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A quick one today, folks, as I'm jaunting into the store to listen to the wildly interesting local translator Thomas Teal discuss his work and the art of translation!
Our May event calendar is just about fully posted on harvard.com. See the May list here, and don't forget about this month's laden calendar, featuring Francisco Goldman (his new book is the front page feature in this Sunday's New York Times Book Review!), Governor Deval Patrick, Arthur Phillips, Andrea Levy, and more.
And while seats for THIS SUNDAY's event with former poet laureate Billy Collins have sold out, fans without tickets are welcome to come listen to the reading in the bookstore and--with your Harvard Book Store receipt in hand--you can also join the signing line following his talk. Learn more about the event here.
Happy reading,
Heather
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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Butterfly's Child
by Angela Davis-Gardner
$26
Dial Press, hardcover
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| | "In a richly imagined literary sequel to Puccini's Madama Butterfly, we follow Benji, the illegitimate offspring of the tragic geisha Cio-Cio-san, to America with his conflicted father, U.S. Navy Lieut. Frank Pinkerton, and resentful new wife Kate.... In its way, it holds its own alongside the modern Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy. For all its melancholy and madness, it strikes themes of hope and renewal, and believing in the unbelievable." --Kirkus Reviews
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A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
by Eavan Boland
$26.95
W.W. Norton, hardcover
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"Acclaimed Irish poet Boland uses 'autobiography and analysis' to trace the making of poets, poems, readers, and their communities.... Asserting 'the strengths that exist in the communal life of women,' Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. If some of her language is directed to those writing or reading poetry, her vivid imagery ('if this were a summer darkness in Ireland the morning would already be stored in the midnight') will beguile many." --Publishers Weekly (starred)
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| | Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000:
by Barry Cunliffe $30 Yale University Press, hardcover |
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"When archaeology is done right, it's frequently dull; when it's fascinating, it's frequently wrong. So Europe Between the Oceans, at once compelling and judicious, is an extraordinary book. [A] work of analytical depth and imaginative sweep.... Lavishly illustrated and replete with a sumptuous array of creatively conceived color maps, Cunliffe's book is further proof that its publisher produces the most beautiful and intelligently designed works of scholarship in the humanities." --The Atlantic
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| | Printed on Paige
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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Letters To Iris and Leo:
A Life Journey Through Continents and Cultures
by Zeren Earls
$20
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | Letters to Iris and Leo is an autobiographical compilation of letters written to the author's grandchildren over a period of five years. Iris and Leo, beginning with their adoption at birth by two fathers, have their early years lovingly chronicled in prose and photos. Through these letters Earls recalls in parallel her own life as a child growing up in Turkey.
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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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The Farmer's Daughter
by Jim Harrison
$6.99, hardcover (originally $24.00)
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"Always as exhilarating as a breath of fresh air . . . Harrison's fiction . . . is rooted in a deep connection with nature and infused with passion for the vast wilds of America and respect for its disenfranchised." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org
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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
by Garry Wills
$7.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
| From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since.
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way
by Diana Joseph
$5.99, hardcover (originally $23.95)
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way is an honest, hilarious, and instantly recognizable memoir of a truly modern woman. It is a portrait of a woman in all her endless complexities and contradictions, and of the dysfunctional men surrounding her.
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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.
| | Manet and the Object of Painting
by Michel Foucault
Originally published by Tate Publishing in 2009
$12.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Originally delivered in Tunis in 1971 and translated into English for the first time, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet's importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting.
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| | Introduction to Manuscript Studies
by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham
Originally published by Cornell University Press in 2007
$21.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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"This beautifully illustrated, skillfully organized resource is an ideal survey of the field, valuable for presenting information critical to new students and veteran scholars, for teaching the history and scope of the medieval manuscript." --Choice
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| | The Practice of Tibetan Meditation
by Dagsay Tulku Rinpoche
Originally published by Inner Traditions International in 2002
$10.50 (paperback) with CD in Very Good condition
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This practical, step-by-step handbook to Tibetan meditation is written by a world-renowned Tibetan lama and includes an hour of mantras to accompany the meditations.
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Author Events
Tickets for our events with Governor Deval Patrick (4/15), Judge Nancy Gertner (4/26), and Francis Fukuyama (4/27) are on sale now! 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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Thomas Teal Fri, April 8, 3PM
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Award-winning translator Thomas Teal discusses his work translating the novels of Tove Jansson from the original Swedish.
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Rye Barcott
Fri, April 8, 7PM
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| Former Marine, NGO founder, TED fellow, and Harvard graduate Rye Barcott discusses his memoir, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace.
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Billy Collins
Sunday, April 10, 4PM
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| Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads from his newest collection of poetry, Horoscopes for the Dead.
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Elaine Scarry
Tues, April 12, 7pm
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| Acclaimed Harvard professor Elaine Scarry discusses her newest book, Thinking in an Emergency, an entry in the Amnesty International Global Ethics Series..
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Francisco Goldman Wed, April 13, 7PM
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| Celebrated novelist Francisco Golman reads from his intensely personal new novel, Say Her Name.
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Howard Gardner
Thurs, April 14, 7PM
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| Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Howard Gardner discusses Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century.
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Deval Patrick
Fri, April 15, 7PM
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| Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick discusses his memoir, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life.
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Christopher McDougall
Fri, April 16, 7PM
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| Journalist and runner Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run, comes to Boston for a "Naked Cabaret."
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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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