This Week's New Arrivals

Updates from Harvard Book Store

June 8, 2021

This week's new arrivals include Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid, Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, and Rivka Galchen's novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.

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Featured New Releases

This week's new fiction includes the first novel from Lisa Taddeo, author of the best seller Three Women. New York magazine says, "Animal is a viscerally satisfying depiction of female rage and a gripping exploration of what it’s like to endure male violence that is both mundane and life-altering." (And we're hosting a virtual event with the author tonight!) The latest collaboration between President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, The President's Daughter: A Thriller, arrives this week. The Fugitivities by Harvard's Jesse McCarthy is another debut novel. Kirkus Reviews writes, “An acclaimed African American essayist puts forth a first novel whose quirky romanticism, vivid landscapes, and digressive storytelling owe more to classic European cinema than conventional literature… An intellectually stimulating fiction debut.”

The Hidden Palace is an enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I and sequel to the bestseller The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen is the second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances, with a story that begins in the seventeenth century in the German duchy of Württemberg. Writer Karen Russell says, "Imagine a story set in 1620 that speaks directly to your own scalded, twenty-first century heart."

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid tops off this week's new nonfiction titles. In his latest book, Lawrence Wright examines the origins, the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain COVID-19. Akwaeke Emezi is the author of the bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book; and now Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson is an uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love. After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed is the latest by Andrew Bacevich, a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University.

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To Write As If Already Dead circles around author Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space is a wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space. In It Can Happen Here a renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States. Find these and more new scholarly titles this week.

Browse New Scholarly

This week's new-to-paperback books include celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams with Our Time Is Now; Raven Leilani with Luster, winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and more than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, which explores how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide—and describe—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

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Our Next Ticketed Event

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter

Tuesday, June 15, 8PM ET

Harvard Book Store joins bookstores across the country to welcome Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter for a very special In the Heights: Finding Home virtual book launch. Sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity, community, and finding home, this is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. All tickets include a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home, with both ship-to-home and in-store pickup options available. Learn more here.

Virtual Author Events

Upcoming Events

Lisa Taddeo with Katie Couric June 8
Paul Mendez with Bryan Washington June 9
Clint Smith with Min Jin Lee June 10
Stella Ghervas with David Armitage June 11
Jesse McCarthy with Namwali Serpell June 11
Helene Wecker with Angela Mi Young Hur June 14
And more at harvard.com/events

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