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TOM CALVIN at Belmont Books

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ARCHANA SUFIANA Featured at Story Space

Colson Whitehead at Leslie University

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The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Joshua Keating in conversation with Thomas Stackpole for INVISIBLE COUNTRIES: JOURNEYS TO THE EDGE OF NATIONHOOD

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Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

Howard Mansfield presents The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down: Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief

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IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture

Poems in the Aftermath

Peter and The Starcatcher

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IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture

Peter and The Starcatcher

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Summer Ink

Rekindle Your Craft (and a writing marathon)

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Peter and The Starcatcher

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Bruins legend BOBBY ORR signs copies of “Bobby: My Life in Pictures”

LYNN NOEL Featured at Story Space Tue 11/06/2018

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Back to the Afrofuture: A Conversation with Ytasha Womack at Emerson College

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Abigail DeWitt, News of Our Loved Ones

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Stephen Lane presents No Sanctuary at Porter Sq Books

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Peter and The Starcatcher

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Peter and The Starcatcher

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Chaya Bhuvaneswar Reads at Harvard Bookstore with Laura van den Berg

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Love & Strife: The Life of Saul Bellow–A Reading by Biographer Zachary Leader

JOYCE SABATO Featured at Story Space Tue 11/13/2018

VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

MassMouth Story Slam: Black Sheep

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Peter and The Starcatcher

Writing Marathon at The Village Works

ERIC JAY DOLIN reading at Belmont Books

Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir Reading & Signing w/ Sarah Fawn Montgomery

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Peter and The Starcatcher

CANCELED: Wendy Drexler & Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Belmont Books

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Peter and The Starcatcher

42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

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Peter and The Starcatcher

42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

TELLABRATION!™ Featured at Story Space Sat 11/17/2018

How the End First Showed with D.M. Aderibigbe

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42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

Leslie Zemeckis reading and signing at Cuchi Cuchi

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Suzanne Gordon presents Wounds of War at Porter Square Books

Maryse Meijer presents Northwood at Harvard Bookstore

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Kwan Kew Lai, “Lest We Forget” at Belmont Books

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John Powers presents FRIDAYS WITH BILL

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Elizabeth Berg at Belmont Books

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Lecture by Francisco Goldman

Ariel Burger at Belmont Books

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An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with RHINA P. ESPAILLAT

Story Club Boston: Reading and Open Mic

B. A. Shapiro at Belmont Books

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Book Sale at the Brighton Public Library

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Saturday Morning Story Time: Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple

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Moses Baskets: Saving Children on the Lusitania

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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.