Bo Caldwell, a Cupertino author, is scheduled to speak 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Los Altos main library as part of the Fourth Annual “Speaking Volumes” series by leading contemporary authors.

Sponsored by the Los Altos Library Endowment (LALE), the presentation will be held in the Program Room of the library, 13 N. San Antonio Road. Caldwell’s novel, “The Distant Land of My Father,” was published in hardcover by Chronicle Books in October 2001 and in paperback by Harcourt in September 2002. The book was a national best-seller and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001.

LALE is the endowment arm of the Los Altos library, with current assets in excess of $2 million. For more information, visit www.lalendow.org.