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February 2015

Catherine Morocco & Paul Nemser Poetry Reading At Newtonville Books

February 25, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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On February 25, 2015, at 7:00 pm, local poets Catherine Morocco and Paul Nemser will be reading at Newtonville Books in Newton Center. Cambridge poet Paul Nemser will read from his award-winning Taurus (New American Press 2013), a phantasmagorical retelling of the abduction of Europa by Zeus set in contemporary St Petersburg,  and from his chapbook Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press 2014), an account of suburban life in the 1950's  and a search for meaning and transcendence in the…

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Catherine Morocco & Paul Nemser Poetry Reading At Newtonville Books

February 25, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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On February 25, 2015, at 7:00 pm, local poets Catherine Morocco and Paul Nemser will be reading at Newtonville Books in Newton Center. Cambridge poet Paul Nemser will read from his award-winning Taurus (New American Press 2013), a phantasmagorical retelling of the abduction of Europa by Zeus set in contemporary St Petersburg,  and from his chapbook Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press 2014), an account of suburban life in the 1950's  and a search for meaning and transcendence in the…

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Catherine Morocco & Paul Nemser Poetry Reading At Newtonville Books

February 25, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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On February 25, 2015, at 7:00 pm, local poets Catherine Morocco and Paul Nemser will be reading at Newtonville Books in Newton Center. Cambridge poet Paul Nemser will read from his award-winning Taurus (New American Press 2013), a phantasmagorical retelling of the abduction of Europa by Zeus set in contemporary St Petersburg,  and from his chapbook Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press 2014), an account of suburban life in the 1950's  and a search for meaning and transcendence in the…

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Catherine Morocco & Paul Nemser Poetry Reading At Newtonville Books

February 25, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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On February 25, 2015, at 7:00 pm, local poets Catherine Morocco and Paul Nemser will be reading at Newtonville Books in Newton Center. Cambridge poet Paul Nemser will read from his award-winning Taurus (New American Press 2013), a phantasmagorical retelling of the abduction of Europa by Zeus set in contemporary St Petersburg,  and from his chapbook Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press 2014), an account of suburban life in the 1950's  and a search for meaning and transcendence in the…

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June 2016

Poetry Night at Newtonville Books

June 16, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to present Poetry Night with SALAMANDER Magazine founder Jennifer Barber, author of WORKS ON PAPER, Carrie Bennett, author of LAND IS A PAINTED THING, and Frannie Lindsay, author of IF MERCY.

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The Story Behind one of America’s Great Illustrators: Garth Williams

June 21, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Open the pages of so many children's classics-- Stuart Little, The Rescuers, Charlotte's Web, Little House on the Prairie--and you will see page after page of the artistry that brought these beloved books to life. Join authors Elizabeth and James Wallace as they explore the stories behind these illustrations, as described in their new book, Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life. This event is free and open to the public.

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Boston Noir at Newtonville Books

June 27, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Boston noir author Thomas O'Malley reading from his latest novel, We Were Kings. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks–tarred, feathered and shot to death–it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O’Brien’s cousin, Boston PD detective Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the typical retribution for IRA informers. Combined with a tip-off about a boat coming into Boston weighed down with stolen guns and ammunition,…

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A Tale of a Dog Lost and Found at Newtonville Books

June 28, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Paul Toutonghi, author of Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. Dog Gone is the true story of a lost dog’s journey and a family’s furious search to find him. Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog—a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker—bolts into the woods. Just like that, he has vanished. And Gonker has Addison’s disease. If he’s not found…

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July 2016

Stuart Nadler reads from his novel, THE INSEPARABLES

July 19, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newtonville Books welcomes Stuart Nadler, author of THE INSEPARABLES. In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a reissue of THE INSEPARABLES, the salaciously filthy and critically despised bestseller she wrote decades earlier. At the same time, her daughter, Oona, has moved back home to the…

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Storytime with Maria Gianferrari, author of PENNY & JELLY

July 24, 2016 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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In this picture-book companion to Penny & Jelly: The School Show, Penny is invited to a slumber-under-the-stars sleepover! But there’s one small detail that derails the dynamic kid-dog duo: no pets allowed. Penny and Jelly have to think quick—if the real Jelly can’t go, then maybe a pretend Jelly can! A paper Jelly? Too rough. A yarn Jelly? Too soft. Jelly after Jelly just doesn’t work. But with a little creativity and a lot of heart, Penny figures out how to…

