Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Harvard Bookstore - February Select 70

I know that I spend way too much money on books in general, and at the Harvard Bookstore (not the Coop) in particular, but I can't help it - I love that store, it's got a great selection (limited, okay, but there haven't been that many times I've gone in looking for something and not been able to find it) and the used books & remainders downstairs are a good way to indulge my cravings for new (to me, anyways) books without hitting me too hard in the wallet.  I also am a big fan of their "Select 70" program - their bestsellers, plus recommended books (from "our buyers and booksellers") are discounted 20%; I don't often take advantage of the the discount, honestly, because I do try really hard to get books at the library, plus I've often already read the books by the time they make it to the list.  BUT, Harvard Bookstore prints up their list every month, with book info and a brief description, and I love going through the flyer and circling everything I want to read.  Now, since I have this blog, I can copy down the titles & get the ratty February flyer out of my purse!  So:
Beneath the Lion's Gaze, Maaza Mengiste
Why Architecture Matters, Paul Goldberger
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning
The Book of Night Women, Marlon James
The Lazarus Project, Aleksander Hemon
The Godfather of Kathmandu, John Burdett
Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd - ?  Find out more...
[read Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova on way to/from DC in Feb.  Eh]
A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State, Charles Freeman
The Poker Bride: the First Chinese in the Wild West, Christopher Corbett
Get Me Out: a History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, Randi Hutter Epstein
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, Charles Glass
Birthright: The True Story That Ispired Kidnapped, A. Robert Ekirch
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann
Also - they list Conspirata, by Robert Harris, which is apparently the second book in a trilogy starring Cicero; I should find out what the first one is and read it.

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