March/April 2018

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Thursday, March 15
7:30pm
Kate Greathead: Laura & Emma
A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early …
A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion.

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.

Enter: Emma.
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Books Are Magic
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255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Thursday, March 15
7:30pm
Uzodinma Iweala with Larissa MacFarquha
Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American…
Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American teenager struggles with the recognition that he is gay – a secret only his best friend, the white daughter of top Washington, D.C. officials, knows. When his conservative, religious family discovers his secret, the fallout is brutal and swift, and the two friends find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Speak No Evil limns the power of words and self-identification, and asks urgently the questions of who can speak and who has the power to speak for other people. Iweala discusses his long-anticipated sophomore novel at Greenlight with renowned New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar (author of Strangers Drowning), followed by a signing and Q&A.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Thursday, March 15
7:30pm
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Greenlight is thrilled to host a reading and panel discussion for Women’s History Month celebrating the publication of Together We Rise, the remarkable story of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest global protest in modern history. Together We Rise is a new collection of contributions by writers, …
Greenlight is thrilled to host a reading and panel discussion for Women’s History Month celebrating the publication of Together We Rise, the remarkable story of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest global protest in modern history. Together We Rise is a new collection of contributions by writers, political figures, actresses, artists, journalists, and other prominent feminists, that offers an unprecedented, front-row seat to one of the most galvanizing movements in American history, including exclusive interviews and never-before-seen photographs. Tonight at Greenlight, Women’s March organizers including Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker consider the new legacy of the Women’s March and discuss the road to come.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-246-0200
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Tuesday, August 14
7:30pm
Jeanne McCulloch: All Happy Families w/ Meg Wolitzer
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. Jeanne McCulloch's wedding weekend was marked by her father's…
The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.

Jeanne McCulloch's wedding weekend was marked by her father's massive stroke from alcohol withdrawal. In a society defined by appearance and protocol, the wedding goes on at the insistence of McCulloch’s theatrical mother. Impressionistic and lyrical, at turns both witty and poignant, All Happy Families is McCulloch’s clear-eyed memoir of her struggle to hear her own voice amid the noise of social mores and family dysfunction, in a world where all that glitters on the surface is not gold, and each unhappy family is ultimately unhappy in its own unique way. All Happy Families: A Memoir is McCulloch's debut.
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Books Are Magic
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255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Aug 18, 2018
10:00am-4:00pm
The Small Press Flea
A summer market of your favorite local publishers and magazines, the Small Press Flea 2018 is the fifth installment of the Small Press Flea, co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and BOMB Magazine. SPF is located on Brooklyn Public Library's plaza at its Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Its …
A summer market of your favorite local publishers and magazines, the Small Press Flea 2018 is the fifth installment of the Small Press Flea, co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and BOMB Magazine.

SPF is located on Brooklyn Public Library's plaza at its Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Its aim is to support the local literary community and independent publishers. This year's SPF promises to provide your end-of-summer beach reading, sweet deals, and cold treats while you fill your totes.
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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
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10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
718-230-2100
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Tuesday, August 21
7:30pm
Kate Gavino with Adrian Shirk
Artist and writer Kate Gavino, author of Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors, presents Sanpaku, a new original graphic novel that gives voice to the insecurities that haunt tweens of all cultures. An ominous condition known as Sanpaku – wherein seeing the white …
Artist and writer Kate Gavino, author of Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors, presents Sanpaku, a new original graphic novel that gives voice to the insecurities that haunt tweens of all cultures. An ominous condition known as Sanpaku – wherein seeing the white around the eye’s iris augurs doom – plagues the waking life of a young Filipino 12-year old in mid-90s Texas. But it’s everywhere she looks – her grandmother has it, some classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it – even she might have this odd condition. Sanpaku weaves a unique coming-of-age story about challenging the world around you, no matter your age, to find your true self. Gavino presents her new book with a visual presentation of her work, and in conversation with Adrian Shirk, author of And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy. A signing and Q&A follow the discussion.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Thursday, August 23
7:30pm
Kate Walbert with Joan Silber
National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women Kate Walbert presents her new novel His Favorites, a searing and timely story that reckons with the world we live in today through one woman’s interiority. Following a catastrophic and scandalous accident, a young woman is sent away…
National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women Kate Walbert presents her new novel His Favorites, a searing and timely story that reckons with the world we live in today through one woman’s interiority. Following a catastrophic and scandalous accident, a young woman is sent away to boarding school, where she encounters a charismatic teacher who marks her as special. The series of shattering events that follow – and the system that fails to protect her – leave her with disastrous, immediate, and lifelong consequences. Walbert limns the all-too-common violations of vulnerability and aspiration in the lives of young women in this suspenseful short novel, which has received praise from Ann Packer, Tom Perrotta, and Lauren Groff. Walbert presents her new book, selected for Greenlight’s First Editions Club, in conversation with Joan Silber, award-winning author of Improvement, followed by a signing, Q&A, and wine reception.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Thursday, August 30
7:30pm
Deborah Baker with Kanishk Tharoor
Pulitzer Prize finalist (and Greenlight neighbor) Deborah Baker presents her latest book— a sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the glory days of Himalayan exploration and the waning of the British Empire in India. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the …
Pulitzer Prize finalist (and Greenlight neighbor) Deborah Baker presents her latest book— a sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the glory days of Himalayan exploration and the waning of the British Empire in India. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is the story of a generation: of Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. At the center of this exhilarating drama is geologist John Auden, explorer Michael Spender, and painter Nancy Sharp—and the love triangle between the three. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Baker's The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. Baker presents her latest book in conversation with Kanishk Tharoor, writer, broadcaster, and author of Swimmer Among the Stars. A signing and Q&A follow the discussion.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-246-0200
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Friday, August 31
7:30pm
Sara Batkie: Better Times w/ Marie-Helene Bertino
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what’s happening in places people don’t think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women’s lives when the…
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what’s happening in places people don’t think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women’s lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for “troubled women” imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times.
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Books Are Magic
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255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Saturday, September 1
11:00am
Back 2 Back: Melissa Iwai & Elizabeth Lilly
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators presents Back 2 Back, a series celebrating veterans and new comers in the industry. This month we welcome Melissa Iwai and Elizabeth Lilly. Melissa Iwai has wanted to write and illustrate children's books since she was a little kid. She started…
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators presents Back 2 Back, a series celebrating veterans and new comers in the industry.

