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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays (Hardcover)

By Leslie Jamison

$28.00

ISBN: 9780316259637

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 24th, 2019
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together (Hardcover)

By Dan Kois

$28.00

ISBN: 9780316552622

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 17th, 2019
Not the Girl You Marry (Paperback)

By Andie J. Christopher

$16.00

ISBN: 9781984802682

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Published: Berkley - November 12th, 2019
Dad's Maybe Book (Hardcover)

By Tim O'Brien

$28.00

ISBN: 9780618039708

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - October 14th, 2019

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Next Events

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7:00 pm

Dan Kois - How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together — in conversation with Hanna Rosin

Fri

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7:00 pm

Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier — at Politics and Prose at Union Market, in partnership with Culture Ireland

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1:00 pm

Stephen Kinzer - Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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3:30 pm

Tracy Chevalier - A Single Thread

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21

7:00 pm

SOLD OUT: Margaret Atwood - The Testaments with Rebecca Traister—At Lincoln Theatre

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6:00 pm

Jim Wallis - Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus

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8:00 pm

CANCELLED: Nerds! Trivia Night

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1:00 pm

John DeDakis - Fake

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3:00 pm

Gina Rippon - Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

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5:00 pm

David Makovsky - Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny

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5:00 pm

Imani Perry - Breathe: A Letter to My Sons — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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10:30 am

CANCELLED: Peter H. Reynolds - I Am Love: A Book of Compassion (Wellness series)

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