Events for February 27, 2017
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6:30 pm
The Rise of the Rocket Girls
Hidden Figures sparked your curiosity? Join local science writer NATHALIA HOLT at Harvard Book Store for the riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. Holt is a Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, and will be discussing her new book: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles […]
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KAITLYN GREENIDGE: We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Porter Square Books welcomes KAITLYN GREENIDGE for a discussion of her acclaimed novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman. The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.