TRACY CHEVALIER: Bestselling author brings her new novel, “The Glassmaker,” to Talk of the Stacks presented by Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Chevalier, who loves Venice and wanted to get to know it better, discovered that glass has been made for centuries on Murano, an island just off the coast of Venice where for a long time beads were the only glass objects women could make, so she focuses on a fictional woman and her glassmaking family. The story moves from Renaissance-era Italy to the present day.
Chevalier has written 11 novels, including “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 27, Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. Free. In-person tickets are all taken; sign up for Zoom access at info.
supporthclib.org . DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT: Award-winning Minnesotan reads from “Man in the Water,” latest in his series featuring unofficial P.
I. Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie, whose wife finds a body half in the water, frozen to a ladder at a marina on the St. Croix River.
6 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S.
Snelling Ave., St. Paul.
JOSEPH KUEFLER: Minnesota author/illustrator hosts a story time celebrating “The Digger and the Dark,” fourth in his popular Digger series. In this one Digger and the other big trucks, including Crane and Sweeps, are ready to tuck themselves into bed but two wide-awake, mischievous raccoons have other ideas. 10:30 a.
m. Saturday, June 29, Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St.
Paul. PAT.
