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This week we joined Harvard's Memorial Church in
welcoming acclaimed novelist, essayist, and professor Marilynne
Robinson as she delivered the 2016 Noble Lecture to a captivated crowd
in the heart of Harvard Yard at the landmark church.
Ms. Robinson generously signed books for those in attendance, plus additional copies of her recent essay collection
The Givenness of Things and her most recent novel
Lila (in
hardcover and
paperback).
These are just a few of the many
signed books
available now at Harvard Book Store. With Mother's Day and commencement
gift-giving just around the corner, signed books make great gifts!
 Need more gift ideas for a new grad? Provide the gift of thoughtfully selected signed first editions
year-round. Give a gift subscription to our
Signed First Edition Club to a reader in your life. Upcoming selections include books by Adam Haslett and Louise Erdrich.
This week we posted our May author event calendar, and there's a lot of exciting stuff coming up. In particular you'll want to check out upcoming ticketed events and signings.
Newly announced ticketed events include Harvard Law's Cass Sunstein exploring the lessons of Star Wars (plus what it can teach us about constitutional law, economics, and political uprisings) and culinary icon Eric Ripert with his memoir 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line.
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Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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The Story of Kullervo
by J.R.R. Tolkien
$25.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, hardcover
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The Story of Kullervo is t
he first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls:
The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by Nathalia Holt
$27.00
Little, Brown and Company, hardcover
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"Wow!
Talk about forgotten history! . . . This is an excellent contribution
to American history, valuable not only for what it reveals about the
space program and gender equality but even more as great reading." --Booklist
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Scholarly
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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
by Frank M. Turner
$20.00
Yale University Press, paperback
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For years, Frank Turner taught a landmark
Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history. Richard
A. Lofthouse has now edited these lectures into a single volume that
outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of European
ideas.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Waylon!
One Awesome Thing
by Sara Pennypacker
$15.99
Disney-Hyperion, hardcover
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Waylon has lots of ideas for making life
more awesome through science, like teleportation, human gills, and
attracting cupcakes by controlling gravity. But it's impossible for him
to concentrate on his inventions when he's experiencing his own personal
Big Bang.
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Printed on Paige
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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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Microchondria III:
More Short Short Stories
Collected by Harvard Book Store
$11.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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We're so proud of our latest Harvard Book Store anthology, Microchondria III!
Check out short (very short!) stories selected from hundreds of
submissions and edited into this beautiful little book in February 2016,
available in three different cover designs. (Design above by Jeremy
Parker.)
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Remainders
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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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New American Haggadah
edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
$6.99, paperback (originally $16.00)
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Jonathan
Safran Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and
understanding one of our oldest stories, with a new translation of the
traditional text by Nathan Englander and provocative commentary by major
Jewish writers and thinkers.
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Fenway 1912:
The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
by Glenn Stout
$5.99, paperback (originally $15.95)
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In Fenway 1912,
Glenn Stout tells the remarkable story of Fenway's first year, from the
long winter when locals poured concrete to the ragtag Red Sox team that
embarked on a journey to the World Series while the paint was still
drying.
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The Bitter Years:
Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs
by Jean Back
$29.99, hardcover (originally $60.00)
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The Bitter Years
was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen. This volume
includes all the photographs in the original show, in a structure and
sequence that reflect its design.
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Recent Finds in the Used Department
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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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Why England Slept
by John F. Kennedy
Originally published by Dolphin Books in 1968
$15.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Written
and published in 1940 when John F. Kennedy was still in college and
reprinted in 1961 when he was president, this book is an appraisal of
the tragic events of the thirties that led to World War II.
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Women in Clothes
by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 others
Originally published by Blue Rider Press in 2014
$15.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Women in Clothes is
essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities
-- famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old
-- on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day
define and shape our lives.
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Vegetables from an Italian Garden:
Season by Season Recipes
by the Editors of Phaidon Press
Originally published by Phaidon Press in 2011
$20.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Vegetables from an Italian Garden
features 400 delicious recipes showcasing over 40 different kinds of
vegetables collected by the editors behind the classic Italian cooking
bible,
The Silver Spoon.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Chris Anderson at the Brattle Theatre (May 3)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
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Sidney Blumenthal at the Brattle Theatre (May 13)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
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Joe Hill at the Brattle Theatre (May 17)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
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Patrick J. Maney
Fri, Apr 8, 3PM
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Boston College professor of history Patrick J. Maney discusses his book Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Marie Rutkoski
Fri, Apr 8, 7PM
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YA authors Marie Rutkoski and Kristin Cashore discuss the final book in Rutkoski's Winner's Trilogy, The Winner's Kiss.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Thomas Frank
Fri, Apr 8, 7PM
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Bestselling author and founding Baffler editor Thomas Frank discusses his book Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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At First Parish Church
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Allyson Hobbs
Mon, Apr 11, 7PM
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Stanford history professor Allyson Hobbs discusses her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Geoff Manaugh
Tues, Apr 12, 7PM
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BLDGBLOG founder Geoff Manaugh discusses his book A Burglar's Guide to the City, an architectural exploration of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Adina Hoffman
Wed, Apr 13, 7PM
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Adina Hoffman discusses Till We Have Built Jerusalem, a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Louisa Thomas
Thurs, Apr 14, 7PM
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Louisa Thomas discusses Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Adam B. Seligman and Rahel R. Wasserfall
Fri, Apr 15, 3PM
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Adam B. Seligman and Rahel R. Wasserfall of CEDAR (Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion) discuss Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Matthew Desmond
Fri, Apr 15, 7PM
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Harvard's Matthew Desmond presents Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
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Harvard Book Store is locally owned and
independently run, and has been since 1932. Thank you for your continued
support.
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The Next Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Apr 25, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Helen Macdonald's award-winning book H Is for Hawk.
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