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KEENE - J.C. Hallman signing & talking about his book, *In Utopia*
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

Hallman set out to document the history of utopian thought and literature and to visit a handful of modern utopian projects. He lived three weeks at the world's oldest "intentional community." He sailed on the first ship on which it's possible to own real estate. He trained at the world's largest civilian combat school. He toured a $30 billion megacity built from scratch on an artificial island off the coast of Korea. Now he has come to The Toadstool in Keene to tell you about his experiences and to autograph his new book on the subject, In Utopia. We look forward to seeing you!

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KEENE - Joyce Maynard to sign & talk about her new novel, *Labor Day*
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Joyce Maynard will sign and talk about her book, Labor Day: A Novel. In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonement and Nick Hornby's About a Boy,  Maynard tells a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy – and the man he later becomes – looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.

Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World and To Die For (among others), started her writing career when she was fourteen. She is the mother of three grown children and lives in northern California.

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Milford - IRRESPONSIBLE SCIENCE Party for Kids 10+
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

Kids over the age of 10 are invited to sign up and take part in our very dangerous and potentially educational (for summer!) time conducting questionable experiments based on "The Book of Catastrophic Science" by Sean Connolly.

Parachute an egg from an upstairs window! Distill DNA from a half-eaten banana! Spark lightning in your mouth! This book contains detailed information about the most DANGEROUS scientific discoveries of all time. Try 'em at home.

There will be prizes, refreshments and bandaids for all! Safety goggles and kevlar optional. Don't forget to sign up to save your place in the lab. 

Sean is also the author of "The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science" and assures you that every experiment demonstrates real science at its most memorable.

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Milford - JESSIE CROCKETT signs her NH mystery "Live Free or Die".
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

The way she sees it, volunteer fire chief Gwen Fifield's life is about as good as can be. Sure she's gained twenty pounds and her property taxes increased just in time for Christmas, but the basement hasn't flooded for the first time in years and the General Store has started delivering pizza.

Good that is, until an arsonist burns the local museum flat and a charred body is found in the ruins.

Come meet Jessie, purchase a signed copy for your reading pleasure and find out what happens to Gwen and the small town of Winslow Falls, NH. If you're a fan of Janet Evanovich, try "Live Free or Die".

Peterborough - Stephanie Cooke signs and discusses "In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History Of The Nuclear Age"
Start: 2:00 pm

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long time nuclear industry reporter STEPHANIE COOKE autographing and discussing IN MORTAL HANDS: A CAUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE NUCLEAR AGE in
which she reminds us again, as nuclear power is seeing a “renaissance”, that
hubris and wishful thinking are inappropriate in those trying to manage the
“unmanageable”.

Milford - TOM EASTON & JUDITH KLEIN-DIAL sign and discuss SciFi made real.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Editors Tom and Judith visit to sign and discuss their new book, "Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True".

In this stunning anthology of never before collected stories, our worlds' greatest science fiction writers demonstrate the truth can be just as strange as fiction.

(Skyhorse Pub, $12.95 ppk)

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