This September, We Have the Book for You

September 2014
Harvard Square is a busy place this time of year. With everyone gearing up for the fall, the bookstore is bustling. Whether you're looking to read about families, about teachers, or about reading itself, this month's recommendations have got you covered.

Happy reading!

Serena
Featured This Month:  
What We See When We Read
by Peter Mendelsund
 
"Sparkling with verbal as well as visual wit and the personable exhilaration of one of the best conversations you've ever had, What We See When We Read opens one's eyes to that special brand of blindness which makes the vividness of fiction possible." 
--Chris Ware, author of Building Stories

 

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List Price:
$16.95

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Staff Recommended:  
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs

"This book has changed the way I think about cities and urban planning, because previously, I didn't. Jane Jacobs lays out her position in clear prose, has a wonderful way of creating pictures in the text, and doesn't mince words." --Ali B., Harvard Book Store

 

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New In Paperback:  
The Violet Hour:
A Novel
by Katherine Hill

"Katherine Hill's The Violet Hour reminds us that in every family mistakes are made -- and redemption is possible. A wise, engrossing novel of familial love, betrayal, and forgiveness." 
--Kate Walbert, author of A Short History of Women

 

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Staff Recommended:
The True Deceiver
by Tove Jansson

"It's scary how incisive Tove Jansson is. I think she might know everything." --Greg G., Harvard Book Store

 

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September Spotlight on "Teaching to Learn":  
The Teacher Wars:
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
by Dana Goldstein

"The book skips nimbly from history to on-the-ground reporting to policy prescription, never falling on its face. If I were still teaching, I'd leave my tattered copy by the sputtering Xerox machine. I'd also recommend it to the average citizen who wants to know why Robert can't read, and Allison can't add." --Alexander Nazaryan,
The New York Times

 

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Printed Here:  
Recommended by Harvard Book Store
2013 
by the Booksellers of Harvard Book Store

Within these pages you'll find recommendations from the staff of Harvard Book Store for novels, history, neuroscience, and picture books. You'll find jazz and politics and cocktails and elephants. You'll find every one of our staff recommended books from 2013, collected for the first time in what we hope will become an annual tradition. 

 

Our Price: $11.00
Harvard Square Book Circle
discusses 
Cloud Atlas

 

The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss David Mitchell's award-winning novel Cloud Atlas.
 

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
 

"[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page." --The New York Times Book Review 

 

Our Price: $12.00
List Price: $15.00

 

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