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 Staff Picks: Favorite Fiction
Today is the final Fiction Friday of 2014. Our popular summer promotion means 15% off fiction when you shop for new books in the store, and today's your last chance.
Need inspiration? Let some of our staff tell you about their favorite fiction they read this summer:
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Love Your Indie Bookstore?
Looking for ways to show your love for your local, independent bookstore?
Tell author James Patterson about your favorite store. It's an opportunity for stores likes us to receive grants to support our efforts to innovate and contribute to our community. (And thanks!)
Labor Day Browsing
This August, Harvard Book Store is commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I with a selection of literature and history from and about the First World War. Browse the selection in our online display archives, or come by the store.
Need to take a bit of the Bay State with you on your travels this weekend? We also have a Massachusetts reading list for your perusal.
In Case You Missed It
Browse the HBS Channel for our HBS Originals -- video book recommendations and original short films from our staff. This week we made our very own Ice Bucket Challenge.
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(We've also contributed donations to the ALS Association and to 826 Boston.) Check out the icy responses by fellow indie bookstores Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, and Tattered Cover in Denver, and thanks Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C., for the challenge!
Thanks for reading,
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F:
A Novel
by Daniel Kehlmann
$25.95
Pantheon, hardcover
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| | F is for family. F is for fortune. F is for fraud. F is for fate. From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and loses.
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Feminism Unfinished:
A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
by Dororthy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry
$25.95
Liveright, hardcover
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| | Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this hugely important American social movement to the 1920s, and in the process creates an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women's history.
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Event:
A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept
by Slavoj Zizek
$16.95
Melville House, paperback
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Slavoj Zizek explores the meaning of events in this short and digestible book. Drawing on references from Plato to arthouse cinema, the Big Bang to Buddhism, Event is a journey into philosophy at its most exciting and elementary.
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Flashlight
by Liz Boyd
$16.99
Chronicle Books, hardcover
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| | Told solely through images and using a spare yet dramatic palette, artist Lizi Boyd has crafted a masterful exploration of night, nature, and art.
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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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Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
by Ron Currie Jr.
$6.99, hardcover (originally $26.95)
| In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie, acclaimed author of Everything Matters!, asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke.
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Cleopatra:
A Life
by Stacy Schiff
$7.99, hardcover (originally $29.99)
| Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, examines one of the most intriguing women in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
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The Bedside Book of Beasts:
A Wildlife Miscellany
by Graeme Gibson
$6.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
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The Bedside Book of Beasts explores the relationship between predators and their prey. Graeme Gibson's fascinating text is enhanced by a breathtaking array of art, as well as scientific, religious, and mythological drawings, paintings, and woodcuts.
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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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Psyche:
The Cult of Souls & Belief in Immortality among the Greeks
Volumes 1 & 2
by Erwin Rohde
Originally published by Harper & Row in 1966 $30.00 (paperback, 2 volumes) in Very Good condition | | From W. K. C. Guthrie's Introduction: "In all humane studies, while knowledge advances, certain works retain a classic quality which puts them beyond the reach of time. Much of Psyche possesses this enduring value." |
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The Way to Nirvana:
The Concept of the Nembutsu in Shan-tao's Pure Land Buddhism
by Ryosetsu Fujiwara
Originally published by The Kyoiku Shincho Sha in 1974
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| | Sha-tao, one of the most important Buddhist clerics of the Tang Dynasty, emphasizes the exclusive utterance of the Nembutsu as the way to Nirvana. His teachings had a tremendous influence on later Buddhism. |
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Andy Warhol:
The Record Covers 1949-1987
by Paul Marechal
Originally published by Prestel Publishing in 2008
$100.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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This catalogue raisonné reproduces the fifty album covers designed over four decades that bear Warhol's unmistakable imprint. Paul Marechal explores Warhol's creative process, his relationship with artists and his fascination with music.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
Tickets on Sale Soon:
» B.J. Novak (Oct 2, Tickets on sale Sept 9, online only)
 
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Final Fiction Friday of the Summer!
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Get 15% off new fiction purchases in the store.
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Randall Munroe
Tue, Sept 2, 6PM
|  | This event is SOLD OUT. There will be no standby line for this event.
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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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New Voices in Fiction
Co-sponsored by GrubStreet
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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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Co-sponsored by Cambridge Energy Alliance
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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
At Harvard Book Store
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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
Marketing Manager
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