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 Sale This Weekend
The Massachusetts' sales tax holiday has been approved for this weekend! Governor Deval Patrick just recently signed the bill establishing the annual holiday into law.
 In addition to tax free books by the bagful, Harvard Book Store is throwing in an extra 15% off your purchases in the store this weekend. (Learn more here.)
Heading to the beach instead of the bookstore? You can still shop the sale online at harvard.com with the promo code TAXHOLIDAY2014.
Pre-Order a Signed Book
Tickets sold out for Randall Munroe in a mere fifteen minutes on Tuesday. To those fans of his "What If?" column who didn't get a chance to buy a ticket, we still have a limited number of signed copies of the book available to pre-order. How else will you ever learn how many Lego bricks it would take to build a bridge capable of carrying traffic from London to New York?
 Local authors Ben Mezrich and Rick Riordan are also offering signed pre-orders through Harvard Book Store this fall; have their books personalized to whomever you wish!
Mezrich's return to fiction, Seven Wonders, is "a rollicking adventure with a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of some of the world's most intriguing spots." Pre-order a copy here.
 In October, Rick Riordan serves up Book Five of his much-loved "Heroes of Olympus" series for ages 8 to 12. Order a copy, and have it signed "To Johnny" or "Megan" or "Athena" or "Poseidon."
As always, orders can be picked up in-store or shipped throughout the U.S.
Meet Jason Segel Tickets for our event with Jason Segel go on sale online only at jasonsegel.eventbrite.com on Tuesday at 9am. The star of the big and little screen will be reading from his forthcoming book for youngsters, Nightmares! The ticket price includes a copy of the book, though a kids-only ticket (for ages sixteen and under / book not included) is also available for $5. 
In Case You Missed It
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Browse the HBS Channel for more videos from our archive of author events, and consider buying the books from Harvard Book Store. Your purchases support our award-winning author series.
Thanks for reading,
Alex   | | New on Our Shelves
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage:
A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
$25.95
Knopf, hardcover
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| | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel -- a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan -- from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami.
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In a Rocket Made of Ice:
Among the Children of Wat Opot
by Gail Gutradt
$25.95
Knopf, hardcover
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| | Disarming, funny, and deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice tells the true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia, gathering the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place.
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Sustainability:
A History
by Jeremy L. Caradonna
$27.95
Oxford University Press, hardcover
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In this illuminating and fascinating primer, Jeremy L. Caradonna traces the ideas that underlie and define sustainability over several centuries, approaching it from a historical perspective and revealing the conditions that gave it shape.
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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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A Safe Distance
by Wes Marshall
$20.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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| | A Safe Distance is the story of two people whose lives are dramatically altered by a random act of violence and the choices they make in an effort to get on with their lives.
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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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Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
$6.99, paperback (originally $18.15)
| Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize
and sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
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Silent House
by Orhan Pamuk
$5.99, hardcover (originally $26.95)
| By turns deeply moving, hilarious, and terrifying, Silent House pulses with the particular energy of a great writer's early work even as it offers beguiling evidence of the mature genius for which Orhan Pamuk would later be celebrated the world over.
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Did Jesus Exist?:
The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
by Bart D. Ehrman
$6.99, hardcover (originally $26.99)
| In Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, Ehrman establishes the criterion for any genuine historical investigation and provides a robust defense of the methods required to discover the Jesus of history.
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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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The Infinite Crisis Omnibus
by Geoff Johns
Originally published by DC Comics in 2012 $300.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | OMAC robots are rampaging, magic is dying, villains are uniting, and a war is raging in space. It's the DCU's darkest day, and long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make things right in the universe...at any cost.
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Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy
by George Contopoulos
Originally published by Springer in 2004
$85.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| | This volume is one of the first books to offer a general overview of the progress of the theory of chaos and its profound impact on galactic dynamics. It provides a unifying approach from an author with more than 50 years of experience in the field. |
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Jean Paul Lemieux
by Marie Carani
Originally published by Musée du Québec in 1992
$200.00 (hardcover slipcase) in Very Good condition
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Jean Paul Lemieux is one of the best-known and most beloved artists in Quebec. This volume is a catalog of the exhibition held at the Musée du Québec from June - November 1992, an authoritative reference work, and a superb art book.
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Upcoming Events
Ticketed Events
 
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It's official! This weekend we are offering a 15% discount all weekend, in-store and online, in addition to all purchases being tax-free.
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Randall Munroe
Tue, Sept 2, 6PM
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Scott Cheshire
Tue, Sept 2, 7PM
|  | Scott Cheshire is joined by Claire Messud for a discussion of his debut novel, High as the Horses' Bridles -- remarkable in its scale as it moves from 1980 Queens, to sunny present-day California, to a tent revival in nineteenth century rural Kentucky.
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George Marshall
Wed, Sept 3, 7PM
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| George Marshall, founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, discusses Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
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Vicki Constantine Croke
Thu, Sept 4, 7PM
|  | WBUR's Vicki Constantine Croke recounts the remarkable story of James Howard "Billy" Williams in her new book Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II.
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Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Battles
Fri, Sept 5, 3PM
|  | Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Battles, of Harvard University's metaLAB, discuss the future of libraries and their book The Library Beyond the Book.
| Friday Forum
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Marc Abrahams
Fri, Sept 5, 7PM
|  | Marc Abrahams, writer of the "Improbable Research" column for the Guardian and founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, presents This Is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research. Marc will be joined by several special guests, reading from research referenced in the book.
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Author Event Info
Discounts
Continuing this fall, featured event books at Harvard Book Store author talks are 20% off on the day of the event. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Sept 29, 7PM
|  | We take August off for book club. Our next selection for our monthly in-store book club discussion is David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary. Join us in September!
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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
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