Events for June 28, 2016
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6:00 pm
Coloring and Craft Beer at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers "coloring nights" have been developing a local following but this one is going to beat them all because the cafe/bar/bookstore is adding free beer to the mix! Friends from Allagash Brewing Company will be at Trident handing out free samples of their various beers and fun Allagash swag. So stop in to Trident, grab a drink sample, something to […]
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A Tale of a Dog Lost and Found at Newtonville Books
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 […]
Find out more »Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon
Harvard Book Store welcomes journalist Bronwen Dickey for a discussion of her book Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, the story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs—and what role humans have played in the transformation. “A thoughtful examination of pit bulls and an intense look […]
Find out more »The True Tale of a Vaudevillian Who Fooled Hitler
Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, author of Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer. Vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler, card shark and self-proclaimed “Jade King of China,” Freeman Bernstein was a master of exuberant excess and no stranger to the hard-hand of the law. But the charges he was […]
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.