Events for June 18, 2019 › Book Talk
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12:00 pm
Author Talk and Book Signing with Christine M. DeLucia
The State Library invites you to our final author talk of the season with noted historian Christine M. DeLucia, author of the recent book Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. To register, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DeLucia-SLM Memory Lands reexamines the violent 17th-century conflict between Native Americans and European settlers […]
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Launch Reading for The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Join GrubStreet instructor, Marjan Kamali, on publication day for her new novel, The Stationery Shop, at Porter Square Books. Kirkus Reviews calls this novel "a sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love." Boston Magazine writes: "Grab your tissues . . . Marjan Kamali’s second novel channels love in the time of coup d’états. Set among the political upheaval of […]
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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.