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4:30 pm
An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with RHINA P. ESPAILLAT
Meridians and the Poetry Center at Smith College invite the local community to a night of poetry and conversation celebrating the life and work of Rhina P. Espaillat. The evening’s events will bring Ms. Espaillat—a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who has published eleven collections of poetry—to Smith College along with scholars Nancy Kang, and […]
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B. A. Shapiro at Belmont Books
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new […]
Find out more »SHANNON MESSENGER presents at Wellesley Books
Shannon Messenger, author of the middle-grade Keeper of the Lost Cities series, presents Flashback, the highly anticipated seventh book. Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off of the book. Buy tickets in-store (no fees), by phone at 781-431-1160 (no fees), or online at store.wellesleybooks.com (fees apply). Please note […]
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.