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Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusad...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, discusses his new book Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of The Library Book, her acclaimed account of most devastating library fire in our country’s history, author...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1855-1856, histori...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...
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Inger Burnett-Zeigler counts herself among the many today who wear the badge of strong Black woman with honor. All too often, the estee...