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SHHH! Sue Grafton reads from and signs “S Is for Silence” (Penguin), the 19th alphabetical mystery featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Tomorrow, 1 p.m., Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue, 555 Fifth Ave. at 46th Street, 212-697-3048, free.
UNDERGROUND FAN Stan Fischler discusses and signs his book “The Subway and the City”(Merriwell, Frank),an illustrated celebration of underground transportation. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
MEETING OF THE MINDS Hazel Rowley, author of “Tete a Tete” (HarperCollins), about the complicated decades-long love affair between the French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Tonight, 7 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 536 W. 112th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-865-1588, free.
BIRTH OF GOD Bruce Feiler discusses his book “Where God Was Born” (William Morrow), which explores with roots of religion in the Middle East. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Center for Religious Inquiry, 109 E. 50th St. at Park Avenue, 212-378-0289, free.
INCREDIBLY VERBOSE Jonathan Safran Foer reads from and signs his second novel, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (Houghton Mifflin), about a precocious New York boy affected by the events of September 11, 2001. Tomorrow, 11 a.m., Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. at Broadway, 212-253-0810, free.
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