Events for April 4, 2019
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6:00 pm
A Conversation with Bill Strickland
Entry is by donation. A donation of $50 or more includes a copy of Make the Impossible Possible. Join us for A Conversation with Bill Strickland, a visionary and community leader talking about empowerment, setting the bar high, and his book, Make the Impossible Possible. Strickland is the President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester […]
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Ali Liebegott’s THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS Reading
In this chronicle of mourning and survival, Ali Liebegott wallows in loneliness and over-assigns meaning to everyday circumstance, clinging to an aging dog and obsessing over dead birds. But these unpretentious vignettes are laced with compassion, as she learns to balance the sting of death with the tender strangeness of life. Ali Liebegott has published three […]
Find out more »Peter Swanson and Diane Les Becquets at Belmont Books
From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder . . . Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside […]
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Arlington Author Salon: Love in Tumultuous Times
The Arlington Author Salon is a free reading series with a twist: each author’s presentation includes something special to tickle the senses. Music, paintings, photographs, tasty treats, fabrics, even smells! Let yourself be transported with an immersive, literary experience. Our Thursday April 4th reading features Jenna Blum, Christopher Castellani, and Whitney Scharer offering their literary […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.