This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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August 24, 2021
This week's new arrivals include the latest mystery from Louise Penny, a feminist retelling of The Iliad by Pat Barker, and an examination of the U.S.'s history of erasure and exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. We are open for shopping daily. (And we can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, take a look at this week's new arrivals. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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This week's new fiction is topped off by the seventeenth book in Louise Penny's bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novels—The Madness of Crowds—in which Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in the shadow of the Covid pandemic. "Seamlessly integrating debates about scientific experimentation and morality into a fair-play puzzle, Penny excels at placing her characters in challenging ethical quandaries. This author just goes from strength to strength," writes Publishers Weekly.
Pat Barker, the Booker Prize–winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, brings a feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women who endured it in The Women of Troy. With her debut novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, poet and essayist Honoree Fanonne Jeffers chronicles the journey of an American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous time. David Grossman's More Than I Love My Life is the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told. The Guide, a new thriller from Peter Heller, follows a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a menacing plot amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.
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This week Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States, brings her latest book, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States. "This book should be taught in classrooms; readers will finish it changed," writes Booklist in a starred review.
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow is an intimate and haunting portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of the author's Chinese American family. Sexual Justice by Alexandra Brodsky is a pathbreaking work for the #MeToo era, laying out a better response to sexual harm. In Presumed Guilty, Erwin Chemerinsky explores how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy is the third and final installment from the three-time Booker Prize finalist—blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory.
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In Birthing Black Mothers, Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life. Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy reframes the debate about how democracies have ended up in a dire state of anti-democratic sentiment and what to do about it. The Secret Body brings a revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our lives. And They Knew is a devastating, play-by-play account of the federal government’s leading role in bringing about today’s climate crisis.
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This week's new-to-paperback titles include Daisy Johnson's Sisters, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year;" Robert Adams' Art Can Help, advocating for the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society; and Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought on the pleasures of leading an intellectual life.
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Mike Duncan with Patrick Wyman
Tuesday, August 31, 7PM ET
Groundbreaking, award-winning historical podcaster Mike Duncan—creator and host of The History of Rome and Revolutions, and author of The Storm Before the Storm—discusses his latest book, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution. Joining in conversation is Patrick Wyman, host of the Tides of History podcast and author of The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World. All tickets include a signed hardcover copy of Hero of Two Worlds, specially bound by the publisher. Learn more.
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