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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

In conversation with Haleh Esfandiari

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 7 p.m.

At Sidwell Friends

Wednesday, September 18 at 7 p.m.

At Union Market

Wednesday, September 18 at 7 p.m.

In conversation with Lynn Neary

Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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Music

Next Events

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Eric Foner - The Second Founding— with Eric Holder, moderated by Jamelle Bouie at Sidwell Friends

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Christopher Myers - Make Me a World imprint and Akwaeke Emezi - Pet—in Children and Teens

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Petina Gappah - Out of Darkness, Shining Light — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Azadeh Moaveni - Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS — in conversation with Haleh Esfandiari

Wed

18

7:00 pm

Naomi Klein - On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal—at Sidwell Friends

Wed

18

7:00 pm

Kate Black - Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World — in conversation with Emily Cain and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal— at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Wed

18

7:00 pm

Attica Locke - Heaven, My Home — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

Wed

18

7:00 pm

Christopher Ingraham - If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

Thu

19

7:00 pm

Nicholas Lemann - Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Thu

19

7:00 pm

Jacqueline Woodson - Red at the Bone — in conversation with Lynn Neary

Fri

20

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

20

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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