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Sam Bett presents Star by Yukio Mishima at Harvard Bookstore

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Lisa Taddeo and Taffy Brodesser-Akner present Three Women and Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel

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Sharon Marcus presents The Drama of Celebrity

Daphne Kalotay presents BLUE HOURS at Newtonville Books

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Brookline Booksmith Transnational Series: Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar

Speculative Boston Reading Series: K. Chess and Max Gladstone

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Miciah Bay Gault and Christina Thompson at Brookline Booksmith

Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne L. Alstott present The Public Option at Harvard Bookstore

Jason Heller, Peter Bebergal, and Paul Tremblay in Conversation at Trident Bookstore

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Darrel J. McLeod presents Mamaskatch at Harvard Bookstore

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Charles King presents Gods of the Upper Air at Harvard Bookstore

Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry Present Hello Girls at Trident Cafe

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Helen Phillips presents The Need at Harvard Bookstore

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Derek Milman Presents Swipe Right for Murder in conversation with Karen McManus at Trident Bookstore

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Mary Tolaro Noyes presents Sicily: A Heart’s Journey at I AM Books

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Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis present 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive at Harvard Bookstore

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Ellen O’Donnell at Brookline Booksmith

Ronald C. Rosbottom presents Sudden Courage at Harvard Bookstore

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A Girl Could Disappear Like This

Ariana Reines Presents A Sand Book at Brookline Booksmith

William Dameron presents The Lie in conversation with Alysia Abbott

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Jess Row presents White Flights in conversation with Gish Gen

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Hank Phillippi Ryan Presents The Murder List at Brookline Booksmith

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Jan Schreiber in Conversation with Charles Coe at Brookline Booksmith

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Homeboy: Book Talk with Jawara Griffin

Madeline Bilis Presents 50 Hikes in Eastern Massachusetts at Brookline Booksmith

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Duncan White presents Cold Warriors at Harvard Bookstore

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Ibram X. Kendi Presents How to Be an Antiracist at

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Katrin Davidsdottir Presents Dottir at Brookline Booksmith

Amy Waldman presents A Door in the Earth at Harvard Bookstore

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