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August 7
6pm

James Carroll
Secret Father
Houghton Mifflin Company (August 2003)

Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston

August 13
7pm

Thich Nhat Hanh
Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
Free Press (August 2003)

Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public

September 16
6pm

Mark Zanger
The American History Cookbook
Greenwood Press (April 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

September 17
6pm

Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Random House (September 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

September 18
7pm

Tom Frank, Dave Mulcahey and Josh Glenn
Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy
W. W. Norton & Company (August 2003)

Project 45/ Foundation for Civic Leadership
45 Mt. Auburn Street
free and open to public

September 18
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein
Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Simon & Schuster (September 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

September 19
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Matthew Battles
Library: An Unquiet History
W. W. Norton & Company (June 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

September 19
6pm

Paul Krugman
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
W. W. Norton & Company (June 2003)

First Parish Church
3 Church Street
(on the corner of Mass Ave. and Church St.)

September 23
6pm

Steve Puleo
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Beacon Press (September 2003)

Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston

September 24
6pm

David Cole
Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism
New Press (September 2003)

Pound Hall, Room 107
Harvard Law School
1515 Massachusetts Ave

September 24
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

Jane Katch
They Don't Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom
Beacon Press (September 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

September 25
6pm

Kaethe Weingarten
Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day
Dutton Books (September 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

September 25
7pm

The Take Back Your Time Campaign Kickoff and Handbook Release Celebration with Juliet Schor, John Trumpbour, and Dr. Sarah Conn
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (July 2003)

First Parish Church
3 Church Street

September 26
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Slavoj Zizek
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
MIT Press (October 2003)

Brattle Theater
40 Brattle Street

September 29
6pm

Adam Haslett
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories
Anchor (UK) (August 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

September 30
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

Anne Garrels
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by National Public Radio's Correspondent Anne Garrels
Farrar Straus Giroux (September 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

October 1
6pm

Anne Fadiman, Atul Gawande, Marshall Jon Fisher, and Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2003
Houghton Mifflin Company (Oct. 2003)

First Parish Church
3 Church Street

October 2
6pm

Emily Franklin
Liner Notes
Downtown Press (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 3
3pm

FRIDAY
FORUM

Nan Levinson
Outspoken: Free Speech Stories
University of California Press (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 7
6pm

Marc Abrahams
The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research
Dutton (Sep. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 9
6pm

Scott Turow
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Oct. 2003)

Harvard Law School
Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall, 2nd Floor
1515 Massachusetts Avenue

October 10
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes
W. W. Norton & Company (September 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 14
6pm

Hayden Herrera
Arshile Gorky, His Life and Work
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Jul. 2003)

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

October 15
6pm

Twyla Tharp
The Creative Habit
Simon & Schuster (Oct. 2003)

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

October 20
4pm

Lawrence Douglas
The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
Yale University Press (May. 2001)

Kennedy School
Malkin Penthouse
Littauer Building

October 21
6pm

Sherwin Nuland
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
W. W. Norton & Company (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 22
6pm

Katharine Weber
The Little Women
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 24
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Susan Suleiman
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology
University of Nebraska Press (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

October 27
7:30pm

Walter Mosley, Will Lebow, Karen MacDonald, and Jacqui Parker
a benefit for PEN New England
The Best American Short Stories
Mariner Books (Oct. 2003)

American Repertory Theatre
64 Brattle Street
Cambridge

October 28
6pm

Joseph Stiglitz
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
W. W. Norton & Company (Oct. 2003)

First Parish Church
3 Church Street
(corner of Mass Ave. and Church St.)

October 29
6pm

Toni Morrison
Love
Alfred A. Knopf (Oct. 2003)

Fanueil Hall
Great Hall
Government Center
Boston
free and open to public

October 30
6pm

Jonathan Lethem
The Fortress of Solitude
Doubleday Books (Sept. 2003)

First Parish Church
3 Church Street
(corner of Mass Ave. and Church St.)

November 4
6pm

Thomas Cahill
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Nan A. Talese (Oct. 2003)

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

November 5
6pm

David Macaulay
Mosque
Walter Lorraine Books (Oct. 2003)

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge

November 5
6pm

A Musical and Literary Tribute to (son of Boston) SAMMY DAVIS JR.
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alfred A. Knopf (Oct. 2003)

The Strand Theatre
543 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester, MA
Please RSVP for this event: call (617)661.0372 ext. 2 or e-mail Charlotte Silver at csilver@harvardsquarebookstore.com.

November 6
6pm

Sue Halpern
Book of Hard Things
Farrar Straus Giroux (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 6
6pm

Marina Warner lectures on "Phantoms in the Mind's Eye: Contemporary Art and Metamorphosis"
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Noonday Press (Sep. 1996)

Carpenter Center
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge

November 7
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

David Herbert Donald
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
Simon & Schuster (Nov. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 11
6pm

Garry Wills
Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
Houghton Mifflin Company (Nov. 2003)

First Parish Church Parlor
3 Church Street
(corner of Mass Ave. and Church St.)

November 12
6pm

Tobias Wolff
Old School
Alfred A. Knopf (Nov. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 13
6pm

David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer
Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America
Syracuse University Press (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 14
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Peter Galison
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps
W. W. Norton & Company (May 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 17
6pm

Harvard Book Store and the Center for Family Connections celebrate National Adoption Month

featuring authors Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Adam Pertman, Betty Jean Lifton, Penny Callan Partridge, Carol Peacock, Rose Lewis, Rhea Bufferd, LICSW & Cheryl Lieberman, Ph.D., and Jan Waldron

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 18
6pm

Henry Wiencek
An Imperfect God
Farrar Straus Giroux (Nov. 2003)

Harvard Information Center
Holyoke Center, Street Level
Harvard Square, Cambridge

November 19
6pm


The Oath: The Remarkable Story of a Surgeon's Life Under Fire in Chechnya
Walker & Company (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 20
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Yale University Press (Nov. 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

November 21
4pm

Richard Dawkins
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Houghton Mifflin Company (Sep. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

November 23
11am

P.D. James
The Murder Room
Alfred A. Knopf (Nov. 2003)

Charles Hotel
One Bennett St.
Cambridge
Tickets are required for this event.

November 25
6pm

William Martin
Harvard Yard
Warner (Oct. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

December 1
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

Sarah Levin, joined by William D. Adams, President of Colby College
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values
Princeton University Press (Sep. 2003)

Gutman Conference Center
6 Appian Way
Cambridge

December 3
6pm

Stephen Prothero
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon
Farrar Straus Giroux (Dec. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

December 4
6pm

Wendy Luttrell
Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
Routledge (Dec. 2002)

Gutman Conference Center
6 Appian Way
Cambridge

December 5
3pm
FRIDAY
FORUM

Marla F. Frederick
Between Sundays: Black Women's Everyday Struggles of Faith
University of California Press (Nov. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

December 9
6pm

Nicholas Basbanes
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
HarperCollins Publishers (Dec. 2003)

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

December 10
6pm
ASKWITH
FORUM

R.F. Foster
W.B. Yeats, a Life: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939
Oxford University Press (Dec. 2003)

Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way

December 10
7pm

Reverend Peter J. Gomes Holiday Open-House
Gomes's Book of Good Graces

in the store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue

December 18
6pm

Nancy Seasholes
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
MIT Press (Sep. 2003)

Boston Public Library
Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

   

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