MOTHER WRITES BEST

Just in time for Mother’s Day, a few words from the women themselves: The editors of “Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves” (HarperCollins), Camille Peri and Kate Moses, join contributors Mariane Pearl, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Mary Morris, Cecelie Berry, and Ayelet Waldman to discuss their compilation of motherly wisdom. (Friday, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.) Need more mothering? Joan Caraganis Jakobson reads from her guidebook “And One More Thing … : A Mother’s Advice on Life, Love, and Lipstick” (Warner Books). Anna Quindlen, whose latest is “Being Perfect” (Random House), joins her. (Friday, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.)

SAVING YIDDISH

The founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center, Aaron Lansky,discusses his book “Outwitting History” (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill). It tells the story of the nonprofit organization he founded in 1980 at age 24 that has since recovered almost 1.5 million volumes of Yiddish books from basements and attics, demolition sites, and garbage dumpsters. Sunday, 2 p.m., Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, 718-230-2100, free.

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