Hometown Authors

Celebrate the holiday season
with your favorite Boston authors at the 2013 Hometown Authors
Reception to benefit ReadBoston. Mayor Thomas M. Menino presents
some of the city’s most beloved authors at Hotel Commonwealth for a holiday
reception where guests can meet the writers, shop their latest releases and
receive a personal inscription.  The books make a treasured keepsake or
thoughtful gift for the season. Complimentary beer, wine and light hors
d’oeuvres will be served.

This year’s
featured authors include:

·        
Jack
Beatty | The Rascal King|  Age of Betrayal | The
Lost History of 1914

·        
Nichole
Bernier | The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

·        
Daniel
Bruce | Simply New England

·        
Kevin
Cullen & Shelley Murphy |Whitey Bulger

·        
Joe
Finder | High Crimes | Paranoia | Company Men | Killer
Instinct

·        
Meredith
Goldstein | The Singles

·        
Paul
Harding | Tinkers (Pulitzer Prize-winner)

·        
Susan
Hood | The Tooth Mouse

·        
Jason
Landry | Instant Connections

·        
Eve
LaPlante| American Jezebel | My Heart is Boundless |Marmee and
Louisa

·        
Kathryn
Lasky | Guardians of Ga’Hoole

·        
Bill
Littlefield | Only a Game | Fall Classics | The Circus in the
Woods

·        
Pat
Lowery Collins | The Deer Watch

·        
Jackie MacMullan |
When the Game Was Ours | Bird Watching

·        
William
Martin | Back Bay | City
of Dreams | The Lincoln Letter

·        
Brian
McGrory | Buddy | Strangled | The Incumbent

·        
Claire
Messud| The Emperor’s Children

·        
Robert
Pinsky | Thousands of Broadways |
The Life of David

·        
Jim Ring |
Necessary Assets | Erksine Childers

·        
Hank
Phillippi Ryan | Drive Time | Air Time | Face Time | Prime
Time

·        
Susan A. Shea |
Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?

·        
Casey
Sherman | Animal | The Finest Hours | Bad Blood

·        
J. Courtney Sullivan |The
Engagements | Maine | Commencement

·        
Larry
Summers |Trading Blocs | Investing in All the People

·        
Phil Vitti |
The Passage

WHEN:                      
Monday,
December 9, 2013

                                   
6:00 – 8:00 PM

WHERE:                    
Hotel
Commonwealth

Esplanade Ballroom

                                   
500 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

                                   
www.hotelcommonwealth.com

TICKETS:                 
$35/person
(all proceeds benefit ReadBoston); includes complimentary beer, wine and light
hors d’oeuvres.

To
purchase tickets in advance, please call 617-918-5289 or visit http://readboston.eventbrite.com/?s=19552687.

Tickets
may also be purchased at the door.

Please
Note: Books are not included in the price of admission; books are available for
purchase separately at the event.