Mother and daughter Cynthia and Meira Levinson share their new books on how civic involvement among kids and teens can change the world. In We’ve Got A Job\, Cynthia Levinson tells the story of the Children’s March in Birmingham\, Alabama\, when kids and teens flooded the streets and the jails of the city to fight segregation. In No Citizen Left Behind\, Meira Levinson draws on her experience teaching in an all-black Atlanta school to make a case for education reform aimed at civic involvement and closing the “civic empowerment gap” that divides black and white students.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120605T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120605T230000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/doron-weber-immortal-bird-coolidge URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/doron-weber-immortal-bird-coolidge SUMMARY:Doron Weber - Immortal Bird (At the Coolidge) DESCRIPTION:Doron Weber's eldest son\, Damon\, was born with a single ventricle in his heart but kept alive by a complicated operation. At age twelve\, he was told he had another five to ten years to live. In this tender\, beautifully written memoir\, Doron Weber chronicles the last years of Damon's life and his tireless fight to save his son.
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Tickets are free and available at the Booksmith. Call 617.566.6660.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jay-ocallahan-harrys-our-man URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jay-ocallahan-harrys-our-man SUMMARY:Jay O'Callahan - Harry's Our Man DESCRIPTION:Professional storyteller Jay O'Callahan has performed all over the world\, for organizations such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, NASA\, and NPR. In his novelistic debut\, Harry's Our Man\, it's the 1950's and Boston academic Harry Hutchinson decides to run for Congress\, spurred on by the madness of the nuclear arms race. What unfolds is the zaniest\, most bizarre\, and wild political love story you're likely to find.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T230000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/richard-ford-canada URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/richard-ford-canada SUMMARY:Richard Ford - Canada (At the Coolidge - Tickets Required) DESCRIPTION:To purchase tickets\, please call 617-566-6660 or drop by the Booksmith (279 Harvard St.\, Coolidge Corner\, Brookline).
First I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders\, which happened later.
In his first novel in six years\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and legend of American letters Richard Ford (Independence Day\, Rock Falls) tells the story of Dell Parson\, whose world falls apart when his seemingly normal parents are arrested for a robbery.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-lawson-aka-bloggess-lets-pretend-never-happened-mostly-true-memoir URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-lawson-aka-bloggess-lets-pretend-never-happened-mostly-true-memoir SUMMARY:Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) - Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) DESCRIPTION:Award-winning blogger\, stuffed-animal enthusiast\, and confidence wig champion Jenny Lawson wants you to read her book. She wants you to come see her too. She wants you to come see her read her book\, then read her book afterwards. Here. At the Booksmith. She's going to tell (mostly true) stories about growing up with a taxidermist father and about psychopaths who stand by bathroom doors and anxiety disorders (all potentially related). Nathan Fillion may come too (but probably not).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T210000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/big-class-boston-launch-party URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/big-class-boston-launch-party SUMMARY:Big Class Boston Launch Party DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the second book release for Big Class Boston\, an organization focused on connecting public school students with creative adults through collaborative book projects. Featuring original short stories by a group of Teen Advantage students from the Steps to Success after-school program and illustrations by artists from the Boston area\, this book demonstrates the power of creative collaboration.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Lizz-Winstead URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Lizz-Winstead SUMMARY:Lizz Winstead - Lizz Free or Die DESCRIPTION:Co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show Lizz Winstead comes to the Booksmith to share her new book of autobiographical essays. In Lizz Free Or Die\,
she explains how she found her voice\, as a writer\, a woman\, and one of today's most insightful comedians.
Want to bring healthy\, local foods into your kitchen\, and stay on-budget too. Local chef Julia Shanks shares tips and cooks up a few treats from her new cookbook. For everyone from the greenhorn green-thumb to the longtime locavore\, The Farmer's Kitchen is the essential guide to getting the most out of the delectable summer markets.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alan-furst-mission-paris URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alan-furst-mission-paris SUMMARY:Alan Furst - Mission to Paris DESCRIPTION:The master of historical espionage\, Alan Furst (Night Soldiers\, Spies of the Balkans) returns to the Booksmith with a new novel of intrigue in Paris on the brink of WWII. When Nazi spies target an American film star in Paris\, it launches a chain reaction of secret agents on both sides in a silent\, but no less dangerous\, presage to the war that will soon rage across Europe.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120615T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120615T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/larry-smith-moment URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/larry-smith-moment SUMMARY:Larry Smith - The Moment DESCRIPTION:The Editor of Smith Magazine Larry Smith (Not Quite What I Was Planning\, Six Word Memoirs) joins us to share a new collection of bite-sized real-life stories from 125 writers and artists about the chances\, coincidence\, and catastrophes that changed their lives forever.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120619T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120619T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-rosenstrach-dinner-love-story URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-rosenstrach-dinner-love-story SUMMARY:Jenny Rosenstrach - Dinner\: A Love Story DESCRIPTION:Award-winning blogger Jenny Rosenstrach decided she could work full-time on one condition—\;that she and her husband (also a full-time editor) could put a home-cooked meal on the table for her kids every night. In her new book\, she shares tips\, tricks\, and recipes for anyone who wants to fit in a nightly meal without resorting to ramen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120620T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120620T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/night-secrets-ft-meg-mitchell-moore-rosie-sultan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/night-secrets-ft-meg-mitchell-moore-rosie-sultan SUMMARY:A Night of Secrets Ft. Meg Mitchell Moore & Rosie Sultan DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night with two acclaimed Boston writers as they share new novels of long-held secrets. So Far Away\, the second novel by Meg Mitchell Moore (The Arrivals) links together the lives of a thirteen-year-old victim of cyber-bullying and an archivist mourning the loss of her daughter as they discover a buried secret in the journal of a 1920's Boston maid. Elin Hilderbrand calls it \\"an intoxicating read!\\"
