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3:00 pm
Aimee Lucido presents EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE and Sofiya Pasternack presents ANYA AND THE DRAGON at Porter Square Books
Aimee Lucido's debut novel is Emmy in the Key of Code. In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail, a new friend—through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer […]
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Transnational Series: Naja Marie Aidt in conversation with Valeria Luiselli at Brookline Booksmith
Naja Marie Aidt will discuss her memoir 'When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back: Carl's Book" with Valeria Luiselli. This event is part of Brookline Booksmith's Transnational Series which focuses on books concerned with themes of migration as well as works in translation. For more information contact series director Shuchi at shuchi@brooklinebooksmith.com “There […]
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Munroe Saturday Nights, Lexington, at First Parish Church UU Church, Medfield
Local poets will read poems based on local painters' work, and briefly discuss the process of turning image into poem. Paintings by Emily Passman, Jeanine Sobell Pastore, Deepak Das, Jaroslava O'Neil, Sudakshina Bhattacharya, and Laurel Smith will be displayed during the reading.
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.