Seemingly never-ending stacks of New York Review Books Classics
Warehouse Weekends have arrived! This weekend we'll welcome you into our Somerville warehouse, along with some of our favorite literary journals, small presses, and food vendors. While we're at it, we'll be adding an extra discount to our bargain prices on New York Review Books Classics. Check out our line-up of "Local Voices" partners for Saturday and Sunday, and come on down to 14 Park Street between 10am and 6pm!
Other things to know about the festivities... We'll be updating our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts throughout the day with info and photos, and we're looking forward to hearing from you too. Post your pics and tweets with #WarehouseWeekends. Another thing to note before you visit: it's well documented that Harvard Book Store loves dogs, but during Warehouse Weekends, pets won't be allowed in the building. Sorry pups!
Can't make it this weekend? More chances await. Next weekend brings Food Truck Favorites and Epicurean Treats: Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22. And check out the packed schedule of author events coming up... our online calendar is now updated through September and October.
Thanks for reading,
Alex
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Someone: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
$25.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover
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| | An ordinary life--its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion--lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollections--of childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old age--come together in this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermott's deft, lyrical voice.
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My Brief History
by Stephen Hawking
$22.00
Bantam, hardcover
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| | My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. This concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.
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Rhapsody For The Theatre
by Alain Badiou
$24.95
Verso, hardcover
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| | For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship.
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Printed on Paige
| | Each week we feature a book printed 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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Alice's Adventures Under Ground
by Lewis Carroll
$6.65
Print on Demand, paperback
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A facsimile of "the original Ms. book afterwards developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with thirty-seven illustrations by Lewis Carroll.
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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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The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
$4.99, paperback (originally $15.15)
| Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Austen and Eliot--authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, she breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.
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Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
$4.99, hardcover (originally $24.00)
| Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling--and foretelling--three decades of American life. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.
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John Cheever: Complete Novels
$17.99, hardcover (originally $30.00)
| This book contains the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but also the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly cling to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory.
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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.
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Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics
by Felipe Cucker
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 $15.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
| Most works of art, whether illustrative, musical or literary, are created subject to a set of constraints. This fascinating book describes the geometric frameworks underlying constraint-based creation. Anyone interested in the power and ubiquity of mathematics will enjoy this revealing insight into the relationship between mathematics and the arts.
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The Waltz Invention
by Vladimir Nabokov
Originally published by Phaedra Publishers in 1966
$10.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| Written in Russian in 1938 and first published in Paris the same year, Nabokov's three-act tragicomedy demonstrates that its author went beyond the limits of what could have been imagined, even by a poet, in 1938, about the coming fissionable age and its dangers.
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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
edited by Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton
Originally published by Duke University Press in 2005
$14.50 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Bodies in Contact brings together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered from journals around the world. Discussing subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, it puts women, gender, and sexuality at the center of the "master narratives" of imperialism and world history.
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Author Events
Tickets on sale Sept 17:
Subscribe to the Harvard Book Store Google Event Calendar here. 
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Warehouse Weekends: Local Voices
Sat, Sept 14 & Sun, Sept 15, 10AM-6PM
|  | Join us at our warehouse for books, culture, and community as we host a superb cross-section of local literary talent. This weekend celebrates Small Presses and Literary Journals.
| At Harvard Book Store
Warehouse, 14 Park St.,
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Mon, Sept 16, 6PM
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| At the Brattle Theatre
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Tue, Sept 17, 7PM
|  | Sara Farizan presents her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, the story of Sahar and Nasrin--two girls in love in Iran.
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Wed, Sept 18, 7PM
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Elizabeth Greenspan discusses Battle For Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle To Rebuild the World Trade Center. Co-sponsored by Harvard Writers at Work.
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Joseph S. Nye
Wed, Sept 18, 7PM
|  | Cambridge Forum presents Harvard's Joseph S. Nye discussing Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era with David Gergen.
| At First Parish Church
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The Philosophy Café
Wed, Sept 18, 7:30PM
|  | Topic: Monism vs. Dualism, or Matter vs. Mind
| At Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
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Margaret Atwood
Thurs, Sept 19, 7PM
|  | THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. View our Sold Out Event FAQ.
| At First Parish Church
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Mark Schneider
Fri, Sept 20, 3PM
|  | Suffolk University's Mark Schneider discusses Joe Moakley's Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador.
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Mollie Katzen
Fri, Sept 20, 7PM
|  | Moosewood Cookbook author Mollie Katzen presents The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation.
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Things to know about our author events...
Featured event books at Harvard Book Store author talks are now 20% off on the day of the event!
$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 tickets only guarantee admission until 5 minutes before an event begins, after which we may open any open seats to a standby line.
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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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