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Jonny Sun (Jul 12)
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Gifts for Grads
It's graduation season. Looking for gift suggestions? Check our display in the store (or here online). Or perhaps get a gift card for your grad? Or a signed copy of tonight's Bernie Swain and Doris Kearns Goodwin event book, What Made Me Who I Am?
In Case You Missed It
Last weekend we hosted a distinguished panel of
speakers discussing the legacy of JFK and the new book,
JFK: A Vision for America. Check out the
video,
featuring editors Stephen Kennedy Smith and Douglas Brinkley and
panelists Samantha Power, Ron Suskind, and Fredrik Logevall --
courtesy of the
Forum Network.
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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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Bad Dreams and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
$26.99
Harper, hardcover
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Tessa Hadley -- the award-winning author of six critically acclamied novels, including The Past -- returns with a collection of stories that elevates the mundane into the exceptional.
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Eating Promiscuously:
Adventures in the Future of Food
by James McWilliams
$26.00
Counterpoint, hardcover
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Seventy-five percent of the world's food derives from five animals and twelve plants. The vast majority of what we eat is detrimental to our health and the welfare of the planet. James
McWilliams's search for a more expansive palate leads him to those who
are exploring food at the fringes of the industrial food system.
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Scholarly
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Trading Barriers:
Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization
by Margaret E. Peters
$35.00
Princeton University Press, paperback
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Debunking the commonly held
belief that domestic social concerns are the deciding factor in
determining immigration policy, Margaret Peters demonstrates the role international trade and capital movements play in sapping support for more open immigration policies at home.
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Kids & Young Adult
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York:
The Shadow Cipher
by Laura Ruby
$17.99
Walden Pond Press, hardcover
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This alternate history series
by National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner Laura Ruby
follows three kids who try to solve the greatest mystery of the
modern world: a puzzle and treasure hunt laid into the very streets and
buildings of New York City.
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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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Soundings:
On the Poetry of Melissa Green
edited by Sumita Chakraborty
$15.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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Twenty
poets, fiction writers, visual artists, musicians, editors, and
scholars gather here to celebrate the life and works of Melissa Green, a
poet from Winthrop, Massachusetts, and a woman who epitomizes the word "survivor."
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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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Tesla:
Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson
$9.99, paperback (originally $19.95)
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In this book, W.
Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within
the cultural and technological context of his time and focusing on his
inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity.
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Fates and Furies:
A Novel
by Lauren Groff
$5.99, paperback (originally $16.00)
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Every
story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And
sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths
but its secrets. At the core of this novel, Lauren Groff presents the
story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.
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When the United States Spoke French:
Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
by François Furstenberg
$6.99, hardcover (originally $36.00)
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When the United States Spoke French explores
the formative years of the United States from the viewpoint of a
distinguished circle of Frenchmen taking refuge during the French
Revolution.
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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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Hide and Seek:
Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance
by Hanna Rose Shell
Originally published by Zone Books in 2012
$17.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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| Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek,
MIT's Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it
developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography,
innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural
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by Arthur Machen
Originally published by The Tartarus Press in 2007
$50.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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| These sixty essays by Arthur Machen -- including those first published in the 1926 edition of Dreads and Drolls -- are reprinted from London's The Graphic.
In these essays, Machen describes notable eighteenth-century crimes,
illuminating how little human nature has changed through the
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T
heory of Prose
by Viktor Shklovsky
Originally published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1991
$8.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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Arguing that writers structure their
materials according to artistic principals rather than from attempts to
imitate "reality," Viktor Shklovsky uses the works of Cervantes,
Tolstoy, Sterne, Dickens, and others to explore the nature of fiction and the world.
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Upcoming Events
Coming up, events for celebrated and highly
anticipated novels by both debut and prize-winning authors and
much more.
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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Fri, May 19, 7PM
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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg reads from her debut novel, Eden -- a saga set during a family's last season at their Long Harbor summer home.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Bernie Swain and Doris Kearns Goodwin
Fri, May 19, 7PM
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Bernie Swain and renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discuss Swain's book, What Made Me Who I Am -- a collection of profiles on thirty-four remarkable leaders, including Goodwin, and the influences that shaped them.
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At First Parish Church
$5 Tickets
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An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists
Sat, May 20, 2:30PM
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magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most
exciting American writers under the age of forty. This issue's honorees
include Mark Doten (The Infernal), Rachel B. Glaser (Paulina & Fran), Greg Jackson (Prodigals), Sana Krasikov (The Patriots and One More Year), joining us to read from their work. |
At the Cambridge Public Library
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Tue, May 30, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss the Folger Shakespeare Library edition of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Julius Caesar.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Jill Lepore
Wed, May 31, 6PM
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Jill Lepore -- Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker -- discusses Joe Gould's Teeth, the tale of her search for a long-lost, century-old manuscript written by a madman.
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At the Brattle Theatre
$5 Tickets
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David Sedaris
Sun, Jun 4, 6:30PM
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Bestselling essayist David Sedaris reads from and signs his latest book, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002).
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At Harvard Book Store
$29.75 Tickets (Book Included)
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Weike Wang
Mon, Jun 5, 7PM
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Weike Wang presents her first novel, Chemistry -- a coming-of-age story about a young female scientist -- in conversation with acclaimed author Ha Jin.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Margot Singer
Tue, Jun 6, 7PM
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Margot Singer presents her debut novel, Underground Fugue -- the story of a strained friendship amid a terrorist attack on London's tube and bus lines -- in conversation with AGNI's William Pierce.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Don Lee
Wed, Jun 7, 7PM
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Prize-winning writer Don Lee reads from his latest novel, Lonesome Lies Before Us, the story of an alt-country musician whose career has floundered.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Kelly J. Ford
Thu, Jun 8, 7PM
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Local author and GrubStreet instructor Kelly J. Ford reads from her debut novel, Cottonmouths -- a tale of crime and desire amid small-town America's meth epidemic.
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David Baron
Fri, Jun 9, 7PM
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Science journalist David Baron discusses American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
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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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