AUBURN – The Book Burrow will host a Grand Finale Gala beginning at noon Sunday, Feb. 12. There free food, live music, and local writers will be available to talk about and sign their books.

Among those scheduled to participate are Mark LaFlamme, author of “The Pink Room;” Robert Chapman, “A Certain Fall;” Marty Engstrom, “Marty on the Mountain;” Tamra Wight, “The Three Grumpies;” poet Pearl Sawyer; and authors of the “Androscoggin County, Maine: A Pictorial Sesquicentennial History, 1854-2004.”

Darcy Gammon Wakefield’s grandmother, Billie, will sign copies of “No Flies on Billie,” a book written by Wakefield about her grandmother. Wakefield died in December at the age of 35 of Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS. She wrote about that illness in her first book, “I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted – and ALS.”

Singer Valerie Bennett will perform songs from her blues CD, “Sad Girls’ Songs.” Tobey Haber and her husband, Mike Giasson, who perform under the name of “Soft Spoken,” will sing, including two songs they wrote using poems from Sawyer’s book of poetry called “On Mayfield Road.” The songs are “Through a Window” and “Song of a Not-Quite-Ready Poet.”

The Book Burrow, which has been in operation for three years, will close its doors at the end of business Monday, Feb. 20. For more information, call 344-6090.