Brilliant

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Bookworm
Award-winning author Jane Brox will talk about her latest book, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, at the Murray Function Room at 7:00 p.m. on Sept. 28. In Brilliant, Brox traces the fascinating history of human light from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs —and reveals that the story of light is also the story of our evolving selves.  Her appearance is sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series.
Brox also is the author of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History, a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction, and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. She has received the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in anthologies including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
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Love One Another

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Bookworm
Love One Another: Catholic Reflections on How to Sustain Marriages Today, the 10th book in the award-winning Church in the 21st Century Center book series, will be officially launched on Sept. 28 at a campus event. The book, edited by University Mission and Ministry’s Tim Muldoon and Cynthia Dobrzynski, contains essays that offer a long look at the challenges facing married Catholics today, but also at the resources from Christian tradition that can help couples and families forge a long and satisfying relationship with one another, with children, and with the communities of the church and society. Listen to the editors discuss spiritual practices in marriage.
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A priest and the Holocaust

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Bookworm
Fr. Patrick Desbois, author of  The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews, will speak at a campus event on Sept. 26 at 4:00 p.m. in Higgins Hall 300.
Fr. Desbois, a French Catholic priest, is president of the Yahad-In Unum Association and has devoted his life to confronting anti-Semitism and furthering Catholic-Jewish understanding. Since 2001, he has led a truly historic undertaking. Working closely with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, whose archives are aiding his search, Fr. Desbois and his team have crisscrossed the countryside in Ukraine in an effort to locate every mass grave and site at which Jews were killed during the Holocaust. To date, they have identified 800 of an estimated 2,000 such locations. They are also collecting artifacts and, most significantly, recording video testimonies from eyewitnesses – many of whom are speaking publicly for the first time.
Fr. Desbois’ book, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews, won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award. Event sponsor is the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at BC.
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Cooking in a melting pot

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Bookworm
Chef and author Lynne Christy Anderson lets food do the talking in her new book, Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens, which recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Anderson teaches at Boston College and has been featured in the Boston Globe and on Wisconsin Public Radio and Vermont Public Radio.
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Women & the Catholic Church

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Bookworm
Book Event 9/23: BC alumna Erika Bachiochi will be on campus Sept. 23 to discuss and sign her book, Women, Sex, and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching. The event, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Higgins Hall, room 300, will feature a presentation by the Bachiochi, the editor, and remarks by contributing authors, followed by the book signing and reception. Kindly respond to rsvp@paulinemedia.com. You can find more about the book and read the introduction here. Sponsor is the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
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Eyewitness to War

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Bookworm
Dexter Filkins, a New York Times foreign correspondent, was part of a team of reporters who won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He won a George Polk award for his coverage of the eight-day assault on Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, which left 51 Americans dead, six of them marines in the company with which Filkins was embedded. Filkins will talk about his book, The Forever War, on Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Merkert building, room 127.  His appearance is sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series. The Forever War won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, Amazon.com, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.
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Talk of The Town

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Bookworm
Did you know “The Town”–a new movie directed by Ben Affleck– is based on a book by a BC grad? Chuck Hogan, BC Class of 1989, is the author of Prince of Thieves, which is the basis for the new Boston-based movie starring Jon Hamm and Blake Lively. Hogan was recently interviewed by the Boston Globe and Boston Herald.
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Sister Helen

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Bookworm
Dead Man Walking author Helen Prejean, CSJ, will speak at Boston College on Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Sister Helen is a Roman Catholic nun whose prison ministry and advocacy against the death penalty have garnered international attention. She also is the author of the The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. The event is sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center.
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What We Have

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Bookworm
Check out Boston College Associate Professor of English Amy Boesky who will be in Cohasset on Friday, Sept. 17 for a bookstore event. Boesky’s new book, What We Have, is a stirring memoir about love, loss and survival in a family dealing with the pressure of previvorship –not having cancer, but having  a known (elevated) risk for it. The book has received raves from Oprah’s O magazine, the Boston Globe and People magazine.
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How Lincoln Learned to Read

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Bookworm
Over the summer, each member of the Boston College Class of 2014 was given a copy of Daniel Wolff’s How Lincoln Learned to Read. The author will address the Class of 2014 and the rest of the University community at First Year Academic Convocation on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. Read reflections by some BC professors on Wolff’s book. Previous authors for this annual event have included Barack Obama, John McCain, Ann Patchett, J.R. Moehringer, Jeanette Walls and Tracy Kidder.
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