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10-24 School Street, Boston, MA 02108
Downtown Crossing, 2 Milk Street, Boston, MA 02108
10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133
Brattle Book Shop (0.4 miles)
9 West Street, Boston, MA 02111
Calamus Bookstore (0.5 miles)
92B South Street, Boston, MA 02111
80 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Commonwealth Books (0.7 miles)
134 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
MIT Coop (1.3 miles)
3 Cambridge Center, Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142
700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
800 Boylston Street Suite 179 , Boston, MA 02199
Anime Boston 2008 (1.6 miles)
900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115
Quantum Books (1.6 miles)
4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
48 Sixth Street, Cambridge, MA
338 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02115
549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02118-1125
1080 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
W20-473 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
826 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
201 Mass Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115-5000
Symposium Books (2.1 miles)
526 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
660 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215
Lorem Ipsum Books (2.3 miles)
157 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
45 Pearl Street, Cambridge, MA
115 Broadway, Somerville, MA
Rodney's Bookstore (2.5 miles)
698 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
7 Temple Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
731 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
280 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
4 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
300 the Fenway, Boston, MA 02115-5898
300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
359 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
Boston Book Annex (2.6 miles)
906 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215
569 Broadway, Chelsea, MA 02150
771 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
79 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA 02143
Micro Center (2.9 miles)
730 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
477 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Lame Duck Books (3.0 miles)
12 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
12 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Revolution Books (3.1 miles)
1158 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
45 Mt. Auburn St., Boston, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store (3.2 miles)
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125
45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
220 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125
Houghton Library (3.3 miles)
1271 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
1281 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
76A Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
90 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
The Harvard Coop (3.3 miles)
1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02238
1 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Raven Used Books (3.4 miles)
52-B JFK Street, Cambridge, Ma 02138
31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA 02446
10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
3035 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
325 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446
237 Washington Street, Brookline, MA 02146
300 North Harvard St., Allston, MA 02134
Barefoot Books (3.7 miles)
1771 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140
Israel Book Shop (3.7 miles)
410 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02245
361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA 02445
25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02140
1971 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
2 Metcalf Square, Winthrop, MA 02152
Rhythm and Muse (3.9 miles)
470 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Candlewick Press (4.0 miles)
2067 Massachusetts Ave # 19, Cambridge, MA 02140
245 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA
2211 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140
40 College Avenue, Somerville, MA
70 Rindge Ave., Cambridge, MA
705 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
373 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130
64 Aberdeen Avenue, Cambridge, MA
150 Fisher Ave, Brookline, MA 02445
Bestsellers Cafe (4.9 miles)
24 High St., Medford, MA 02155
40 Academy Hill Rd., Brighton, MA 02135
111 High Street, Medford, MA 02155
Annie's Book Stop (5.2 miles)
661 Salem St., Malden, MA 02148
Annie's Book Stop (5.3 miles)
193 Belmont St., Belmont, MA 02478
175 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, ma 02474
Diskovery (5.5 miles)
569 Washington St, Brighton, MA 02135
Annenberg Library (5.7 miles)
400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
300 N. Beacon St., Watertown, MA 02472
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The Book Rack (6.2 miles)
13 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474
959 West Roxbury Pkwy., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
336 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478
700 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02476
123 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472
