This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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February 29, 2024
This week's new arrivals include a highly anticipated new novel from Tommy Orange that "delves deep into what it means to be Native American in this country" (The Boston Globe); a reflection on how elite universities respond to critiques, and how they can do better, from Derek Bok—former professor, dean, and president of Harvard University; and a major new biography of writer Carson McCullers, based on newly available letters and journals. We offer pickup and mailout services for your online and phone orders, and you can view our current hours of operation here on harvard.com.
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Come browse this week's new arrivals in the following categories.
» New Fiction & Poetry
» New Nonfiction
» New Scholarly
» New Paperback
» New Kids & Young Adult
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fiction
Wandering Stars:
A Novel
by Tommy Orange
The Pulitzer Prize–finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There delivers a masterful follow-up. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. 
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fiction
The Painter's Daughters: A Novel
by Emily Howes
The Painter's Daughters is a “beautifully written” (Hilary Mantel) debut novel, a story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, as Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough—struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.
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fiction
The American Daughters:
A Novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
“The American Daughters is an emotionally and intellectually captivating journey through slavery and into our future. It is a wholly unique story that challenges what we think we know of the past, truth, American history, and how we will carry what was into what will be. With fully fleshed out characters and enchanting detail, antebellum New Orleans is vivid in Ruffin’s rendering, and Ady is an unforgettable protagonist, a character who meets the crossroads of history with remarkable courage and enduring love.” —Imani Perry
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fiction
The Other Valley:
A Novel
by Scott Alexander Howard
For readers of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, The Other Valley is an elegant and exhilarating debut, a speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. Sixteen-year-old Odile—an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil that decides who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders—recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see—the grieving parents of the boy she loves, escorted across the border from the future, to view their son while he’s still alive.
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nonfiction
Attacking the Elites:
What Critics Get Wrong—and Right—About America’s Leading Universities
by Derek Bok
Drawing on over fifty years of experience as a student, professor, dean, and president of Harvard University, Derek Bok reflects on current critiques from the left and the right, in order to determine which complaints are unsubstantiated, which are valid, how elite universities can best respond to their critics, and how they can do better.
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nonfiction
Dead Weight:
Essays on Hunger and Harm
by Emmeline Clein
Utilizing a kaleidoscopic array of sources—from cult classic films like Jennifer’s Body to the aughts-era Tumblrverse, the writing of Simone Weil, Chris Kraus, and Anne Boyer to the medieval canon of anorexic saints—Emmeline Clein calls for a feminism that doesn’t compel women to shrink their bodies to increase their value, urging radical acceptance of all our appetites instead: for food, connection, and love.
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nonfiction
Carson McCullers:
A Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
Mary V. Dearborn, whose biographies have included Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry Miller, has written the first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available material including letters, journals, and transcripts of McCullers’s psychiatric sessions.
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nonfiction
The Britannias:
An Archipelago's Tale
by Alice Albinia
The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, demonstrating how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago and beyond.
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scholarly
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
by Ruby Lal
Vagabond Princess is the first-ever biography of the itinerant sixteenth-century Mughal Princess Gulbadan, one of the world’s greatest adventurers. Situated in the early decades of the Mughal Empire, historian Ruby Lal's enthralling portrait is based in part on Gulbadan's long-forgotten memoir, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age.
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YOung adult fiction
Kindling
by Traci Chee
Once, war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives. Now the war is over, and kindlings have been cast adrift—their magic outlawed, their skills outdated, their formidable weapons prized only as relics and souvenirs. But violence still plagues the countryside, and seven kindlings reclaim who they once were, preparing for one final battle to claim the peace they once fought for and the future in which they’re finally daring to believe.
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