LESLIE CORMIER, PhD, architectural historian, presents Copley Square: History through Architecture, her fascinating new book about Boston’s Copley Square.
Buy your copy from Wellesley Books in order to meet the author and have her sign your book at the event.
JENNA BLUM, bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, presents The Lost Family, an emotionally charged, funny, and elegantly bittersweet portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II.
Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off of the book. Buy tickets in-store, by phone, or online.
Please join acclaimed author DAVE EGGERS at Wellesley Books for a pop-up signing and meet-and-greet.
ALLISON PEARSON, bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It, joins us at Wellesley Books to present How Hard Can It Be?, the hilarious and poignant new adventures of Kate Reddy, the beleaguered heroine of Pearson’s groundbreaking I Don’t Know How She Does It.
This is a free event, however we ask that you RSVP. You can reserve your spot in-store, by phone at 781.431.1160, or online at store.wellesleybooks.com.
Kids, parents, teachers, and aspiring writers, join us for From Picture Books to YA: Seven Children’s Authors Discuss the Wide World of Children’s Literature. The panel will include Megan Frazer Blakemore (The Daybreak Bond), Julie C. Dao (Forest of a Thousand Lanterns), Erin M. Dionne (Lights, Camera, Disaster), Debbi Michiko Florence (Jasmine Toguchi series), Cordelia Jensen (Every Shiny Thing), Jarrett Lerner (EngiNerds), and Anna Staniszewski (Wish series).
GAIL HONEYMAN joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. People Magazine says, “This wacky, charming novel draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance. Hilarious and moving.”
Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off of the book. Buy tickets in-store, by phone, or online.
PAULA MCLAIN, bestselling author of The Paris Wife, presents Love and Ruin, about Ernest Hemingway’s marriage to Martha Gellhorn—a fiercely independent, ambitious woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.
Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off of Love and Ruin. Buy tickets in-store, by phone, or online.
*Buy your copy from Wellesley Books in order to meet the author and have her sign your book at the event.
Porter Square Books is pleased to host UK poet/immigration caseworker, CAROLINE SMITH for a discussion of her book of poems, The Immigration Handbook.
Inspired by her years as an immigration caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help. This is a book that reaches out of the headlines into our hearts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Brookline Booksmith hosts novelist KARL GEARY for his first-time novel, Montpelier Parade.
The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday in Dublin, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path towards him. Vera.
Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn’t telling him?
This event is free and open to the public.
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team CYNTHIA and SANFORD LEVINSON join Porter Square Books with their nonfiction book Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today.
They take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced—then they offer possible solutions. Think Electoral College, gerrymandering, even the Senate. Many of us take these features in our system for granted. But they came about through haggling in an overheated room in 1787, and we’re still experiencing the ramifications.
This event is free and open to the public.