Events for December 7, 2016
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Author Jessica Treadway (How Will I Know You?) in conversation with Author Dawn Tripp
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 […]
Find out more »An Evening with Jennifer Haigh, author of HEAT & LIGHT, and Lindsay Hatton, author of MONTEREY BAY
About Heat & Light: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers, in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years […]
Find out more »The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
Harvard Book Store welcomes the award-winning author of Oil on Water, Measuring Time, and Waiting for an Angel Helon Habila for a discussion of his latest book, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria. About The Chibok Girls: On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko […]
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.