Books
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GOVERNING HOW-TO A former City Council speaker, Peter Vallone, presents his new book, “Learning to Govern: My Life in New York Politics, From Hell Gate to City Hall” (Altschuler, Richard & Associates). Friday, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper East Side, 240 E. 86th St. at Second Avenue, 212-794-1962, free.
CUNNINGHAM BEHIND THE COUNTER Author Michael Cunningham participates in Three Lives & Co.’s guest bookseller program, dropping by to recommend some of his favorite books and copies of his novels “The Hours” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and “Specimen Days” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Mr. Cunningham has called the Greenwich Village shop “one of the greatest bookstores on the face of the Earth…. I go there when I’m feeling depressed and discouraged, and I always feel rejuvenated.” Saturday, 3-4 p.m., Three Lives & Co., 154 W. 10th St. at Waverly Place, 212-741-2069, free.
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