Events for December 3, 2019 › Book Talk
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6:00 pm
Alice Hoffman presents THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW in conversation with Marc Skvirsky at Boston Athenaeum
It is WWII in Berlin, Germany, and Hanni Kohn must send her 12-year-0ld daughter Lea away to protect her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is […]
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Michael Learner presents REVOLUTIONARY LOVE: A POLITICAL MANIFESTO TO HEAL AND TRANSFORM THE WORLD at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes Rabbi MICHAEL LERNER—bestselling author of Jewish Renewal and The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right—for a discussion of his latest book, Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World. About Revolutionary Love From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a […]
Find out more »Jackie MacMullan presents BASKETBALL: A LOVE STORY and Matthew Goodman presents THE CITY GAME: TRIUMPH, SCANDAL, AND A LEGENDARY BASKETBALL TEAM at The Silver Unicorn
If you love Basketball, this is the author event for you! We cannot wait to have Massachusetts author, journalist, and commentator Jackie MacMullan in our store alongside New York Times bestselling author Matthew Goodman! They will be in conversation about their two books, Basketball: A Love Story and The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.