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1:00 pm

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

October 5, 2019 | 1:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446 United States
$25

In R. J. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II, […]

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3:00 pm

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

October 5, 2019 | 3:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Aimee Lucido's debut novel is Emmy in the Key of Code. In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail, a new friend—through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer […]

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5:00 pm

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

October 5, 2019 | 5:00 pm
Free

“There is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt. She’s comparable only to things like sequoias, whale-song, desert thunderstorms, or wolves. The depth of her emotional world and the diaphanous, often brutal clarity with which she understands the human soul beckon us to pause, breathe, think. Here, she takes us on a journey into death […]

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