Catch these wonderful events coming up...

The Book Stall has a week unlike any other coming up with an amazing variety of events taking place right here in the store. Visitors will include authors of two of the season's hottest new books -- one fiction, one nonfiction -- as well as a hero from the final days of the Vietnam War, a Hemingway, a (friendly) pack of dogs asking to be read to, and a team of four young adult romance authors.

Read more below and please note these dates:

• Aline Ohanesian on Friday, May 15 at 7 pm, talking about Orhan's Inheritance, the book independent booksellers named their #1 recommendation for the month of April
• John Riordan, called the "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War," on Saturday, May 16 at 11 am, with his book, They Are All My Family, the story of how he evacuated Vietnamese employees of his Saigon Citibank office in defiance of orders from his superiors.
• Human volunteers and their canine companions demonstrating the beauty of the local "Sit, Stay, Read" initiative on Saturday, May 16 from 2-4 pm -- great for adults and kids!
• Zachary Leader on Sunday, May 17 at 3 pm, for a talk about volume one of his biography, The Life of Saul Bellow
• Four fabulous young adult authors joining us on Sunday, May 17 at 2 pm as part of the national "Swoon Reads" tour
• Actress and mental health advocate Mariel Hemingway on Tuesday, May 19, at 7 pm with her memoir Out Came the Sun.

All of these events are free and open to the public. Each represents an opportunity to spend just an hour, close to home, learning something new, meeting interesting authors and fellow readers, and browsing the North Shore's leading independent bookstore.