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It's Here.
Come to 14 Park Street in Somerville this weekend -- both Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 7pm -- for our famous
Warehouse Sale.
You'll find the awesome selection on bargains you've come to expect
from the beloved sale, plus longer hours this year. In case you missed
it, check out our
sneak preview of some of the books that will be on sale this weekend.
Pro tips: Take public
transportation or carpool to the sale, as parking in the area is
limited. Sunday is always less busy than Saturday. Come ready to tweet
or instagram your favorite finds for a chance to win a gift card.
Prepare your best jaw-drop for when the cashier staff tells you how
little you are spending on a pile of books.
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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Fiction |
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Novels, Tales, Journeys:
The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
by Alexander Pushkin
$30.00
Knopf, hardcover
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From
award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky comes the complete prose narratives of the most
acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's
greatest storytellers.
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Nonfiction |
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How to Survive a Plague:
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France
$30.00
Knopf, hardcover
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How to Survive a Plague tells
the powerful story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of
them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to
help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to
a manageable disease.
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Scholarly
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The Essence of Nihilism
by Emanuele Severino
$29.95
Verso, paperback
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The Essence of Nihilism, first
published in 1972 and available in English for the first time,
established Emanuele Severino's preeminent position within the the
constellation of contemporary philosophy and reinterpreted the
history of Western philosophy.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Hidden Figures:
Young Readers' Edition
by Margot Lee Shetterly
$7.99
HarperCollins, paperback
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New York Times bestselling author
Margot Lee Shetterly's book is now available in a new edition perfect
for young readers. This is the amazing true story of four
African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some
of the greatest moments in our space program.
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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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Intruders:
A Novel
by Jane Williams
$15.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Jessie
and Matt Gleasons' summer idyll in Vermont turns sinister when the
local bad boy, Hank Doyle, returns to East Monroe with his young
children and pregnant wife to squat on the adjacent land in his aunt's
abandoned farmhouse.
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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 Metaphysical Club:
A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
$7.99, paperback (originally $17.00)
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"A
group portrait of four men -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William
James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey -- who changed the way America
thought. . . . Embraces everything from Darwin, probability theory, and
the battle of Antietam to infighting at the University of Chicago." --The New Yorker
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Wind/Pinball:
Two Novels
by Haruki Murakami
$6.99, hardcover (originally $22.75)
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Wind/Pinball brings together the two first novels -- Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973
-- by the legendary Haruki Murakami. These remarkable short works
launched the career of one of the most celebrated authors of our time.
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The Shadow of a Great Rock:
A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
by Harold Bloom
$7.99, hardcover (originally $40.00)
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Distilling
the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a
critic and teacher, Howard Bloom offers readers the book he has been
writing "all my long life," a perceptive reading of the King James Bible
as a literary masterpiece.
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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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Richard Serra:
Drawings and Etchings from Iceland
by Mark Rosenthal
Originally published by Matthew Marks in 1992
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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This
small volume contains the works on paper made during the construction
and completion of Richard Serra's massive sculptural installation, a
natural basalt column piece called Afangar, installed on an island off
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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century
by Karen A. Winstead
Originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century focuses
on John Capgrave's later works, teasing out thematic threads that are
closely interwoven in his Middle English oeuvre: piety, intellectualism,
gender, and social responsibility.
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Dandelion and Quince:
Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
by Michelle McKenzie
Originally published by Shambhala Publications in 2016
$18.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Dandelion and Quince features plant
profiles, from dandelion to quince, for over 35 uncommon vegetables,
fruits, and herbs available in today's markets -- with over 150 recipes
that explore their flavors.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Susan Rubin Suleiman
Fri, Dec 2, 3PM
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Harvard's Susan Rubin Suleiman discusses The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Dorie Greenspan
Fri, Dec 2, 7PM
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Award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan returns with her latest, Dorie's Cookies.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Winter Warehouse Sale
Sat-Sun, Dec 3 & 4
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Thousands of books at deep discounts in Somerville
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At the Harvard Book Store Warehouse, 14 Park St.
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Harvard Book Store Gives Back
Sun, Dec 4
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Shop with us on any of the four Sundays after Thanksgiving and a portion of every purchase will go to support 826 Boston and Community Cooks.
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At Harvard Book Store and harvard.com
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William Pierce and Sumita Chakraborty
Mon, Dec 5, 7PM
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AGNI Magazine's senior editor William Pierce discusses Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle with the Boston Globe's Ted Weesner. AGNI assistant poetry editor Sumita Chakraborty will discuss Soundings: On the Poetry of Melissa Green, in conversation with Green herself.
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At Harvard Book Store
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The Cast of America's Test Kitchen
Tue, Dec 6, 6PM
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Jack
Bishop, Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Lisa McManus, and Adam
Ried discuss their latest work at America's Test Kitchen, including the
new Cook's Science: How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of our Favorite Ingredients. Cookies from ATK will be served!
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At the Brattle Theatre $5 tickets
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Serhii Plokhy
Tue, Dec 6, 7PM
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Harvard's Serhii Plokhy discusses his latest book, The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Helon Habila
Wed, Dec 7, 7PM
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Helon Habila discuses The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Alice Hoffman
Thu, Dec 8, 7PM
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Alice Hoffman, the author of more than thirty works of fiction, reads from her latest novel, Faithful.
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At Harvard Book Store
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David Grinspoon
Fri, Dec 9, 7PM
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Astrobiologist David Grinspoon discusses his latest book, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future.
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At Harvard Book Store
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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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