In Brookline native Rosie Sultan's new novel\, Helen Keller In Love\, she re-imagines the secret affair of renowned deaf and blind activist\, writer\, and speaker\, Helen Keller. Jill McCorkle calls it \\"a vivid\, sensuous portrait full of sound and vision.\\"
NYT Bestselling author and contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone\, Rich Cohen (Israel Is Real\, Tough Jews) tells the unbelievable true story of Samuel Zemurray\, a penniless immigrant who turned himself into a multi-millionaire fruit mogul\, a kingmaker\, and war-monger who embodied both the American dream and the worst colonial nightmares.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120622T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120622T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jess-walter-beautiful-ruins URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jess-walter-beautiful-ruins SUMMARY:Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins DESCRIPTION:The award-winning author of The Zero and The Financial Lives of the Poets visits the Smith with a new novel that Richard Russo calls\, \\"an absolute masterpiece.\\" The story of an almost-love affair that spans fifty years\, from the coast of Italy to the streets of Hollywood.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Picking-Up-Pieces URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Picking-Up-Pieces SUMMARY:Stories of Picking Up the Pieces Ft. Josh Henkin & Nichole Bernier DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night with two authors whose brilliant new novels explore the aftermath of tragedy. In The World Without You\, the new novel from Joshua Henkin (Matrimony)\, a family reunites to mark the anniversary of their youngest son's death in Iraq. In local author Nichole Bernier's novelistic debut\, The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.\, a woman inherits the journals of her best friend\, who died in a sudden accident. But the woman she finds inside is far different from the one she knew.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120627T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120627T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/paul-levy-goal-play URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/paul-levy-goal-play SUMMARY:Paul Levy - Goal Play! DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center and Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Medical School\, Paul F. Levy shares lessons in leadership from experiences in business\, health\, and coaching.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120628T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120628T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alice-mattison-when-we-argued-all-night URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alice-mattison-when-we-argued-all-night SUMMARY:Alice Mattison - When We Argued All Night DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Alice Mattison (Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn\, In Case We're Separated) has had her poetry and fiction featured in The New Yorker\, The Pushcart Prize\, and New York Times. In her new novel\, she tells the story of a close friendship between two men\, from the dawn of WWII to the end of a tumultuous century.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120629T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120629T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Stephen-Prothero-American-Bible URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Stephen-Prothero-American-Bible SUMMARY:Stephen Prothero - The American Bible\: How Our Words Unite\, Divide\, and Define a Nation DESCRIPTION:NYT best-selling author and chair of BU's religion department Stephen Prothero (Religious Literacy\, God Is Not One) examines the texts that have helped define and redefine our country's cultural and political landscape\, from the speeches of Lincoln\, Kennedy and Reagan to the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ayn Rand.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120630T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120630T170000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/create-art-class-diane-bigda-flock-birds-exploration-collage-and-drawing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/create-art-class-diane-bigda-flock-birds-exploration-collage-and-drawing SUMMARY:Create Art Class with Diane Bigda\: A Flock of Birds\: An Exploration of Collage and Drawing DESCRIPTION:Each student will receive collage materials\, backing paper\, glue\, and scissors to create their own fanciful bird (or birds). They will learn the basics of collage\, get inspired by Picasso\, Romare Bearden and other artists working in the medium. We will explore working with texture\, cut shapes\, ephemera\, and will make a bird that can be hung in your home.
Ages 6 to 10.
Class limited to 12 students.
You must pre-register. Fee is $40 per student per class.
You can sign up for one or all four classes for $145.
Diane Bigda is a teacher at the Art Institute of Boston\, where she teaches watercolor\, natural history drawing\, surface design and book illustration. She is the creator of all the Clearflour Bakery posters and the tree in the back of the Booksmith.
Anna Jo Beck will be assisting Diane. She is a senior at the Art Institute of Boston. In her spare time she doodles\, binds books\, and plays ukulele.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130620T031129Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120702T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120702T230000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jodi-picoult-samantha-van-leer-between-lines URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jodi-picoult-samantha-van-leer-between-lines SUMMARY:Jodi Picoult & Samantha Van Leer - Between the Lines DESCRIPTION:NYT bestselling author Jodi Picoult and her teenage daughter team up for this romantic\, funny\, and adventurous new novel. When the storybook prince from teenage bookworm Delilah’s favorite fairytale begins to talk to her\, she launches on a quest to save him from the page.
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