This fall season Nicola’s Books has authors for every reader.

Oct. 17 at 4 p.m.: Meet author Stephen Battaglio when he comes to Nicola's for a reading and discussion of his book "David Susskind: A Televised Life." Battaglio, TV Guide business editor, expands on an article he wrote about Susskind for the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times in 2001 and delivers the first biography of the producer and talk-show host.

Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.: Old friend and former Nicola's staffer Tim Martin will be reading from and signing his new poetry collection "Stealing Hymnals from the Choir."

Oct. 23 at 4 p.m.: We are excited to have back at our store children's author T.A. Barron with his latest adventure, "Merlin's Dragon, Book 3: Ultimate Magic." Avalon is on the verge of total destruction, but Merlin is nowhere to be found. In this final book of the Merlin's Dragon trilogy, Barron brings this saga to a thrilling — if bittersweet — end.

Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.: Meet author Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with his new book "The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village." This is the stirring story behind the founding of the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School. Weaving together tales from his youth with the enormously inspiring account of building the school stone by stone, Kaguri shows how one person with a modest idea is capable of achieving monumental results.

Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.: Meet author John Presta for a reading and signing of his book "Mr. & Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners and 300 Volunteers Did It." Presta and his wife Michelle were a pivotal part of the grassroots organizations that led to a victory in Barack Obama's campaign to win a senate seat in 2004.

Weekly children's story time, every Saturday at 11 a.m.: An experienced teller spins yarns for the 7 and under set. Join us for a special story time Nov. 6 when author Maria Dismondy will be reading from her book "Juice Box Bully."

Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.: Jon Falk will be at Nicola's with his book of Michigan football stories from inside the Big House, "If These Walls Could Talk." Falk was hired by Bo Schembechler as equipment manager in 1974 and has forged a colorful legacy among the coaches, players, and the University of Michigan's faithful fans.

Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.: Author Mark Feldstein will be signing and discussing his new book on politics and intrigue, "Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture." Feldstein documents a bitter face-off between the postwar era's most beleaguered politician, President Richard Nixon, and its most reviled newsman Anderson -- a quarter-century brawl whose participants stooped to blackmail, bribery, forgery and burglary.

Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.: Local author and historic preservationist Carol E. Mull will be at Nicola's to discuss her new book on the abolitionist movement, "The Underground Railroad in Michigan." First-person accounts are interwoven with an expansive historical overview of national events to offer a fresh examination of Michigan's critical role in the movement to end American slavery.

Nov. 4 at 7 p.m.: Local author Susan Scott Morales will be here for a signing and discussion of her new novel "A Barroom View of Love." Katherine Sullivan is trying to find out if her chronically depressed mother is being scammed by the operators of a spiritual retreat, but in trying to get to the bottom of what she suspects is happening, she has a series of experiences that shake her cool objectivity.

Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.: Meet author and cycling expert David V. Herlihy with his book "The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance." Herlihy's gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers accompanying renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist Frank Lenz in the days before paved roads and automobiles.

Nov. 7 from 4 to 6 p.m.: Come and help Virginia Newell celebrate the publication of her memoirs "Season to taste: Paprika (optional)" after 50 years in the making. Well known in the catering business in Ann Arbor, Newell also shares her love of northern Michigan and other things important to her. Tasty tidbits will be provided.

Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.: Author Lauren Willig will be at the store for a reading and signing of her new Pink Carnation novel, "Mischief of the Mistletoe." Willig's beloved Pink Carnation series gets into the holiday spirit with this irresistible Regency Christmas caper. Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a quiet girls' school in Bath, but she hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats and international spies.

Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.: Author and University of Michigan professor Brenda K. Marshall will be at Nicola's for a reading and signing of her new 19th-century epic "Dakota: Or What's a Heaven For." This sprawling story covers frontier life in the Dakotas from politicians to farmers to the railroads.

Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.: Chandra Hoffman has been an orphanage relief worker in Romania, a short-order cook in a third-world hospital and the director of a U.S. adoption program and now she's coming to Nicola's with her new novel "Chosen." A young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents and faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong.

Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.: A former industrial engineer and strategic planning consultant for General Motors, Thomas Crumm will be at the store with "What is Good for General Motors?", a new book about the rise and fall of the U.S. auto industry — and what might be done to restore it to its former greatness.

Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at the downtown main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library: Husband and wife team David Small and Sarah Stewart will be appearing as part of the Children's Books by Famous Folk program. Both are prize-winning children's authors and illustrators.

Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.: Ann Pearlman will be at Nicola's with the release of her book "The Christmas Cookie Club" in paperback and its new companion book "The Christmas Cookie Cookbook: All the Rules and Delicious Recipes to Start Your Own Holiday Cookie Club."

Nicola Rooney owns Nicola's Books in the Westgate shopping center on Ann Arbor's west side.