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Boston Book Fest
The
Boston Book Festival is this weekend!
Head to Copley Square in Boston on Saturday,
October 15th, for festivities, panels, discussions, and signings
throughout the day.
Check out the complete schedule here,
and we'll see you there. Our staff will be providing book sales for
events throughout the beautifully renovated Boston Public Library.
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Carly Simon (Nov 5)
Online-only pre-sales (bundled with paperback book) now on sale; $10 tickets on sale Oct 18th
Tickets on Sale Soon (Oct 18th):
The Nobel Prize for Literature
This week Bob Dylan was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature -- for "
having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
He is the the first musician to win the
award, the first American to win since Toni Morrison did so in 1993, and
the ninth Literature Laureate born in the U.S.
"He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition."
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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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
by Madeleine Thien
$25.95
W. W. Norton & Company, hardcover
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Master
storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in
China, showing us the lives of two successive generations -- those who
lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became
the students protesting in Tiananmen Square.
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly Shapiro
$49.95
University of California Press, hardcover
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Nonstop Metropolis,
the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable
unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps
and informative essays.
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Scholarly
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Raymond Chandler:
The Detections of Totality
by Fredric Jameson
$19.95
Verso, hardcover
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Raymond Chandler holds a unique place in
literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. Fredric
Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work that reconstructs
both the context in which it was written and the social world it
projects.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Skunked!:
Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet
by Jacqueline Kelly
$15.99
Henry Holt and Co., hardcover
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From Newbery honor author Jacqueline Kelly
comes a new series for younger readers featuring the beloved characters
from
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. In
Skunked! Callie Vee, Travis, and Dr. Pritzker help animals big and small.
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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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Winter Harvest:
Bob Dylan to Jalaluddin Rumi
by Shems Friedlander
$17.95
Print on Demand, paperback
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Winter Harvest is the long-awaited sequel to Shems Friedlander's When You Hear Hoofbeats Think of a Zebra,
now considered a Sufi classic. Friedlander has spent over 40 years in a
Sufi order and is now sharing his stories and travels in the winter of
his life.
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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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Tennyson:
To Strive, To Seek, To Find
by John Batchelor
$7.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
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This thoughtful biography of the poet
who wrote "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
reveals him to be a fascinating paradigm of both the Romantic and
Victorian ideals.
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Between Heaven and Earth:
The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
by Robert A. Orsi
$12.99, paperback (originally $29.95)
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Between Heaven and Earth
explores the relationships we have formed with the Virgin Mary and the
saints, reflecting on how people live in the company of sacred figures
and how these relationships shape the ties between individuals on earth.
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Atlas of Oceans:
An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life
by John Farndon
$7.99, hardcover (originally $55.00)
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Beautifully illustrated and packed with maps and diagrams, Atlas of Oceans
is a celebration of Earth's vibrant and awe-inspiring oceans and seas.
It is an urgent call to action to protect one of our planet's most vital
resources.
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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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Music, Art, and Metaphysics:
Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics
by Jerrold Levinson
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2011
$Price (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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This volume is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathered together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics.
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A Selection from Scrutiny:
Volumes 1 & 2
compiled by F.R. Leavis
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1968
$15.00 (hardcover, 2 volumes) in Very Good condition
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Rabad of Posquières:
A Twelfth-Century Talmudist
by Isadore Twersky
Originally published by Harvard University Press in 1962
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Rabad of Posquières was one of the most
creative Talmudic scholars of the twelfth century. This biographical
treatise chronicles his role in the intellectual history of the Jews in
southern France during this period and outlines his influence on future
generations.
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Upcoming Events
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Kenneth S. Rogoff
Fri, Oct 14, 3PM
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Harvard professor and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund Kenneth S. Rogoff discusses his latest book, The Curse of Cash.
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John Kaag
Fri, Oct 14, 7PM
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Philosophy professor John Kaag discusses his latest book, American Philosophy: A Love Story -- a memoir that considers the question "Is life worth living?"
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At Harvard Book Store
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Danny Orbach
Sun, Oct 16, 6PM
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Danny Orbach presents his book The Plots Against Hitler -- a definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Emily Witt
Mon, Oct 17, 7PM
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Emily Witt discusses her book Future Sex -- a moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman -- in conversation with the Boston Globe's Meredith Goldstein.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Cambridge Forum:
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE: Race and Power in America
Mon, Oct 17, 7PM
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Cambridge
Forum welcomes scholars Tommie Shelby, Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
Elizabeth Hinton, and Danielle Allen for a discussion around issues of
race and structural injustice.
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At First Parish Church
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Brian D. Hoefling
Tue, Oct 18, 6:30PM
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Brian Hoefling discusses Distilled Knowledge: The Science Behind Drinking's Greatest Myths, Legends, and Unanswered Questions.
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At WorkBar Cambridge
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Rabih Alameddine
Tue, Oct 18, 7PM
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The acclaimed author of An Unnecessary Woman and The Hakawati discusses his latest novel, The Angel of History -- the story of a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Roy Scranton
Wed, Oct 19, 7PM
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US Army veteran Roy Scranton discusses his debut novel, War Porn, "one of the best and most disturbing war novels in years."
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Jonathan Lethem
Thu, Oct 20, 6:30PM
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The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic -- A Gambler's Anatomy.
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At the Cambridge Public Library
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Chelsey Philpot
Thu, Oct 20, 7PM
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YA novelist Chelsey Philpot reads from Be Good Be Real Be Crazy -- a story about love, friendship, and finding yourself.
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Natasha K. Warikoo
Fri, Oct 21, 3PM
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Harvard's Natasha Warikoo discusses The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities.
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Brit Bennett
Fri, Oct 21, 7PM
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Brit Bennett reads from her highly anticipated debut novel, The Mothers -- a story about a big secret in a small community and the things that ultimately haunt us most.
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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, Oct 24, 7PM
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This month the Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss Joan Didion's essay collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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