BLACK AUTHORS EXPO: Minnesota Black Authors, an organization that promotes and supports established and emerging Black authors of all ages and genres, hosts its eighth annual expo with a program that includes author conversations, a writer boot camp, a teen creative writing workshop and a kids corner. Free and open to the public. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Minneapolis Central Library, 500 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. Go to mnblackauthorsexpo.com.

BOOK SALE: Friends of the Wentworth Library host their fall book sale: Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 10, 1-5 p.m.; and Tuesday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wentworth Library, 199 E. Wentworth Ave., West St. Paul. Go to Facebook.com/Friends.of.the.Wentworth.Library.

HASSE/SUTPHEN: Minnesota poets Margaret Hasse and Joyce Sutphen read from their work. 7 p.m. Thursday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

ROBERT JOHNS: Presents “The Fighter” in conversation with Jody Lulich. 7 p.m. Monday, SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul.

MARLENE M. JOHNSON: Minnesota’s first female lieutenant governor discusses her memoir “Rise to the Challenge.” 6 p.m. Thursday, Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul.

LISA SEE: Recent recipient of the 49th annual University of Minnesota Kerlan Children’s Literature Collection award discusses her latest novel, “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.” Virtual event in the Club Book Series. 7 p.m. Thursday. For information go to clubbook.org/authors.

J.P. WHITE: Minnesotan discusses his novel “The Last Tale of Norah Bow,” in conversation with Glenn Miller, author of the comic novel “Doorman Wanted.” 6 p.m. Thursday, Milkweed Books in the Open Book building, 1011 Washington Ave. S., Mpls.

What else is going on

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Leif Enger (Robin Enger)

Leif Enger’s latest novel, “I Cheerfully Refuse,” a Lake Superior sailing adventure, is among Amazon’s Top 20 Books of the Year So Far, as well as one of the Editors’ Personal Picks.

Peter Geye fans, heads up!  The author of novels such as “The Lighthouse Road,” “Northernmost” and “The Ski Jumper” has a new one scheduled for April publication. “A Lesser Light,” published by the University of Minnesota Press, is set on the shore of Lake Superior in 1910 and tells the story of a newly commissioned lighthouse station, its keeper, and an ill-suited arranged marriage. Sounds terrific.

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