This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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June 1, 2021
This week's new arrivals include titles by former presidential advisor Ben Rhodes, bestselling Red, White & Royal Blue author Casey McQuiston with a new romantic comedy, and the lauded author of the Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St. Aubyn. We offer contactless curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping daily. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, take a look at this week's new arrivals.
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This week's new fiction includes Zakiya Dalila Harris's thriller The Other Black Girl, in which two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing (we'll host the author for a virtual event (this Thursday!). One Last Stop from the author of Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston, is a new romantic comedy that puts a queer spin on Kate & Leopold. Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn follows three friends and their circle through a year of transformation and headlong pursuit of knowledge—moving between London, Oxford, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex. “Everything St. Aubyn writes is worth reading for the cleansing rancor of his intelligence and the fierce elegance of his prose," wrote Anne Enright in the New York Times Book Review. Find these and many more new novels and story collections this week.
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This week's new nonfiction includes After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes—author of the bestselling The World as It Is, co-host of Pod Save the World, and an advisor to former president Barack Obama. Rhodes poses the questions: why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world, and what can we do about it? In The Heartbeat of Trees, The Hidden Life of Trees author Peter Wohlleben returns to the forest. Ly Tran's House of Sticks is an intimate coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. The Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith explores a contemporary portrait of America as a slave-owning nation in How the Word Is Passed. A riveting history, Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War portrays the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by White Rage author Carol Anderson takes a critical new look at the Second Amendment—and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans. Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. And part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake by scholar Rebecca Hall is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles the author's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.
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This week's new scholarly titles include B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites edited by John Plotz, in which leading writers, critics, and scholars show why their favorite forgotten books deserve a new audience. I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music looks at the folk revival that emerged between 1959 and 1968, including Club 47 in Harvard Square and clubs and coffeehouses throughout New England. The Case for Gay Reparations is a compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United States. Find these and more scholarly titles on our shelves this week.
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Our list of new-to-paperback titles this week is topped off by On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, which writer Marlon James called "a bruised, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” And we have oodles of new kids titles, including Miles Morales: Shock Waves, an original middle-grade graphic novel starring Brooklyn's Spider-Man, Miles Morales, by bestselling author Justin A. Reynolds and Eisner nominee Pablo Leon.
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Alice Waters with Kim Severson
Wednesday, June 2, 8PM ET
Renowned, award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters—executive chef, founder, and owner of Chez Panisse, vice president of Slow Food International, and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project—discusses We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto. Joining in conversation is New York Times national food correspondent Kim Severson. Online via Zoom. Tickets required; all tickets include a hardcover copy of We Are What We Eat and a bookplate signed by the author. Learn more.
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