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Our annual sale is back this Sunday!
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20% Off for Frequent Buyers: This Sunday!
Our Annual Frequent Buyer Sale is this Sunday! Join us in the bookstore on Sunday, November 3rd (special extended hours: 9am to 11pm) for 20% off all purchases of new, used, and remaindered books, as well as on Print on Demand titles from our database, and non-book gift items throughout the store!
Sign up for a Frequent Buyer card BEFORE November 3rd to be eligible for the sale. And if you are a member without a physical card, no problem... we are always happy to look up your account.
Can't make it into the store on Sunday? Our Frequent Buyer Sale will also be online at harvard.com! Simply use coupon code FREQUENT2019 at checkout on November 3rd to receive the discount.
Ticketed Events
What You've Been Waiting for
And here it is, the words you've been waiting for. We're pleased to announce the dates for our wildly popular Winter Warehouse Sale.
Our famous warehouse sales feature thousands of books at deep discounts, and once again we've extended the sale over two weekends (including special Friday evening hours)! Learn more here.
FIRST WEEKEND (Dec 6th–8th)
» Friday, December 6 (5pm–10pm)
» Saturday, December 7 (10am–8pm)
» Sunday, December 8 (10am–8pm)
SECOND WEEKEND (Dec 13th–15th)
» Friday, December 13 (5pm–10pm)
» Saturday, December 14 (10am–8pm)
» Sunday, December 15 (10am–8pm)
Come explore thousands of remainders—fiction, cookbooks, children's books, comics, art, history, science—plus used books (priced as low as $1 to $3!) in a range of subjects.
And " what are remainders," you ask? They are bargain books, new books at dramatically discounted prices. Remainders at Harvard Book Store are typically 40-80% off the original list price. Learn more about this year's Winter Warehouse Sale here.
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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Find Me:
A Novel
by André Aciman
$26.00
Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, hardcover
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No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our great contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.
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The Beautiful Ones
by Prince
$30.00
Spiegel & Grau, hardcover
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The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him.
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Scholarly
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Capital is Dead:
Is This Something Worse?
by McKenzie Wark
$24.95
Verso, hardcover
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The new ruling class of corporations uses the powers of information to route around any obstacle labor and social movements put up. Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control—and contest—it.
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New in Paperback
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Upstream:
Selected Essays
by Mary Oliver
$17.00
Penguin Books, paperback
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Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Diary
by Svetlana Chmakova
$13.00
JY, paperback
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The fourth book of the Berrybrook Middle School series, Diary, is a very special journal including not only sticker sheets and "one sketch a day" pages but also brand new stories from the author set in the Berrybrook universe!
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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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Creep:
True Stories from the Rehfuss Family Archives
by Lisa Rehfuss
$12.00
Print on Demand, paperback |
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"We all have life stories that give us goose bumps, yet the sheer volume and 'creep factor' of our family stories are such that I have to wonder 'what gives?'. . . . For those of you who look for resolutions, solutions, a proper ending that is neatly served with a shot of whiskey, you won’t find it here in these stories."
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| Remainders |
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 Wood Fire Handbook
The Complete Guide to a Perfect Fire
by Vincent Thurkettle
$4.99, hardcover (originally $16.99)
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The Wood Fire Handbook shows you that the soothing effect of dancing flames and glowing embers is a simple pleasure to have in our lives. Understanding everything that underpins the perfect wood fire makes it even more enjoyable.
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The Seabird's Cry:
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's
Great Ocean Voyagers
by Adam Nicolson
$9.99, hardcover (originally $32.00)
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Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with facts science has recently learned about these creatures: the way their bodies work, their navigational skills, their ability to smell their way to fish or home and to understand the winds upon which they depend.
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The Jazz of Physics:
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure
of the Universe
by Stephon Alexander
$6.99, paperback (originally $17.99)
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Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.
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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 here.
