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TOM CALVIN at Belmont Books

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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

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

Poems in the Aftermath

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

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

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Abigail DeWitt, News of Our Loved Ones

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Jeff Speck presents Walkable City Rules at Brookline Booksmith

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A Night of Poetry at Outpost 186 in Cambridge

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar Reads at Harvard Bookstore with Laura van den Berg

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VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

MassMouth Story Slam: Black Sheep

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ERIC JAY DOLIN reading at Belmont Books

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

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Emerson College WLP Faculty/Alumni Reading Series

CANCELED: Wendy Drexler & Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Belmont Books

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School Street Sessions: Tino Villanueva at the Omni Parker House

How the End First Showed with D.M. Aderibigbe

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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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Peter Fallon and David Ferry at Suffolk University

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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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Saturday Morning Story Time: Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple

Eric Dregni presents YOU’RE SENDING ME WHERE?

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Moses Baskets: Saving Children on the Lusitania

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