This week we posed the question on our social media accounts, "What's the best book you've read so far this summer? How did you discover it?" Your answers included Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, re-reading Lolita, and recent selections from our Signed First Edition Club. So, keep 'em coming!  Tweet us at @HarvardBooks using #HBSSummerReads or comment on our Facebook page. (And while you're there, check out how we recently answered the question " What do booksellers do with a puppy named Kafka?") August is moving right along and our September events series is fast approaching! Until then, stop by the store for the remaining few Fiction Fridays for discounted new fiction. And if you've been curious to check out our selection of Kobo e-readers, now is a great time. We have a new display in the store showcasing the Kobo Aura HD, the Kobo Glo, and the Kobo Arc.  Through the end of the month, the Arc (an e-reader/tablet) is on sale--$70 to $100 off, depending on the model you choose. Explore our e-reader selection and learn why Kobo is the best way to read digitally while supporting your local bookstore. Last week Rachel Cass signed off as the regular author of this e-newsletter, but fortunately for Harvard Book Store, she hasn't gone far. She'll be working with Kari and Churchill to pick out all the great books you see on our shelves. I will be back next week with an announcement on our fall event series, and who knows, maybe more puppy pictures. Thanks for reading,
Alex  |  | New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books & In Store Book Printing
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The Cambridge Companion to American Islam
$32.99
Cambridge University Press, paperback
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The Cambridge Companion to American Islam presents the debates, challenges, and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. It covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to the serious challenges they have faced and continue to face in constructing a religious praxis and complex identities that are grounded in both a universal tradition and the particularities of their local contexts. The book explores the many facets of the lives of American Muslims that can only be understood in their interactions with Islam's entanglement in the American experiment.
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Printed on Paige
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Changing Landscapes of Our Lives
by Norma Roth, Poet, and Evelyn Bernstein, Photographer
$12.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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This long-time friendship and artistic collaboration combines provocative poems with alluring images that mirror the changing landscapes of our lives, creating a banquet for the eyes and evoking tones and moods in one's heart, mind, and soul-revealing the beauty and possibilities of life through the entire life cycle.
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Bargain Books are new books at used-book prices. We have a limited number of copies 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.
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Works in Political Philosophy: 1828-1841
by Orestes A. Brownson
$7.99, hardcover (originally $30.00)
| Orestes Augustus Brownson was a New England political, philosophical, and theological thinker who, before his conversion to Catholicism, was an important if neglected part of the Transcendentalist movement. In this volume, editor Gregory Butler has selected twenty-four of Brownson's writings representing the early stages of his career.
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The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
by RJ Smith
$9.99, hardcover (originally $27.50)
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The One delves deeply into the story of a man who was raised in abject poverty in the segregated South but grew up to earn (and lose) several fortunes. At the heart of The One is James Brown's musical genius. As the book traces the legend's reinvention of funk, soul, R&B, and pop, it gives this history a melody all its own.
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The Apple Trees at Olema
by RJ Smith
$9.99, hardcover (originally $27.50)
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The Apple Trees at Olema includes work from Robert Hass's first five books as well as a substantial gathering of new poems. Hass's themes include art, the natural world, desire, family life, the life between lovers, the violence of history, and the power and inherent limitations of language. He is a poet who is trying to say, as fully as he can, what it is like to be alive in his place and time.
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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.
| | The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
by Philip J. Stern
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2012 $15.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition | The English East India Company's 1557 conquest of Bengal and territorial acquisitions have been perceived as when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation, The Company-State rethinks this narrative and the nature of the early East India Company.
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Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
by Didier Fassin
Originally published by University of California Press in 2011
$16.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
| Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices and shows how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence.
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Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection
by Lewis Kachur
Originally published by Merrell in 2013
$45.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century through 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists adopted a wide range of styles, they were tied by a desire to interpret the rapidly changing nature of society, and to cast aside the conventions of representational art.
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Author Events
Ticketed Events
On sale now:
Randall Kennedy (9/6)
On sale August 20:
Bob Odenkirk and
David Cross
with Brian Posehn (9/14)
Bill McKibben (9/16)
On sale August 27:
Margaret Atwood (9/19)
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here. 
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Junot Díaz
Thurs, Sept 5, 6PM
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Randall Kennedy
Fri, Sept 6, 6PM
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| Prominent Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discusses
For Discrimination:
Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.
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Bob Odenkirk and David Cross
with Brian Posehn
Sat, Sept 14, 6PM
|  | Emmy-nominated writers and comedians Bob Odenkirk and David Cross discuss Hollywood Said No! Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show, with special guest
Brian Posehn.
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Bill McKibben
Mon, Sept 16, 6PM
|  | Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben discusses Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.
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Margaret Atwood
Thurs, Sept 19, 7PM
|  | Booker Prize-winning novelist Margaret Atwood reads from MaddAddam, the final in the trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
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Stephen King
Fri, Sept 27, 7PM
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Harvard Yard
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Things to know about our $5 tickets...
$5 tickets are also coupons good for $5 off a purchase at Harvard Book Store. Coupons expire 30 days after the event, and cannot be used for already-discounted items, online purchases, event tickets, or gift certificates. Please note that your ticket only guarantees you admission until 5 minutes before an event begins.
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this e-newsletter.
Please send any comments and suggestions to Alex at newsletter@harvard.com. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you in the store!
Alex W. Meriwether
Marketing Manager
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