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6:00 pm
DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s “The Outermost House”
The Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the BPL is pleased to host a presentation by DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s The Outermost House. This event is free and open to all, with a reception following. Published in 1928, Henry Beston’s The Outermost House, was written after Beston spent a long stretch of solitude in a 20’x16’ house located on […]
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KRISTIN HANNAH at Wellesley Books
KRISTIN HANNAH, bestselling author of The Nightingale, presents The Great Alone, a story of a family in crisis and a young girl struggling to survive at the edge of the world, in America’s last true frontier. Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. […]
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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.