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August 2016

Comparing Animal Skeletons at Newtonville Books

August 6, 2016 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books welcomes Sara Levine to discuss her new children's book, BONE BY BONE: COMPARING ANIMAL SKELETONS. What animal would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? Or what if you had no leg bones but kept your arm bones? This picture book will keep you guessing as you read about how human skeletons are like—and unlike—those of other animals. Sara Levine is an assistant professor of biology at Wheelock College and a veterinarian. She…

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Punk Rock Storytime with Eric Morse

August 7, 2016 | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome "Punk Rock Storytime" with Eric Morse, author of WHAT IS PUNK?  Come for for activities, books, and a punk-rock sing-along. What Is Punk? is a must-read pop-culture primer for children, an introduction to the punk revolution, from London’s Clash and Sex Pistols to the Ramones’ NYC protopunk, from Iggy Pop to the Misfits, recreated in vivid 3-D clay illustrations and told through rhyming couplets. This event is free and open to all ages.

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Jennifer Haigh at Newtonville Books

August 16, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville books is pleased to welcome Jennifer Haigh, author of the critically acclaimed novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, a deftly interwoven set of stories about a fictional town in Pennsylvania. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. “Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue…

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Amy Gottlieb, author of THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLE

August 17, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newtonville Books hosts Amy Gottlieb, author of THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLE. This epic, enthralling debut novel—in the vein of Nicole Krauss’ THE HISTORY OF LOVE—follows a postwar love triangle between an American rabbi, his wife, and a German-Jewish refugee.

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The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir

August 24, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Susan Daitch, author of The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. “With shades of Umberto Eco and Paul Auster, this brilliant, addictive adventure novel is about the search for a mythical lost city located somewhere in modern-day Iran. As a succession of explorers and shady characters dig deeper into the landscape, the ancient secret of Suolucidir is gradually revealed. This is brainy, escapist fiction at its best.”–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

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Teaching Religion in an Age of Tolerance

August 30, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville books welcomes Linda K. Wertheimer, author of FAITH ED: TEACHING ABOUT RELIGION IN AN AGE OF TOLERANCE in conversation with Tova Mirvis, author of VISIBLE CITY. A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers, joined the line of worshippers and acted out the motions of the Muslim call to prayer. A video…

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September 2016

Hannah Pittard: Listen to Me

September 15, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Hannah Pittard, author of the critically acclaimed thriller, Listen to Me. About the novel: Mark and Maggie’s annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they’re on the road, it’s late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress, Maggie — recently mugged at gunpoint — is lately not herself, and Mark is at a loss about what…

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The Black Prince of Florence

September 19, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to welcome Catherine Fletcher, author of The Black Prince of Florence: the Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de’ Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in the Western world. Born out of wedlock to a dark-skinned maid and Lorenzo de’ Medici, he was the last legitimate heir to the line of Lorenzo the Magnificent.…

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So Much to Be Done: The Writing of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner

September 22, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is honored to host Susie Lampert and Judy Norsigian as they present So Much to be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner. “What kind of cancer is it?” was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: “You don’t need to know that.” Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spreading knowledge her mission. The power behind…

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Authors Zoe Zolbrod and Joanna Rakoff

September 27, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is pleased to host authors Zoe Zolbrod (The Telling) and Joanna Rakoff (My Salinger Year) for a reading of their respective works. About THE TELLING: Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn’t sure what to expect, or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences—Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets…

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October 2016

Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History

October 23, 2016 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Over the years, Boston has been one of America’s leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O’Connell, in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinary trends in Boston restaurants, presents a rich and hitherto unexplored side to the city’s past. Dining Out in Boston shows that the city was a pioneer in elaborate hotel dining, oyster houses, French cuisine, student hangouts, ice cream parlors, the…

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November 2016

Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks

November 6, 2016 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States

From William Novak, father of actor-producer-writer B.J. Novak, and co-creator of the celebrated Big Book of Jewish Humor, comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more. William Novak, who was born in 1948, has written or co-authored some two dozen books, including the best-selling memoirs of Lee Iacocca, Tip O’Neill, Nancy Reagan, the Mayflower Madam, Oliver North, Magic Johnson, and Tim Russert.  He and his wife, Linda,…

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Take a Writing Workshop with Mark Kramer, editor of Telling True Stories

