If you're walking by the store this week, take a 
moment to enjoy the eye-catching Publisher Focus window from Princeton University Press. The display includes the stunning Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, the thought-provoking The Whites of Their Eyes, and the inspiring compilation The Quotable Thoreau.
Have you missed any of our fantastic fall events so far? Did you forget to come by the store to hear debut novelist Justin Torres read from We the Animals or to buy a ticket to hear John Lithgow read from his memoir Drama: An Actor's Education? Consider following us on Twitter or "liking" us on Facebook to get reminders and updates about upcoming events, as well as other fun and interesting tidbits from the literary world.
And lastly this week, we wish congratulations to newly minted Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes. Copies of his The Sense of an Ending are going quickly, so click here to order one now, or call the store at 617.661.1515 to have one reserved.
'Til Next Week,
Rachel 
|  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books, & In Store Book Printing
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| | Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
$25.95
Doubleday, hardcover
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| | "New York City in death was very much like New York City in life," writes Whitehead in his apocalyptic tragicomedy Zone One. "The main difference was that there were fewer people." Zone One is a story of three days in the life of Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" moving through the eponymous Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. Brilliantly evoking a ruined New York of unsettling familiarity, Zone One "trades fright-night fodder for empathy and chilling realism . . . yielding a haunting portrait of a lonely, desolate, and uncertain city." --Elle
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| | Savonarola:
The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
by Donald Weinstein
$38
Yale University Press, hardcover
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| | Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations. The author explores the years Savonarola dominated Florence's spiritual and political life, and tracks his staggering downfall followed by the confession that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions.
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 | | Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontė's Grave
by Simon Goldhill
$22.50
University of Chicago Press, hardcover
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| | The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought. In Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontė's Grave, Goldhill travels to Sir Walter Scott's mansion, Wordsworth's cottage, the Brontė parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office. Armed with wry humor and a lifetime's engagement with literature, Goldhill tries to discern what our forebears were looking for at these sites. The result is a travel book like no other, a reminder that even today, the writing life still has the power to inspire.
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| | Modern China:
The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present
by Johnathan Fenby
$9.99, hardcover (originally $34.95) | |
Clear and engaging, this is the definitive history of China, one of the most important political, economic, and cultural players in the modern world. Kirkus Reviews describes Modern China as "a sweeping, reasoned history. . . . An essential desk-side reference."
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| | The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel
by Ruth Rendell
$4.99, paperback (originally $15) | In this enthralling book, Rendell returns Inspector Wexford to his first murder case--a woman found strangled in her bedroom. The Monster in the Box is the latest addition to the Inspector Wexford series and a mystery The Los Angeles Times calls "masterful."
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| The Secret History of the World:
As Laid Down by the Secret Societies
by Mark Booth
$7.99, hardcover (originally $29.95) | In this groundbreaking work, a scholar of philosophy and theology at Oxford embarks on an astounding intellectual tour of the world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise--that everything taught about the world's past is corrupted--Booth produces an alternate history of the past 3,000 years.
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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.
| | Ledgers of History:
William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary
by Sally Wolff
Originally published by Louisiana State University in 2010
$17 (paperback) in Very Good condition | In Ledgers of History, Emory University professor Sally Wolff recounts her conversations with Dr. Francisco--known to Faulkner as "Little Eddie"--and reveals startling sources of inspiration for Faulkner's most famous works. The editor of Louisiana Culture hails it as "one of the most exciting literary finds in recent history."
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| | Lost Girls
by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Originally published by Top Shelf Productions in 2006
$60 (three hardcover volumes in slipcase) in Very Good condition | |
"As an exercise in the formal bounds of pure comics, Lost Girls is remarkable, as good as anything Moore has done in his career. . . . Whatever you call it, there has never been anything quite like this in the world before." --Neil Gaiman
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| Romantic Narrative:
Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
by Tilottama Rajan
Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010 $35 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | Exploring the role of narration among the Romantic writers, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of Romanticism itself in the nineteenth century.
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Author Events
Tickets for events with Jaclyn Friedman (10/26), The Chronicles of Harris Burdick Panel (10/28), Jim Lehrer (11/1), Tom Brokaw (11/4), Joan Didion (11/7), Lisa Randall (11/8), Jonathan Lethem (11/9), Adam Gopnik (11/10), and Umberto Eco (11/12) 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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Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Oct 24, 7PM
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| The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss Sebastian Junger's War, as part of our participation in this year's Cambridge READS program.
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Tony Horwitz
Tues, Oct 25, 7PM
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| Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz discusses his newest book, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War.
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Sebastian Junger
Tues, Oct 25, 7:30PM
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| Sebastian Junger discusses War, his account of being embedded with American troops in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008.
A Cambridge READS event.
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Jaclyn Friedman
Wed, Oct 26, 6PM
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| Writer, activist, and founder of Women, Action, and the Media Jaclyn Friedman reads from What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety. The evening will include performances by Boston Sass Attack and Bitches of Destiny.
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Gish Jen
Thurs, Oct 27, 7PM
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| Local author Gish Jen reads from her most recent novel, World and Town, newly out in paperback
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Sean Wilentz
Thurs, Oct 27, 7PM
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| Princeton University historian and cultural commentator Sean Wilentz discusses Bob Dylan in America.
A Cambridge Forum event.
| At First Parish Church
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John Palfrey
Fri, Oct 28, 3PM
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| Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey discusses his newest treatise, Intellectual Property Strategy.
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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick Panel
Fri, Oct 28, 6PM
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| Award-winning children's book author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg presents the new story collection, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, together with contributor Lois Lowry and children's book editor Roger Sutton.
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Glenn Greenwald
with Noam Chomsky
Sat, Oct 29, 1PM
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