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 Ticketed Events This Week
Tickets ($5) are still available for upcoming events with David McCullough for The Wright Brothers on Monday...
... and Richart Thaler for Misbehaving on Wednesday.
"Misbehaving gives us the story behind some of the most important insights in modern economics. If I had to be trapped in an elevator with any contemporary intellectual, I'd pick Richard Thaler." --Malcolm Gladwell
Learn more about ticketed events here.
Book Learnin'
This month's featured books spotlight is on higher education. Find Fareed Zakaria's In Defense of a Liberal Education, Derek Bok's Higher Education in America, and more.
Plus, it's commencement season! Our annual graduation display has plenty of gift ideas for the grad in your life.
Give a Signed Book
Signed books make great gifts! Whether it's for a birthday, graduation, Father's Day, or just because you spot a title someone you love will love -- Harvard Book Store has lots of possibilities. 
Signed books on our shelves now include A Girl and Her Greens by chef April Bloomfield, The Light of the World by poet Elizabeth Alexander, Meb For Mortals by runner Meb Keflezighi, and Frank by longtime congressman Barney Frank.
Or consider a membership in our Signed First Edition Club. Past selections over the years have included Pulitzer winners All the Light We Cannot See, The Goldfinch, and The Orphan Master's Son. Upcoming selections include McCullough's The Wright Brothers and The Green Road by Anne Enright. Learn more and sign up here.
In Case You Missed It
In March we were delighted to host local author Nina MacLaughlin as she launched her book Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter -- her story of quitting a desk job to become a carpenter.
Browse the HBS Channel, our video 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
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Housebreaking:
A Novel
by Dan Pope
$25.00
Simon & Schuster, hardcover
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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Handbook for Girl Geeks
by Sam Maggs
$15.95
Quirk Books, hardcover
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Scholarly
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Teaching Plato in Palestine:
Philosophy in a Divided World
by Carlos Fraenkel
$27.95
Princeton University Press, hardcover
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Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites us on a tour around the world as he helps students tackle life's big questions.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
$12.99
HarperTeen, paperback
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Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from rising star Noelle Stevenson -- perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and sure to win Nimona many new ones.
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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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Winter Harvest:
Bob Dylan to Jalaluddin Rumi
by Shems Friedlander
$17.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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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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Townie:
A Memoir
by Andre Dubus III
$5.99, paperback (originally $15.95)
| In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others -- bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.
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Justice:
What's the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael J. Sandel
$6.99, paperback (originally $15.00)
| In this acclaimed book -- based on his legendary Harvard course -- Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the issues and controversies we face today, a lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a robust and thoughtful discourse.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
$5.99, hardcover (originally $17.99)
| A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that brilliantly mixes fiction and photography.
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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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Sub Pop USA:
The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988
by Bruce Pavitt
Originally published by Bazillion Points in 2014 $20.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition | From Beat Happening and Pell Mell to early records by the Beastie Boys, Metallica, and Run DMC, Sub Pop was a 1980s independent music bible, written with a diverse appreciation for happening scenes across the USA.
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Yankee India:
American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784-1860
by Susan S. Bean
Originally published by the Peabody Essex Museum in 2001
$20.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
| Built around mariners' journals of their pioneering voyages, Yankee India charts the early development of commercial and cultural relations between the United States and India. Images of India at the time augment and illustrate the story.
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Maya Lin:
Here and There
by Maya Lin
Originally published by Pace Gallery in 2013
$85.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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From the Introduction: "The preciousness of these geographic portraits quietly but urgently calls upon us to protect the aquatic arteries on which they are based, for they are truly fragile and truly irreplaceable."
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Pierpaolo Barbieri
Fri, May 15, 3PM
|  | Pierpaolo Barbieri presents Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War.
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Jim Shepard
Fri, May 15, 7PM
|  | Jim Shepard ("one of the best writers you've never heard of" writes Vulture) reads from his novel The Book of Aron, a child's-eye view of the Holocaust.
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Joanna Rakoff
Sat, May 16, 7PM
|  | Cambridge author Joanna Rakoff discusses her memoir My Salinger Year, in conversation with the Boston Globe's Sacha Pfeiffer.
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David McCullough
Mon, May 18, 7PM
|  | Historian David McCullough presents The Wright Brothers -- "a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency" (The New York Times).
| At First Parish Church
$5 tickets
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Lou Ureneck
Tue, May 19, 7PM
|  | Boston University's Lou Ureneck discusses The Great Fire: One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide.
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Richard H. Thaler
Wed, May 20, 6PM
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| Nudge co-author Richard H. Thaler discusses Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, in conversation with Stumbling on Happiness author Daniel Gilbert, moderated by Here and Now's Robin Young.
| At the Brattle Theatre
$5 tickets
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GrubStreet Launch Lab: The Myth of Solid Ground
Thu, May 21, 7PM
|  | Recent GrubStreet Launch Lab participants Stephanie Kegan, Robin McLean, and Sylvia True join us for a presentation of their work that explores just how fragile the foundation of an ordinary life can be -- Golden State: A Novel, Reptile House, and The Wednesday Group.
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Jon Fine and Clint Conley
Thu, May 21, 8PM
|  | Inc. magazine executive editor Jon Fine and Clint Conley, Mission of Burma musician, discuss Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear).
| At the LilyPad
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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.
Tickets & Coupons
$5 tickets are also coupons good for $5 off a purchase at Harvard Book Store.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Tue, May 26, 7PM
|  | The May selection for our monthly in-store book club discussion is Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary.
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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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