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William Gibson presents AGENCY: A NOVEL at First Parish Church

Kim Ghattas presents BLACK WAVE: SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN, AND THE FORTY-YEAR RIVALRY THAT UNRAVELED CULTURE, RELIGION, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST at Harvard Book Store

Jason Brown presents A FAITHFUL BUT MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL BARBARITIES LATELY COMMITTED at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE at Back Bay Events Center

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Michelle Marchetti Coughlin presents PLYMOUTH COLONY FIRST LADY PENELOPE WINSLOW: RECONSTRUCTING A LIFE THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE at Boston Athenaeum

Jonathan Rosenberg presents DANGEROUS MELODIES: CLASSICAL MUSIC IN AMERICA FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE COLD WAR at Harvard Book Store

P. Carl presents BECOMING A MAN: THE STORY OF A TRANSITION at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

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E. Patrick Johnson presents HONEYPOT: BLACK SOUTHERN WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN in conversation with Angela Ards at Harvard Book Store

Mike Eruzione presents MIRACLE ON ICE at Porter Square Books

David D. Hall presents THE PURITANS: A TRANSATLANTIC HISTORY at Harvard Coop

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Christina Wolbrecht presents A CENTURY OF VOTES FOR WOMEN: AMERICAN ELECTIONS SINCE SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenaeum

Eric Smith presents DON’T READ THE COMMENTS and Karen McManus presents ONE OF US IS NEXT at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Jessica Stern presents MY WAR CRIMINAL: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH AN ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE at Harvard Book Store

Catherine Florio Pipas MD, MPH presents CARING FOR ME- CARING FOR YOU: STRATEGIES TO PURSUE PERSONAL HEALTH AND NUTURE A CULTURE OF WELLNESS at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

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Beth Blum presents THE SELF-HELP COMPULSION: SEARCHING FOR ADVICE IN MODERN LITERATURE in conversation with Louis Menand at Harvard Book Store

Scott Simon presents SUNNYSIDE PLAZA at Peabody School Auditorium

Ezra Klein presents WHY WE’RE POLARIZED at Back Bay Events Center

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Helen Fremont presents THE ESCAPE ARTIST at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

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Joanna Schaffhausen presents ALL THE BEST LIES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

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Kerri Maher presents THE GIRL IN THE WHITE GLOVES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

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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.