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 This July, Cool Off with a Book
 "News from Harvard Book Store" is back after a week off.
If you missed us while we were gone, hopefully you've signed up for our fantastic monthly recommendations newsletter and received our picks for July last week. (Head over to our Subscribe page and update your preferences to receive our Monthly Recommendations Newsletter.)
For July we've chosen books on bike rides, gunpowder and pirates, villains, and a few more great beach (or A/C) reads.
Proud to Support Hachette Authors
Harvard Book Store is proud to support Hachette authors with a display up in the store (and online at harvard.com) full of works by Sherman Alexie, David Sedaris, J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Kate Atkinson, and more.
Help us (and the indie bookstore community, take up Stephen Colbert's recent call to arms) to make debut novelist Edan Lepucki's California a best seller! The ongoing Hachette-Amazon dispute threatens the success of debut authors like her.
And here are six more Hachette titles Salon says you should track down at your local bookstore.
More Recommended Reads
Looking for more summer reading suggestions? Our staff recommendations wall is full of great picks, as is our wall of Select 70 featured picks. (This month's spotlight is on "Great Beach Reads.")
Need suggestions for youngsters? In our last newsletter Kari P. recommended two of her favorite books for young readers, Tuck Everlasting and The Thief of Always. (Something went amiss with that video link. It's fixed now, so check it out here.)
In Case You Missed It
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Thanks for reading,
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California:
A Novel
by Edan Lepucki
$26.00/$20.80
Little, Brown, and Company, hardcover
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| | A gripping and provocative debut novel, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.
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Blood Sport:
Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era
by Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts
$27.95
Dutton Adult, hardcover
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| | Blood Sport is the definitive and dramatic story of the Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis scandal, written by the reporters who broke and covered the story. It is simultaneously a revelatory record and a call to arms.
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Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude:
Case Studies of the New Economy
edited by Juliet B. Schor and Craig J. Thompson
$25.00
Yale University Press, paperback
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Many of today's most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble. Can we change direction and achieve a more sustainable and humane economy? Through a fascinating array of case studies, this book affirms that we can.
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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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Museums and Public Art:
A Feminist Vision
by Hilde Hein
$17.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | As a professor of philosophy at Holy Cross College, Hilde Hein expanded her study and teaching of aesthetics to include museums, and then feminist theory and public art. The essays assembled in this book reflect the blending of these topics over a period of several decades.
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Remainders are bargain books, 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 Remainders section, visit our Remainders page.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
$24.99, hardcover (originally $60.00)
| Exhaustively researched and thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition (2011) contains 10,000 new words and senses, over 4,000 full-color images, and authoritative, up-to-date guidance on usage from the celebrated American Heritage Usage Panel.
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Flour:
Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery
by Joanne Chang
$15.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
| Almost 150 recipes from Boston's celebrated Flour Bakery are included here, plus owner Joanne Chang's essential baking tips, making this mouthwatering collection an accessible, instant classic cookbook for the home baker.
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Things Come Apart:
A Teardown Manual for Modern Living
by Todd McLellan
$12.99, hardcover (originally $29.95)
| Welcome to Todd McLellan's unique photographic vision: fifty design classics are beautifully displayed, exploding in midair and dissected in frame-by-frame video stills. Each photograph is a work of art and offers a reinterpretation of our familiar world.
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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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Botanicals:
Butterflies and Insects
edited by Leslie K. Overstreet
Originally published by Assouline Publishing in 2008 $55.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition | Including more than three centuries of drawings culled from the rare books library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, each page in Botanicals explodes with the detail and color of these works by leading botanical artists.
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Andy Goldsworthy - Sheepfolds
by Paul Nesbitt and Andrew Humphries
Originally published by Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art in 1996
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| | From the Introduction, by Steve Chettle: "Sheepfolds is a five-year public art, landscape and environment commission employing the internationally known sculptor Andy Goldsworthy." This book details and analyzes Goldworthy's proposal. |
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Modernist Cuisine at Home
by Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet
Originally published by The Cooking Lab, LLC in 2012
$85.00 (hardcover boxed set) in Very Good condition
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The culinary revolution that has transformed restaurants around the world is also making its way into homes. The Cooking Lab, publisher of the six-volume set Modernist Cuisine, has now produced an illustrated guide for home cooks of all skill levels.
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Upcoming Events
 
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Gary J. Bass
Tues, July 15, 7PM
|  | Professor and reporter Gary J. Bass discusses his latest book, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.
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Will Chancellor
Wed, July 16, 7PM
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David Rose
Thurs, July 17, 7PM
|  | Award-winning entrepreneur and CEO of Ditto Labs David Rose discusses his new book Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.
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Fri, July 18, 9AM-11PM and Fridays all summer
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Tues, July 22, 7PM
|  | Local author Sukey Forbes reads from her memoir The Angel in My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death.
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Wed, July 23, 7PM
|  | Judith Frank presents her novel All I Love and Know, a searing exploration of adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found.
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Fri, July 25, 9AM-11PM and Fridays all summer
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Author Event Info
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Featured event books at Harvard Book Store author talks are now 20% off on the day of the event!
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, July 28, 7PM
|  | The July selection for our monthly in-store book club discussion is Adam Johnson's novel The Orphan Master's Son. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary.
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Recommended
This Month
Browse our most recent Recommended This Month newsletter, with picks from our featured titles, staff recommendations, new paperbacks, and more.
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We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this e-newsletter. Please send any comments 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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