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Dr. CRYSTAL FLEMING, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race

In Conversation: Authors JENNA BLUM and RANDY SUSAN MEYERS, Partners in Public Dialogue with VILNA SHUL and Old South Meeting House

TOM CALVIN at Belmont Books

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BEN BRADLEE JR. on “The Forgotten”

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Readable Feast

Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

Howard Mansfield presents The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down: Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief

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IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture

Poems in the Aftermath

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IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture

Cancelled: SAACC Series: West Wingers

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Using What You Know To Write A Mystery

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Bruins legend BOBBY ORR signs copies of “Bobby: My Life in Pictures”

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Author Talk and Book Signing with MELINDA PONDER

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PETER STARK at Belmont Books

Abigail DeWitt, News of Our Loved Ones

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Stephen Lane presents No Sanctuary at Porter Sq Books

Jeff Speck presents Walkable City Rules at Brookline Booksmith

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar Reads at Harvard Bookstore with Laura van den Berg

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Love & Strife: The Life of Saul Bellow–A Reading by Biographer Zachary Leader

VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

Talks with Trident: Cathy Zane and E.C. Frey in Conversation

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ERIC JAY DOLIN reading at Belmont Books

Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir Reading & Signing w/ Sarah Fawn Montgomery

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Dr. Max Abrahms, author of Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Military History

CANCELED: Wendy Drexler & Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Belmont Books

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School Street Sessions: Tino Villanueva at the Omni Parker House

How the End First Showed with D.M. Aderibigbe

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Leslie Zemeckis reading and signing at Cuchi Cuchi

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Kwan Kew Lai, “Lest We Forget” at Belmont Books

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Elizabeth Berg at Belmont Books

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Peter Fallon and David Ferry at Suffolk University

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Lecture by Francisco Goldman

Thrill Me, Chill Me: Mystery Writers Panel at the Boston Public Library

A Visit with Louisa May Alcott – Living History Performance with Jan Turnquist

Ariel Burger at Belmont Books

Two Women on a Quest, with Belle Brett and Cheryl Suchors

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An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with RHINA P. ESPAILLAT

B. A. Shapiro at Belmont Books

SHANNON MESSENGER presents at Wellesley Books

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Eric Dregni presents YOU’RE SENDING ME WHERE?

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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.