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Summer Events
We're back! While the store has been the usual
busy mix of summer tourists and book-loving locals, we've taken the last
week off from author events. We're back next week with
more author visits, continuing until mid-August. Join us.
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Some of our upcoming author events.
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Looking
for summer reads? Our staff has gathered a wide range of suggestions:
fun beach-reads, thoughtful and provocative nonfiction, transformative
literary fiction, and more. Check out our display in the store, or
browse the suggestions online here.
In Case You Missed It
Thanks for Choosing Harvard Book Store
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Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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All the Missing Girls
by Megan Miranda
$25.00
Simon & Schuster, hardcover
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"Miranda
convincingly conjures a haunted setting that serves as a character in
its own right, but what really makes this roller-coaster so memorable is
her inspired use of reverse chronology, so that each chapter steps
further back in time, dramatically shifting the reader's
perspective." --Publishers Weekly
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Chaos Monkeys:
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio García Martínez
$29.99
Harper, hardcover
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Liar's Poker meets The Social Network
in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry
provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook
product manager, and startup founder/CEO.
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Scholarly
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State and Politics:
Deleuze and Guattari on Marx
by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc
$18.95
Semiotext(e), paperback
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In
State and Politics, Guillaume
Sibertin-Blanc measures how Deleuze and Guattari engage with the
upheavals of their time by confronting their thought with Marxism, its
epistemological field, and its political grammar.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Hogwarts Classics
by J.K. Rowling
$19.99
Arthur A. Levine Books, hardcover
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Inside the Hogwarts Classics boxed set,
readers will find a pair of books treasured by students at Hogwarts
School for Witchcraft and Wizardry:
Quidditch Through the Ages and
The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
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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 Last Hypothesis:
A Novel
by L.C. Paoletti
$16.99
Print on Demand, paperback
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After
a successful career, Professor Dante Paolo leaves the demands of
academic research for the rewards of retirement. But fate has other
ideas. The Last Hypothesis is an amalgamation of science and fiction set in current day New England.
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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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Cappiello:
The Posters of Leonetto Cappiello
by Jack Rennert
$24.99, hardcover (originally $80.00)
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This
volume is the largest, most authoritative collection of Cappiello's
work ever presented: 534 poster illustrations in full color. Detailed
appraisals and annotations accompany each poster, as well as
biographical information and an insight into Cappiello's graphic
method.
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The Man Who Spoke Snakish
by Andrus Kivirähk
$5.99, paperback (originally $16.00)
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A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish
is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with
preserving his family's ancient traditions in the face of modernity.
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The Edge of the World:
How The North Sea Made Us Who We Are
by Michael Pye
$9.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
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"At
its most meaningful, history involves a good deal of art and
storytelling. . . . By bringing back to life a mostly forgotten cast of
medieval shippers, marauders, thinkers and tinkerers, Pye challenges us
to consider how we got to be where -- and who -- we are." --The New York Times Book Review
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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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Beyond Bosch:
The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print
by Marisa Bass and Elizabeth Wyckoff
Originally published by Saint Louis Art Museum in 2015
$25.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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more than thirty prints in this exhibition each purport, in one way or
another, to descend from the work of Bosch. It is a diverse and varied
group of prints . . . . Each reveals the enduring appeal of the artist's
work and its influence into the early seventeenth century." --from the
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Abstractionist Aesthetics:
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
by Phillip Brian Harper
Originally published by New York University Press in 2015
$14.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Arguing against the need for "positive" representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics
displaces realism as the primary mode of African American
representational aesthetics and re-centers literature as a principal
site of African American cultural politics.
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Sol Lewitt:
A Retrospective
by Gary Garrels
Originally published by San Francisco Museum in 2000
$100.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Sol LeWitt has spent decades creating
artworks that explore the potential of ideas for the making of visual
forms. This volume fosters a deeper understanding of the artist's
career and its significance to American art and thought.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Fiction Fridays
Fridays This Summer
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15% off new fiction!
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Ramona Ausubel
Mon, Jul 11, 7PM
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Ramona Ausubel, author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, reads from her latest novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty. It's the story of a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune -- and its bearings.
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Ada Palmer and Jo Walton
Tue, Jul 12, 7PM
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Sci-fi/fantasy authors Ada Palmer and Jo Walton present their latest books -- Too Like the Lightning and Necessity.
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Bob Proehl
Wed, Jul 13, 7PM
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Bob Proehl reads from his debut novel -- "for anyone who craves a smart family saga. Especially one with superheroes." -- A Hundred Thousand Worlds.
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Priyamvada Natarajan
Thu, Jul 14, 7PM
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Yale physicist and astronomer Priyamvada Natarajan discusses Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos.
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Sara Lewis
Fri, Jul 15, 7PM
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Tufts biologist Sara Lewis presents Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies.
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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, Jul 25, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America, an alternate reality set in 1940, in which rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh is elected President.
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