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Join Us in April
This week we're honored to highlight newly announced
ticketed events coming up in April. Join us for chef and restaurateur
Barbara Lynch; the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts,
Elizabeth Warren; Professor
Noam Chomsky in conversation with
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman; and
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, the bestselling authors of the books
Lean In and
Originals.
Learn more about these ticketed events
here, and stay tuned for more announcements on authors visiting this spring.
Best Bookstore
We're up for "Boston's Best Bookstore" in Boston Magazine, but we need your vote! Vote here for Boston's best businesses (our category is #8). Thanks in advance!
In Case You Missed It
In February we hosted Joel Christian
Gill, John Jennings, and Mildred Louis for a panel discussion on
gender and color in comics, moderated by Heide Solbrig. Check out
the
video, courtesy of the
Forum Network.
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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Celine:
A Novel
by Peter Heller
$25.95
Knopf, hardcover
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Inspired by the life of the bestselling author's own remarkable mother, Peter Heller's Celine
tells the story of an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes
in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own
past.
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$15.00
Knopf, hardcover
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A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is her letter of response, with suggestions for empowering daughters to become strong, independent women.
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Scholarly
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Human Targets:
Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
by Victor M. Rios
$20.00
University Of Chicago Press, paperback
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Victor Rios follows young gang members
through the streets of California in an attempt to figure out what sets
apart young people who succeed and survive from the ones who don't. In
Rios's account, to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human target.
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Kids & Young Adult
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
by Benjamin Alire Saenz
$17.99
Clarion Books, hardcover
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Sal used to know his place with his
adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best
friend, Samantha. But it's senior year, and suddenly Sal is realizing he
no longer knows himself. If Sal's not who he thought he was, who is he?
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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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Elsa's Housebook:
A Woman's Photojournal
by Elsa Dorfman
$13.86
Print on Demand, paperback
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Originally published in 1974, Elsa's Housebook is a photographic record of family and friends who visited Elsa Dorfman at her Cambridge home in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many famous writers and thinkers are featured in this new edition of the book, printed exclusively by our book-making robot Paige M. Gutenborg.
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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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Chardin
by Pierre Rosenberg
$21.99, hardcover (originally $65.00)
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This volume
explores the themes of painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's life,
alongside ninety-nine full color reproductions of his work and an
extensive biography.
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The Passenger Pigeon
by Errol Fuller
$12.99, hardcover (originally $29.95)
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This
illustrated book tells the story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a
bird species that has become one of the great icons of extinction.
Errol Fuller provides a memorial to a bird species that was once so
important to the ecology of North America, reminding us just how fragile
the natural world can be.
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A Nation and Not a Rabble:
The Irish Revolutions 1913-1923
by Diarmaid Ferriter
$6.99, hardcover (originally $35.00)
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Renowned
Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter presents a look at the Irish
revolutionary period from 1913-1923, drawing from newly available
historical sources as well as the testimonies of the people who lived
and fought through this period in history.
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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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Paintings in Proust:
A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
by Eric Karpeles
Originally published by Thames & Hudson in 2008
$25.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
by Emma Smith
Originally published by Bodleian Library, University of Oxford in 2016
$18.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and
bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book
trade. |
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The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth:
Restoring Our Democratic Ideals
by Burton L. Mack
Originally published by Yale University Press in 2017
$14.50 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Burton L. Mack explores the evolution
of the Christian worldview as a social institution and argues that it no
longer offers a satisfactory vision for our democratic, multicultural
society.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
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Chris Hayes with Jabari Asim, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Anthony Brooks (Mar 22)
Tickets on Sale Soon:
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Maria Tatar
Mon, Mar 13, 7PM
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Harvard folklorist Maria Tatar presents the new Penguin Classics edition of Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Michael Finkel
Wed, Mar 15, 7PM
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Michael Finkel discusses The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, an account of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for twenty-seven years.
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At Harvard Book Store
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A. Roger Ekirch
Thu, Mar 16, 7PM
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Professor A. Roger Ekirch discusses American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution.
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Ellen Umansky
Fri, Mar 17, 7PM
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Debut novelist Ellen Umansky presents The Fortunate Ones,
in which a work of art connects the lives and fates of two different
women, generations apart. The author is joined in conversation by local
writer Joanna Rakoff.
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Mar 20, 7PM
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This month the Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss No Knives in the Kitchens of this City.
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Ganesh Sitaraman
Tue, Mar 21, 7PM
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Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman discusses The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic.
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Chris Hayes
Wed, Mar 22, 6PM
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Emmy Award-winning MSNBC news anchor Chris Hayes discusses his latest book, A Colony in a Nation, in conversation with Jabari Asim and Frank Rudy Cooper, moderated by WBUR's Anthony Brooks.
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At Old South Church
$5 tickets
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Jacqueline Winspear
Wed, Mar 22, 7PM
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Historical crime fiction writer Jacqueline Winspear returns with In This Grave Hour, the latest installment in the Maisie Dobbs series.
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Sharon Weinberger
Thu, Mar 23, 7PM
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Sharon Weinberger discusses The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World.
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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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