ENTERTAINMENT

Dr. Joel Roffman will discuss Coping With Adversity: Judaism's Response to Illness and Other Life Struggles at 1 p.m. today at the Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven. Free to JCC members; $5 for nonmembers. Reserve seats at 214-239-7128 or e-mail rweisscrane@jccdallas.org.

Vince Flynn will read from and sign Extreme Measures at 7 p.m. Monday at Barnes & Noble, 7700 W. Northwest Highway.

David Isay will sign Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 5801 W. Plano Parkway, Plano.

Jay McGraw will discuss Jay McGraw's Life Strategies for Dealing With Bullies at 7 p.m. Monday at Barnes & Noble, Stonebriar Centre, Frisco.

Martin Fletcher will discuss Breaking News at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jewish Community Center. Reserved seats required; tickets, $18-$20 (including dinner) at 214-239-7128 or e-mail rweisscrane@ jccdallas.org.

Jamie Lee Curtis will sign Big Words for Little People at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Barnes & Noble, Stonebriar Centre, Frisco.

Laura Claridge, author of Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, and Peggy Post, of the Emily Post Institute, will take part in "Authors at the Adolphus" at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Adolphus, 1321 Commerce St. Tickets $65 at sleonard@adolphus.com or 214-651-3520.

Jan Brett will sign The Gingerbread Baby at 5 p.m. Thursday at Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane. Tickets will be handed out starting at 9 a.m.

Philip Rubinov Jacobson will sign Promethean Flames at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cafe Izmir, 3711 Greenville Ave.

Marshall Terry will discuss From High on the Hilltop: A History of SMU Thursday at Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library. Reception at 6 p.m., reading at 6:30 p.m. Register at smu.edu/cul/degolyer/events. htm or call 214-768-3231.

Darryl Wimberley will sign Kaleidoscope and DeAnn Daley Holcomb will sign Family Secrets at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Bookworm, 3245 Main St., Frisco.

Mac Engel will sign Texas Stadium: America's Home Field at noon Saturday at the SMU Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 3060 Mockingbird Lane.

Beth Fehlbaum will sign Courage in Patience at 3 p.m. Saturday at Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane.

Legacy Books, 7300 Dallas Parkway in Plano, has several authors scheduled to mark its grand opening: Sam Wyly, with $1,000 and an Idea, appears at 5:30 p.m. Friday; Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter, appears at 7 p.m. Friday; Diana Kennedy, The Art of Mexican Cooking, appears at noon Saturday; Grady Spears discusses The Texas Cowboy Kitchen at 3 p.m. Saturday; and Luke Gilliam and Guy Rogers III sign Pat Green's Dance Halls and Dreamers at 5 p.m. Saturday.