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Tombs and Tomes Book Festival
Calling all bookworms! Join us this Spring at HCC’S first ever Tombs & Tomes Book Festival! Experience the enchantment of books, stories, and the written word in our unique and [...]
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Tombs & Tomes
Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesErik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. Two men, each [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesErik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. Two men, each [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesBy: Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesBy: Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan. The knowledge of death is so [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan. The knowledge of death is so [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesScience is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesScience is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one―or, more commonly, several―dead [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one―or, more commonly, several―dead [...]
Tombs and Tomes Book Club March (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesTwo teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed [...]
