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Linda Holmes presents Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel at Harvard Bookstore

Charles Fishman presents One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

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Jerry Remy, presenting If These Walls Could Talk: Boston Red Sox

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Paul Tremblay, John Langan, and Carrie Laben

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Damon Krukowski presents Ways of Hearing

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Viken Berberian presents The Structure is Rotten, Comrade

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Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone present This Is How You Lose the Time War

Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong present American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

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PARIS 7 A.M.: A NOVEL

Andrew Shaffer presents Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery at Brookline Booksmith

Liza Wieland presents Paris, 7 A.M.:

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Up Close Tour: The Founders at the Athenaeum

Courtney Maum presents Costalegre at Harvard Bookstore

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Pablo Medina presents The Cuban Comedy: A Novel, in Conversation with Alice Hoffman

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Book Launch for BLUE HOURS

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Ocean Vuong in conversation with Bradley Trumpfheller

David Blair and Steve Almond present Walk Around: Essays on Poetry and Place and William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life

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Safi Bahcall presents Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

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Camonghne Felix and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram in Conversation at Brookline Booksmith

Dan Albert presents Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless

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John James presents The Milk Hours

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Sam Bett presents Star by Yukio Mishima at Harvard Bookstore

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Lisa Taddeo and Taffy Brodesser-Akner present Three Women and Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel

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Sharon Marcus presents The Drama of Celebrity

Daphne Kalotay presents BLUE HOURS at Newtonville Books

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Brookline Booksmith Transnational Series: Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar

Speculative Boston Reading Series: K. Chess and Max Gladstone

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