Melrose Public Library & Milano Center Host Melrose Author Jane Healey

Thursday, June 8, 2023

6:30—7:30 PM

In-person event – Milano Center, 201 W. Foster Street

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Bestselling author, Jane Healey will be talking about her latest historical novel, Goodnight from Paris on Thursday, June 8th at 6:30p.m. at the Milano Center, 201 West Foster Street, Melrose, MA.

About Goodnight from Paris:

Paris, 1939.

In Nazi-occupied France, an American film star takes on the most dangerous role of her life in a gripping historical fiction novel about loyalty and resistance, inspired by a true story.

Jane is the bestselling author of The Saturday Evening Girls Club, The Beantown Girls and The Secret Stealers. She has given presentations about the history behind her novels to hundreds of libraries, book clubs and organizations around the country. She hosts Historical Happy Hour, a monthly webinar and podcast featuring premiere historical fiction authors and their latest novels. Jane shares a home in Melrose with her husband, two daughters, two cats and a dog.

For more about Jane Healey, please visit her website.

Haley Booksellers will have books available for purchase.

This event is free and open to all but registration is required.

Discovering American Drag

Thursday, June 8, 2023

7:00 – 8:30 PM

Zoom Webinar

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Matthew Wittmann, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, offers a virtual look at the history of drag performance in the United States through photographs, ephemera, and a variety of other archival materials held by Houghton Library at Harvard University.

This virtual event is a collaboration with Wilmington Memorial Library and other MA libraries.

Virtual Author Talk: Sasha Issenberg
Thursday, June 22, 2023

7:00 – 8:30 PM

Zoom Webinar

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Join author Sasha Issenberg for a discussion of his book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage.

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable.

Sasha Issenberg is the author of three previous books, on topics ranging from the global sushi business to medical tourism and the science of political campaigns. He covered the 2008 election as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, the 2012 election for Slate, the 2016 election for Bloomberg Politics and Businessweek, and 2020 for The Recount. He is the Washington correspondent for Monocle, and has also written for New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he served as a contributing editor. He teaches in the political science department at UCLA.

This virtual event is a collaboration with Wilmington Memorial Library and other MA libraries.