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Barbara Perry - Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch

Tuesday, Jul 23 7:00p

Co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site. Rose Kennedy set into motion a political dynasty...

Alysia Abbott - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

Thursday, Jun 27 7:00p

After his wife’s death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott comes out of the closet and moves to San Francisco with his three-year-old daughter, Alysia...

826 Benefit: Dead Authors

Saturday, Jun 22 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Brookline Booksmith teams up with 826 to bring literary legends back from the dead...

Joanne Chang - Flour, too

Saturday, Jul 13 2:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

One of the world's premier chefs Joanne Chang of Boston's Flour Bakery visits for the follow up to 2011's best selling Flour...

Tower bell concerts in West Newton

Thursday, Jun 27 7:00p

FUSN, Newton

The First Unitarian Society in Newton will offer 3 tower bell concerts this summer. The public is invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic suppers to the church grounds...

Find Waldo 2013 Grand Finale

Wednesday, Jul 31 3:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Where's Waldo? Starting on July 1st at participating Brookline businesses, find him to collect passport stamps and bring them to the Where's Waldo party on July 31st...

Suzy Becker - One Good Egg

Monday, Jun 24 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Suzy Becker (All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat) had it all—a successful career, savings, great friends—but no baby...

Steve Coll - Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Wednesday, Jul 17 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Two-time Pulitzer winner Steve Coll comes to Brookline for the paperback release of his acclaimed Private Empire...

Summer Evening at Mary Baker Eddy Historic House

Thursday, Jul 18 5:30p

Mary Baker Eddy Historic House, Brookline

Take a tour of Mary Baker Eddy’s final home at 400 Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, where she lived from 1908 to 1910...

Dorothea Benton Frank - The Last Original Wife

Friday, Jun 28 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Leslie Anne Greene Carter slips into a manhole on vacation...

Adelle Waldman - The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Wednesday, Jul 24 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Nathaniel Piven is nearly unsinkable...

Terry Brooks - Witch Wraith

Thursday, Jul 25 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Fantasy lit luminary Terry Brooks visits the Booksmith for the final novel in The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy...

Kara Weiss - Late Lights

Monday, Jul 15 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

After Monty leaves juvenile detention, he turns to his childhood friends Erin &B.J. but they don't know how to reintegrate him back into their lives...

Brookline Booksmith Book Club

Monday, Jul 8 7:30p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

The book group meets at 7:30 pm on the second Monday of each month in the downstairs Writers' and Readers' Room.

Lionel Shriver - Big Brother

Wednesday, Jun 19 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

When Pandora's brother-in-law comes to visit, she & her cycling-obsessed husband are taken aback. The once slim Edison has gained hundreds of pounds...

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