This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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March 23, 2021
This week's new arrivals include a new Jacqueline Winspear mystery, James Carroll's The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul, and Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs, now in paperback ("so amazing it took my breath away" writes Haruki Murakami). We offer contactless curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.! However you choose to shop, come browse our virtual "front tables" with this week's new arrivals. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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New in fiction this week! As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, investigator Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in The Consequences of Fear, the latest from bestselling mystery writer Jacqueline Winspear. (Join our virtual event this Thursday!) From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes a gorgeously evocative epic about love, clashing cultures, and identity, set in the tropical African island nation of Madagascar—Red Island House. Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff is an instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. In The Vietri Project, a search for a mysterious customer in Rome leads a young bookseller to confront the complicated history of her family, and that of Italy itself, in this debut novel that echoes the work of Lily King and Sally Rooney.
And we have more than a few works newly translated into English this week! Kikuko Tsumura—winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award—has been translated for the first time into English with the witty and unsettling novel There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, a jolting look at late capitalist life through the lens of modern Japanese culture. With her novel My Friend Natalia, Laura Lindstedt—one of Finland’s most dynamic novelists—brings an erotic story of an ambitious therapist’s sessions with an unforgettable patient. And The Art of Losing, winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, follows three generations of Algerian immigrants reckoning with their family's secret past and the inescapable legacies of colonialism.
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Local writer James Carroll—a former priest and National Book Award–winning author—examines his crisis of faith and journey to renewal in a memoir that also traces the roots of the Catholic sex abuse scandal back to the history and power structure of the church itself. (Register for our virtual event with Carroll taking place this Friday.) The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can Fix is a groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy. A comprehensive new biography, Places of Mind profiles influential and celebrated Palestinian intellectual Edward Said. And Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico, by Mexico’s preeminent novelist Juan Villoro, is an eye-opening tour of Mexico City—one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Find these and many more new nonfiction titles this week.
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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human is a deep history of flavor that will transform the way you think about human evolution. In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Ibram X. Kendi calls Mia Bay's Traveling Black an “a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation [revealing] how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” Come browse these and more scholarly new releases this week.
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New to paperback! Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, is the story of three women and their journeys to finding futures that they can call their own. We also have new titles in paperback from Louise Erdrich, Sue Monk Kidd, and Barbara Ehrenreich. And also new to paperback, Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman was a Washington Post Best Book of 2020 and a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2020—a voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality.
And it's a big day for fans of Dav Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants, with the release of Dog Man #10: Mothering Heights. Check out our kids and young adult new releases.
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