Book It: April Book Events

John Nathan, Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir
Tuesday, April 1st, 4:00 p.m., CGIS South Building, Harvard
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Daoud Hari, The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
with co-author Megan McKenna
Tuesday, April 1st, 7:00 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
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Meg Wolitzer, The Ten Year Nap
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Amy Marcus, Jerusalem 1913
Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

* Jorie Graham, Sea Change
Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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PEN New England Readings at the Hotel Marlowe
Robert Finch
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Hotel Marlowe, (25 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge)
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* Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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* Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Thursday, April 3rd, 6:00 p.m., CCT Theatre (sold out; standby may be available)

Aaron Alterra, The Caregiver: A Life with Alzheimer's
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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David Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Thursday, April 3rd, 6:00 p.m, Brattle Theatre
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Kristie Mackrakis, Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World
Friday, April 4th, 3:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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* Mark Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect
Friday, April 4th, 6:00 p.m., Brattle Theatre, $5
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Breakwater Reading Series
MFA Students from UMass and Emerson
Friday, April 4, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Sarah Brannen and Melissa Stewart, Uncle Bobby's Wedding and When Rain Falls
Sunday, April 6, 4:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Tobias Wolff , Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
Monday, April 7th, 6:00 p.m., CCT Theatre ($5)

Michael Holley, Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston's Rise to Dominance
Monday, April 7th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Workshop for Publishing Poets
Nicole DiCello, Jordan Schnee, Marguerite Keil Flanders
Monday, April 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Michael L. Morgan, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
Monday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., Harvard Hillel
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* Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
Tuesday, April 8, 7:00 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
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Alice Hoffman, Third Angel
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Mary Jo Salter, Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems and Linda Bamber, Metropolitan Tang
Wednesday, April 9th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

James Howard Kunstler, World Made by Hand
Wednesday, April 9th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Hema Parekh, The Asian Vegan Kitchen
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Sandra Rapoport, Moses' Women
Wednesday, April 9th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Hillel
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Lois Lowry, The Willoughbys
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 10:30 a.m., Porter Square Books
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* Germaine Greer, Shakespeare's Wife
Thursday, April 10th, 6:00 p.m., Brattle Theatre, $5
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Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
Thursday, April 10th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Brian Hall, Fall of Frost
Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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PEN New England 'Freedom to Write' Event
"American Blandscapes: Risky Writing and the Forces that Silence It"
Thursday, April 10th, 7:30 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse
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Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
Friday, April 11th, 3:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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HSBA "Bookish Ball" Event
Pico Iyer discusses The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Saturday, April 12th, 6:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Poetry Night
Mary Jo Firth Gillett and Betsey Houghton
Monday, April 14th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Jake Greene, Whoa, My Boss is Naked! A Career Book
Monday, April 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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* Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There Would Be Cake
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Madeleine M. Kunin, Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Hillel
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* Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Jack O'Connell, The Resurrectionist
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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! Cambridge Forum
Kevin Phillips discusses Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:30 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse
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Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton
Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Location TBD
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Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors (Latest in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series)
Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00 p.m., First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
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A Night of Wave Books Poets
Caroline Knox, Quaker Guns
Dorothea Laskey, Awe
Dara Wier, Remnants of Hannah
Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Meredith Hall, Without a Map
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Richard Price, Lush Life
Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Breakwater Reading Series
MFA Students from UMass and Emerson
Friday, April 18, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Noah Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Friday, April 18th, 3:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Monday, April 21st, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Philip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Tuesday, April 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Peggy Crawford, American in Yemen
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Frances Richey, The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
Tuesday, April 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Cokie Roberts, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Wednesday, April 23rd, 6:00 p.m., Location TBA

Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men
Wednesday, April 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Nathaniel Rich, Mayor's Tongue
Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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* Howard Zinn and Mike Konopacki, graphic adaptation of A People’s History of the United States
Thursday, April 24th, 6:00 p.m., Brattle Theatre, $5
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* Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless at the Middle East
Featuring Franz Wright, Steve Almond, Beth Woodcome, Steve Brykman, Steven Lee Beeber, Tiger Saw, Kosher Ham, and Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls
Thursday, April 24, 7:00 p.m., Middle East Club, (427 Mass Ave, Cambridge)
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Mameve Medwed, Of Men and Their Mothers
Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Porter Square Books
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Jonathan Rieder, The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friday, April 25th, 3:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Don Lee, Wrack and Ruin
Friday, April 25th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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NOCA Open Studios
Featuring Molly Watt, Irene Koronas, Philip Burnham, Emily Rubin, Julie Regan, Laura Miller, Beryl Minkle
Saturday, April 26, 12:00 p.m., Porter Square Books

Cambridge Forum
Greg Graffin receives the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism
Saturday, April 26th, 8:00 p.m., Memorial Church
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Jorie Graham, Sea Change
Monday, April 28th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
Monday, April 28th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Eileen Pollack, In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas
Tuesday, April 29th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Susan Griffin, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen
Tuesday, April 29th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Brookline High Poetry Night
Wednesday, April 30th, 7:00 p.m., Brookline Booksmith

Max Hastings, Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 – 45
Wednesday, April 30th, 7:00 p.m., Harvard Book Store
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Susan Linn, The Case for Make-Believe
Wednesday, April 30, 7:00 p.m., Porter Square Books
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