BARNES & NOBLE

2960 Center Valley Parkway, Center Valley. 610-791-3261, www.barnesandnoble.com

Book Club: “Lake Effect,” By Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, 7 p.m. April 14 Southmont Plaza, 4445 Southmont Way, 610-515-0376, www.barnesandnoble.com

Author Event: “Rebel Secrets,” Stephanie Julian, 1 p.m. April 4

Author Event: “We Met At a Halloween Party,” Marcus R. Ferrell, 1 p.m. April 11

Author Event: “Wedding Challenges!,” Robert Winton, 1 p.m. April 12

Author Event: “It’s Sauce, Not Gravy!,” J.A. Marz, 1 p.m. April 18

Author Event: “Patchtown,” J.A. Stein, 1 p.m. April 25

BELL TOWER CULTURAL CENTER

2904 Church Road, Martins Creek, 610-360-3737, www.belltowerculturalcenter.org

Book Club at the Bell: “Endurance,” By Alfred Lansing, 6:30 p.m. April 9

Out to Lunch: Elvira Woodruff on: “How I Fell in Love with Writing Historical Fiction,” 11:30 a.m. April 13

BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY

11 W. Church St., Bethlehem. 610-867-3761, www.bapl.org

Taste and Tell Cookbook Club: 6 p.m. April 7. Registration required

Bethlehem Book Club: “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” By James Baldwin, 6 pm. April 7

Mary Pat Beebe Book Club: “Live From Cairo,” By Ian Bassingthwaighte, 10 a.m. April 10, Zoom. Registration required

Memoir Writing Group, noon April 16 , virtual. Registration required

BETHLEHEM MUNICIPAL ICE RINK

245 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem, 610-865-7104, www.bethlehem-pa.gov/Recreation/Recreation-Activities/Ice-Rink

AAUW Annual Book Fair: Preview Day with entrance fee, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. April 23; 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. April 24; 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. April 25; Half-Price Day, noon - 5 p.m. April 26; Bag Day, 9 a.m. - noon April 27, https://bethlehem-pa.aauw.net/book-fair

BOOK AND PUPPET CO.

161 Northampton St., Easton. 484-544-4738, www.bookandpuppet.com

Project 2025 Book Club: 5 p.m. April 9, 16, 23, 30

Shut Up and Write!: 6:30 p.m. April 7, 14, 21, 28

The Self-Care Book Club: “The Uncared Self,” Joanie Scott, 1:30 p.m. April 11

An Afternoon of Suspense: Three Novelists Discuss How They Make Their Mysteries Tick: “Zig Zag Girl,” Ruth Knafo Setton, with Lee Upton and Kate Brandes, 4 p.m. April 12

EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

515 Church St., Easton. 610-258-2917, www.eastonpl.org

Writing Room Early Evening: Silent writing followed by one hour meet-and-greet, 5 p.m. April 22

Diverse Voices: “Evicted,” By Matthew Desmond, 7 p.m. April 30. Zoom.. Registration required

EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY PALMER BRANCH

1 Weller Place, Easton. 610-258-7492, www.eastonpl.org

Forever Young Adult Book Group: “Unseelie,” By Ivelisse Housman, 6 p.m. April 15

Tuesday Night Book Club: “My Friends,” By Fredrik Backman, 6 p.m. April 28

EMMAUS PUBLIC LIBRARY

11 E. Main St., Emmaus. 610-965-9284, www.emmauspl.org

Daytime Book Group: “The Midnight Library,” By Matt Haig, 2 p.m. April 7

Evening Book Group: “Mr. Mac and Me,” By Esther Freud, 6:45 p.m. April 14

Memoir Writing: 1 p.m. April 28, virtual. Registration required

EVERTRUE LUTHER CREST RETIREMENT COMMUNITY

800 Hausman Road, Allentown. 610-398-8011, www.lssliving.org/communities/luthercrest

Senior Book Club: “Middlemarch,” By George Eliot, 3 p.m. April 14

HELLERTOWN LIBRARY

409 Constitution Avenue, Hellertown, 610-838-8381, www.hellertownlibrary.org

Book Club, 6 p.m. April 13

LEPOCO PEACE CENTER

53 E. Lehigh St., No. 1, Lower Level, Bethlehem. 610-691-8730, www.lepoco.org

LEPOCO Book Club: “Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction,” By Arundhati Roy, 6 p.m. April 7

MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF NAZARETH AND VICINITY

295 E. Center St., Nazareth, 610-759-4932, www.nazarethlibrary.org

Wednesday Night Book Group: “Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books,” By Kirsten Miller, 6:30 p.m. April 8

Daytime Book Group: ”The Great Believers,” By Rebecca Makkai, 11 a.m. April 23

Prizewinning Picks Book Club: “No Ordinary Time,” By Doris Kearns Goodwin, 10:30 a.m. April 24

Radically Ever After Romance Book Club: “We Could Be So Good,” By Cat Sebastian, 6 p.m. April 30

MORAVIAN BOOK SHOP

428 Main St., Bethlehem. 610-866-5481, www.facebook.com/MoravianBkShop

Book Signing Event: “The Midnight Show,” Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne, 1 p.m. April 10

Book Signing Event: Larry Deibert, 1 p.m. April 11

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, 610-861-5300, www.northampton.edu

NCC Humanities Lecture: Historian Annette Gordon-Reed, 7 p.m. April 14

PARKLAND COMMUNITY LIBRARY

4422 Walbert Avenue, Allentown. 610-398-1361, www.parklandlibrary.org

Java Joy Coffee and Conversation Club: 10 a.m. April 7. Registration requested

Short Story Society: “Train,” By Joy Williams, 2 p.m. April 9. Registration required

PCL Book Club: “Once There Were Wolves,” By Charlotte McConaghy, 10:30 a.m. April 22. Registration required

PURR HAUS

27 S. 7th St., Emmaus. 484-619-0350, www.cat-lovers-gifts-lehighvalley.com

Words and Whiskers Book Club: “You Only Live Nine Times,” By Gwen Cooper, 6 p.m. April 29

RETRIEVER BREWING COMPANY

2844 Township Line Road, Orefield, www.retrieverbrewco.com

Books and Brews Lehigh Valley: “The Correspondent,” By Virginia Evans, 7 p.m. April 23

SORCERY AND SCRIPTS

74 W. Broad St., Suite 110, Bethlehem, www.facebook.com/SorceryandScripts

Writers Group Night: 6 p.m. April 7 and April 21

Midnight Society Book Club: 6 pm. April 9

Romantasy Book Club: 6 p.m. April 27

THE END

3055 W. Tilghman St., Allentown. 610-871-3949, https://theendbooks.co

Coffee and Classics Book Club: “Don Quixote,” By Cervantes, 9 a.m. April 4

Mimosas and Meet-Cutes Book Club: “Going Deep,” By Sophie Andrews, 10 a.m. April 5

ROJ Book Club: “Deacon King Kong,” By James McBride, 3:45 p.m. April 19

THE TIPSY CROW AT THE SILK MILL

669 N. 13th St., Easton. 610-438-2531, www.countyseatspirits.com

Good Librations Silent Book Club, 5:30 p.m. April 27

“Literary Events” is a listing of authors’ book-signings, book-readings and events in the Lehigh Valley. To request a listing, email: Paul Willistein, Focus editor, pwillistein@tnonline.com