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'Tis the season for giving and reading! Spend $100 or more between now and the end of the year and receive a free Harvard Book Store canvas tote bag--and be entered in a contest to win a YEAR-LONG subscription to our Signed First Edition Club. You can either keep the membership for yourself, or give it as a gift.
Hey last-minute shoppers! Not only is the store open until midnight today and Thursday, we also have books that you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. Thanks to the forethought of our awesome buying team, we still have copies available of Apollo's Angels, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, and other sold-out-elsewhere books. Mind you, these are in limited quantity, so call (617-661-1515) or come in soon to snag 'em. Have I mentioned recently that we also offer free gift-wrapping?
And if you're already plotting your New Year's Eve plans, you'll find First Night buttons available at the bookstore.
Happy holidays,
Heather
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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| | Under Fishbone Clouds
by Sam Meekings
$24.99
Thomas Dunne Books, hardcover
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| | "Meekings explores in his accomplished debut the inner workings of a Chinese couple's marriage before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution.... Meekings is a bangup storyteller, and his easy handling of rich and varied material--rustic splendor, class warfare, profound anguish, drastic social changes--will keep readers rapt. This is a beautifully told love story as well as an absorbing study in Chinese folklore and history." --Publishers Weekly
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| | Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
by William Kuhn
$27.95
Nan A. Talese, hardcover
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The elusive and ever-private Jackie Kennedy Onassis, a woman who achieved iconic fame largely through her marriages to two powerful men, never wanted to write her memoirs. When pressed by a friend to do so, she unequivocally stated that she had already "paid her debt to history." So though we are without an autobiography of Mrs. Onassis, historian and biographer William Kuhn has cleverly contrived a book that comes fairly close in Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books. (Some signed copies available.)
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Cloning Terror:
The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
by W.J.T. Mitchell
$22.50
University of Chicago Press, hardcover
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| | "In this heady brew of biopolitics and biotechnology, W.J.T. Mitchell explores some of the greatest terror of our times--the fears that claim us and chain us. His deft and defiant reading of the technologies of image-making lays bare the brutality and banality of the war on terror. This is a passionate and polemical engagement with reality and representation." --Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University.
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Each week, we'll feature a book printed in Harvard Book Store on Paige, our book-making machine. Featured books will range from fresh works from local authors to near-forgotten titles discovered in our extensive print-on-demand database.
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Living Lines
by Missy Carter
$20
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Living Lines asks the reader three core questions and offers perspectives, focused on perennial themes--the meaning of life, setting priorities, coping with challenges, strengthening relationships, connections between body and mind, and spirituality. Living Lines can be used as a tool for self- and life-assessment, or it can be opened for a surprise insight. Living Lines is a book for personal discovery. It encourages the reader to live more fully and provides a reference to be revisited in that ongoing process.
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| | | Bargain Books | Bargain Books are new books at used book prices. Limited copies are available of these titles, so if you see something that you're interested in, come in and check it out soon.
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Atheist Manifesto
by Michael Onfray
$3.99 hardcover (originally $15.99)
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Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive appeared, to question the role of the world's three major monotheistic religions. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in American society and politics. |
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Stoner
by John Williams
$6.99 paperback (originally $14.95)
| "It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it's one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across." --Tom Hanks, Time Magazine
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Original Letters from India
by Eliza Fay
$7.99 hardcover (originally $16.95) | |
"Though [her letters] have value historically, their main interest is human: they show us a highly remarkable character, triumphant over the difficulties of life and narrative style." --E. M. Forster |
| | To the Finland Station
by Edmund Wilson
$7.99 paperback (originally $19.95)
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Edmund Wilson's magnum opus is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power. "To the Finland Station remains vigorous and perceptive." --The Washington Post Book World |
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Featured used books go fast, so if any titles interest you, stop in to check them out soon. We will hold the book if you are the first caller to reserve it. To reserve a book, call (617) 661-1515 and ask for our Used Department. We're also always looking for books to buy. Learn about selling your used books, including textbooks, here.
| | Willem de Kooning: An Exhibition of Paintings
edited by Klaus Kertess
Originally published by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc. in 1990
$12.00 (softcover) in Very Good condition
| As with other Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning was a central figure of the New York School and helped change the course of art. This catalogue, with twenty color plates, accompanied an exhibition in autumn 1990.
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| | The Metamorphosis of Plants
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originally published by MIT Press in 2009
$11.50 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings.
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| | Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks
edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
Originally published by Dumbarton Oaks in 1996
$80.00 (hardcover) for two volumes in Very Good condition
| These volumes present the Andean portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. They superbly illustrate all 133 Andean objects in color plates; one extraordinary feature is the technical descriptions of the metal objects by metals specialist Heather Lechtman.
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Author Events
Our January 2011 event calendar is now online! subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Barbara Almond
Mon, Jan 10, 7PM | 
| | Stanford professor and psychoanalyst Barbara Almond discusses The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood. | At Harvard Book Store .gif)
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Richard Wolffe
Tues, Jan 12, 7PM | 
| | Journalist and MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe discusses Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. | At Harvard Book Store
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Rachel Polonsky
Thurs, Jan 13, 7PM | 
| | Journalist Rachel Polonsky discusses her new exploration of Russian cultural history, Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History. | At Harvard Book Store
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Mira Bartók
Tues, Jan 18, 7PM | 
| Essayist Mira Bartók reads from her new memoir The Memory Palace. "A disturbing, mesmerizing personal narrative about growing up with a brilliant but schizophrenic mother.... Richly textured, compassionate and heartbreaking."
--Kirkus (starred) | At Harvard Book Store
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The Philosophy Café
Wed, Jan 19, 7:30PM | 
| The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store is a monthly gathering meant for the informal, relaxed, philosophical discussion of topics of mutual interest to participants.
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Allen Shawn
Thurs, Jan 20, 7PM | 
| | Pianist and composer Allen Shawn discusses his newest memoir, Twin, about growing up as the twin brother of a sister with autism. | At Harvard Book Store
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Seth Mnookin
Mon, Jan 24, 7PM | 
| | Journalist Seth Mnookin explores the controversy around childhood vaccines in his new book The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear. | At Harvard Book Store
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Amy Bloom
Tues, Jan 25, 7PM | 
| | Award-winning novelist and short story writer Amy Bloom reads from her collection of linked stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. | At Harvard Book Store
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send your comments and suggestions to Heather at hgain@harvard.com. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!
Heather Gain
Marketing Manager
hgain@harvard.com
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