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5 upcoming author events and readings from Cary Memorial Library, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →

Thu Oct 15 · 6:30pm

Geraldine Brooks: Memorial Days, in conversation with Rabbi Karen Thomashow

Cary Memorial Library · Arlington Town Hall · 730 Massachusetts Ave · Arlington · Arlington

Geraldine Brooks discusses Memorial Days, her 2025 memoir of grief after the sudden death of her husband, the writer Tony Horwitz, with Rabbi Karen Thomashow of Temple Isaiah. Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for March; her other novels include Year of Wonders, People of the Book and Horse. It is a joint event of the Arlington, Bedford, Lexington and Lincoln public libraries and Temple Isaiah.

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Tue Oct 20 · 6:30pm

Meet the Author: Kelly Yang

Cary Memorial Library · Clarke Middle School · Lexington · Lexington

Kelly Yang celebrates the graphic novel adaptation of Front Desk, her debut novel about a first-generation immigrant child from China living and working in a motel, drawn from her own childhood; Kirkus Reviews named it "one of the best books of the 21st century." Yang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 15 books, including Parachutes and The Take, went to university at 13.

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Thu Nov 5 · 7pm

Meet the Author: Weina Dai Randel in conversation with Karen Kirsten — The Lost Kingdom of Daughters

Cary Memorial Library · Community Center · Lexington

Weina Dai Randel discusses her novel The Lost Kingdom of Daughters, set in a matriarchal society based on China’s Moso people “where marriage doesn’t exist and free love is the tradition,” whose heroine meets two stranded American brothers. Randel wrote The Last Rose of Shanghai, optioned for film, and won the RWA RITA Award. Karen Kirsten, author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist Irena’s Gift, joins her.

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Thu Nov 12 · 7pm

Meet the Author: Trisha Blanchet and Jane Roper — Murder Like Magic

Cary Memorial Library · Large Meeting Room · Cary Memorial Library · Lexington

Trisha Blanchet discusses her new mystery Murder Like Magic, set in Lowell, in which Tess Tulley, a “charmingly grouchy private eye” and a witch whose mind-reading is unreliable, investigates a victim “found in a pool of someone else’s blood.” Blanchet wrote the Neath trilogy and hosts A Mighty Blaze Podcast. Novelist Jane Roper, author of The Society of Shame and Eden Lake, joins her in conversation.

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Sat Nov 21 · 8pm

CARY HALL: The Bittersweet History of Chocolate: What Makes Chocolate Good?

Cary Memorial Library · Cary Hall · Lexington

Social anthropologist Carla D. Martin traces the history of chocolate from Mayan temples through the transatlantic slave trade and the rise of Hershey’s and Nestlé to labor on cocoa farms today, and asks how chocolate’s social goodness might be measured alongside its taste. Martin lectures in African and African American Studies at Harvard and founded the Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research. A chocolate tasting follows.

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