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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

Porter Square Books: Henry Winkler, The Life of Me: Enter at Your Own Risk (May 11 at 5:30pm)
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 ... (more)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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Porter Square Books: Henry Winkler (May 11 at 5:30pm)
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 ... (more)Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
Harvard Book Store: David Samuels (May 12 at 7:00pm)
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, ... (more)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 (May 12 at 7:00pm)
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 (May 12 at 7:00pm)
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 ... (more)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 (May 13 at 7:00pm)
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 ... (more)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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Brookline Booksmith: Rachel Sontag (May 13 at 7:00pm)
All fathers face the anxieties of having to relinquish influence over a growing child, but few take their authority to the levels of measuring the length of a child’s fingernails and regulating shower time. Rendered in scrupulous prose, this first time author relives her father’s numbing and manipulative ... (more)control over their family in this compulsively readable memoir.
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Porter Square Books: Jeff Talarigo (May 13 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Talarigo won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his first novel The Pearl Diver. He lives in Kokura, Japan.
Harvard Book Store: Neal I. Rosenthal (May 14 at 6:30pm)
Neal I. Rosenthal discusses Reflections of a Wine Merchant:.
Harvard Book Store and UpStairs on the Square present leading importer of limited-production wines NEAL I. ROSENTHAL, who takes readers on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of change in the world of wine in his new book. In the ... (more)late 1970s, Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with his growers for two and sometimes three generations. He is one of the leading exponents of the concept of “terroir”—the notion that a particular vineyard site imparts distinct qualities of bouquet, flavor, and color to a wine. In Reflections of a Wine Merchant, Rosenthal brings us into the cellars, vineyards, and homes of these vignerons, and his delightful stories about his encounters, relationships, and explorations—and what he has learned along the way—give us an unequaled perspective on winemaking tradition and what threatens it today. Ticket purchase includes a wine tasting, hors d'oeuvre, a reading and book signing, and conversation with the author in an intimate setting.
Event location: UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop St. Cambridge MA
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Porter Square Books: Malibu Book Group (May 14 at 7:00pm)
The Malibu Book Group will be reading and discussing A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.
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Brookline Booksmith: Penny Vincenzi (May 14 at 7:00pm)
This British blockbusting author of Sheer Abandon has been topping the bestseller list since 1989. She brings the party to America in person to deliver yet another meticulously crafted scandal of glitz, glamour, and conspiratorial fiction.
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Marilyn Yalum reads from The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.
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Andover Bookstore: Kathleen Benner Duble (May 15 at 7:00pm)
"Kathleen Duble, an Andover Bookstore favorite, has written another fantastic book! Quest is the suspenseful tale of the last voyage of explorer Henry Hudson. The story of Hudson’s search for the fabled Northwest Passage is filled with drama, bravery, and intrigue. In Duble’s capable hands, ... (more)the story becomes even more compelling. She employs four characters, four distinct voices, to tell the tale: members of Hudson’s family and crew, as well as the elegant yet conniving daughter of a nobleman. Duble’s writing is, as always, lovely. Not a single word is wasted in her vivid telling. Her seamless use of four narrators adds clarity and impact to a memorable book! Excited readers will be curious to learn more about Hudson and his voyage after finishing Ms. Duble’s outstanding book."
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Harvard Book Store: Mark Sarvas (May 15 at 7:00pm)
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Center for New Words: Nora Pierce (May 15 at 7:00pm)
Nora Pierce reads from The Insufficiency of Maps.
In Pierce’s forceful debut, Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie (Mami, she calls her), arrive at Papi’s trailer in an Arizona Indian reservation to live....
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Porter Square Books: Deborah Weisgall (May 15 at 7:00pm)
Deborah Weisgall has written extensively about the arts--painting, music, performance--for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Esquire, Connoisseur, and The New Yorker. Her first novel, Still Point, was set in the world of ballet, and her family memoir, A Joyful Noise, focused on the role of music--both ... (more)operatic and cantorial--in her father’s celebrated lineage. Weisgall lives with her husband and daughter in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Newton Free Library: David Kales (May 15 at 7:30pm)
Join author David Kales and photographer Ron Goodman for a talk on The Boston Harbor Islands: A History of an Urban Wilderness Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 pm followed by a book signing with books provided by New England Mobile Book Fair. Just a ferry ride away from Boston are thirty-odd costal isles; ... (more)known as the Boston Harbor Islands. From their origins as formations carved by massive glaciers, to their use as pirates’ havens and their designation as a National Park Area, Kales looks at this urban wilderness, the struggle to preserve it from industrial predators and revitalization efforts. David Kales is a journalist and freelance editor. He received a Carnegie Foundation grant, awarded by the Columbia School of Journalism, for reporting on China. Newton resident Ron Goodman was an active participant in the transformation of the Nut Island Sewage Treatment Plant into a recreational area that is now a part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park. He is a published and exhibited photographer.
Back Pages Books: Henri Cole (May 15 at 7:30pm)
Henri Cole is a singular poet in America today. The former head of the Academy of American Poets, Cole's writing is intimate and emotionally riveting as it rolls across the landscapes of love, life, death, and war. Join us as he reads from his new collection of poems "Blackbird and Wolf".
