Christina Wolbrecht presents A CENTURY OF VOTES FOR WOMEN: AMERICAN ELECTIONS SINCE SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenaeum

Boston Athenæum 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA, United States

Registration is required Members Free and Non-members $15 How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented […]

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Eric Smith presents DON’T READ THE COMMENTS and Karen McManus presents ONE OF US IS NEXT at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Slay meets Eliza and Her Monsters in Eric Smith’s Don’t Read the Comments, an #ownvoices story in which two teen gamers find their virtual worlds—and blossoming romance—invaded by the real-world issues of trolling and doxing in the gaming community. Karen McManus’s One of Us is Next is the highly anticipated sequel to the New York […]

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Jessica Stern presents MY WAR CRIMINAL: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH AN ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes JESSICA STERN—acclaimed scholar of terrorism and author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill—for a discussion of her latest book, My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide. About My War Criminal Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a […]

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Catherine Florio Pipas MD, MPH presents CARING FOR ME- CARING FOR YOU: STRATEGIES TO PURSUE PERSONAL HEALTH AND NUTURE A CULTURE OF WELLNESS at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, United States

A toolkit for sustaining wellness, building resilience, and modeling health, geared particularly toward health professionals. About the Book Burnout affects a third of our population and over half of our health professionals. For the second group, the impact is magnified, as consequences play out not only on a personal level, but also on a societal […]

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Beth Blum presents THE SELF-HELP COMPULSION: SEARCHING FOR ADVICE IN MODERN LITERATURE in conversation with Louis Menand at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes BETH BLUM—Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University—for a discussion of her new book, The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature. She will be joined in conversation by fellow Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author LOUIS MENAND. About The Self-Help Compulsion Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce […]

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Scott Simon presents SUNNYSIDE PLAZA at Peabody School Auditorium

Peabody School Auditorium

Join Porter Square Books at Cambridge's Peabody School auditorium to hear Scott Simon, award-winning broadcast journalist and host of NPR's Weekend Edition, read from his new middle-grade novel, Sunnyside Plaza! A signing will follow the talk. Please note that this event is ticketed, and tickets include a copy of the book. The event will take place off-site at the […]

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Ezra Klein presents WHY WE’RE POLARIZED at Back Bay Events Center

Back Bay Events Center 180 Berkeley St , Boston, MA, United States

Pre-sale (book included) tickets now available General entrance tickets on sale December 5 at 9am Doors open at 6:30 pm $35.00 (book included) - On Sale Now $25.00 (admission only) - On Sale December 5, 2019 Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated writer, podcaster, and producer EZRA KLEIN—Vox co-founder and editor-at-large—for a discussion of his highly anticipated book, […]

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Helen Fremont presents THE ESCAPE ARTIST at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

In the tradition of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on a penchant for keeping their lives neatly–even obsessively–compartmentalized, as well as a […]

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Joanna Schaffhausen presents ALL THE BEST LIES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

The highly anticipated third novel in the award-winning Ellery Hathaway mystery series. FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the […]

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Kerri Maher presents THE GIRL IN THE WHITE GLOVES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

Grace knows what people see. She’s the Cinderella story. An icon of glamor and elegance frozen in dazzling Technicolor. The picture of perfection. The girl in white gloves. But behind the lens, beyond the panoramic views of glistening Mediterranean azure, she knows the truth. Kerri Maher is the author of The Kennedy Debutante, and This […]

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