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"In time of crisis, we summon up our strength"
Our first off-site Harvard Book Store event of the year takes us to the Cambridge Public Library on
Monday, January 30th. In partnership with
Boston Review, we'll present readings
by poets Lucie Brock-Broido, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Major Jackson,
Ricardo Maldonado, Nathan Xavier Osorio, and Monica Youn from
Poems for Political Disaster.
The evening's presenters will read from this
new chapbook, featuring both new poems and selections from the
Boston Review archive that record,
refract, subvert, or otherwise respond to political trauma, catastrophe,
or terror -- both here at home and abroad.
Learn more here.
Haven't
made it to the bookstore yet in 2017? Come by and pick up a 2017
bookmark with a new purchase. This year we're featuring a cozy scene of
Harvard Book Store at night, courtesy of illustrator Spencer Hawkes.
(And of course online orders at harvard.com get a few bookmarks slipped into every box too!)
In Case You Missed It
Our recently created book of the Barack and Michelle Obama
Farewell Speeches (
printed right here in the store)
is flying off the shelves since our first batch of copies went on
display last week. Pick up a copy in the store now, or purchase
here on harvard.com.
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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Perfect Little World:
A Novel
by Kevin Wilson
$26.99
Ecco, hardcover
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Pregnant Izzy meets child psychologist Preston
Grind fresh out of high school. She agrees to be part of his "perfect
little world," a collective parenting study funded by an eccentric
billionaire. When things start to fall apart and Izzy falls for Dr.
Grind, she questions her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.
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Earning the Rockies:
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
by Robert D. Kaplan
$27.00
Random House, hardcover
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In this meditation
on the American landscape, Robert D. Kaplan travels the westward path
of the pioneers, showing how geography continues to determine America's
role in the world.
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Scholarly
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African Futures:
Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
ed. by Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio
$30.00
University Of Chicago Press, paperback
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A consortium comprised of some of the
most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an
intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within
the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is
Africa headed?
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Kids & Young Adult
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
by Kelly Barnhill
$16.95
Algonquin Young Readers, hardcover
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Kelly Barnhill's 2017 Newbury Medal-winning book tells
the story of a young girl who is
accidentally given magical powers as a baby and must learn what to do
with them before she is destroyed by others.
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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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Regent
by Brett A. Maddux
$14.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Over the course of two years, Brett A. Maddux traveled
to breakfast places in the state of Connecticut for a series of poems
and black and white photographs titled "Diners of Connecticut," hoping
to make strange art in public spaces for no discernible reason.
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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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Let's Go Letter Hunting:
A Field Guide for Typographic Expeditions
by Friends of Type
$5.99, diary (originally $16.75)
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Whether
you're hunting for forgotten vintage signage, a perfect piece of street
art, or colorful hand-painted ephemera, this lightly guided
notebook provides ample space to record, sketch, and riff off all the
letters in the world that are fit to hunt.
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The Rose
by Jennifer Potter
$15.99, hardcover (originally $45.00)
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For fans of Anna Pavord's The Tulip and Andrea Wulf's The Brothers Gardener, a vividly written and lavishly illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers. Acclaimed horticultural historian Jennifer Potter sets out on a quest to uncover the life of a flower that has provoked worldwide fascination.
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Gauguin:
Metamorphoses
by Elizabeth Childs
$29.99, hardcover (originally $60.00)
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses
explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare prints
and transfer drawings, and his famed paintings and sculptures. Though Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this publication reveals a lesser-known aspect of his practice.
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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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Kohinoor:
The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
Originally published by Juggernaut in 2016
$16.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Koh-i-Noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a
fog of mystery around it. Now, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand blow
away the legends to reveal its true history -- stranger, and more
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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
by Christian Moevs
Originally published by Oxford University Press in 2005
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The Flood Year 1927:
A Cultural History
by Susan Scott Parrish
Originally published by Princeton University Press in 2017
$18.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history.
The Flood Year 1927 draws from
newspapers, radio broadcasts, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and
fiction to show how this event took on public meanings.
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Upcoming Events
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William F. Quigley Jr.
Fri, Jan 27, 3PM
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William F. Quigley Jr. explores the American Civil War in his book Pure Heart: The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union.
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Elliot Ackerman
Fri, Jan 27, 7PM
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Eliot Ackerman, the acclaimed author of Green on Blue, discusses his latest novel, Dark at the Crossing, a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Melissa Fleming
Sun, Jan 29, 6PM
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Melissa Fleming shares the story of young Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel with A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, & Survival.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Poems for Political Disaster
Mon, Jan 30, 6:30PM
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Boston Review presents readings from a newly produced chapbook, Poems for Political Disaster.
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At the Cambridge Public Library
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Jan 30, 7PM
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Our in-store book club will discuss books 1-4 of Middlemarch. Then join us in February for a followup discussion of books 5-8.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Chanelle Benz
Tue, Jan 31, 7PM
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O. Henry Prize recipient and BU alum Chanelle Benz discusses her debut story collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, in conversation with novelist Dana Spiotta.
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David A. Moss
Wed, Feb 1, 7PM
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Harvard Business School's David A. Moss discusses Democracy: A Case Study, looking at history to offer a bit of hope to those who might declare democracy is broken.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Cambridge Forum:
Let Them Eat Dirt!
Wed, Feb 1, 7PM
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Cambridge Forum presents author B. Brett Finlay for a discussion of Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World.
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At First Parish Church
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Stephen Kinzer
Thu, Feb 2, 7PM
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Stephen Kinzer presents his latest book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, in conversation with Harvard's Stephen M. Walt.
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Andrew Krivák
Fri, Feb 3, 7PM
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Local novelist Andrew Krivák, National Book Award finalist for The Sojourn, reads from The Signal Flame, the story of a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.
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