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One, two, three days left, folks--to receive FREE shipping on all orders placed online at harvard.com. And you also only have until midnight on Monday to play our e-scavenger hunt, with a chance to win a $200 Harvard Book Store gift card!
Andre Dubus III, the acclaimed author of House of Sand and Fog and many other fine books, comes to the Brattle Theatre next Tuesday. He'll be discussing his violent and impeccably written memoir, Townie, with fellow New Englander Richard Russo. Read the stellar reviews for Townie in Salon and the New York Times and buy your tickets for the event here!
Cambridge Local First, in conjunction with Somerville Local First, has just issued their first coupon book, celebrating the stores that make our community unique. For a mere ten bucks, you'll  receive discounts and savings all over town--worth over $1,000! Participating businesses include Dickson Bros. Hardware, 1369 Coffeehouse, Greenward, Cardullo's, Taza Chocolate, and this fine bookstore. Pick one up at the store today.
Oh, and if you see Jeff, Harvard Book Store's owner, in the store tomorrow--be sure to say Happy Birthday! Happy reading,
Heather 
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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The Old Romantic
by Louise Dean
$25.95
Riverhead, hardcover
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| | "Not a great deal happens in The Old Romantic. But the novel is thick with complexity--the stuff of real writing. It is about memory and the unstable, selective nature of it. It is about love, as distinct from romance. Ken and Nick are old romantics: seduced by novelty, they struggle with relationships. Yet gradually they learn to value constancy.... Part of the novel's intricacy stems from its structure: the chapters are told from different points of view, so the book refuses to rest on a fixed portrayal of event or character." --The Telegraph (UK)
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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
by Daniel J. Sharfstein
$27.95
Penguin, hardcover
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"The Invisible Line, Daniel J. Sharfstein's spellbinding chronicle of racial passing in America, reminds us that the phenomenon has existed since our colonial beginnings--as escape from oppression, enhancement in status, and path to economic opportunity.... Sharfstein may be a law professor, at Vanderbilt, but he approaches his subject with a storyteller's verve and a novelist's gift for the telling detail.... He tells the larger story in microcosm, through the prism of family histories.... The Invisible Line is not only a work of serious scholarship based on exhaustive archival research but an immensely satisfying read." --The Boston Globe
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Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture
by Richard Pells
$35
Yale University Press, hardcover
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People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement--to make the modern world seem more intelligible. Modernist America explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent an American and a modern global culture.
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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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C4: Issue #1
by Chamber 4
$12
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | The first issue of Chamber Four's new literary magazine, C4, features all-new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by award winners, first-timers, and everything in between. Comedy, drama, suspense, thrills, chills, and great writing---this issue has it all.
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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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Newton and the Counterfeiter
by Thomas Levenson
$5.99, paperback (originally $14.95)
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In 1695, counterfeiter William Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's underworld. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new Warden of His Majesty's Mint--renowned scientist Isaac Newton--and the two played out an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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The Last Dickens
by Matthew Pearl
$5.99, paperback (originally $15)
| "A genuine whodunit.... Resonates with our times." --New York Times Book Review
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The Discovery of Mankind
by David Abulafia
$9.99, hardcover (originally $35)
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Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world.
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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
by Alexander Waugh $6.99, hardcover (originally $28.95)
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The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist.
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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.
| | Qatari Twentieth-Century Jewelry and Ornaments
by Najla Ismail al-ٴIzzi al-Wahabi
Originally published by The Islamic Art Society in 2003
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The Gulf region has a history of distinctive jewelry and ornaments and this catalog of pieces, exhibited for the first time in 2003, preserves and presents Qatari heritage to the world.
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| | The Upanishads: Volumes I-IV
by Swami Nikhilananda
Originally published by Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center in 1979; $100.00 (hardcover) for the four volume set in Very Good condition | |
The Upanishads form the essence of the scriptures of Hindu faith. This translation has the dignity and flavor of the original and "will add incomparable riches to any mind." (New York Times Book Review)
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Author Events
Tickets for our event with Andre Dubus III with Richard Russo (3/1) are on sale now. Tickets for our events with James Gleick (3/22) and Sarah Vowell (3/25) go on sale March 1. Tickets may be purchased at Harvard Book Store, online at harvard.com, or over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here.
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Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Feb 28, 7PM
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Our in-store book club discusses Stitches, the graphic memoir by author and children's book illustrator David Small.
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Andre Dubus III with Richard Russo
Tues, March 1, 6PM
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| | The acclaimed local novelist discusses his first memoir, Townie, in conversation with another favorite New England writer, Richard Russo. | At Brattle Theatre
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Laura J. Snyder
Wed, March 2, 7PM
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| | Snyder, expert on Victorian science and culture, presents her first book, The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World. | At Harvard Book Store
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Jared Duval
Thurs, March 3, 7PM
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| | A new face in political activism discusses his book Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change. | At Harvard Book Store
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Maya Jasanoff
Fri, March 4, 3PM
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| Harvard professor of history Maya Jasanoff discusses her book Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.
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Gabrielle Hamilton with Barbara Lynch Friday, March 4, 7PM
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| Accomplished chef and writer Gabrielle Hamilton discusses her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, with local chef Barbara Lynch.
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Anton Zeilinger
Mon, March 7, 7PM
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| | Professor of quantum physics Anton Zeilinger presents Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation. | At Harvard Book Store
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Jonathan Evison
Tues, March 8, 7PM
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| Award-winning novelist Jonathan Evison reads from his latest book, West of Here.
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William Corbett
Wed, March 9, 7PM
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| | Local poet, memoirist, publisher, and teacher William Corbett reads from his new book, The Whalen Poem. | At Harvard Book Store
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| | | Did you know: All our $5 tickets are also $5 coupons that you can use at the event or in the 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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