International best-selling author Nguyen Phan Que Mai celebrates the release of her second novel, Dust Child, The Ruby, 2507 Bryant Street San Francisco, reserve free seats on Eventbrite, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: greenapplebooks.com/event/offsite-nguyễn-phan-quế-mai-ruby)
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)