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Thanks to all who came out to explore our Somerville warehouse last weekend for our latest semi-annual Warehouse Sale, and making it one of the best yet.
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Packing up the books after another wonderful Warehouse Sale
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We'll be contacting the winners of our signed book giveaway soon, so cross your fingers, and watch your inbox. Everyone, enjoy your stacks of new books!
Season's Goings-On
We're winding down our events series for the holiday season, but there's still plenty going on in our community.
- First Night -- we're selling buttons in the store for First Night Boston festivities, Boston's New Year's Eve celebration. Pick them up at the bookstore.
Just a Reminder & Thanks
Thank you for shifting your shopping to local and independent businesses this holiday season.
Need gift ideas? Talk to a bookseller, browse our shelves, shop our Holiday Hundred, watch your e-mail for more ideas from Harvard Book Store, and stay tuned to Radio Boston next week for the broadcast of our staff's recent discussion of great gift books, joined by author Celeste Ng and host Anthony Brooks.
Looking to 2015
With a new year around the corner, you know what that means.
We debuted the 2015 Harvard Book Store bookmark this week, with a beautiful new illustration by Andrew J. Brozyna. Check out the artist's inviting rendering of our philosophy and biography aisle, and as always, the year's calendar is on the back.
Also 2015-related: we're rolling out the 2015 events calendar on harvard.com/events. Take a look!
Thanks for reading,
Alex
  | | | Gift Ideas from the Holiday Hundred | Shop our staff's handpicked selection of some of the best books to give this holiday season. Every title from the Holiday Hundred is 20% off through December 31. View the complete list here.
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Fiction
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
$28.00/$22.40
Hogarth, hardcover
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos:
A Miami Childhood
by Richard Blanco
$25.99/$20.79
Ecco, hardcover
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Essays & Criticism
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Bad Feminist:
Essays
by Roxane Gay
$15.99/$12.79
Harper Perennial, hardcover
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In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay traces the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through the culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today.
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Art & Design
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The Boston Raphael:
A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change, and a Daughter's Search for the Truth
by Belinda Rathbone
$29.95/$23.96
David R Godine, hardcover
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In December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown painting attributed to Raphael. The Boston Raphael was a media sensation in its time, but the full story is now revealed by the director's daughter.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
by Rick Riordan
$24.99/$19.99
Disney-Hyperion, hardcover
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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 Conference of the Birds
by Peter Sis
$5.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
| Caldecott Honor-winning children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, "The Conference of the Birds."
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Hitler's Spy Chief:
The Wilhelm Canaris Betrayal
by Richard Bassett
$7.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
| In a riveting true story of intrigue and espionage, Richard Bassett tells of Hitler's intelligence chief, Wilhelm Canaris, his secret work against the German leadership, and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Führer.
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Brewster:
A Novel
by Mark Slouka
$7.99, hardcover (originally $25.95)
| The saga of an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town, Brewster is an unforgettable coming-of-age story from one of our most compelling novelists.
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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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Japanese Book-Binding:
Instructions from a Master Craftsman
by Kojiro Ikegami
Originally published by Weatherhill in 1986 $15.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition | A third-generation traditional bookbinder gives easy-to-follow instructions for making all the historically important bindings as well as traditional book cases -- the custom-made folding boxes that afford handsome protection for Japan's exquisite books.
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Joseph Cornell:
Navigating the Imagination
by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Originally published by Yale University Press in 2000
$120.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| Joseph Cornell was a self-taught yet highly sophisticated artist who is celebrated for his achievement in collage, assemblage, and film. This stunning book was published to accompany the first retrospective of the artist's work in twenty-six years.
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Louise Bourgeois:
Suspension
edited by Ellen Robinson
Originally published by Skira Editore in 2014
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Louise Bourgeois is widely celebrated for her work on the abiding themes of birth, childhood, family and motherhood. This striking volume is published to accompany an exhibition of Bourgeois' hanging works at Cheim & Read in New York.
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Harvard Book Store Gives Back
Sun, Dec 14, 10AM-10PM
|  | Shop with Harvard Book Store on Sundays this holiday season and your purchases will help support local charitable organizations.
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Glenn Kurtz
Mon, Dec 15, 7PM
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| Glenn Kurtz explores haunting film footage taken by his grandfather -- ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town -- in his latest book, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film.
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Harvard Book Store Gives Back
Sun, Dec 21, 10AM-10PM
| | December 21 is the final day of 2014 to shop with us to help support 826 Boston, Community Cooks, and Partners in Health Engage.
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Free Shipping
through Dec 31
|  | Our usual "Saver Shipping" promotion is EVEN BETTER for the holidays. Spend $25+ on an order (in the store or on harvard.com) and ship your books for FREE, via media mail.
| At Harvard Book Store and online at harvard.com
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Holiday Hundred
20% off through Dec 31
|  | We're featuring one hundred of the best books to give this holiday season.
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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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