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5:00 pm
Costume Pajama Storytime! at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore
Just can't wait to put on your Halloween costume? You're in luck! We're doing a special Pajama Storytime just in time for Halloween! Put on your costume and join Alcott School kindergarten teacher (and Acton parent and McCarthy Towne PTSO board member) AllisonForseter as she reads a spooky story! Kiddos who come in costume will […]
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S. James Gates and Cathie Pelletier present PROVING EINSTEIN RIGHT: THE DARING EXPEDITIONS THAT CHANGED HOW WE LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE at Harvard Science Center
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome renowned theoretical physicist S. JAMES GATES and award-winning author CATHIE PELLETIER for a discussion of their new co-authored book, Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe. About Proving Einstein Right In 1911, a […]
Find out more »Heather Morris presents CILKA’S JOURNEY at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
PLEASE NOTE: this event was formerly scheduled to take place at Coolidge Corner Theatre. It will now take place downstairs at Brookline Booksmith. All other details remain the same. Heather Morris, the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, returns with Cilka’s Journey, the story of a young woman’s survival from Auschwitz to Siberia. From child […]
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Nancy Seasholes presents THE ATLAS OF BOSTON HISTORY at Porter Square Books
Local historian and volume editor Nancy Seasholes presents The Atlas of Boston History: The Making of a City, a unique addition to works about Boston history. Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’s. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also […]
Find out more »7:30 pm
Laura van den Berg and Claire Messud present EAT JOY: STORIES AND COMFORT FOOD FROM 31 CELEBRATED WRITERS at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated local authors and contributors LAURA VAN DEN BERG and CLAIRE MESSUD for a discussion of Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers. They will be joined in conversation by artist and writer NATALIE EVE GARRETT, the editor of Eat Joy. About Eat Joy This collection of intimate, illustrated […]
Find out more »Susan Rice presents TOUGH LOVE: MY STORY OF THE THINGS WORTH FIGHTING FOR at First Parish Church
Harvard Book Store welcomes SUSAN RICE—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations—for a discussion of her new memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. She will be joined in conversation by renowned scholar, literary critic, and filmmaker HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. About Tough Love […]
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.