385 Ward Street, Newton Centre, MA 02459
69 West Emerson St, Melrose, MA 02176
144 Bridge St., Newton, MA 02458
80 Washington Street, Winchester, MA 01890
Book Ends (7.6 miles)
559 Main Street, Winchester, MA 01890
Newtonville Books (7.7 miles)
296 Walnut St., Newtonville, MA 02460
777 Dedham Street, Newton Centre, MA 02159
330 Homer St., Newton Centre, MA 02459
40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA 02169
Annie's Book Stop (8.3 miles)
85 River St., Waltham, MA 02154
82-84 Needham Street, Newton Highlands, MA 02461
15 Pleasant Street, Nahant, MA 01908
10 Park Plaza, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02116
The Book Oasis (8.8 miles)
311 Main Street, Stoneham, MA 02180
1608 Beacon St., Waban, MA 02468
Back Pages Books (9.2 miles)
289 Moody St., Waltham, MA 02453
735 Main St, Waltham, MA 02453
150 Granite Street, Braintree, MA 02184
45 Pleasant St., Woburn, MA 01801
The Blue Bunny (9.7 miles)
577 High St., Dedham, MA 02026
80-A Maple Street, Newton, MA 02466
43 Church Street, Dedham, MA 02026
257 Mt. Vernon Street, Dedham, MA 02026
375 Auburn St., Auburndale, MA 02466
1139 Highland Ave, Needham, MA 02494
1874 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420
798 Washington Street, Braintree, MA 02184
6 Wayside Rd., Burlington, MA 01803
50 Oakland Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
280 Washington Street, Westwood, MA 02090
64 Middlesex Avenue, Reading, MA 01867
98 Middlesex Parkway, Burlington, MA 01803
87 School Street, Weston, MA 02493
22 Sears St., Burlington, MA 01803
Readercon (12.3 miles)
Burlington Marriott, 1 Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803
Dragon Books (12.5 miles)
391 Boston Post Rd., Weston, MA 02493
668 High Street, Westwood, MA 02090
66 Leavitt Street, Hingham, MA 02043
530 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Annie's Book Stop (13.2 miles)
322 N. Main St., Randolph, MA 02368
3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773
Dover Town Library (13.7 miles)
56 Dedham St, Dover, MA 02030
33 Walpole Street, Norwood, MA 02062
Cornerstone Books (13.9 miles)
45 Lafayette St., Salem, MA 01970
Borders Books (14.0 miles)
151 Andover Street, Peabody, Ma 01960
161 Essex Street, Salem, Mass 01970
900 Washington Street (Elm Bank Horticulture Center), Wellesley, MA 02482
107 Pleasant St., Marblehead, MA 01945
Got Books Inc. (14.4 miles)
35 Concord St., North Reading, Ma 01864
Bacon Free Library (14.5 miles)
58 Eliot St., Natick, MA 01760
7 Mudge Way, Bedford,, MA 01730
175 Middlesex Ave, Wilmington, MA 01887
5 Concord Road, Wayland, MA 01778
14 East Central Street, Natick, MA 01760
747 Chief Justice Cushing Hwy, Cohasset, MA 02025
Books With A Past (16.5 miles)
17 Walden St, Concord, MA 01742
65 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742
Barrow Bookstore (16.6 miles)
79 Main St., Concord, MA 01742
129 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742
468 Main Street, Medfield, MA 02052
Storybook Cove (17.6 miles)
2053 Washington St., Hanover, MA 02339
1 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701
Annie's Book Stop (17.8 miles)
132 Dodge St., Beverly, MA 01915
10 Nicholas Road, Framingham, MA 01701
65 Common Street, Walpole, MA 02081
Bearly Read Books (18.1 miles)
320 Boston Post Road, Sudbury, MA 01776
Goodnow Library (18.3 miles)
21 Concord Road, Sudbury, MA 01776
1322 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742
40 West St., Beverly Farms, MA 01915
Annie's Book Stop (18.7 miles)
362 S. Main St., Sharon, MA 02067
19 Flagg Street, Framingham, MA 01702
486 Main St, Acton, MA 01702
162 R Main St., Wenham, MA 01984
49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA 01702
100 State Street, Framingham, MA 01701
534 Hanover St, Hanover, MA 02339
Second Hand Prose (20.3 miles)
168 Great Rd, Acton, MA 01720
165 Front St., Scituate Harbor, MA 02066
25 Auburn Road, Millis, MA 02054
279 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720
Andover Bookstore (20.8 miles)
89-R Main St., Andover, MA 01810
77 Nason Street, Maynard, MA 01754
10 Elm Street, Boxford, MA 01921
139 Main Street, Norfolk, MA 02056
66 Front Street, Ashland, MA 01721
752 Washington Street, Holliston, MA 01746
25 Boston Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824
Randall Library (23.5 miles)
19 Crescent Street, Stow, MA 01775
401 Merrimack St., Lowell, MA 01852
Annie's Book Stop (24.1 miles)
1280 Westford St., Lowell, MA 01851
Annie's Book Stop (24.1 miles)
109 Main St., North Andover, MA 01845
Annie's Book Stop (24.2 miles)
28 Boston Post Rd East, Marlborough, MA 01752
26 High Street, Medway, MA 02053
Lawrence Library (24.8 miles)
51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA 01841

Upcoming local events

Harvard Book Store: Tony Horwitz (Maj 5 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TONY HORWITZ as he tells of an eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America. On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 ... (më shumë)to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. A blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida’s Fountain of Youth to Plymouth’s sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
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Brookline Booksmith: Mameve Medwed (Maj 5 at 19:00)
In a witty romp that explores the biting battles that can occur between mothers and their daughters-in-law, the local author of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has created a delightful read of warm, memorable characters caught in compellingly contentious relationships.
