Book Passage presents New York Times best-selling author Isabel Allende reading from and discussing her new novel, Violeta, Book Passage Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building #42, San Francisco, $40, 2:00 pm PST (For more information: www.bookpassage.com/san-francisco-events)
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)