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Ghosts
by Sophie Calle
Originally published by Actes Sud in 2013
$75.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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| In the 1980s and 90s, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the Earl of Bath’s residence in England both lost some of their most prestigious works to thefts and accidents—Sophie Calle embarks on a quest to resurrect the memory of these pieces. |
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Getting Wrecked:
Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis
by Kimberly Sue
Originally published by University of California Press in 2019
$18.00 (paperback) in Very Good condition
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| Getting Wrecked illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women battling opioid addiction in Massachusetts as they seek well-being and better health while confronting structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma. |
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Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics:
from the Peabody Essex Museum
by William R. Sargent
Originally published by the Peabody Essex Museum and
Yale University Press in 2012
$80.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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This art book combines beautiful full-color photographs and scholarly entries on holdings from the Peabody Essex Museum's extensive collection of Chinese ceramics, spanning from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
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Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars! The dates for our famous Warehouse Sale have been announced for December. |
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Gail Mazur, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson, Nausheen Eusuf, and Lloyd Schwartz
Fri, Nov 1, 7PM
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| Guest editor Major Jackson and celebrated poets and contributors Gail Mazur, Didi Jackson, Nausheen Eusuf, and Lloyd Schwartz read from The Best American Poetry 2019. |
At Harvard Book Store
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After Hours at the Bookstore with Jac Jemc
Sat, Nov 2, 11PM–1AM
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| Jac Jemc—award-winning author of The Grip of It—reads from her new story collection, False Bingo. She'll be joined by acclaimed local author Nina MacLaughlin. This special late-night event includes refreshments, a costume contest, and browsing by flashlight at 20% off! |
At Harvard Book Store
Free RSVP!
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Our Annual Frequent Buyer Sale
Sun, Nov 3,
9AM–11PM
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| All day on November 3rd, Frequent Buyers receive 20% off throughout the store and online at harvard.com. |
At Harvard Book Store
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Paul Tough
Mon, Nov 4, 7PM
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| Paul Tough, the bestselling author of How Children Succeed, discusses his latest book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. He will be joined in conversation by professor Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor. |
At Harvard Book Store
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Lawrence Lessig
Tue, Nov 5, 6PM
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| Renowned author and Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig discusses his latest book, They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy. |
At the Brattle Theatre
Tickets Required
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Carmen Maria Machado
Wed, Nov 6, 6PM
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| The bestselling, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties reads from her highly anticipated new memoir, In the Dream House. She will be joined in conversation by Kelly Link, master of short fiction and fantasy. |
At the Brattle Theatre
Tickets Required
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Lawrence Weschler
Wed, Nov 6, 7PM
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| Acclaimed author and veteran New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler discusses his latest book, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks. |
At Harvard Book Store
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Karen Olsson
Thu, Nov 7, 6PM
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| Acclaimed author Karen Olsson discusses her latest book, The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown. |
At Harvard Science Center,
Hall C
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Mark Haber
Thu, Nov 7, 7PM
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| Mark Haber—author, bookseller, and operations manager of Brazos Bookstore—discusses his new novel, Reinhardt's Garden. He will be joined in conversation by poet, translator, and bookmaker Kit Schluter. |
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Christopher P. Heuer and Andrei Pop
Fri, Nov 8, 3PM
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| Acclaimed authors and art historians Christopher P. Heuer and Andrei Pop discuss their latest books, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image and A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century. Their discussion will be moderated by Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard professor and fellow art historian. |
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Lindy West
Fri, Nov 8, 7PM
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| Lindy West—critically acclaimed New York Times columnist and author of Shrill—reads from her latest book, The Witches Are Coming. |
At First Parish Church
Tickets Required
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Jack Goldsmith
Fri, Nov 8, 7PM
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| Jack Goldsmith—author and Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University—discusses his latest book, In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth. |
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, Nov 25, 7PM
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| At the next meeting of our in-store book club, we will discuss Ali Smith's award-winning novel How to be both. |
At Harvard Book Store
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