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Harvard Book Store: Martha C. Nussbaum (May 16 at 3:00pm)
Harvard Book Store is honored to host University of Chicago professor MARTHA NUSSBAUM for a discussion of her latest work, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future ... (more)United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people’s deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.
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Harvard Book Store: Carl Zimmer (May 16 at 7:00pm)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome New York Times science writer CARL ZIMMER to tell the story of the one species on earth science knows best of all, E. coli: • Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of us until we ... (more)die. E. coli is notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered strains of the bacteria save millions of lives each year. • Despite its microscopic size, it contains over four thousand genes that operate a staggeringly sophisticated network of millions of molecules. • Scientists are rebuilding E. coli from the ground up, redefining what it means to be alive. In the tradition of classics like Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell, Zimmer has written a fascinating and accessible investigation into what it means to be alive. Zimmer traces E. coli's remarkable history, as scientists used it to discover how genes work and then to launch the entire biotechnology industry. While some strains of E. coli grab headlines by causing deadly diseases, scientists are retooling the bacteria to produce everything from human insulin to jet fuel.
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Pandemonium Books and Games: Book Signing: Nina Harper/Cecilia Tan (May 16 at 7:00pm)
Nina Harper and Cecilia Tan.
Two authors, one event — supernatural romance writer Nina Harper signs Succubus In The City, while Circlet Press founder Cecilia Tan will be signing her new collection of erotic short stories, White Flames. Succubus in the City: http://tinyurl.com/4dahaq White Flames: http://tinyurl.com/4v3o99
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Harvard Book Store: Alexandra Fuller (May 19 at 6:00pm)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome bestselling author ALEXANDRA FULLER (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) to read from her newest book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Fuller's rendering of the brief and poignant life of one of Wyoming's native sons. Colton H. Bryant never wanted to leave Wyoming. ... (more)When it was time for him to marry and make money on his own, he took up as a hand on an oil rig. It was dangerous work, but Colton was the third generation in his family to work on the oil patch and he claimed it was in his blood. And anyway, he joked, he always knew he'd die young. Colton did die young, and he died on the rig—falling to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation.
Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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Brookline Booksmith: Simon Winchester (May 19 at 7:00pm)
Truly, if it weren’t for the invention of the crossbow by the Chinese, the world would be a far less exciting place. However, did you know how many other essential tools existed in China long before anywhere else on the globe? The incredible mind behind The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa explores ... (more)the life of the pioneering scientist whose passion for the untold historical advances of the Chinese drove him to create the largest encyclopedia ever created by a single man.
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Pandemonium Books and Games: Book Signing: Rob Kutner, Daily Show/Apocalypse How (May 19 at 7:00pm)
Kutner, Rob.
Rob Kutner, who was here during the WGA Rally/Signing last December, will be returning to Pandemonium and bringing the Apocalypse with him! His new book, 'Apocalypse How' is a fun little book on 'how to make the end of times the best of times.' Official site: http://tinyurl.com/56bxyp
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Porter Square Books: Katherine Hall Page and Peter Abrahams (May 19 at 7:00pm)
Katharine Hall Page is the author of fifteen previous Faith Fairchild mysteries. Her first book, The Body in the Belfry received the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and her short story "The Would Widower" received the Agatha Award for best short story. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband ... (more)and son. Peter Abrahams is the author of eighteen novels, including End of Story, Oblivion, and Lights Out, which was nominated for an Edgar best novel award. He also writes the best-selling Echo Falls series for younger readers. He lives on Cape Cod.
Harvard Book Store: John Harwood, Gerald F. Seib (May 20 at 7:00pm)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to present prizewinning journalists Harwood and Seib, who reveal how today’s Washington power game really works in their new book. Pennsylvania Avenue, the 1.2-mile stretch between the White House and the Capitol, is where the influential and ambitious congregate. Through ... (more)stories of party strategists, money men, policy-makers, fixers, socialites, lobbyists, spinners, deal-makers, and more, Harwood and Seib explore the great political transformations that have altered in a fundamental way the relationship between Americans and their government.
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Porter Square Books: Ellen Cooney (May 20 at 7:00pm)
Ellen Cooney is the author of six previous novels, including A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Literary Review, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment ... (more)for the Arts, she taught creative writing at Boston College, MIT, Harvard, and the University of Maine. She was a lifelong resident of Massachusetts and now lives in midcoast Maine.
Newton Free Library: New England's Endangered Wildlife (May 20 at 7:30pm)
Rhode Island based writer Todd McLeish has trapped bats in Vermont, been attacked by marauding birds in Massachusetts and has been writing about his experiences for 20 years. In Golden Wings & Hairy Toes he traces the life history and environmental challenges facing New England’s most endangered wildlife, ... (more)the obstacles facing the many species in rebuilding a sustainable population, and the people who go to extraordinary lengths to give them a chance to thrive. Hear the man who has been following the biologists who are researching, monitoring, and protecting these rare and endangered flora and fauna at an author talk on Tuesday, May 20 at 7:30 pm, followed by a book signing. McLeish is a skilled observer who is frequently called on by various organizations to lead nature walks for the public. McLeish also works as a science writer and publicist for the University of Rhode Island.
