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The Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods

September 23, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Brookline Booksmith welcomes Caitlin Shetterly, author of Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future. In this journalistic memoir, Shetterly (Made for You and Me) investigates genetically modified organisms, their associated pesticides, and the biotech megacorporations that produce and sell them. "Shetterly’s accessible, well-researched, and damning work brings clarity to an […]

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Emma Donoghue at Harvard Book Store

September 23, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author of Room EMMA DONOGHUE for a reading from her latest novel, The Wonder. About the book: Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean […]

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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.