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SUMMARY:Author Dinner Event with Ernest Thompson\, Out Clause
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus → \nErnest Thompson\, Out Clause\nTuesday\, September 22 at 5:00 p.m.\nLight supper $15.00 (Author talk is free) \nBy the Academy Award-winning author of On Golden Pond\, Out Clause asks the question\, what if you could leave your life – a suspense novel that follows a company that helps people escape from their lives and disappear. The caveat is that you have to agree to live a better life. So it becomes a philosophical question: what does it mean to live better?
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-dinner-event-with-ernest-thompson-out-clause/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Suzanne Strempek Shea Compositions
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nSuzanne Strempek Shea\, Compositions\nTuesday\,  September 15 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free) Suzanne will be in conversation with Marianne Leone\, author of Christina the Astonishing.\n\nSuzanne Strempek Shea presents her new memoir\, Compositions: A memoir in 42 essays by 1 kid on her 8 years in Catholic School\, handed in 60 Years late. \nSusanne will be in conversation with Marianne Leone\, author of Christina the Astonishing. \nAbout the Book\nAn extraordinary memoir about the author’s early years in a close-knit 1960s and ‘70s Polish-American Massachusetts grade school and community\, Compositions details a life that revolves in a circle of faith and family. Written in the author’s voice and point of view from her first eight years of school\, the humorous and poignant essays show a past still fully present. Graduation photos lining the walls include students’ parents who once sat in the same classrooms with the same wooden desks\, same windows\, same blackboards\, and some of the same nuns. Strempek Shea learns new words — bubbler for water fountain\, sodality for club\, lavatory for bathroom\, Father for priest even if he wasn’t hers. One snowy afternoon\, looking at all the familiar faces\, companions from early morning to afternoon\, Monday through Friday\, from for as long as she can remember\, she realizes she likes school\, thanks in part to the nuns who taught patiently\, sang folk songs beneath a tree\, and danced the hula\, and despite the ones who wielded a croquet stick or hurled textbooks. Reverence is everywhere: dropped bread receives a kiss\, swimmers bless themselves before diving\, parishioners walk on their knees each Good Friday. The miracles in Compositions that Strempek Shea prays for – a horse or at least a pony\, her grandfather’s health – never take place. Yet something no less tender and beautiful does as she spins childhood in a kaleidoscope of close-to-the-bone observations and stories written as energetically as if the author had always been waiting to tell the world all she knew. Read them and realize you’ve always been waiting for that\, too.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-suzanne-strempek-shea-compositions/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Holly Fitzgerald\, Ruthless River
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nHolly Fitzgerald\, Ruthless River\nWednesday\, September 9 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free)\n\nThe ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia\, ending up in a channel to nowhere\, a dead end so flooded there is literally no land to stand on. Their raft—a mere four logs—separates them from the piranha-and-caiman-infested water until they finally realize that there is no way out but to swim.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-holly-fitzgerald-ruthless-river/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T150000
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Janice Page\, The Year of the Water Horse
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus→\n\nJanice Page\, The Year of the Water Horse\nTuesday\, August 25 at 3:00 PM\nAfternoon tea\, no cost\n\nA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE\nIn conversation with Meredith Goldstein\, author of The Boston Globe’s Love Letters column: \nA warm and witty memoir about the ever-changing relationships between mothers\, mothers-in-law\, and daughters that traverses two continents and multiple generations of two disparate yet connected families. Janice Page hails from Braintree\, Massachusetts and a large Catholic brood. Her parents had a complicated marriage. Her five siblings each have their own sagas\, and there is a destructive genetic force within the family’s blood lines that causes much heartbreak. And then there is the large Chinese family of Janice’s husband\, James\, equally cinematic and sweeping with a rich and complex history of its own. There is a daring wartime escape\, a lost child\, immigration to a new world\, and a bittersweet reunion after decades of separation.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-janice-page-the-year-of-the-water-horse/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Pamela Kelley\, Nantucket Second Chances
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nPamela Kelley\, Nantucket Second Chances\nWednesday\, August 19 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon tea\, no cost\n\nShe doesn’t have a job–but she does have a closet full of designer bags and shoes…\nClaire Shipman never imagined she’d be the single mom of a teenager\, going through a contentious divorce\, and unexpectedly pregnant. On the bright side\, at least she’s on Nantucket\, where she grew up\, and where her mother and grandmother welcome her home with open arms.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-pamela-kelley-nantucket-second-chances/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Steve Dahill\, The Loyalist