November 16, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books hosts a writing workshop with Mark Kramer, editor of Telling True Stories. About Telling True Stories and Mark Kramer: The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: • Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story…

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An Evening with Novelists Cheryl Della Pietra, (GONZO GIRL), and Louie Cronin, (EVERYONE LOVES YOU BACK)

November 30, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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About GONZO GIRL: Alley Russo is a recent college grad desperately trying to make it in the grueling world of New York publishing, but like so many who have come before her, she has no connections and has settled for an unpaid magazine internship while slinging drinks on Bleecker Street just to make ends meet. That’s when she hears the infamous Walker Reade is looking for an assistant to replace the eight others who have recently quit. Hungry for a…

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December 2016

Author Jessica Treadway (How Will I Know You?) in conversation with Author Dawn Tripp

December 7, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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About How Will I Know You?: On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was, in fact, strangled. As the investigation unfolds, four characters tell the story from widely divergent perspectives: Susanne, Joy’s mother and a professor at the local art college; Martin, a black graduate student suspected…

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March 2017

DAN CHAON: Ill Will

March 14, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books welcomes DAN CHAON and TOM PERROTTA for a discussion of Chaon's new book- Ill Will. Thirty years after a brutal murder, psychologist Dustin’s brother is out of prison. Meanwhile, one of his patients opens up about a string of drownings. Dustin dismisses talk of a serial killer- at first. Chaon explores two sensational unsolved crimes linked by one man’s memory and self-deception.  

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Rivals Unto the Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

March 16, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Long-time history lover? Broadway musicals have you eager to know more? Newtownville Books welcomes all for this free event. The bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series RICK BEYER discusses the epic history of Hamilton and Burr’s illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry. The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three decades in the making. Rivals unto Death vividly traces their rivalry back to the earliest days of…

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Storytime at Newtonville Books: Buzz, Ruby, and Their City Chicks

March 26, 2017 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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 Written by WENDY DREXLER AND JOAN FLEISS KAPLAN, this picture book is a compelling nonfiction nature story for children ages 5 through 11. It recounts the saga of a widely watched pair of red-tailed hawks who raised and fledged three chicks from the fourth-floor ledge of an office building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2010. Buzz, Ruby, and Their City Chicks also features an update on Buzz and Ruby—and the challenges urban hawks face—written by Paul M. Roberts, hawk expert and the director of the…

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April 2017

Rocket Girls at Newtonville Books

April 13, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Hidden Figures sparked your curiosity? Join local science writer NATHALIA HOLT for the riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. Holt is a Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, and will be discussing her new book: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. In the 1940s and 50s, when the new Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate plot trajectories, they didn’t turn to male graduates.…

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June 2017

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Reads at Newtonville Books

June 14, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’s first novel in eleven years: Here I Am. Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received…

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JULIA FIERRO, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer, in conversation with JOANNA RAKOFF

June 19, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island–dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island’s leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall–only…

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October 2017

Release Party for Elephants Walk Together by CHERYL LAWTON MALONE

October 5, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Come out and help join Newtonville Books release Elephants Walk Together by CHERYL LAWTON MALONE! This event is free to attend. As calves, Asian elephants Precious and Baba roam the wild together, curious and proud. But when they get captured and are split up, their time together seems like a distant memory. Still, separated by many miles and over many years, their friendship remains, and there’s hope they will once again roam wide open spaces together. CHERYL LAWTON MALONE is…

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CLAIRE MESSUD, Author of The Burning Girl: A Novel

October 10, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books is proud to present CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Burning Girl. This event is free to attend. Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning…

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JOYCE MAYNARD, Author of The Best of Us: A Memoir, in conversation with ROLAND MERULLO

October 11, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Newtonville Books presents JOYCE MAYNARD and ROLAND MERULLO on October 11, 2017! This event is free to attend. In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist JOYCE MAYNARD  met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess…

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November 2017

LOUISE MILLER reads at Newtonville Books

November 12, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Author and pastry chef LOUISE MILLER will read from her debut novel, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, now available in paperback. A Q&A and book signing will follow reading. This event is free and open to the public.

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January 2018

Posthumous release of DENIS JOHNSON’s new story collection, The Largess of the Sea Maiden

January 19, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Don't miss Newtonville Books' celebration of the posthumous release of DENIS JOHNSON's new story collection, The Largess of the Sea Maiden. Authors HEIDI PITLOR, MONA AWAD, JEFF PARKER, STUART NADLER, and CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER will put on their best Denis Johnson voices in order to read from this stunning book .

