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 Boston Book Fest 2014
Head over to Copley Square in Boston on Saturday for the daylong Boston Book Festival! It's Boston's most bookish time of year.
WBUR's "The Artery" points out ten events they're looking forward to, but check out the whole schedule here (or pick up the handy program guide in Harvard Book Store or around the festival).
We'll be camped out at the Boston Common Hotel selling books for panels on historical fiction, libraries of the future, memoir, and for "Twenty Questions with Steve Almond," among others, so come say hi!
Martin Parr, This Saturday
Also on Saturday: over on this side of the river at Harvard, we'll be helping out as Phaidon Press hosts famed British photographer Martin Parr, one of the great chroniclers of the contradictions and absurdities of life and leisure in the age of late capitalism.
Martin Parr joins Paul Larosa in conversation about the making of The Photobook: A History, Volume III, for a free event on Saturday at 3pm at Harvard's Carpenter Center, followed by a book signing.
Learn more here.
Mayor Menino Event Canceled
 Regretfully we must announce that Mayor Menino's Mayor for a New America appearance at the First Parish Church on Monday, October 27, has been canceled. His book tour will be postponed indefinitely. We send our regrets for any inconvenience, and send the former mayor of Boston our very best wishes.
John S. said it well in a comment on our Facebook page last night:
"I am sorry to hear the news about Mayor Menino. His book tour would have been a fitting victory lap for his many years of public service. We are all hoping he returns to good health."
Crummy Outside, Cozy Inside
Pretty crummy weather these last few days, eh? But hey, it's nice and cozy here inside Harvard Book Store.
We'll see you in the store soon. Perhaps on Sunday, November 2, for our annual Frequent Buyer Sale? Learn more here. 
Thanks for reading,
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Gretel and the Dark:
A Novel
by Eliza Granville
$27.95
Riverhead, hardcover
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My Favorite Things
by Maira Kalman
$35.00
Harper Design, hardcover
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Love & War:
How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
by Tom Digby
$22.00
Columbia University Press, paperback
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Tom Digby's new book Love and War describes the making and manipulation of gender in militaristic societies and the sweeping consequences for men and women in their personal, romantic, sexual, and professional lives.
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How It Went Down
by Kekla Magoon
$17.99
Henry Holt and Co., hardcover
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy.
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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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Telegraph Avenue:
A Novel
by Michael Chabon
$6.99, hardcover (originally $27.99)
| Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white.
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How About Never -- Is Never Good for You?:
My Life in Cartoons
by Bob Mankoff
$9.99, hardcover (originally $32.50)
| This memoir in cartoons by longtime editor of The New Yorker Bob Mankoff collects his most popular illustrations and a selection of myriad images in a tribute to the form that traces his youth and career while assessing the psychology of cartooning.
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Assassination!:
The Brick Chronicle of Attempts on the Lives of Twelve US Presidents
by Brendan Powell Smith
$9.99, hardcover (originally $9.99)
| Creator of the bestselling The Brick Bible series, author Brendan Powell Smith turns his acclaimed storytelling and illustrative talents to bring to life some of the most shocking, pivotal, and bizarre moments in the history of the United States.
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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 Practice of Dzogchen:
Longchen Rabjam's Writings on the Great Perfection
translated and annotated by Tulku Thondup
Originally published by Snow Lion in 2000 $25.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | This volume is a classic collection of writings on the meditation practice and theory of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, by the celebrated fourteenth-century scholar and adept Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa).
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The Tuning of Place:
Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media
by Richard Coyne
Originally published by The MIT Press in 2010
$15.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| How do pervasive digital devices influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces -- of tuning place.
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The Soul at Work:
From Alienation to Autonomy
by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Originally published by Semiotext(e) in 2009
$8.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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In this, his newest book, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, key member of the Italian Autonomist movement, presents an examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture -- and a clarion call for a 'conspiracy of estranged people.'
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
Tickets on Sale Oct 28:
 
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Judith E. Smith
Fri, Oct 24, 3PM
|  | Professor Judith E. Smith discusses Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical.
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Vikram Chandra
Fri, Oct 24, 7PM
|  | Vikram Chandra presents Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty.
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Boston Book Festival
Thurs-Sat, Oct 23-25
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Jeremy Sewall
Mon, Oct 27, 7PM
|  | Boston chef Jeremy Sewall presents The New England Kitchen: Fresh Takes on Seasonal Recipes.
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Thomas M. Menino
Mon, Oct 27, 7PM
|  | THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
| At the First Parish Church
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Oct 27, 7PM
|  | Our monthly in-store book club discusses Robert Graves' 1929 autobiography, Good-bye to All That.
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Alan Wolfe
Tues, Oct 28, 7PM
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Alan Doyle
Wed, Oct 29, 6PM
|  | Alan Doyle, lead singer in the Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea, discusses his memoir, Where I Belong.
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$5 tickets
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Amy Poehler
Wed, Oct 29, 8PM
|  | THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. There will be no standby line.
| At Back Bay Events Center
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Val Wang
Thurs, Oct 30, 7PM
|  | Local author and documentarian Val Wang discusses her memoir Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China.
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Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Fri, Oct 31, 3PM
|  | Tufts University's Leila Tarazi Fawaz discusses A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War.
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Friday Forum
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Timothy Verstynen
Fri, Oct 31, 7PM
|  | Halloween at Harvard Book Store means zombies and neuroscience! Timothy Verstynen presents Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain.
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Author Event Info
Discounts
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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Recommended
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Browse our October 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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