Events for May 14, 2019 › Book Talk
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12:00 pm
Boston’s 20th-Century Bicycling Renaissance
Join us at the State Library for an author talk and book signing with historian and avid cyclist Lorenz J. Finison, author of the new book Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance: Cultural Change on Two Wheels. To register, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Finison-SLM Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance shares the stories of cycling hobbyists, racers, commuters, bike builders, and others who […]
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Reading with John Urschel and Louisa Thomas at the BPL
For John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child quickly evolved into mastery of the elegant systems and rules of mathematics. By the time he was thirteen, Urschel was auditing college-level calculus courses. But when he joined his high school football team, a new interest began to eclipse the thrill […]
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I Just Haven’t Met You Yet–Boston Launch
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author and writing instructor TRACY STRAUSS for a discussion of her latest book, I Just Haven't Met You Yet: Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life. About I Just Haven't Met You Yet I Just Haven’t Met You Yet details Tracy Strauss’s dating history and her journey to dismantle the effects and stigmas […]
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.