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Back Pages Books: Samantha Power (Nëntor 30 at 19:30)
Samantha Power has become one of the most prominent human rights activists in the world through years of reportage, scholarly work, activism. Her previous book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" won a number of major awards including the Pulitzer Prize. In "Chasing the Flame", Power ... (më shumë)tracks the life and work of Sergio Vieira De Mello, the popular United Nations humanitarian aid worker who was killed in Iraq's first major suicide attack in 2003. Power is a contributor to The New Yorker and Time and has been active in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. She currently serves as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. This event is free.
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Harvard Book Store: Michael Eric Dyson (Maj 6 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research are honored to present Georgetown University sociology professor MICHAEL ERIC DYSON as he examines the death of one of the twentieth-century's great leaders and its impact on the United States. On April ... (më shumë)4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination as the occasion for a provocative and fresh examination of how King fought, and faced, his own death, and how we should use his death and legacy. Dyson also reevaluates the fate of Black America over the four decades that followed King’s death. He investigates the ways in which African Americans have in fact made it to the Promised Land of which King spoke, while shining a bright light on the ways in which the nation has faltered in the quest for racial justice. He also probes the virtues and flaws of charismatic black leadership that has followed in King’s wake, from Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama.
Event location: Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
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Harvard Book Store: George Johnson (Maj 6 at 19:00)
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by light, by electricity, and by the beating of the hearts they laid bare on the dissecting table. We see Galileo singing to mark time as he measures the pull of gravity, and Newton carefully ... (më shumë)inserting a needle behind his eye to learn how light causes vibrations in the retina. William Harvey ties a tourniquet around his arm and watches his arteries throb above and his veins bulge below, proving that blood circulates. Luigi Galvani sparks electrical currents in dissected frog legs, wondering at the twitching muscle fibers, and Ivan Pavlov makes his now-famous dogs salivate at ascending chord progressions. For all of them, diligence was rewarded. In an instant, confusion was swept aside and something new about nature leaped into view. In bringing us these stories, Johnson restores some of the romance to science, reminding us of the existential excitement of a single soul staring down the unknown.
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Brookline Booksmith: Ellis Avery (Maj 6 at 19:00)
A devout student of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, author Ellis Avery sets her first novel in late 19th century Kyoto, Japan, when ancient Eastern traditions first collided with Western influence. Illuminating the enduring values of ritual, this impressive saga told through the lifelong relationship of ... (më shumë)two friends beautifully renders the threads of change that weave their way into a culture over time. Those in attendance can expect a traditional tea ceremony performed by the author!
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Porter Square Books: Margot Livesey (Maj 6 at 19:00)
Margot Livesey is the acclaimed author of the novels Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, and Banishing Verona. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Born ... (më shumë)in Scotland, she currently lives in the Boston area and is a writer in residence at Emerson College.
Porter Square Books: Rose Moss at the Hotel Marlowe (Maj 7 at 18:00)
Rose Moss.
PEN New EnglandReadings at the Hotel MarloweRose Moss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, has lived in the United States since 1964. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion, which was short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist, and a work of non-fiction, Shouting at the ... (më shumë)Crocodile. Among her more than forty short stories one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited in Best American Short Stories, been nominated for Pushcart prizes, selected for anthologies in the United States and abroad and have been translated. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe. For info or questions, contact: Emily Hiestand, / 617-497-1225. About PEN New England PEN New England is an organization of writers and all those who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website.
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Harvard Book Store: Howard Fineman (Maj 7 at 18:00)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Newsweek's senior Washington correspondent and columnist HOWARD FINEMAN as he looks at the value of arguing to modern American welfare. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows ... (më shumë)that every debate, from our nation’s founding to the present day, is rooted in one of thirteen arguments that—thankfully—defy resolution. It is the very process of never-ending argument, Fineman explains, that defines us, inspires us, and keeps us free. At a time when most public disagreement seems shrill and meaningless, Fineman makes a cogent case for nurturing the real American dialogue.
Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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Porter Square Books: Reeve Lindbergh (Maj 7 at 19:00)
Reeve Lindbergh is the author of several books for adults and children. They include the memoir of her childhood and youth, Under a Wing, and No More Words, a description of the last years of her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, and several animals on a farm in northern ... (më shumë)Vermont.
Brookline Booksmith: Alice Hoffman (Maj 8 at 19:00)
Alice Hoffman on tour for The Third Angel.
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Andover Bookstore: Margot Livesey (Maj 8 at 19:00)
Margot Livesey signs The House on Fortune Street.
"Livesey’s latest novel, The House on Fortune Street, offers a surprisingly provocative detective story of the heart. Abigail Taylor and Dora MacLeod have been fast friends since they met at St Andrews University. They are an unlikely pair. Abigail is an actress who uses her charms both on and ... (më shumë)off the stage. She believes herself to be immune to love and is confident that she controls her life. Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood experience. She throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. Now, surprisingly, each of them seems to have found “true love.” But, soon after Dara moves into Abigail’s house on Fortune Street, trouble threatens their relationships and their friendship."
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Center for New Words: Nadejda Marques (Maj 8 at 19:00)
Nadejda Marques reads from Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival.
Nadejda Marques was born in the midst of social upheaval, violence and transformation in Brazil. In 1973, when she is just nine months old, her father is kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the military regime that seized power in Brazil in 1964. Her mother then flees to Chile alone. A friend takes the ... (më shumë)infant Nadejda separately to Santiago, Chile where the three meet just days before the military coup d’état there led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in September 1973. Nadejda and her mother now must flee Pinochet’s henchmen. They become refugees setting off on a journey that takes them to Sweden, Russia, Cuba, Panama and, finally, back to Brazil. Later, Nadejda continues her own journey, marrying an American human rights activist in Brazil, working in Angola and settling eventually, in Massachusetts.
Event location: Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
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Harvard Book Store: Fareed Zakaria (Maj 8 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store welcomes FAREED ZAKARIA, editor of Newsweek International, as he argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time in his latest work, The Post-American World. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins ... (më shumë)Fareed Zakaria's new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era?
Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
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Lawrence Library: Announcement of the Winners of the Robert Frost/Eagle-Tribune Contest (Maj 9 at 13:00)
January O'Neil discusses winning poems from the annual contest.
A reading of the winning poems printed in the greater Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
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Harvard Book Store: Robert H. Bates (Maj 9 at 15:00)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to present Harvard University professor ROBERT H. BATES as he discusses his latest work, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa. In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, ... (më shumë)and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the state. This book covers a wide range of territory by drawing on materials from Rwanda, Sudan, Liberia, and Congo. Written to be accessible to the general reader, it is nonetheless a must-read for scholars and policymakers concerned with political conflict and state failure.
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Porter Square Books: Laura and Leo Espinosa, Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk Launch Party (Maj 9 at 18:30)
"[T]he Espinosas bring graphic innovation to the familiar best-friend story...With elements of comic strips, a retro color scheme, and a winning sense of humor, they tell a story that will draw readers and listeners alike."Horn Book Laura Jaffe Espinosa grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and moved ... (më shumë)to New York to work in advertising and design. She met Leo at a graphic design seminar and they married a few years later. Leo Espinosa was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied graphic design and worked as an art director by day and moonlighted as a comic book artist. Later he moved to New York and began working as an illustrator. After living in New York City and Barcelona, the Espinosas moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they opened their own design studio. Visit them at www.studioespinosa.com.
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Harvard Book Store: Michael T. Klare (Maj 9 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to host defense analyst for The Nation, MICHAEL T. KLARE to discuss how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power. Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was ... (më shumë)blocked by Congress amidst warnings of a Communist threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point: the takeover bid was a harbinger of a new structure of world power, based not on market forces or on arms and armies but on the possession of vital natural resources. Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. World leaders are now facing the stark recognition that all materials vital for the functioning of modern industrial societies (not just oil and natural gas but uranium, coal, copper, and others) are finite and being depleted at an ever-accelerating rate. As a result, governments, rather than corporations, are increasingly spearheading the pursuit of resources. In a radically altered world—where Russia is transformed from battered Cold War loser to arrogant broker of Eurasian energy, and the United States is forced to compete with the emerging “Chindia” juggernaut—the only route to survival on a shrinking planet, Klare shows, lies in international cooperation.
