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Summer nights in Harvard Square
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Announcing September Events
Our
September
events schedule is now posted! Check out the amazing lineup of in-store
and off-site events, and mark your calendars for ticket on-sale dates
for those
events requiring tickets.
Joe Biden Book Tour
Just
announced! We're pleased to join the Wilbur Theatre in announcing their
forthcoming December event with former Vice President Joe Biden, part
of his nationwide American Promise Tour.
This hour-long, moderated conversation on December 4th at the Wilbur in
Boston will focus on Vice President Biden's new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
(on sale November 14th). Every ticket for this evening includes a copy
of the book. VIP Packages include a signed book and a meet-and-greet
opportunity with Vice President Biden. For tickets and details visit thewilbur.com/artist/joe-biden.
Ticket
pre-sales begin on Tuesday, July 18th at 10am. Use code HARVARD for
special early access to tickets in Boston -- this code is exclusively
for Harvard Book Store customers!
Please
note that while we're providing the books on-site that night, this is
not a Harvard Book Store-organized event, so we won't be handling
ticketing and won't be taking orders for signed 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.
We're taking a little break, so stay tuned for
the next "News from Harvard Book Store" at the end of next week!
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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Refuge: A Novel
by Dina Nayeri
$27.00
Riverhead Books, hardcover
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An
Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays
behind. Over twenty years, daughter and father know each other only from
their visits. The longer they are apart, the more their
lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom
and, ultimately, rescue.
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Nonfiction |
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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
by Inara Verzemnieks
$26.95
W. W. Norton & Company, hardcover
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Inara Verzemnieks weaves together the story of her grandmother Livija's struggle to survive as
a refugee escaping from Latvia during World War II and that of the
sister Livija left behind -- Ausma, who was exiled to Siberia under
Stalin.
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Scholarly
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Class, Race, and Marxism
by David Roediger
$26.95
Verso, hardcover
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This volume collects U.S. historian David Roediger's recent and new work on the intersections of race, settler colonialism, slavery, the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and the history of solidarity.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Akata Witch
by Nnedi Okorafor
$10.99
Speak, paperback
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Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter,"
Akata Witch is the story of twelve-year-old Sunny, who discovers
she is a "free agent" with latent magical power.
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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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Songs in the Wind -- A Selection of Shuzheng Zhang's Poems and Couplets
by Shuzheng Zhang
$19.28
Print on Demand, paperback
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Mr. Shuzheng Zhang composed hundreds of classical poems and couplets in Simplified Chinese during his lifetime (1928 -- 2015). His daughter Yang Wang writes, "As
the editor of this book, I wish more people could read it, getting to
enjoy a talented poet's works, and to learn more of contemporary China's
history as well."
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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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T
he Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit
$5.99, hardcover (originally $25.95)
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Rebecca
Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we
are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination.
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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,
Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,
Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
by Sarah Bakewell
$7.99, hardcover (originally $25.00)
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At the Existentialist Café
is a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major
intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape
it.
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett
$5.99, hardcover (originally $28.95)
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers
seventy-seven of Daniel C. Dennett's most successful
"imagination-extenders and focus-holders," meant to guide you through
some of life's most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning,
mind, and free will.
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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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T
he Sistine Chapel
by Frederick Hartt and Gianluigi Colalucci
Originally published by Random House in 1991
$400.00 (hardcover, 2 volumes, slipcased) in Very Good condition
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Michelangelo's
creation of the frescos in the Sistine Chapel marked a revolutionary
event in Western art. Now, another revolutionary event has occurred: a
nine-year restoration, carried out by experts at the Vatican Museums and
described and illustrated in this incredible work. |
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by J.P.C. Kent and Max and Albert Hirmer
Originally published by H. N. Abrams in 1978
$85.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Roman
coins have been studied for their interest and art since the fourteenth
century. This presentation of the coins of Republican and Imperial Rome
-- a span of over one thousand years -- is illustrated with photographs
by Max and Albert Hirmer of Munich. |
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Mathematical Visions: The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England
by Joan L. Richards
Originally published by Academic Press in 1988
$30.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Examining Victorian England's view of
geometry during the formative second half of the nineteenth century,
this book provides a foundation for modern thought on the nature of
mathematics.
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Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale Now:
Tickets on Sale Soon:
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Bianca Bosker
Tue, Jul 18, 7PM
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Journalist Bianca Bosker discusses Cork
Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big
Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Gabe Hudson
Wed, Jul 19, 7PM
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Gabe Hudson presents his comic novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon -- the "unholy child of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, and Sixteen Candles" . . . with dragons.
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At Harvard Book Store
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James McGrath Morris
Thu, Jul 20, 7PM
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Biographer James McGrath Morris discusses The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Andrew Sean Greer
Fri, Jul 21, 7PM
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The author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli discusses his latest novel, Less
-- a love story, the story of a failed novelist, and a scintillating
satire of the American abroad. Greer is joined in conversation by local
novelist Daphne Kalotay.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Fiction Fridays
Fridays This Summer
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15% off new fiction!
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At Harvard Book Store
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Mario Livio
Mon, Jul 24, 7PM
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Astrophysicist Mario Livio, author of the national bestseller Brilliant Blunders, discusses his latest book, Why?: What Makes Us Curious.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Allegra Goodman
Wed, Jul 26, 7PM
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Novelist Allegra Goodman, author of The Cookbook Collector and Intuition, reads from The Chalk Artist -- about a college dropout and street artist, set here in Cambridge, Mass. |
At Harvard Book Store
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Ian Bassingthwaighte
Thu, Jul 27, 7PM
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Debut novelist Ian Bassingthwaighte discusses Live from Cairo -- about
an impulsive American attorney, a methodical Egyptian translator, and a
disillusioned Iraqi-American resettlement officer trying to protect a
refugee amid a revolution. He's joined in conversation by The Signal Flame author Andrew Krivák.
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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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The Next Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Jul 31, 7PM
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In July the Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss James Baldwin's classic, The Fire Next Time.
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At Harvard Book Store
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