Last week the Booker Prize shortlist was announced. What, you may ask, does this adorable puppy have to do with one of the most prestigious prizes in literature?
Find out by clicking on our latest staff-produced cinematic masterpiece below. (Huge credit and thanks are due to director/marketing assistant Alex W. Meriwether as well as Lucy's obliging and awesome owner, head buyer Megan Sullivan.) We call this little gem: "Lucy the Wonder-Pup Picks the Booker."
Have you checked out the amazing line-up for this year's Boston Book Festival? The festivities include a special Friday night event featuring George Pelecanos and cast members from The Wire. And next time you're in the store, be sure to snag a free copy of the BBF's One City, One Story selection, Richard Russo's "The Whore's Child."
Happy reading, Heather
| | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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| | King of the Badgers: A Novel by Philip Hensher
$26 Faber and Faber, hardcover
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| | "In Philip Hensher's seventh novel the sleepy, picturesque Devon estuary town of Hanmouth, beloved of retired gentlefolk and artsy types, 'the perpetrators of macramé,' is the perfect setting for the author's latest dissection of the pretensions, peccadilloes and petty snobberies of provincial England. When an eight-year-old girl goes missing from the encroaching housing estates . . . Hensher brilliantly skewers the bizarrely festive media and public reaction. . . . Each character in this astute, complex and enjoyable novel imposes him or herself with some sort of reality, even those we only glimpse through their kitchen windows." --The Telegraph (UK)
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| | Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! by Stéphane Hessel
$10 Twelve, hardcover
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| | This controversial, impassioned call for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-year-old Stéphane Hessel--Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, and former UN speechwriter--reminds us that life and liberty must still be fought for, and urges us to reclaim those essential rights we have permitted our governments to erode since the end of World War II.
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| | Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine by E. Paul Zehr
$24.95 Johns Hopkins University Press, hardcover
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| | Tony Stark has been battling bad guys and protecting innocent civilians since he first donned his mechanized armor in the 1963 debut of Iron Man in Marvel Comics. In Inventing Iron Man, professor of neuroscience and kinesiology E. Paul Zehr physically deconstructs Iron Man to find out how we could use modern-day technology to create a suit of armor similar to the one Stark made. But superherodom is not just about technology. Zehr also discusses our own physical limitations and asks whether an extremely well-conditioned person could use Iron Man's armor and do what he does.
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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. | |
| | Dusk in the Vanishing Garden: Poems by Ellie Mamber
$12 Print on Demand, paperback
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| | A near-lifelong resident of Newton, MA, Ellie Mamber has been published in many journals and anthologies. Her poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says", anthologized in 1985, was chosen for inclusion in 2011's Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings. She has read frequently in the well-attended poetry series at the Newton Free Library. "Ellie Mamber's remarkably articulate verse captures the love and loss in the life of a family. It scans the endings and the empty spaces in elegiac tones. . . . Beautifully written and rewarding to read." --Freddy Frankel, author of Wrestling Angels
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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. To see more of our Bargain Books section, visit our Bargain Books page.
| | The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek $9.99, hardcover (originally $26.95) |
The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
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| | Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine by Simone Beck $$6.99, paperback (originally $18) | During her extraordinary career, Simca was mentor and friend to a generation of cooks and food writers. In Food and Friends, she interweaves tantalizing recipes and menus with a wonderfully evocative account of her Normandy childhood, her escapades in 1920s Paris, and her work with Julia Child.
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| Che Guevara: A Manga Biography by Chie Shimano and Kiyoshi Konno $5.99, paperback (originally $15) | An extraordinary illustrated graphic novel about the legendary political figure Che Guevara. "A powerfully drawn comic. . . . Che's adventures, as they are captured here, make for exciting fiction." --Publishers Weekly
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| | Finds Downstairs in the Used Book Department |
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.
| | Cecily Brown
edited by Ellen Feldman
Originally published by Des Moines Art Center in 2007
$40 (paperback) in Very Good condition | Known for her lush surfaces, vivid color, and energetic brushwork, Cecily Brown fills her atmospheric paintings with life forms that swim amongst swells of color and gesture. The Boston Globe called the artwork in this catalog "gorgeous and enticing."
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| | Women and Indigenous Religions edited by Sylvia Marcos
Originally published by Praeger in 2010
$25 (hardcover) in Very Good condition |
Women and Indigenous Religions addresses issues such as the tensions between indigenous traditions and gender and the genealogy of positions of authority in religion or spiritual matters. A thorough examination reveals that native religions, with their women specialists, are still a source of inspiration for millions of men and women even in the "advanced" areas in the world.
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| 13 Steps to Mentalism by Tony Corinda
Originally published by D. Robbins & Co. in 1968 $21 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | The bible for magicians interested in "Mental Magic," 13 Steps To Mentalism is a seminal work in the performance art of mentalism. The text contains over 400 pages of instruction on notions, predictions, and divinations as well as mental tricks with cards, slates, billets, clipboards, blindfolds, Q&A acts, and stunts.
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Author Events
Tickets for events with Craig Thompson (9/21), Randall Kennedy with Touré (9/29), John Lithgow (9/30), Deepak Chopra with Leonard Mlodinow (10/5), Anne Enright (10/6), Dava Sobel (10/10), and Maria Tatar (10/12) 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 Ponniah Fri, Sept 16, 3PM
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| Acclaimed scholar Thomas Ponniah discusses his new co-edited collection, The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change Under Chávez.
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Myla Goldberg Fri, Sept 16, 7PM
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| Bestselling novelist Myla Goldberg reads from The False Friend, her most recent novel, newly out in paperback.
| At Harvard Book Store
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Tom Perrotta Monday, Sept 19, 7PM
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| Award-winning (and local!) novelist and screenwriter Tom Perrotta reads from his newest novel, The Leftovers.
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Ploughshares Turns 40! DeWitt Henry and Gail Mazur Tues, Sept 20, 7PM
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| Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the award-winning literary journal with a conversation with Ploughshares founder DeWitt Henry, author of the new memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History. The evening will also include a reading by poet Gail Mazur.
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Craig Thompson Wed, Sept 21, 6PM
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| Harvey and Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Craig Thompson presents his newest work, Habibi, an Arabian Nights-like love story.
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Philosophy Café Wed, Sept 21, 7:30PM
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| "The Origin and Scope of Morality"
| At Harvard Book Store, lower level
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Minimum Paige Release Party Thurs, Sept 22, 7PM
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| Join us to celebrate the release of Harvard Book Store's first comics anthology, Minimum Paige, printed on Paige M. Gutenborg, our in-house book machine.
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David W. Blight Fri, Sept 23, 3PM
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| David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, discusses his newest treatise, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.
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Martha Southgate Fri, Sept 23, 7PM
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| Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate reads from her newest book, The Taste of Salt.
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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 love feedback! 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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