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Duncan White presents Cold Warriors at Harvard Bookstore

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Ibram X. Kendi Presents How to Be an Antiracist at

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Katrin Davidsdottir Presents Dottir at Brookline Booksmith

Amy Waldman presents A Door in the Earth at Harvard Bookstore

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Madeline Miller presents Circe at Harvard Bookstore

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Joseph Sciorra presents Built with Faith at I AM Books

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New Voices in Fiction: Lara Prescott at Harvard Book Store

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Forty Dollars and a Brand: Book Event with Denise Kaigler at More Than Words

Benjamin Moser in conversation with Honor Moore – Sontag: Her Life & Work at Coolidge Corner Theatre

Rainbow Rowell presents WAYWARD SON in conversation with Margaret H. Willison at Brookline Booksmith

Cambridge Forum: The End of Meat? at First Parish Church

Daron Acemoglu presents THE NARROW CORRIDOR: STATES SOCIETIES,AND THE FATE OF LIBERTY at the Harvard Book Store

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James Verini presents THEY WILL HAVE TO DIE NOW: MOSUL AND THE FALL OF CALIPHATE at Harvard Book Store

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Katrina Forrester presents IN THE SHADOW OF JUSTICE: POSTWAR LIBERALISM AND THE REMAKING OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY at Harvard Book Store

Maaza Mengiste presents THE SHADOW KING at Harvard Book Store

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Jake Brennan presents DISGRACELAND in conversation with Adam Weiner at Coolidge Corner Theatre

Leslie Jamison presents MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN: ESSAYS in conversation with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Lauren Shippen presents THE INFINITE NOISE with WROB Program Director Alexander Danner at Porter Square Books

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Ann Patchett presents THE DUTCH HOUSE at Coolidge Corner Theatre

Billy Bragg presents THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF FREEDOM in conversation with Cass R. Sunstein at Cambridge Public Library

Jill Lepore presents THESE TRUTHS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES in conversation with Robin Young at WBUR CitySpace

Caroline Kaufman presents WHEN THE WORLD DIDN’T END: POEMS at Harvard Book Store

Josh Gondelman presents NICE TRY at Brookline Booksmith Used Books Cellar

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Richard Russo presents CHANCES ARE . . . : A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre

Jennifer Block presents EVERYTHING BELOW THE WAIST: WHY HEALTH CARE NEEDS A FEMINIST REVOLUTION in conversation with Jaclyn Friedman at Harvard Book Store

Bobby Hundreds presents THIS IS NOT A T-SHIRT in conversation with Johnny Cupcakes at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

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Author Talk and Book Signing with Edwin Hill at the State Library of Massachusetts

Author Talk Series: Jack Cashman: An Irish Immigrant Story at Boston Public Library

Stephen Chbosky presents IMAGINARY FRIEND: A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre

Fanny Howe presents LOVE AND I: POEMS at Harvard Book Store

Augusten Burroughs presents TOIL & TROUBLE at Somerville Armory

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Boston Book Festival at Dudley Square

Lisa Duggan presents MEAN GIRL: AYN RAND AND THE CULTURE OF GREED in conversation with Lauren Kaminsky at Harvard Book Store

Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant present THE GIFT INSIDE THE BOX in conversation with Daniel Gilbert at First Parish Church

Aarti Shahani presents HERE WE ARE at Porter Square Books

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R.J. Palacio presents WHITE BIRD at Coolidge Corner Theatre

Aimee Lucido presents EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE and Sofiya Pasternack presents ANYA AND THE DRAGON at Porter Square Books

Naja Marie Aidt presents WHEN DEATH TAKES SOMETHING FROM YOU GIVE IT BACK in conversation with Valeria Luiselli at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

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Special Signing Event: Felicia Day at Porter Square Books

Marie Lu presents REBEL in conversation with Kiersten Frost at Coolidge Corner Theatre

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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.