuminated are ethnic and religious rites of passage from immigrant communities ranging from Dutch churchyard cemeteries to sacred Native American burial mounds.

This event will take place at the Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street. Admission is free for members and $10 for non-members. For reservations and information, please call 415-393-0100.

Books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Stacey’s, or – visit Stacey’s at 581 Market Street at 2nd, San Francisco.

Thursday, October 30, 7:30 PM
David Farland – The Wyrmling Horde & Brandon Sanderson – Hero of Ages at Books Inc. in Mountain View, 301 Castro Street, Mountain View