Local historian David Pietrusza will discuss and sign 1948:Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America.

This event will be in the education center at the Mabee Farm in Rotterdam Junction.

Chad Orzel will be signing his new book How To Teach Relativity To Your Dog.

Richard Michelson will sign Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run King and As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom.

Richard Michelson has received numerous awards for his books for children, including recognition from American Library Association, NY Public Library, and a finalist for The National Jewish Book Award.

Bob Cudmore will sign Stories from the Mohawk Valley: The Painted Rocks, the Good Benedict Arnold & More.

Dennis Webster will sign Haunted Mohawk Valley, which profiles the Ghost Seekers of Central New York as they investigate haunted locations with evidence being revealed.

Melinda Morris Perrin will be reading and signing from her latest book of poetry Winterberries: Poems of Hope.

This event is part of Art Night festivities.

Gregory Maguire will be signing Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years.

For everyone who has followed the Wicked Series or loved the Broadway hit show, Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations, reversals, reprisals, an surprises.

For sleepy little ones everywhere, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan offers a lyrical Tanzanian lullaby that follows a loving family through their day.

The rhythm of the day’s activities creates the melody of the evening’s lullaby in this sweet song of family life along the banks of Lake Tanganyika. As the bright day shifts to twilight, the lantern on Baba’s boat twinkles in the distance, sending the baby off into a peaceful sleep on Mama’s shoulder. Inspired by a visit to her son, his wife, and their child in Tanzania, Patricia MacLachlan writes a gentle story of an African family’s day from sunup to sundown. Rich, beautifully detailed illustrations by Elizabeth Zunon offer a restful complement to the Swahili refrain "lala salama"—an invocation to "sleep well."

Author Jana Laiz will sign her new book The Twelfth Stone. This Celtic American faerie tale will delight both teens and adults with abundant advanture and magic.

This event will be in the McChesney Room of the Schenectady County Public Library.

Pulitzer Prize winning author, William Kennedy, will be reading and discussing his long-awaited, new fictional work, Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, set in Cuba in 1957. In this tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro, American journalist Daniel Quinn, journeys from Cuba’s nightclubs and jungles to the racially charged streets of Albany in 1968. We will also be treated to Mr. Kennedy’s discussion of his body of work in general.

Note: There is a 20% discount on telephone and in-store purchases of the book thru October 31st.

Celebrate Halloween seacon with tales of fantasy, mystery, and magic. Joe Bruchac will be signing three of his new novels.