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Reads for Grads
It's graduation season -- time for summer
goodbyes, picking out summer reading, and perhaps a little bit of soul
searching to determine what's coming next.
Browse our display for grads in the store, or
here on the web.
Once those grad gowns get returned and packed away, it's time to get back to reading. Perhaps your grad (or yourself?)
a subscription to our Signed First Edition Club.
Each month members will receive a new signed book that we love . . .
upcoming selections include Louise Erdrich's latest novel,
LaRose ("One of Erdrich's finest achievements," says
The Boston Globe). Learn more
here.
Fiction
Fridays continue this week, and all summer long. Stop by the store on
any Friday for 15% off fiction titles (excluding used books and
remainders, but including paperback and hardcover fiction, graphic
novels, kids books, and more.) Learn more here.
In Case You Missed It
In May we hosted Lucy Kalanithi and Neel Shah
for a discussion of Lucy's late husband Paul Kalanithi's bestselling
book,
When Breath Becomes Air. Check out the
video, courtesy of the
Forum Network.
Thanks for Choosing Harvard Book Store
We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send any comments to Alex at
newsletter@harvard.com.
Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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A Hero of France
by Alan Furst
$27.00
Random House, hardcover
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1941.
The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the
farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups
of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying
forces of Adolf Hitler.
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The View from the Cheap Seats:
Selected Nonfiction
by Neil Gaiman
$26.99
William Morrow, hardcover
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"Filled
to bursting with Neil Gaiman's humor, wisdom, and hope, all articulated
in the thoughtful, generous prose we know and love, The View From the Cheap Seats
will keep you company, give you solace, and help you think deeper,
smile harder, breathe easier." --Serena L., Harvard Book Store
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Scholarly
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Turing's Vision:
The Birth of Computer Science
by Chris Bernhardt
$26.95
The MIT Press, hardcover
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In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years
old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the
theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern
computers. In
Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the general reader.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Strong As a Bear
by Katrin Stangl
$16.95
Enchanted Lion Books, hardcover
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Structured around idioms (including a few made-up ones),
Strong As a Bear is filled with illustrations that are sweet, funny, thoughtful, and beautifully composed.
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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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The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne
$11.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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Remembered
today as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne was a well-known
playwright, novelist, and short story writer before Pooh first appeared.
The Red House Mystery, originally published in 1922, follows two amateur detectives as they unravel a murder mystery in the English countryside.
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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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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$7.99, hardcover (originally $26.00)
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The
winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to
the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose.
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Mr. Mercedes:
A Novel
by Stephen King
$7.99, hardcover (originally $30.00)
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In
a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most
unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a
lone killer from blowing up thousands.
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Bream Gives Me Hiccups
by Jesse Eisenberg
$6.99, hardcover (originally $26.00)
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"With its panoply of neurotics and narcissists and its smart mix of stinging satire and surprising moments of sweetness, Bream Gives Me Hiccups brings to mind fellow comic actor/writers Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and B.J. Novak.'" --NPR Books
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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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The Enlightenment Past:
Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought
by Daniel Brewer
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2011
$25.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Over
the last two hundred years the Enlightenment has come to be viewed as
the foundation of modern Western intellectual culture. In a series of
richly contextualized readings, Daniel Brewer examines the cultural
construction of the Enlightenment in France from the eighteenth century
to the present day.
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by Ernest Sosa
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2015
$25.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining
issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with
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Luigi Moretti:
Works and Writings
by Federico Bucci and Marco Mulazzani
Originally published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002
$125.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Luigi Moretti is the first
English-language monograph on the Italian architect whose monumental
works include the urban plan of the Foro Italico, the Piazza Imperiale,
Palazzo Civilta Italiana, and a renowned entry for the E.U.R.
competition of 1937.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Negin Farsad
Fri, June 3, 7PM
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Negin Farsad discusses How to Make White People Laugh -- a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism.
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Russell Banks
Mon, Jun 6, 7PM
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Award-winning novelist Russell Banks reads from his latest book, Voyager: Travel Writings -- a collection of travel essays that spans the globe.
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Danielle Allen
Tue, Jun 7, 7PM
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Harvard professor and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Danielle Allen, discusses her book Education and Equality, arguing that education plays a crucial role in the cultivation of political and social equality and economic fairness.
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Mary Roach
Wed, Jun 8, 6PM
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Mary Roach -- bestselling author of Gulp, Packing for Mars, and Stiff -- discusses her latest book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, in conversation with Deborah Blum.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 Tickets
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Chuck Klosterman
Thu, Jun 9, 6PM
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Chuck Klosterman, bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and I Wear the Black Hat, discusses his latest book, But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 Tickets
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Yaa Gyasi
Fri, Jun 10, 7PM
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Yaa Gyasi reads from her ambitious debut, Homegoing.
The novel opens in 18th-century Ghana and follows seven generations of a
family that descends from two half sisters who never knew each other.
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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, Jun 27, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Edith Pearlman's story collection Honeydew.
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