This month we welcome Melissa Iwai and Elizabeth Lilly.

Melissa Iwai has wanted to write and illustrate children's books since she was a little kid. She started with stapling paper together and making tiny books for her dolls, and now she's illustrated over 30 books. She lives with her husband, and teenage son in a teeny, tiny apartment in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Lilly is an author-illustrator, animator and graphic designer. Her first picture book, entitled Geraldine, is about a giraffe who has trouble fitting in (figuratively and literally) when she moves to a human school was published by Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan, in June 2018.
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Books Are Magic
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Saturday, September 8
5:00pm
Julia Turshen: Now & Again
Small Victories, one of the most beloved cookbooks of 2016, introduced us to the lovely Julia Turshen and her mastery of show-stopping home cooking, in what Real Simple called "an inspiring addition to any kitchen bookshelf." In her second book,Feed the Resistance, she moved a nation, winning Eater…
Small Victories, one of the most beloved cookbooks of 2016, introduced us to the lovely Julia Turshen and her mastery of show-stopping home cooking, in what Real Simple called "an inspiring addition to any kitchen bookshelf." In her second book,Feed the Resistance, she moved a nation, winning Eater Cookbook of the Year in 2017. In Now & Again, Turshen shares more than 125 delicious and doable recipes and 20 creative menu ideas help cooks of any skill level to gather friends and family around the table to share a meal (or many!) together.

Now & Again will change the way we gather, eat, and think about leftovers, and, like the name suggests, you'll find yourself reaching for its pages time and time again.
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Books Are Magic
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255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Monday, September 10
7:00pm
BOOKFORUM presents –– Backlash: The Legacy of 1968
1968 was a year of radical hope, groundbreaking art and literature, and passionate activism. But the year’s most longstanding legacy might be the reactionary movements and counterrevolutions that the era’s uprisings galvanized. Based on articles in our "1968 Now" issue about Yukio Mishima’s ideological…
1968 was a year of radical hope, groundbreaking art and literature, and passionate activism. But the year’s most longstanding legacy might be the reactionary movements and counterrevolutions that the era’s uprisings galvanized. Based on articles in our "1968 Now" issue about Yukio Mishima’s ideological impact on today’s white nationalists, Kristin Ross's book May '68 and its Afterlives, Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge, and the generative conflicts of second-wave feminism, our panelists will explore how the books of the time heralded a backlash that continues to shape our culture and politics today.

