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ADAM ABRAMOWITZ reads from his debut gangster novel: Bosstown

August 9, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

Brookline Booksmith hosts debut novelist ADAM ABRAMOWITZ, author of Bosstown. Boston’s fastest bike messenger is dragged into Boston’s gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money when the Big Dig threatens to uncover bodies and secrets his poker king father thought he had buried long ago. This event is not ticketed.

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The Fisherman’s Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter by CATHERINE MAGIA

August 9, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Porter Square Books welcomes author CATHERINE MAGIA for a reading of The Fisherman's Bride.  Often times, religious study focuses on the men of Christianity.  In this untold story of the woman behind the First Apostle, we see the journey of the fabled life of the unnamed wife who supports her husband through leaps and bounds. […]

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New Voices in Fiction: SOPHIE CHEN KELLER and “The Luster of Lost Things”

August 9, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free

Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut author SOPHIE CHEN KELLER for a discussion of her book, The Luster of Lost Things: A Novel—a fable-like tale in which a boy with an uncanny ability to find lost objects must embark on his most important search yet. There's only one place in the world that lonely twelve-year-old Walter Lavender, Jr. feels […]

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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.