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First Annual Brookline Booksmith Book Swap

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Memoirists ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH (The Fact of a Body) and MELISSA FEBOS (Abandon Me)

Journalist/author MICHAEL DEIBERT on the history of Haiti

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Launch party for local novelist JENNIFER TSENG’s The Passion of Woo & Isolde

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CLAIRE MESSUD in conversation with WBUR’s CHRISTOPHER LYDON

Rethinking the Cold War with Kennedy School scholar ODD ARNE WESTAD

Author STEPHANIE GAYLE reads Idyll Fears, the 2nd in her LGTBQ crime series

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How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Body, and Brain

Feminist gamer ZOE QUINN and the fight against online hate in “Crash Override”

The Most Important Year: Dr. SUZANNE BOUFFARD on Pre-K Education

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VANESSA GRIGORIADIS: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus

The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things, a conversation with KIM ADRIAN and MATTHEW BATTLES

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SALMAN RUSHDIE with his latest novel, The Golden House

Historian YURI SLEZKIN and TERRY MARTIN on the Russian Revolution

Local poets at Brookline Booksmith

Twitter humorist JONNY SUN at Porter Square Books

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Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today

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ROBIN SLOAN returns with his latest novel, Sourdough

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NYT bestselling author ATUL GAWANDE with novelist JENNIFER HAIGH

NYT best-selling author GRETCHEN RUBIN in conversation with MELISSA HARTWIG

Little Fires Everywhere, the latest from CELESTE NG

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD in conversation with the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD

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A Column of Fire, the latest in the Kingsbridge series

Poets and Pints with Porter Square Books

Foreign correspondent/author DEBORAH CAMPBELL: A Disappearance in Damascus

Boston Globe journalist/author DICK LEHR (Black Mass) shares his latest

The Immigration Handbook, a poetry collection by UK poet CAROLINE SMITH

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EILEEN MYLES on “Afterglow: a Dog Memoir”

The German-Jewish Cookbook: A Look at the History and the Recipes

The Suffragents: the hidden history of the men behind the struggle for women’s suffrage

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HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. at Harvard Book Store

NATHAN ENGLANDER shares his latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Novelist NICOLE KRAUSS interviewed by the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD at Brookline Booksmith

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STEPHEN GREENBLATT: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

The Ways Women Age by Professor ABIGAIL BROOKS

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Before I Had the Words: A Reading with Trans Memoirist SKYLAR KERGIL

The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship

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Attention fantasy-lovers: MAX GLADSTONE is back with The Ruin of Angels

ELI FINKEL on the “All-or-Nothing Marriage”

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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

Neuroscientist TALI SHAROT on “The Influential Mind”

YA author BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe) at Brookline Booksmith

Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: A fascinating journey through the craft chocolate revolution

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ORHAN PAMUK with MARIA TARTAR discuss “The Red-Haired Woman”

NYT best-selling author ELIAS WEISS FRIEDMAN returns with The Dogist: Puppies

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ANDREA PITZER on One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

A Night of Chilling Stories with GARETH HINDS and BEN LOORY

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Folk/Rock legend ART GARFUNKEL on his memoir

How does addiction impact family? A conversation between Granta publisher/editor SIGRID RAUSING and GISH JEN

Local YA authors take on the fantastic and peculiar at Brookline Booksmith

Local author event with novelist MICHELLE HOOVER, memoirist PATRICIA HORVATH, and poet SAM WITT

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DANIEL MENDELSOHN, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic”

Actor/author KARL GEARY reads his first novel: Montpelier Parade

Local nonfiction author POPE BROCK presents Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon

PATTI SMITH on Devotion (Why I Write)

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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

Breakwater Reading Series at Brookline Booksmith

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