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Harvard Square in September
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Fall Releases and Awards
Hitting the shelves on Tuesday is the latest by acclaimed biographer
Tracy Kidder -- the "master of the nonfiction narrative" -- with what he's calling a sequel to
The Soul of a New Machine, his Pulitzer
winning book from 1981 about the race to build a next-generation
minicomputer. He'll join us for an event on Monday, discussing his
latest,
A Truck Full of Money, in
conversation with the subject of the book, Boston-bred entrepreneur and
inventor Paul English. And we'll host them the night
before the book is released to the world.
A Truck Full of Money will be available exclusively at the event that night, and we're thrilled to launch this Boston-based story right here.
Tickets are on sale now.
Along with shelves full of new arrivals, it's also book award season. The
Man Booker Prize shortlist and
National Book Award longlists came out this week. Take a look, and be sure to check out our upcoming events with NBA longlisters
Cathy O'Neil and
Heather Ann Thompson.
And there's plenty more going on these next couple weeks. View the complete schedule
here.
This weekend you'll find a display in the store celebrating the life and work Hilary Putnam (1926-2016). Professor Putnam was a "giant of modern philosophy," known for his "broad thinking, vivid arguments, and willingness to change his mind." A service celebrating his life will take place this Sunday, September 18th at Harvard.
Brainy Shock Waves
"What better way to taste the brainy shock waves
of Harvard Square, Cambridge's commercial and spiritual epicenter, than
to sample its indie bookstores?"
Harvard Book Store was noted in the recent New York Times "
36 Hours in Cambridge, Mass."
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 Sleeping World:
A Novel
by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
$24.00
Touchstone, hardcover
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"A
searing, beautifully written novel that captures the exhilaration and
dangers of 1970s post-Franco Spain. Mosca, a bitterly jaded young woman,
goes on a harrowing search for her missing brother -- and the
history that destroyed their lives." --Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban
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Shakespeare in Swahililand:
In Search of a Global Poet
by Edward Wilson-Lee
$26.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover
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Shakespeare in Swahililand
tells the unexpected literary history of Shakespeare's influence in
East Africa. Beginning with Victorian-era expeditions in which
Shakespeare's works were the sole reading material carried into the
interior, the Bard has been a vital touchstone throughout the region.
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Scholarly
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Insecure Majorities:
Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
by Frances E. Lee
$30.00
University of Chicago Press, paperback
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With
Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee
offers a controversial new perspective on the rise of congressional
party conflict, showing how the shift in competitive circumstances has
had a profound impact on how Democrats and Republicans interact.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Beautiful
by Stacy McAnulty
$16.95
Running Press Kids, hardcover
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Beautiful breaks barriers by
showing girls free to be themselves: splashing in mud, conducting
science experiments, and reading books under a flashlight with friends.
This book will encourage all girls to embrace who they are and realize
their endless potential.
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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 Ig Nobel Cookbook
by Corky White, Gus Rancatore, and Marc Abrahams
$12.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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The Ig Nobel Cookbook
is a science humor cookbook filled with recipes invented, inherited,
devised, and/or improvised by winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, Nobel
laureates, and organizers of the Ig Nobel Ceremony.
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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 Sacred and The Profane:
The Nature of Religion
by Mircea Eliade
$5.99, paperback (originally $14.00)
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In The Sacred and the Profane,
Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people often believe
their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find
themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred.
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Buildings of Empire
by Ashley Jackson
$10.99, hardcover (originally $34.95)
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Buildings of Empire
takes the reader on a journey through thirteen territories of the
British Empire. From Dublin Castle to the glass and steel of Sir Norman
Foster's Hong Kong, it examines the buildings that capture the essence
of the imperial experience.
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
by Jill Lepore
$5.99, paperback (originally $16.95)
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Wonder
Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most
popular female superhero of all time. In Jill Lepore's riveting
work of historical detection, Wonder Woman's story provides a missing
link in the history of the struggle for women's rights.
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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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Gottland:
Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
by Mariusz Szczygiel
Originally published by Melville House in 2014
$45.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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of Europe's most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the
Czech Republic -- the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia -- to
explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its
twentieth century. |
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by Giles Deleuze
Originally published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013
$25.00 (paperback, 2 volumes) in Very Good condition
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is Deleuze's revolutionary two part work on the theory of cinema.
Influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Deleuze here offers a
compelling analysis of the cinematic treatment of time and memory,
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Frans Hals
by Seymour Slive
Originally published by Phaidon in 2014
$70.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Frans Hals is an authoritative and
perceptive study of one of the greatest Dutch painters of the Golden
Age. Seymour Slive places Hals' career in the social and historical
context of seventeenth-century Holland, exploring the artist's
portraiture alongside works by Hals' predecessors and contemporaries.
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Upcoming Events
Newly announced this week: a signing with Beach Boys founding member
Mike Love. Tickets go on sale Tuesday.
Browse more
upcoming events. Our calendar is updated through October.
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Teddy Wayne
Mon, Sep 19, 7PM
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Teddy Wayne presents his latest novel, Loner -- the chilling story of a first-year Harvard Student -- in conversation with writer Molly Antopol.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Tracy Kidder
Mon, Sep 19, 7PM
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Tracy Kidder discusses A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success in conversation with the subject of this new biography, Kayak.com founder Paul English.
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At First Parish Church
$5 tickets
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Lauren Collins
Tue, Sep 20, 7PM
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New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins discusses When in French: Love in a Second Language.
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At Harvard Book Store
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The Glories of Poetry in Translation, Part 2
Tue, Sep 20, 7PM
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The Poetry Society of America welcomes David McCann, Chloe Garcia Roberts, and Patrick Sylvain, hosted by Martha Collinson.
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Ruth Scurr
Wed, Sep 21, 7PM
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Ruth Scurr and Harvard's Danielle Allen discuss Scurr's latest book, John Aubrey, My Own Life, a biography of the first modern biographer.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Ian McEwan
Wed, Sep 21, 7PM
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The author of Atonement and The Children Act discusses his new novel Nutshell, in conversation with Professor Steven Pinker.
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At First Parish Church
Ticketed (book included)
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Tom Gauld
Thu, Sep 22, 7PM
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Cartoonist Tom Gauld presents his graphic novel Mooncop, in conversation with Harvard's Katie Kohn.
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Harvey Cox
Fri, Sep 23, 3PM
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Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, discusses his latest book, The Market as God.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Fri, Sep 23, 6PM
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The bestselling author of Room and Slammerkin presents her latest novel, The Wonder.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 tickets
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Jerald Walker
Fri, Sep 23, 7PM
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Emerson College's Jerald Walker discusses his memoir The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult.
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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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