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus→\n\nNEW! In Time for America’s 250th – THE LOYALIST\nSteve Dahill\, Boston’s award-winning author of historical fiction\, presents the spark of the American Revolution – but from the British point of view. \nIn 1775\, only one-third of Americans supported the rebellion… while one-third remained loyal to the king. THE LOYALIST is their story: heart-wrenching conflict during the siege of Boston The author is a Boston resident and a descendant of Revolutionary War naval hero Captain John Barry. \nThursday\, August 6 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free)
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-steve-dahill-the-loyalist/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Event with Julie Gerstenblatt\, Stargazer of Nantucket
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus \nFrom award-winning author Julie Gerstenblatt\, an epic tale of adventure on the high seas\, a spunky stowaway\, and a family confronting the past to secure their future. \nMassachusetts\, 1851–Winifred Starbuck wants only one thing: to join her parents on their final merchant voyage—from Nantucket Island to bustling San Francisco\, then across the glittering Pacific to the distant ports of China. Yet renowned trade captains Nell and Peter Starbuck have forbidden their daughter from coming aboard on the adventure of a lifetime. So Winnie does what any strong-willed eighteen-year-old would do: she stows away. \nOnce the ship sets sail\, Winnie is plunged into turbulent waters\, treachery\, and the thrill of life on the high seas. As she drifts farther from shore\, and closer to fabled Canton port\, she uncovers a long-buried secret—one that reveals the truth behind her parents’ desperate fear. And as she continues to chart her own course\, she’ll have to plumb the depths of her courage to take on a world far bigger—and more dangerous—than she ever imagined.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-julie-gerstenblatt-stargazer-of-nantucket/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Event with Heather Abel\, The Emilys
DESCRIPTION:Cost: Luncheon $15\, Author talk is FREE and begins at 1:30pm \nSignup on Schedules Plus \nA mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities in a changing world. \n“And if we weren’t afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?” \nEve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City\, she’s frustrated\, bored\, and above all\, lonely when she runs into Demeter\, a childhood friend with whom she shared one transformative summer. Demeter is as beautiful and charismatic as Eve remembers\, but she’s also distraught. Demeter’s daughter\, like a growing number of others\, young and old\, cannot go outside during the day. No one knows why\, and doctors are skeptical that these people—soon dubbed Emilys\, after a famously reclusive local poet—are telling the truth. But Eve believes her friend\, whose company revives her and gives her purpose. She will help Demeter—if she can just figure out how. \n  \n 
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-heather-abel-the-emilys/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon with Mark Ciccone\, Murder on the Bay
DESCRIPTION:Cost: Luncheon $15\, Author talk is FREE and begins at 1:30pm \nSignup on Schedules Plus \nLunch is complimentary and catered by Roche Brothers!\nA classic whodunit\, set in Duxbury! \nWhen wealthy investor Fred Peterson is found dead in an oyster shed floating in the harbor of the historic New England town of Duxbury\, Massachusetts\, the police determine it was the result of an accidental fall. But after Peterson’s nephew Jake Pavlik from Ohio inherits his uncle’s historic home on the harbor\, he begins to suspect otherwise. As he learns more about the uncle he barely knew\, he discovers several people in town who might have had reason to murder this complex and secretive man. \nNarrated in the quirky voice of Jake\, who has his own issues\, Murder on the Bay is a whodunit with twists and turns. But it is more. It is the story of an old house and a very real town that dates back to the earliest days of America. \n 
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-luncheon-with-mark-ciccone-murder-on-the-bay/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon with Jennifer Brown\, The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
DESCRIPTION:Cost: Luncheon $15\, Author talk is FREE and begins at 1:30pm \nSignup on Schedules Plus \nA dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor\, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess \nHistorian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery—she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun\, Elizabeth Barton. Barton’s prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies—or so the world believed. \nWith Alison’s discovery\, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium\, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England\, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. \nWhat begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly\, everyone is a suspect\, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison’s research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery—but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague\, and the stakes of the search skyrocket\, everyone’s motives become murky. \nAlison’s cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton’s sixteenth-century England\, where heretics are beheaded\, visions can kill\, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is a thrilling novel\, crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a mystery that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-luncheon-with-jen-brown-the-lost-book-of-elizabeth-barton/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
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