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April 2018

Paperback Launch of Crystal King’s FEAST OF SORROW

April 10, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Come celebrate the paperback launch of Crystal King's acclaimed debut, FEAST OF SORROW (Touchstone Books/Simon and Schuster), hailed as “a delight to the senses” by Library Journal (starred review) and long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Crystal, a culinary enthusiast, will speak about the food customs of Ancient Rome and share the story of Apicius, the famous first-century gourmand who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook, and the ambition that led to his destruction.  

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Release Party for “The Shell Game,” with KIM ADRIAN, JUDY BOLTON-FASMAN, and STEVE EDWARDS

April 13, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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The Shell Game is an anthology of carefully chosen, beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects, including the secrets of the human genome, the intractable pain of growing up black in America, and the gorgeous glow residing at the edges of the autism spectrum. Surprising, delightful, and lyric, these essays are destined to become classics of this new and increasingly popular hybrid form.

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May 2018

MARIANNE LEONE, author of Ma Speaks Up at Newtonville Books

May 16, 2018 | 7:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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NEW IN PAPERBACK! The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother. MARIANNE LEONE’s Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations.

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June 2018

The Ruined House: A Conversation with Israeli-American Author RUBY NAMDAR

June 19, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Come join celebrated and award-winning author RUBY NAMDAR as he discusses and reads from his novel, "The Ruined House", recently called by the NY Times, "A masterpiece of modern religious literature." RUBY NAMDAR was born and raised in Jerusalem to a family of Iranian-Jewish heritage. His first book, Haviv (2000) won The Ministry of Culture's Award for Best First Publication. His novel The Ruined House has won the Sapir Prize—Israel's most prestigious literary award. In The Ruined House, an elegant NYU professor at…

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July 2018

Tiny Crimes: LINCOLN MICHEL and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

July 25, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers​. Newtonville Books is pleased to host editors NADXIELI NIETO and LINCOLN MICHEL host an evening of readings from some of the collection's contributors, including LAURA VAN DEN BERG. Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard-boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries,…

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November 2018

Two Women on a Quest, with Belle Brett and Cheryl Suchors

November 28, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Novelist Belle Brett (Gina in the Floating World) and memoirist Cheryl Suchors (48 Peaks, Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains) will read from their recently released books from She Writes Press, talk about common themes (e.g. risk-taking, women and their bodies), take questions from the audience, and sign books. Brett's suspenseful novel, set in 1981 Japan, is about an ambitious young American. who, while serving as a bar hostess to support her daytime banking internship in Tokyo, slides into…

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February 2019

Jane Brox and DeWitt Henry Reading and Discussion

February 27, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Jane Brox reads from SILENCE, and DeWitt Henry from SWEET MARJORAM, at Newtonville Books.

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March 2019

Newtonville Books Presents The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

March 13, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s secrets—including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died.

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July 2019

Daphne Kalotay presents BLUE HOURS at Newtonville Books

July 31, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Daphne Kalotay celebrates her new novel, BLUE HOURS, with a brief, lively reading and Q&A.

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October 2019

Authors chat: Susan Kapan Carlton in conversation with Linda K. Wertheimer at Newtonville Books

October 17, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Susan Kaplan Carlton, author of the new novel, In The Neighborhood of True, will talk about this stunning young adult book with fellow author/journalist Linda K. Wertheimer. In the Neighborhood of True covers themes such as antiSemitism and racism in the late 1950s in Atlanta. Says bestselling author Jodi Picoult of Carlton's book: "The story may be set in the past, but it couldn’t be a more timely reminder that true courage comes not from fitting in, but from purposefully…

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November 2019

Best Small Fictions Boston Reading and Launch at Newtonville Books

November 20, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Celebrate the release of the 2019 edition of The Best Small Fictions, with readings by Chaya Bhuvaneswar, DeMisty Bellinger, Zoë Gadegbeku and Maggie Cooper. The Best Small Fictions anthology, now in its fifth year, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short, elliptical works are varied and edgy, sorrowful and triumphant, provocative and visionary. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break,…

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Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, author of HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: A NOVEL in conversation with Kelly J. Ford, author of COTTONMOUTHS: A NOVEL at Newtonville Books

November 22, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a Walmart…

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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.