Literary listings

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Updated: January 12, 2012 9:30PM

JAN. 17

• Jodi Kantor will discuss and sign “The Obamas,” in a conversation with Steve Edwards, 6 p.m. in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State.

• Jennifer Hudson will discuss and sign “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down,” 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie.

JAN. 18

• Virginia M. Kendall and T. Marcus Funk will discuss “Child Exploitation and Trafficking” at a book release party, 5:30 p.m. at Northwestern Law School (Lincoln Hall), 357 E. Chicago.

JAN. 19

• Judy Collins will discuss and sign her picture book/CD “When You Wish Upon a Star,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. Priority numbers to join the book-signing line are available with book purchase.

JAN. 22

• Deborah Niemann will discuss and sign “Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living,” 4:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

JAN. 23

• Marissa Meyer (“Cinder”) and Megan Miranda (“Fracture”) will discuss and sign their books, 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Two Doors East, 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Christopher Paul Curtis will discuss and sign “The Mighty Miss Malone, 7 p.m. at Anderson’s, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

JAN. 24

• Daniel Handler (“Lemony Snicket”) and illustrator Maira Kalman will sign “Why We Broke Up,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

JAN. 25

• Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman will discuss and sign “Why We Broke Up,” 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie.

• Laura Lee Guhrke (“Trouble at the Wedding”) and Julie Ann Long (“How the Marquess Was Won”) will discuss and sign their books, 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

JAN. 26

• Gene Wojciechowski will dicuss and sign “The Last Great Game,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

JAN. 27

• Poetry reading with Charlotte Hart (“Organic Spirits”) and Susanna Lang (“Two by Two”), 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

JAN. 29

• Mary Sommers will discuss and sign “More Than a Midwife: Stories of Glory, Grace & Motherhood,” 4:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

• Sherill Bodine will discuss and sign “All I Want Is You” at a book launch party, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Hidden Shamrock (back room), 2723 N. Halsted.

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