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Summertime
The energy in Harvard Square is always a bit
different come summertime, with fewer students traipsing down Plympton
Street, more newcomers to Boston and Cambridge visiting the Square and
exploring our shelves for the first time, and a quieter -- but still
busy! -- author event calendar here at Harvard Book Store. The store is
bustling with those shopping for summer reads and new perspectives, and
great authors are still coming by most nights to share their work with our customers.
And let's not forget to mention the upcoming Harvard Book Store
Warehouse Sale over in Somerville. We're counting down the days.
This is all to say, summer is a good time
for readers, and your local independent bookstore is a fine spot for us
to gather these warm summer days.
Father's Day is Sunday! We've highlighted a fine selection of cards and Father's Day gift ideas in the store this week.
In Case You Missed It
In May we hosted Sidney Blumenthal for his biography of Abraham Lincoln,
A Self-Made Man. 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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New on Our Shelves
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The Girls:
A Novel
by Emma Cline
$27.00
Random House, hardcover
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An
indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in
life when everything can go horribly wrong -- this stunning first novel
is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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A House Full of Daughters:
A Memoir of Seven Generations
by Juliet Nicolson
$26.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover
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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women, A House Full of Daughters is one woman's investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past.
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Scholarly
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Exhaustion:
A History
Columbia University Press, hardcover
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Beginning in classical antiquity,
Exhaustion: A History demonstrates
how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more
critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon.
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Kids & Young Adult
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It's Ramadan, Curious George
by H. A. Rey
$7.99
HMH Books for Young Readers, board book
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It's the first day of Ramadan, and George is
celebrating with his friend Kareem and his family. George helps Kareem
with his first fast and joins in the evening celebration by tasting
treats and enjoying a special meal.
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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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Two More Speeches
by President Barack Obama
$5.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Harvard
Book Store presents two more of President Barack Obama's most
influential speeches. His "Speech on Race" and "Eulogy for the Honorable
Reverand Clementa Pinckney" are published here in a single volume on
our Espresso Book Machine.
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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 Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons:
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by Sam Kean
$10.99, hardcover (originally $27.00)
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In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons,
Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities:
phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients'
memories, and blind people who see through their tongues.
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Big Science:
Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
by Michael Hiltzik
$9.99, hardcover (originally $30.00)
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From
a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes the untold story of how
science went "big," built the bombs that helped win World War II, and
became dependent on government and industry -- and the forgotten genius
who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.
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Massin
by Laetitia Wolff
$29.99, hardcover (originally $75.00)
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This
is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one
of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design.
Laetitia Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed
discussion of some of his most inventive projects.
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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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In the World Interior of Capital:
Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization
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Peter Sloterdijk
Originally published by Polity in 2013
$16.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, in In the World Interior of Capital, Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Enigmas and Riddles in Literature
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2009
$25.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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An
important contribution to studies of poetic thought and metaphor, this
anatomy of the riddle will appeal particularly to readers and scholars
of poetry, modern American and comparative literature, rhetoric, and
folk-riddles.
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The Melancholy Art
by Michael Ann Holly
Originally published by Princeton University Press in 2013
$15.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art,
The Melancholy Art
explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft.
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Upcoming Events
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Fiction Fridays
Fridays This Summer
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15% off new fiction!
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At Harvard Book Store
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Alain de Botton
Fri, Jun 17, 6PM
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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Review our Sold Out Event FAQ.
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At the Brattle Theatre
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Zora O'Neill
Fri, Jun 17, 7PM
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Travel writer Zora O'Neill discusses All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World.
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Mark Beauregard
Mon, Jun 20, 7PM
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Debut novelist Mark Beauregard explores the emotionally charged friendship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Whale: A Love Story.
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Tues, Jun 21, 7PM
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English professor Matthew G. Kirschenbaum discusses Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing with an introduction by Harvard's Matthew Battles.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Nancy L. Rosenblum
Wed, Jun 22, 7PM
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Harvard's Nancy L. Rosenblum, Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, discusses Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America.
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GrubStreet Launch Lab: Breaking with the Past
Thu, Jun 23, 7PM
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GrubStreet presents debut novelists Jennifer S. Brown and Marian McMahon Stanley reading from their books Modern Girls and The Immaculate.
Stanley and Brown touch on the role of religion in their novels as
their characters are forced to break with traditions from the past.
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Mark Billingham with Joseph Finder
Fri, Jun 24, 7PM
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Bestselling British thriller writer Mark Billingham presents his latest book, Die of Shame, in conversation with bestselling Bostonian author Joseph Finder.
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Our Summer Warehouse Sale
Sat/Sun, Jun 25-26, 10AM-6PM
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It's here! Our beloved warehouse sale, featuring thousands of deeply discounted remaindered and used books.
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William Finnegan
Sat, Jun 25, 7PM
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William Finnegan, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, discusses Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life -- now in paperback.
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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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