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The Fisherman’s Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter by CATHERINE MAGIA
Porter Square Books welcomes author CATHERINE MAGIA for a reading of The Fisherman's Bride. Often times, religious study focuses on the men of Christianity. In this untold story of the woman behind the First Apostle, we see the journey of the fabled life of the unnamed wife who supports her husband through leaps and bounds. […]
Find out more »New Voices in Fiction: SOPHIE CHEN KELLER and “The Luster of Lost Things”
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut author SOPHIE CHEN KELLER for a discussion of her book, The Luster of Lost Things: A Novel—a fable-like tale in which a boy with an uncanny ability to find lost objects must embark on his most important search yet. There's only one place in the world that lonely twelve-year-old Walter Lavender, Jr. feels […]
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.