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Entries Tagged as 'Independent bookstores'

December 3 Events

November 28th, 2009 No Comments

Mary Oliver - Evidence
Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. 6 pm
Harold Evans and Jason Epstein - My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times and Eating: A Memoir
Brattle Theater. 6 pm. $5
Ha Jin - A Good Fall
Porter Square Books. 7 pm

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December 2 Events

November 27th, 2009 No Comments

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Ha Jin - A Good Fall
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Maria Tatar and Odds Bodkin - “Stories and Storytelling”
Location: First Parish Church
Time: 6:30 pm
Steve Almond - This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey
Location: Harvard Book Store
Time: 7 pm
An Evening of Poetry with Joan Houlihan and Jennifer Militello
Location: [...]

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December 1 Events

November 26th, 2009 No Comments

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Victor LaValle
Location: Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street
Time: 6 pm
The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines Modern Manhood
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Mo Lotman - Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950
Location: Harvard Book Store
Time: 7 pm

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November 23 Events

November 20th, 2009 No Comments

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Elisa New - Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey From the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
Location: Harvard Hillel
Time: 7:30 pm
John Buntin - L.A. Noir
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7 pm

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November 19 Events

November 17th, 2009 No Comments

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James Schwartz-In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Gordon S. Wood-Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Location: Harvard book Store
Time: 7 pm
Hallie Ephron, Katherine Hall Page, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7 pm

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November 16 Events

November 10th, 2009 No Comments

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Steve Buckley - A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports
Time: 7pm
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Cory Doctorow - Makers
Time: 7pm
Location: Harvard Book Store

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November 10 Events

November 8th, 2009 No Comments

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Sebastian Stuart - The Hour Between
Jonathan Strong - Drawn from Life
Time: 7pm
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Dorothy Lamb Crawford - A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California
Time: 7pm
Location: Porter Square Books

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Jonathan Safran Foer on November 11

November 6th, 2009 No Comments

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Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30pm, Brookline Booksmith
Congregation Kehillath Israel, $5
Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
The author behind Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close returns to the Booksmith for his nonfiction debut. Equal parts memoir, detective story, cultural survey and vision quest, Eating Animals delivers [...]

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November 5 events

November 3rd, 2009 No Comments

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7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mary Karr
Mary Karr visits the Booksmith to read from her first memoir in over ten years. Where The Liar’s Club brought to life Karr’s terrifying Texas childhood and Cherry her sexual awakening, Lit lets us know how she made it out alive. Told with Karr’s signature poetic language and wit, Lit is well [...]

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October 29 Events

October 27th, 2009 No Comments

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Michael Downing
Life with Sudden Death
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7pm
Hallie Ephron
Boston Detective/Mystery Writers Series
Location: BPL
Time: 6:30pm

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