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12:00 pm

Poetry Heat Wave! The 2017 Boston Poetry Marathon

August 19, 2017 | 12:00 pm - 10:35 pm
Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
Free

The Boston Heat Wave Poetry Marathon is an annual weekend long poetry marathon-- lasting from August 18 through August 20-- at Outpost 186 in Inman Square.  Starting on Friday, poets are scheduled to read from 7pm through 10:30pm, Saturday from 12pm to 5:30pm and again from 7pm to 10:30pm, then finally Sunday from 12pm to […]

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4:00 pm

Local debut YA novelist LANA POPOVIC in conversation with JILLY GAGNON

August 19, 2017 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Porter Square Books welcomes debut YA author LANA POPOVIC in conversation with Jilly Gagnon, author of #Famous. Fans of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo will be bewitched by LANA POPOVIC's debut YA fantasy novel Wicked Like A Wildfire about a bargain that binds the fates and hearts of twin sisters to a force larger than life. This […]

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7:00 pm

Local bestseller KRISTIN CASHORE shares her novel Jane, Unlimited

August 19, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes local bestselling author KRISTIN CASHORE, author of the award-winning Graceling Realm series, for a discussion of her highly anticipated new standalone novel: Jane, Unlimited—a novel about grief, adventure, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices. Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia—an adjunct professor and […]

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