LITERATURE Events This Week CAROLYN ROBERTS READS. Barnes and Noble at the Foothills Mall. 7325 N. La Cholla Blvd. 742-6402. Local author discusses her book, A House of Straw, about her odyssey of building a straw bale house on Saturday, September 14 at 1 p.m. and at 4 p.m. at the Broadway store. CONTEMPORARY FICTION GORUP. Barnes and Noble Broadway. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. Empire Falls by Richard Russo is discussed on Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30 p.m. FINDING JOY IN GRIEF. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. John Welshons reads from Awakening From Grief: Finding the Road Back to Joy on Monday, September 16 at 7 p.m. GERMAINE SHAMES READS. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. The local author and foreign correspondent reads her first novel, Between Two Deserts, that gives voice to Muslims, Christians and Jews in a plea for peace, on Saturday, September 14 at 2 p.m. HOLISTIC BOOK GROUP. Barnes and Noble Broadway. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. The group discusses The Physician by Richard Leviton on Thursday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. LIFE STORIES. Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Local author Meg Files reads from Write From Life and talks about transforming life's stories into well-written, focused material on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m. LOST AVIATION HISTORY. Bookman's on Ina. 3733 W. Ina Rd. 579-0303. Miriam O. Seymour reads from The Around the Rim Flight on Sunday, September 15 at 1 p.m. MYSTERY WRITERS READ. Clues Unlimited. 123 S. Eastbourne Ave. 326-8533. On Saturday, September 14 at 3 p.m., hear Tucson author Marianne Mitchell read from Gullywasher Gulch and Joe Ciinders, Southwestern picture books for kids, ages 4 to 8. On Sunday, September 15 at 1 p.m., Chris Holmes reads from The Medusa Strain, a biotech thriller about the spread of anthrax. On Tuesday, September 17 at 7 p.m., Carol O'Connell reads from Crime School, part of her series set in New York with Investigator Kathy Mallory. SOUTHWEST BOOKS. Barnes and Noble Broadway. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. Local author Meg Quinn discusses her book, Cacti of the Desert Southwest, and Lynn Hassler Kaufman discusses her book, Birds of the American Southwest, on Sunday, September 15 at 2 p.m. WORLD WAR II PERSPECTIVES. Barnes and Noble at the Foothills Mall. 7325 N. La Cholla Blvd. 742-6402. Anoop Chandola reads from his newest novel, The Second Highest World War: The Rama Theater, about India and the war on Sunday, September 15 at 2 p.m. Announcements ARIZONA MYSTERY WRITERS. Meetings take place on the second Saturday of the month at Home Town Buffet (5101 N. Oracle Rd.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All are welcome. $14 includes lunch. Call for reservations at 544-4173. ONE SHOT OPEN MIC. Epic Cafe. 745 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6844. To enlighten, entertain, impress, offend or disgust. Sign in on Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Readings begin at 8 p.m. OPEN POETRY NIGHT. Bookman's on Speedway. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Read your own work, poetry you admire by others or just listen on Thursday, September 12 at 7 p.m. SCI-FI BOOK CLUB. Bookman's on Ina. 3733 W. Ina Rd. 579-0303. First meeting of the new group reads Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson on Tuesday, September 17 at 6 p.m.