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Go Outside with a Book
The bad news. Summer is winding down.
The good news? After a couple weeks off, our
author event series returns next week with a fascinating and inspiring lineup of speakers.
Now's also a great time to sign up for our
Signed First Edition Club
for guaranteed signed first editions of some of the most anticipated
books of the season. And we still have a limited quantity of
signed books available for purchase from this spring/summer's author visits.
So summer may be coming to a close, but we
still have plenty of weeks left in 2016 to appreciate the temperate,
friendly outdoors; take a peek at our Lonely Planet window celebrating
100 years of our National Parks this week.
Let's do some good old-fashioned reading outside this weekend.
Speaking
of amazing events -- and 100 year anniversaries -- check out what's
happening across the street at Harvard in September.
On the
weekend of September 10th and 11th the Nieman Foundation for Journalism
at Harvard University will host a special centennial celebration of the
Pulitzer Prizes. Head to Sanders Theatre as Nieman presents a weekend of
performances, conversations, and talks highlighting the work of more
than twenty Pulitzer Prize winners and exploring the theme "Power:
Accountability and Abuse."
The programming includes a
performance by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis ... extraordinary
journalists, poets, authors, playwrights, historians, musicians and
other speakers ... a recorded conversation with "Hamilton" creator and
star Lin-Manuel Miranda ... and the weekend ends with an evening
performance of composer John Adams' Pulitzer-winning piece inspired by
9/11.
Learn more and get tickets here.
In Case You Missed It
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Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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Behold the Dreamers:
A Novel
by Imbolo Mbue
$28.00
Random House, hardcover
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Behold the Dreamers is
Imbolo Mbue's debut novel of marriage, immigration, class, race, and
the trapdoors in the American Dream -- the story of a young Cameroonian
couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends
the economy.
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A Square Meal:
A Culinary History of the Great Depression
by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
$26.99
Harper, hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard
and her husband, a culinary historian, comes an in-depth exploration of
the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced -- the Great
Depression -- and how it transformed America's culinary culture.
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Scholarly
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Data Love:
The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies
by Roberto
Simanowski
Columbia University Press, hardcover
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Data Love argues that the dark side
of data mining cannot be confined to tensions between citizens and
government: the phenomenon has instigated a transfiguration of society,
one in which we are all involved.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
by Kenard Pak
$17.99
Henry Holt and Co., hardcover
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Join a young girl as she takes a walk
through forest and town, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In
a series of conversations with every flower and creature and gust of
wind, she says good-bye to summer and welcomes autumn.
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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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Light of Urim
by Kenneth B. Smith
$17.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Apple
orchards, watermelon, sun scorched soil, nightly forays, and cross
cultural friendships provide the backdrop for this memoir of a young man
seeking answers to the mystique of Kibbutz Urim in 1964-1965.
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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 Best of Rose Elliot:
The Ultimate Vegetarian Collection
by Rose Elliot
$7.99, hardcover (originally $29.99)
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This collection features Rose Elliot's favorite recipes from two of her best-loved books -- Vegetarian Supercook and Sumptuous Suppers. The Best of Rose Elliot is a timely compilation of the very best that vegetarian cuisine has to offer.
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Believing Is Seeing:
Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
by Errol Morris
$5.99, paperback (originally $25.00)
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In
his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an
eclectic range of documentary photographs. Each essay is part detective
story, part philosophical meditation, and investigates the relationship
between photographs and the real world they theoretically record.
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Bulfinch Illustrated Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch
$12.99, hardcover (originally $17.99)
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Bulfinch Mythology
is the best-known compilation of ancient myths and legends. In this
gorgeous edition, works of art accompany Thomas Bulfinch's simple but
elegant retelling of the most enduring stories of ancient Greece and
Rome.
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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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Old Angel Midnight
by Jack Kerouac
Originally published by Midnight Press in 1985
$50.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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is a treasure trove of Kerouac's experiments with automatic writing. He
called it "my idea of how to make a try at a 'spontaneous Finnegan's
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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution:
A Global Perspective
by Toby E. Huff
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2011
$15.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Seventeenth-century
Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and
innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of
1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework.
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Tradition and Innovation in Late Antiquity
edited by F.M. Clover and R.S. Humphreys
Originally published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1989
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Modern observers often portray Late
Antiquity as an age of cataclysmic change and new beginnings. By
focusing on culture and institutions,
Tradition and Innovation in Late Antiquity offers a more realistic portrait of gradual transitions.
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Upcoming Events
Our events calendar is now updated into October with newly announced author visits. Browse our complete
upcoming events lineup.
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Ann Patchett (Sep 29)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
Tickets on Sale Soon:
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Fiction Fridays
Fridays This Summer
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15% off new fiction! The final Fiction Friday of summer is September 2nd.
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An Evening with Pangyrus
Mon, Aug 29, 7PM
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Pangyrus
-- launching its second print edition this month -- is Boston's new
journal of literature, perspective, arts, and politics. Join us for
readings by Anne Bernays, Jonathan Escoffery, Carrie Oeding, Shanoor
Seervai, and Jonathan Weinert.
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Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers
Tue, Aug 30, 7PM
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Brandeis University's Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers of Boston University discuss The Age of Longevity: Re-Imagining Tomorrow for Our New Long Lives.
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Jace Clayton
Wed, Aug 31, 7PM
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Essayist and DJ Jace Clayton discusses Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture.
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Sebastian Smee
Thu, Sep 1, 7PM
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Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for the Boston Globe, discusses The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art.
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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, Sep 26, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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