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APPETITE FOR ADVENTURE
Journalist Linda Ellerbee,currently the host of the children’s news program “Nick News,” reads from her new book “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table” (Putnam). Each chapter of her food journal and memoir ends with recipes. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-803-5890, free.
LADIES NIGHT
Alexander McCall Smith reads from “In the Company of Cheerful Ladies” (Random House), the latest installment in his “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series, based in Botswana. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. at Broadway, 212-253-0810, free.
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