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November 2016

Anna Kendrick presents “Scrappy Little Nobody”

November 16, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$38

Harvard Book Store welcomes Anna Kendrick, Academy Award–nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Into the Woods, and Pitch Perfect, for a discussion of her book, Scrappy Little Nobody—her first collection of autobiographical essays. Kendrick will be joined in conversation by Boston librarian and Two Bossy Dames co-writer Margaret H. Willison. This event will not include a book signing or meet + greet. All copies of Scrappy Little Nobody will be pre-signed by the author. About Scrappy Little Nobody: "I'm excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when…

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April 2017

SHERYL SANDBERG and ADAM GRANT discuss “OPTION B”

April 27, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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After the sudden death of her husband, SHERYL SANDBERG felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend ADAM GRANT, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of…

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September 2017

PATTI SMITH on Devotion (Why I Write)

September 28, 2017 | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$30

Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned performer and artist PATTI SMITH—author of the National Book Award–winning memoir Just Kids and the New York Times best seller M Train—for a discussion of her latest book, Devotion (Why I Write). A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met?  In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative…

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October 2019

John Grisham and Doris Kearns Goodwin present THE GUARDIANS: A NOVEL at Back Bay Events Center

October 8, 2019 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$18

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome bestselling authors JOHN GRISHAM and DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN for a discussion of their latest books—Grisham with his newest legal thriller, The Guardians: A Novel, and historian Goodwin with the new-to-paperback Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Please Note This event does not include a book signing. Books available for purchase and pickup at the event are pre-signed editions of The Guardians and Leadership, personally signed by the authors. There are four ticket options for this event: $26.00 (signed…

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Ronan Farrow presents CATCH AND KILL: LIES, SPIES, AND A CONSPIRACY TO PROTECT PREDATORS at Back Bay Events Center

October 24, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$38

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter RONAN FARROW for a discussion of his highly anticipated new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. About Catch and Kill In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers…

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January 2020

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE at Back Bay Events Center

January 27, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$34

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning authors NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN for a discussion of their latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. $34.00 (book included) About Tightrope With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an “other America.” The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has…

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Ezra Klein presents WHY WE’RE POLARIZED at Back Bay Events Center

January 31, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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$25 - $35

Pre-sale (book included) tickets now available General entrance tickets on sale December 5 at 9am Doors open at 6:30 pm $35.00 (book included) - On Sale Now $25.00 (admission only) - On Sale December 5, 2019 Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated writer, podcaster, and producer EZRA KLEIN—Vox co-founder and editor-at-large—for a discussion of his highly anticipated book, Why We're Polarized. About Why We're Polarized After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed his victory as a historically…

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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.