Events for August 8, 2019
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6:30 pm
Alexandra Fuller in conversation with Lisa Mullins at Brookline Booksmith
After her father’s sudden death Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War […]
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Helen Phillips presents The Need at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning writer HELEN PHILLIPS—author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat and Some Possible Solutions—for a discussion of her latest novel, The Need. She will be joined in conversation by acclaimed author LAURA VAN DEN BERG. About The Need When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself […]
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C.S.Lewis The Screwtape Letters
This acclaimed and faithful stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ satiric masterpiece follows Screwtape, a senior tempter in Hell, as he schemes to capture the soul of an unsuspecting human on earth and reveals spiritual warfare in vivid, humorous and powerful ways. Run Time: 90 minutes; no intermission. Age Recommendation: Recommended for ages 13 and older. […]
Find out more »C.S.Lewis The Screwtape Letters
This acclaimed and faithful stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ satiric masterpiece follows Screwtape, a senior tempter in Hell, as he schemes to capture the soul of an unsuspecting human on earth and reveals spiritual warfare in vivid, humorous and powerful ways. Run Time: 90 minutes; no intermission. Age Recommendation: Recommended for ages 13 and older. […]
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.