Location: Brookline, MA 02245, United States

DIGGING - BONES Ages 4-5 FRIDAY, MAY 24 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. We'll listen to a fun story and dig for "bones" and make our own "picture" with what we find. Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St. - Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

CONSTRUCTION Ages 2-3 Tuesday, May 24 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We'll read a fun story and make a lift the flap picture with a surprise! Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St. - Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join Porter Square Books at the first Parish Church in Harvard Square, for an evening with Khaled Hosseini in conversation with WBUR’s Robin Young. Hosseini will discuss his new book And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini will sign books after the event. This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be acquired by purchasing a copy of And the Mountains Echoed. You will receive two tickets with each purchase. If you are ordering online, please write “tickets” in the comments field. Books can be picked up in the store on or after the official release date of May 21 or at the event that night. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004. In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner. Published by Riverhead Books in 2003, that debut went on to become an international bestseller and beloved classic, sold in at least seventy countries and spending more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In May 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, remaining in that spot for fifteen weeks and nearly an entire year on the bestseller list. Together, the two books have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and more than 38 million copies worldwide. Hosseini's much-awaited third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, will be published on May 21, 2013. In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR, he later established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation , a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in Northern California. Robin Young is the host of Here & Now on WBUR. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for The Today Show. Robin has received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable’s Ace Award, the Religious Public Relations Council’s Wilbur Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio’s regional Edward R. Murrow Award.

Location: Street: First Parish Church, Harvard Square Additional: 1446 Massachusetts Ave City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02138 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Spanish Music Time - Music, Language & Fun! SPRING 2013 - for Infants & Tots (Newborn-3.5 years old, with parent or caregiver) April 6 - June 8 / EIGHT SATURDAYS (No class on May 4 and 18)

9:30-10:15 am Tuition - $130* (returning families) $140* (new families) *Walk-ins $20 per class Original Music CD $12 (optional) Location: Storybook Cove EVENT ROOM Teachers: Mabel Kennedy & Marisol Ruscio Contact Us: spanishmusictime@gmail.com Blog: http://spanishmusictime.blogspot.com Let's have fun!

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St., Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Registration: Noon Start Time: 1PM

Entry Fee: $5

Format: Standard The following sets will be Standard legal: Innistrad, Dark Ascension, Avacyn Restored, Magic 2013, Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, and Dragon's Maze.

Prize: All participants receive an exclusive Trostani's Summoner full-art promo card (while supplies last). The Top 8 players each receive an exclusive Melek, Izzet Paragon full-art foil promo card. The cards are awarded to the Top 8 players even if the tournament cuts only to the Top 4. In addition, the first-place winner of Dragon's Maze Game Day will receive an exclusive Playmat.

Location: Street: 4 Pleasant St Additional: Downstairs Arena City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02139 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Unsanctioned Vintage NYSE Qualifier limit 10 Proxy with entry with option to buy up to 5 more.

Registration begins: 11 am

Time: noon - 6 pm

Entry Fee: $30

Prize: Prize support will scale with attendance, so bring your friends.

Additional Information: TBD

Location: Street: 4 Pleasant St Additional: City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02139 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

DANCE & MOVEMENT Ages 4-5 TUESDAY, MAY 28 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. We'll "read" this fun wordless story and imitate the flamingo. Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St. - Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Summer by Alice Low, Roy McKie (Illustrator)
The Night Before Summer Vacation by Natasha Wing, Julie Durrell (Illustrator)

Storytime Summer is coming! Hear all about the fun of Summer vacation at today's Storytime. What will you be doing on your Summer vacation? (added from Barnes & Noble)… (more)

DANCE & MOVEMENT Ages 2-3 TUESDAY, MAY 28 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We'll "read" this fun wordless story and imitate the flamingo. Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St. - Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Linda Chorney performed her original music for 30 years, waiting for her big break. At the tender age of 51, Chorney recorded the album of her dreams, Emotional Jukebox, earning her a Grammy nomination. She made history as the first completely independent singer-songwriter without a manager, publicist or record label to achieve recognition in this category. The industry, however, was not pleased that an outsider had slipped past the gatekeepers. They tried to undermine her nomination and destroy her career, from accusations of cheating to actual death threats. They were the Bill Buckners and Chorney was the ball that got through their legs. And, in the end, the industry figured out a way to get a bigger glove. From the elation to the agony of her hilarious, unbridled, unbelievable underdog journey, this is your backstage pass to the inside story of the Grammy’s. Fasten your seatbelts for a wild right with Linda, as she sings, drops f-bombs, her drawers, the occasional mother’s little helpers, and eventually lands on the Red Carpet. And get a taste of what the indie artist’s life is like--the kind of artist who does it all for the love of making music. Linda Chorney’s latest album Emotional Jukebox was nominated for a Best Americana Album Grammy Award. Highlights in her career thus far have been breaking the Top 40 Adult Contemporary Charts, and singing for Nelson Mandela, in front of a crowd of 250,000 humans. And of course playing in Sports bars where no one is listening. Who the F&*% is Linda Chorney is her first book.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Yet since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan to Iraq—why have presidents sidestepped declarations of war? Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC News, explores this key question in The Road to War—his thirteenth book about the presidency and U.S. foreign policy. Instead of a declaration of war, presidents have justified their war-making powers by citing “commitments,” private and public, made by former presidents. Many of these commitments have been honored, but some betrayed. Surprisingly, given the tight U.S.-Israeli relationship, Israeli leaders feel that at times they have been betrayed by American presidents. In The Road to War, Kalb asks: Is it time for a negotiated defense treaty between the United States and Israel as a way of substituting for a string of secret presidential commitments? As Kalb explains in The Road to War, the word of a president can morph into a national commitment. It can become the functional equivalent of a declaration of war. Therefore, whenever a president “commits”the United States to a policy or course of action with, or increasingly without, congressional approval, watch out—the White House may be setting the nation on a road toward war. Marvin Kalb focuses on the impact of media on public policy and politics. He is also an expert in national security, with a focus on U.S. relations with Russia, Europe and the Middle East. His most recent previous book is Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join us at the Bookshop on Thursday, May 30th at 7 pm, as we welcome back Daphne Kalotay, dicussing her latest novel, Sight Reading. Daphne Kalotay is the author of the award-winning novel Russian Winter and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships, she has taught at Boston University, Skidmore College, Middlebury College and Grub Street. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Location: Street: 65 Main Street City: Concord, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 01742-2503 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. It turned out that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C.B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, C.B. threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine landscape. He began to form a landscape view of the place that had lured him and "Uncle Joe," both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.

C. B. Bernard has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine journalist, and advertising copywriter. Winner of several Alaska Press Club awards, he has written extensively for Alaskan Southeaster, Pacific Fishing, Professional Mariner, and Gray's Sporting Journal magazines. Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift judged his column about life in Alaska as best in the state. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Location: Andover Bookstore Street: 89 R Main Street City: Andover, Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

AGES 3 - 5 IMAGINATION TIME STORYTIMES FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-5 Early Childhood Support Specialist, CAROL CARVER, from Self Help, Inc./Community Partnerships for Children will be joining us on the last Friday of each month She (or another staff person) will be leading a story and activity time - IMAGINATION TIME 10:00 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. for preschool children (ages 3-5). Each session will include stories, songs, gross motor movement and art and deal with a specific topic to spark imagination. SPACE IS LIMITED - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED FOR EACH SESSION

Call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "IMAGINATION STORYTTIME Reservation" in subject line

Friday, MAY 31, 2013: I Can Be Anything

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT LEVEL Additional: Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)