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Porter Square Books: Laura and Leo Espinosa (Maj 9 at 19:00)
Laura Jaffe Espinosa grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and moved to New York to work in advertising and design. She met Leo at a graphic design seminar and they married a few years later. Leo Espinosa was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied graphic design and worked as an art director by day and moonlighted ... (më shumë)as a comic book artist. Later he moved to New York and began working as an illustrator. After living in New York City and Barcelona, the Espinosas moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they opened their own design studio. Visit them at www.studioespinosa.com.
Pandemonium Books and Games: New England Horror Writers Signing (Maj 10 at 14:00)
Lauran Soares, Nate Kenyon, and Henry P. Gravelle.
Several members of the New England Horror Writers will be in-store to sign their newest releases, including Lauran Soares, Nate Kenyon, and Henry P. Gravelle. NEWH site: http://www.horror.org/ne/
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Porter Square Books: Henry Winkler (Maj 10 at 17:30)
Henry Winkler is an accomplished actor, producer and director. In 2003, Henry added author to his list of achievements as he co-authored a series of children's books. Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank ... (më shumë)Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
Brookline Booksmith: Chris Bohjalian (Maj 10 at 19:00)
Inspired by actual events of untold bravery, the author of Midwives and The Double Bind recounts with haunting immediacy the harrowing tale of one small group’s attempt to cross Europe safely during World War II.
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Porter Square Books: Henry Winkler, The Life of Me: Enter at Your Own Risk (Maj 11 at 17:30)
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, the Hank Zipzer series, about the world's greatest underachiever, is funny, touching, and deals with learning differences in a gentle and humorous manner. Visit the Hank Zipzer website for information about the entire series. Henry Winkler is ... (më shumë)an accomplished actor, producer and director. In 2003, Henry added author to his list of achievements as he co-authored a series of children's books. Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
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Harvard Book Store: David Samuels (Maj 12 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and frequent contributor to The New Yorker DAVID SAMUELS as he turns a journalistic eye on today's world with his two latest works. Including profiles of Pacific Northwest radicals and Nevada nuclear test site workers, ... (më shumë)alongside coverage of Pentagon press conferences and the Super Bowl in Detroit, Only Love Can Break Your Heart is a collection of David Samuels's reporting of both the tragic and comic dissonances bubbling up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of ordinary citizens who struggle to live out their dreams.
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Brookline Booksmith: Elizabeth George (Maj 12 at 19:00)
Elizabeth George reads from Careless in Red.
Boldly British and gratifyingly complex is the how the cookie crumbles as the bestselling sleuthsayer of What Came Before He Shot Her and With No One as Witness utilizes her miles of style in her anticipated new novel that revisits the mean streets of beloved gumshoe, Thomas Lynley.
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Porter Square Books: Aleksandar Hemon (Maj 12 at 19:00)
Aleksander Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Sarajevo, he visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return ... (më shumë)home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. Original photographs from The Lazarus Project will be displayed during the reading.
Wing-kai To reads from Chinese in Boston, 1870-1965.
In the Mezzanine Conference Room. In collaboration with the Chinese Historical Society of New England, this book contains more than 200 rare photographs.
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Harvard Book Store: Preeta Samarasan, V.V. Ganeshananthan (Maj 13 at 19:00)
Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government are pleased to welcome award-winning writer PREETA SAMARASAN and Atlantic Monthly and Wall Street Journal contributor V. V. GANESHANANTHAN to read from their debut novels, followed by a conversation about political identity in literature. In ... (më shumë)Preeta Samarasan's Evening Is the Whole Day, when the family's rubber-plantation servant girl is dismissed for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. In the space of several weeks, her grandmother died under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, left for Columbia University, gone forever. Circling through years of family history to arrive at the moment of Uma's departure—stranding her worshipful younger sister in a family, and a country, slowly going to pieces—Evening Is the Whole Day illuminates one Indian immigrant family's layers of secrets and lies, while exposing the complex underbelly of Malaysia itself. V. V. Ganeshananthan tells the story of how Yalini, the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, finds herself caught between the history of her ancestors and her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, she is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present. While Kumaran's loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family's roots—and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils—through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran's death and his daughter's politically motivated nuptials edge closer, in the tradition of her family, Yalini too must decide where she stands.
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