Join us for the second annual Lexington Energy Savings Fair, created and run by the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition.  Check out simple easy ways to quickly shift your energy use just in time for winter.  Beyond switching bulbs, the many attending organizations will guide you through affordable ways to live efficiently.  We'll be there with a veritable wish list of great green energy books! And check out a brief sample of our selection for the day below . . .

The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Nathaniel Hawthorne intersect as representatives of west coast hedonism and east coast Puritanism; Gertrude Stein presides over a same-sex religious movement; a mad Finnish-American painter turns Seattle's Hooverville into heaven; these are just a few of the fascinating, often hilarious intersections in Rebecca Brown's new collection of essays. 

Wanderers, seekers, and sojourners populate Elena Georgiou's Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants, from the prose poem "Personal Ad for an Expatriate Cartographer" to "Immigrant #18: Prayer for an Alien with Extraordinary Ability in the Arts."

Join us for an evening with Brown and Georgiou as they discuss their mix of poetry, pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, misremembered movie plots and fantasy that get at our often failed attempt to figure out just what it means to be "American."

Dave Zeltserman's blockbuster crime novel Small Crimes instantaneously marked the arrival of a powerful new voice and landed him as one of National Public Radio's top 5 mystery writers of 2008 alongside Stieg Larsson and Friedrich Walser. 

Now the Newton-based writer returns with a tale so harrowing it places him alongside contemporary masters Jim Crais and James Ellroy as among the few great writers whose thrilling noirish tales can be called "beautiful" (The Washington Post). 

Join us at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square for the only New England reading by acclaimed poet Marie Ponsot to celebrate her new collection of poems, Easy. This event is co-sponsored with the Pierre Menard Art Gallery and the Grolier Poetry Bookshop, America's oldest all-poetry bookstore.