Harvard Book Store: Gil Adamson (May 21 at 7:00pm)
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome acclaimed short fiction writer and poet GIL ADAMSON to read from her first novel. "Set in 1903, Adamson's compelling debut tells the wintry tale of 19-year-old Mary Boulton (widowed by her own hand) and her frantic odyssey across Idaho and Montana. The details ... (more)of Boulton's sad past—an unhappy marriage, a dead child, crippling depression—slowly emerge as she reluctantly ventures into the mountains, struggling to put distance between herself and her two vicious brothers-in-law, who track her like prey in retaliation for her killing of their kin. "Boulton's journey and ultimate liberation—made all the more captivating by the delirium that runs in the recesses of her mind—speaks to the resilience of the female spirit in the early part of the last century. Lean prose, full-bodied characterization, memorable settings and scenes of hardship all lift this book above the pack. Already established as a writer of poetry (Ashland) and short stories (Help Me, Jacques Cousteau), Adamson also shines as novelist." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Brookline Booksmith: James Tate (May 21 at 7:00pm)
Exquisitely recreating the stuff of dreams, General Tate leads his army of spectral soldiers to undisputable victory. With over two hundred pages of quixotic interactions and wanton absurdities, this incredible pile of poems by America’s leading imaginative contrarian may just be his magnum opus.
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Porter Square Books: Will Allen (May 21 at 7:00pm)
Will Allen is the co-manager of Cedar Circle farm and the founder and former executive director of the Sustainable Cotton Project. His is also co-chair of Farms not Arms, a policy advisory board member of the Organic Consumers Association, and serves on the board of Rural Vermont.
In the Mezzanine Conference Room. King speaks on his book The Execution of Willie Francis. After Willie Francis did not die at his scheduled execution, a year-long legal struggle ensued. Making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Willie’s story is an extraordinary and troubling tale of a brutal ... (more)crime, community vengeance, legal heroism, and constitutional law.
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Watertown Free Public Library: Voices: A Documentary Film Showing about the Armenian Genocide (May 22 at 7:00pm)
Apo Torosyan.
A gripping documentary film of four interviews with survivors of the Armenian genocide, Voices tells the stunning tale of a million and a half people who were tortured, starved, and murdered by the Turkish government from 1915 to 1923. Director Apo Torosyan will follow the film with a short question ... (more)and answer session.
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Andover Bookstore: Jeff Talarigo (May 22 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Talarigo signs The Ginseng Hunter.
"Talarigo’s new novel, The Ginseng Hunter, is set in the present time in China. A ginseng hunter lives alone in solitude in the ruggedly beautiful terrain along the Tumen River which separates China from North Korea. He is scarcely aware of the larger world until he begins to see bodies floating ... (more)in the river. He learns from refugees of the tragedy occurring on the other side in North Korea. Over time he unnervingly realizes that the fate of a young woman and four others rests in his hands."
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Harvard Book Store: Kenn Kaufman, Tim Gallagher (May 22 at 7:00pm)
Kenn Kaufman reads from Flights Against the Sunset .; Tim Gallagher reads from Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century.
Harvard Book Store is delighted to host leading ornithologists KENN KAUFMAN and TIM GALLAGHER to discuss their respective new books, which combine birding history, personal memoir, and travelogue. At age sixteen, KAUFMAN left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ... (more)ornithologist, he has come back to visit his ailing mother and explain to her what drove his obsession with bird life. His explanation forms a series of interlocking tales from the frontier where the world of birds intersects with the world of the humans who pursue them. Flights Against the Sunset brings together nineteen essays, mostly adapted from Kaufman's long-running column in Bird Watcher's Digest. They weave an original story that examines how we communicate about our passions with those who do not share the same interests and how to celebrate the world of infinite possibilities and wonder. GALLAGHER mines his lifelong obsession with falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture of the sport exists outside the mainstream of American society, consisting of obsessed individuals who still use the ancient training techniques and language of falconry. What salve to his spirit did falconry provide when it ignited his passion at age twelve? Beset by a turbulent childhood dominated by a brutal and violent father, Gallagher turned to this sport for emotional release. He offers us a unique glimpse into contemporary falconry, and the result is a surprisingly frank and revealing personal story.
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Brookline Booksmith: Barbara Walters (May 22 at 7:00pm)
Yes, you read correctly. That Barbara Walters. The most significant woman to ever work in broadcast journalism returns to her native home of Brookline to sign copies of her fascinating new biography, Audition. *She will only sign her new book. The book must be purchased at the Booksmith and be accompanied ... (more)by your receipt to enter the signing line.
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Porter Square Books: Nancy Carlsson-Paige (May 22 at 7:00pm)
Nancy Carlsson-Paige is a professor of early childhood education and conflict resolution at Lesley University. She is an ongoing consultant for several PBS kids' shows, as well as an active public speaker and guest lecturer across the country. Her work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, ... (more)Parenting, Mothering, and USA Today, and on NPR, the Discovery Channel, and ABC.