The Alley Theatre is sponsoring a book drive to benefit Literacy Advance of Houston during its production on Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Patrons who bring adult and children's hardback and paperback books to the Alley Theatre between 9 a.m. and noon on Saturday, March 31 can buy two tickets to the Alley Theatre's 2:30 p.m. production of To Kill A Mockingbird that day.

André Glucksmann is one of France's leading philosophers. His criticism of communism brought him fame overnight in the mid-seventies. He has challenged the conscience of the Western world like few others. Now he has published his memoirs. The Jewish Museum Berlin and the Literaturhandlung cordially invite you to the book presentation after which the historian Dan Diner talks to André Glucksmann on Monday 26 March, 8 pm.

Learn what a combined experience of 60 years working with manatees has taught authors Roger Reep and Robert Bonde. The Florida Museum of Natural History will host the authors from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. March 18 as they discuss topics in their book "The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation."

The new book Museums and Art Galleries: Making Existing Buildings Accessible, published by RIBA and the Centre for Accessible Environments, confronts significant dilemmas faced by architects and their clients in making historic buildings more inclusive in response to contemporary access standards and regulations.

Vancouver Aquarium Chair Janet Landucci and Vice-President of Conservation, Research, and Education Eric Solomon presented McBride Annex school in East Vancouver with a copy of People, Fish and Whales, written by former Aquarium Director Dr. Murray Newman, with a section by current President Dr. John Nightingale. The school hosted the Aquarium's AquaVan today and was very pleased to receive this book.

"If you can imagine it fully, completely, down to the last grain of sand, then it will become. That is the magic in imagication." Learn more about the art of imagication and find out what it takes to imagicate an idea into a published book as author Brad Marshland reads from and signs copies of his engaging new novel, The Imagicators.

A third of British adults have lied about reading a book to appear more intelligent according to a new survey. A cunning 33 per cent of adults have confessed to reading challenging literature to appear well-read, when in fact they haven't a clue what the book is about. But 40 per cent of people said they lied about reading certain books just so they could join in with conversation.

The Bishop Museum Press plans to issue a new edition of Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii this spring on the 75 th anniversary of its original publication as a Bishop Museum Bulletin #95 in 1932. The new edition will feature a facsimile of the original Hawaiian and English text edited by Martha Warren Beckwith, as well as notes written by Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui who worked on the original translation. It will also include a new introductory essay by contemporary Hawaiian scholar Noelani Arista.