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Our summer author event series continues
these next few weeks
before taking the last couple weeks of August off. Before the break,
join us for a wide range of events -- fiction, science, history, and
more -- to whet your summer reading appetite.
Purchase tickets now for
New Yorker
staff writer
Jeffrey Toobin,
author of The Run of His Life, which was made into the recent critically acclaimed FX series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Toobin will
join us for a discussion of his gripping new book,
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst,
with WBUR's David Boeri.
Join us, and check out our full July and August events schedule
here.
In just a little more than a week,
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,
the eighth Harry Potter story,
will hit the shelves in bookstores across the country.
Can't wait, and need something to read in the meantime? Take a look at our recommendations for some magical stories to check out while you're waiting for July 30th.
In Case You Missed It
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Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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The Hopefuls:
A Novel
by Jennifer Close
$26.95
Knopf, hardcover
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A scathingly funny but tenderhearted novel about ambition and marriage, The Hopefuls
tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his
political dreams to Washington, DC, a city of idealism, gossip, and
complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite.
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Almighty:
Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
by Dan Zak
$27.00
Blue Rider Press, hardcover
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In Almighty, Washington Post
reporter Dan Zak reexamines America's love-hate relationship to the
bomb, from the race to achieve atomic power before the Nazis did to the
solemn 70th anniversary of Hiroshima.
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Foucault's Last Decade
by Stuart Elden
$26.95
Polity, paperback
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Stuart Elden draws on all Foucault's
writings during this final period, his courses at the Collège de France
and lectures elsewhere, as well as material archived in France and
California to provide a comprehensive account of Foucault's last decade.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Remix
by Non Pratt
$17.99
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, hardcover
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Told in alternating perspectives between best friends Ruby and Kaz,
Remix is the story of two teenage
girls fighting to hold on to their splintering relationships and
rediscovering that true friendship -- like love -- is not so easily
broken.
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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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Moments in Time
by Wendy Woodfield
$18.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Moments in Time
is a collection of fifty-nine very short nonfiction stories in which
Wendy Woodfield, a passionate woman born in the 40s, recalls some of her
more intimate memories from childhood to the present day.
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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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Hild:
A Novel
by Nicola Griffith
$7.99, paperback (originally $18.00)
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Hild is
a sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman
of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. Working from what little
historical record is extant, Nicola Griffith brings a beautiful, brutal
world to vivid, absorbing life.
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A Labyrinth of Kingdoms:
10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
by Steve Kemper
$6.99, hardcover (originally $28.95)
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A Labyrinth of Kingdoms describes Heinrich
Barth's 1849 epic, five-year journey into the unexplored regions of
North and Central Africa, detailing the many discoveries he made as he
traveled 10,000 miles, lost most of his companions, and finally arrived
at the legendary city of Timbuktu.
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Philip Guston Retrospective
by Michael Auping
$19.99, paperback (originally $29.95)
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This
comprehensive volume brings together the different bodies of Guston's
work, exposing the connective threads between each of his developmental
stages. In-depth essays by critics and art historians explore his early
influences and the emergence of symbols that resurfaced in his later
work.
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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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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic:
From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance
by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Originally published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic examines
magic's depiction as a malevolent force from ancient Egypt through
the Middle Ages, demonstrating that it took until the Italian
Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
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Louise Bourgeois:
Drawings and Observations
by Louise Bourgeois and Lawrence Rinder
Originally published by Bulfinch Press in 1996
$70.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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known primarily for her sculpture, Louise Bourgeois displayed a
lifelong passion for drawing and considered it to be essential to her
oeuvre. This volume combines over fifty years of the artist's drawings
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Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira:
Volumes I and II
by M. Ramakrishna Bhat
Originally published by Motilal Banarsidass in 2010
$50.00 (hardcover, 2 volumes) in Very Good condition
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The
Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira is an
encyclopedia of astrology and other subjects of human interest. M.
Ramakrishna Bhat covers each subject with thoroughness and mastery based
on extensive knowledge of the ancient sastras.
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Upcoming Events
Our
upcoming events schedule is updated through August. Stay tuned for our calendar of September events soon.
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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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Fri, Jul 22, 7PM
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Cultural historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz presents her latest book, A Taste for Provence, an eloquent exploration of how the French region came to be regarded as a paradise.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Jul 25, 7PM
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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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Peter D. Kramer
Tue, Jul 26, 7PM
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Psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer, bestselling author of Listening to Prozac, discusses his latest book, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants.
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Ann Patty
Wed, Jul 27, 7PM
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Publisher and editor Ann Patty discusses her new book, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin -- an exploration of the richness of Latin.
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Deborah Levy
Thu, Jul 28, 7PM
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Deborah Levy -- author of Swimming Home (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012) -- reads from her latest novel, Hot Milk, "a powerful novel of the interior life."
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Robert P. Watson
Fri, Jul 29, 7PM
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Award-winning author Robert P. Watson discusses his latest book, The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II.
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