Panelists: Andrea Long Chu, Elizabeth Schambelan, Charlotte Shane

Moderated by Bookforum Editor Michael Miller
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Books Are Magic
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Wednesday, September 12
7:30pm
Eileen Myles
Greenlight is thrilled to welcome beloved author Eileen Myles back to the store to launch their first collection of new poems in seven years! Following 2011’s new poetry collection Snowflake/different streets, the wildly acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), and the volume of selected poems I Must Be…
Greenlight is thrilled to welcome beloved author Eileen Myles back to the store to launch their first collection of new poems in seven years! Following 2011’s new poetry collection Snowflake/different streets, the wildly acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), and the volume of selected poems I Must Be Living Twice, Evolution finds the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts—like nobody else—the way we speak (inside and out) today. From travel around the world to walks around Marfa, Texas, with Honey the pit bull, from the aisles of Target to a utopian future where Myles is elected president—channeling cell phones, Shakers, Diet Coke and Fresca, Evolution radiates with Myles’ characteristic vital insight, purpose, and risk. Myles presents the new collection with a reading, talk, and book signing, followed by a wine reception to celebrate the launch.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Thursday, September 13
7:30pm
Walter Mosley with W. Paul Coates
Award-winning, critically adored Brooklyn author Walter Mosley — author of internationally bestselling mysteries featuring his character Easy Rawlins — presents a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name …
Award-winning, critically adored Brooklyn author Walter Mosley — author of internationally bestselling mysteries featuring his character Easy Rawlins — presents a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. A compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor—while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is essential reading in an age defined by fake news and alternative facts. Mosley discusses his new work with longtime fan and friend W. Paul Coates, founder and director of Black Classic Press.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Friday, September 14
4:00pm
Korwin Briggs: Gods and Heroes
Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black Panther there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled a fearsome snake to save the world from drought. Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could decide the fate of battles before they even began. Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated…
Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black Panther there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled a fearsome snake to save the world from drought. Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could decide the fate of battles before they even began. Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated eighty brothers to become king and then traded it all for a chance at immortality.

Featuring more than 70 characters from 23 cultures around the world, this A-to-Z encyclopedia of mythology is a who's who of powerful gods and goddesses, warriors and kings, enchanted creatures and earthshaking giants whose stories have been passed down since the beginning of time—now refreshed for a new generation of young readers.
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Books Are Magic
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Saturday, September 15
7:00pm
Claudia Dey: Heartbreaker w/ Leslie Feist
The love between a daughter and her mother—and the dark secrets they keep from each other—are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks. Startling in its humor and wrenching in its wisdom about the powers, limits, …
The love between a daughter and her mother—and the dark secrets they keep from each other—are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.

Startling in its humor and wrenching in its wisdom about the powers, limits, and dangers of love, Heartbreaker is an electrifying page-turner about a woman reinventing herself in order to survive—and a daughter who must race against the clock to untangle the mysteries left in her mother’s wake.

Claudia Dey is the author of Stunt, a Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Her plays have been produced internationally and nominated for the Governor General’s Award and Trillium Book Award. Dey’s writing and interviews have appeared in many publications, including The Paris Review and The Believer. Dey has also worked as a horror film actress and a cook in lumber camps across northern Canada, and is co-founder of the design studio and clothing label Horses Atelier. She lives in Toronto.

Claudia will be joined by singer and songwriter Leslie Feist, known for her solo career and as a member of pop indie band Broken Social Scene.
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Books Are Magic
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Sep 16, 2018
10:00am-6:00pm
Brooklyn Book Festival: Festival Day & Literary Marketplace
The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s…
The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s Day and a celebratory Festival Day with more than 300 authors plus 250 booksellers filling a vibrant outdoor Literary Marketplace. This hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages. Our 2017 festival welcomed authors including Karl Ove Knausgård, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud, Chris Hayes, Carolyn Forché, Sarah Dessen, Alexandra Bracken, Thi Bui, Lynn Nottage, Hisham Matar, Maira Kalman and hundreds more. Check back in Summer and Fall 2018 as next year’s #BKBF announcements begin.
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Brooklyn Book Festival @ Brooklyn Borough Hall & Plaza
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209 Joralemon Street., Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Wednesday, September 19
7:30pm
Esi Edugyan with Diana Miller
From award-winning author Esi Edugyan (Half-Blood Blues) comes a dazzling new novel about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts…
From award-winning author Esi Edugyan (Half-Blood Blues) comes a dazzling new novel about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question: what is true freedom? Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Washington Black is "a historical epic with much to say about the present-day world" (The Guardian). Edugyan discusses her work with Diana Miller, her editor at Knopf, followed by a wine reception to celebrate the book's Brooklyn launch.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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Thursday, March 15

7:30pm

Thursday, March 15

7:30pm

Uzodinma Iweala with Larissa MacFarquha

Thursday, March 15

7:30pm

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Tuesday, August 14

7:30pm

Amateur:

A True Story About What Makes a Man

by Thomas Page McBee

Scribner

$24.00 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

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