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Mosque
by David Macaulay
price: $18.00
An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late 16th century Turkey. |  |
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In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Wil Haygood
price: $26.95
In this superb work of biography, Haygood brings Sammy Davis, Jr., to life against the backdrop of 20th-century race relations. Trapped between the worlds of blacks and whites, Davis forged an uncharted path as a consummate entertainer. |  |
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
by Thomas Cahill
price: $27.50
In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece. |  |
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The DaVinci Code
by Dan Brown
price: $24.95
In an exhilarating blend of scholarly intelligence, relentless adventure, and cutting wit, Robert Langdon (first introduced in "Angels Demons") and his new adventure combines the punch of Robert Ludlum, the intriguing historical touch of Umberto Eco, and the nonstop suspense of Michael Crichton. |  |
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
price: $25.95
In this long-awaited work containing economist Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, and how fiscal responsibility collapsed. |  |
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Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore
price: $24.95
Fresh on the heels of his runaway New York Times bestselling Stupid White Men, Moore returns with a bold but hilarious act of sedition as he seeks to overthrow the "Thief in Chief" and effect the kind of grass roots change that will shake the country. |  |
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky
price: $22.00
The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the heavens as a militarized sphere of influence. Chomsky investigates how it came to this moment, what kind of peril it presents, and why rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of the species. |  |
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
price: $24.00
Expanding on her signature themes of the immigrant experience, the clash of culture, and the tangled ties of generations, Lahiri brings to her terrifically poignant first novel the remarkable powers of emotion and insight that have drawn more than half a million readers to her debut story collection. |  |
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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
by David Herbert Donald
price: $25.00
Friendships never came easy for a man as private and as mysterious as Abraham Lincoln. This highly original book offers a new and enlightening way of looking at Lincoln by observing how he dealt with his friends and close associates. |  |
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The Book of Hard Things
by Sue Halpern
price: $22.00
At 18, Cuzzy Gage has never been out of Poverty, the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, raised, and--much to the annoyance of his dreamy girlfriend, the mother of his child--seems destined to stay. |  |
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Bestselling Paperback Titles
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Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
price: $13.00
Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, Professor David Laurie attempts to relate to his daughter, Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities. But that is disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. |  |
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
price: $13.00
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. |  |
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
price: $15.00
Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. |  |
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
price: $14.00
Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" (The Washington Post). A bestseller in hardcover, Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964.
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The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
price: $14.00
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. |  |
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
price: $13.00
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. |  |
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The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
price: $14.95
Set in 1998, when ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciations and rituals of purification, the newest novel by award-winning author Philip Roth concludes his eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives begun in American Pastoral and continued in I Married a Communist. |  |
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
by Howard Zinn
price: $18.95
The only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of--and in the words of--America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. Zinn shows that many of our country's greatest battles were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. |  |
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
price: $14.00
Written from extensive interviews with the ring's key players, Bringing Down the House is a nail-biting read that chronicles the high stakes and close calls of six gamblers so talented--according to some, too talented--that they changed the way blackjack is played forever. |  |
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The Cave
by Jose Saramago
price: $14.00
Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his family in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, a mysterious place they are forced to contend with. Filled with the depth, humor, and the extraordinary philosophical richness that marks each of Saramago's novels, The Cave is an essential book. |  |
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* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week November 3 - 9, 2003.
October 27 - November 2, 2003 Bestseller List
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