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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
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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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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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:20260915T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T150000
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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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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:20260929T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Emily Franklin\, Love & Other Monsters
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nEmily Franklin\, Love & Other Monsters\nTuesday\, September 29 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free)\n\nFrom the Bestselling Author of THE LIONESS OF BOSTON comes Love & Other Monsters– a story of love\, lust\, art\, and betrayal set in the scandalous summer of 1816 when 18-year-old Claire Clairmont–Mary Shelley’s stepsister and Lord Byron’s lover– changed the course of literature forever… and then was erased. Emily Franklin once again brings a woman and her world vividly to life.  \n“Titillating\, scintillating…a burning tale of badly behaving literary luminaries that drips with juicy details.”\n—BookPage \n“Luminous and transportive….as singular and lightning charged as the moment that inspired Frankenstein itself.”\n—Historical Novel Society\, Editor’s Choice \n“Delicious\, spot-on…will delight fans of British period dramas and readers of historical fiction.”\n—Library Journal\, Starred Review \n“Will appeal to fans of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult.”\n—Booklist\, Starred Review
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-emily-franklin-love-other-monsters/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T150000
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Kevin Galvin\, Troubled Times
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nKevin Galvin\, Troubled Times\, The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976\nWednesday\, October 14 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon tea\, no cost\n\nFifty years after the bombing shook the city\, Troubled Times tells the story of lives changed by political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis. Written by a former journalist for the Associated Press\, The Seattle Times and The Boston Globe.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-event-with-kevin-galvin-troubled-times/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T170000
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Christine Knapp\, Murder on The Green
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus →\n\nChristine Knapp\, Murder on the Green\nThursday\, October 15 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon tea\, no cost\n\nMurder on the Green is the fifth book in Christine Knapp’s “Modern Midwife Mysteries” series\, featuring nurse-midwife Maeve O’Reilly Kensington\, who investigates a murder during a vacation in Ireland with her sister and their mother’s friends\, uncovering secrets while also dealing with other crimes\, such as jewelry theft\, back home.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-tea-event-with-christine-knapp-murder-on-the-green/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T150000
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Pam Earle\, Ghost Stories of Historic Duxbury
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus → \nPam Earle\, Ghost Stories of Historic Duxbury \nWednesday\, October 21 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon tea\, no cost \nGhost Stories of Historic Duxbury is a tribute to the spirits that still echo through this historic town. From Wampanoags and Pilgrims to post riders\, ship captains\, innkeepers\, and longtime residents\, the people in these pages once walked the same streets\, crossed the same bridges\, and stood in the same homes we visit today. Some never truly left. \nWhat makes these stories especially haunting is how closely they are tied to Duxbury’s real history.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-tea-event-with-pam-earle-ghost-stories-of-historic-duxbury/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261105T150000
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DTSTAMP:20260730T172945Z
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Lesley Mahoney O'Connell\, Ripple Effects
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus → \nLesley Mahoney O’Connell Ripple Effects \nThursday\, November 5\, 2026\nAfternoon tea\, no cost \nIn eleven carefully crafted stories\, Lesley Mahoney O’Connell’s landscapes and seascapes help readers to recognize and to feel the strengths\, flaws\, and compromises her characters are developing as they navigate their life choices. Most of the stories are set in New England coastal villages. All are sensitive and thought-provoking\, the characters relatable and real.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-tea-event-with-lesley-mahoney-oconnell-ripple-effects/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260730T181831Z
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Elizabeth Searle\, Lock Her Up
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus → \nElizabeth Searle\, Lock Her Up\nTuesday\, November 10 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free) \nPotent\, unflinching\, nail-biting\, Searle’s novel “Lock Her Up” brings readers into the maelstrom of a family fighting itself\, violent bi-polar political views\, and the painful pursuit of uneasy truths. From the chilling “Perp-Walk Prologue” to a cautious but hopeful epilogue\, this novel delivers non-stop suspenseful\, psychologically astute narrative. It explores how deeply societal divides shape our personal lives\, and how easily our own reality can unravel.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-luncheon-event-with-elizabeth-searle-lock-her-up/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T150000
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Bruce MacDonald\, Where the Money Is
DESCRIPTION:[Signup on Schedules Plus] \nBruce MacDonald\, Where the Money Is\nTuesday\, November 17 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon Tea\, no cost \nSet in Boston and on Cape Cod\, this a story of greed\, friendship and what one can do to another.\nCharlie and Doug were best friends who had worked together for years in the banking industry. They had a plan to create millions of dollars for their retirement. Everything was working beautifully. Then\, all hell broke loose. Where The Money Is takes you through the ups and downs of banking from a leadership prospective and then through the cycles of greed that ultimately ruin it for everyone
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-tea-event-with-bruce-macdonald-where-the-money-is/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Event with Tara Lynn Masih\, The Silent Women
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus → \nTara Lynn Masih\, The Silent Women\nThursday\, November 19 at 1:00 p.m.\nLuncheon $15.00 (Author talk is free) \nFrom the dust bowl to the making of the atomic bomb to post-war Florida\, The Silent Women is a sprawling story of courage\, clandestine love\, war trauma\, and resilience\, and at its heart is the indomitable character of Song\, who you won’t soon forget. An immersive\, wonderful read.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-luncheon-event-with-tara-lynn-masih-the-silent-women/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261202T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T183059Z
CREATED:20260730T182034Z
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SUMMARY:Author Tea Event with Val Wooley\, Swimming Towards Home: A Memoir and Mal Wrenn Corbin\, Raising Wrenns: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Signup on Schedules Plus \nVal Wooley\, Swimming Towards Home: A Memoir\nMal Wrenn Corbin\, Raising Wrenns: A Memoir \nWednesday\, December 2 at 3:00 p.m.\nAfternoon tea\, no cost \nTwo highly acclaimed memoir writers will discuss their memoirs and the process of writing a memoir.\nRaising Wrenns is the story of a girl growing up in the shadow of poverty\, addiction\, and loss — and the quiet\, fierce strength it took to believe that her life could be more than the world around her. \nSwimming Towards Home is a story of six generations of a family that spans across Africa\, Europe\, Asia\, and North America as seen through the eyes of a young girl and later as an adult.
URL:https://thecenterduxbury.org/event/author-tea-event-with-val-wooley-swimming-towards-home-a-memoir-and-mal-wrenn-corbin-raising-wrenns-a-memoir/
LOCATION:The Center\, 10 Mayflower Street\, Duxbury\, MA\, 02332\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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