The Bookish Ball:
A Community Celebration of the Bookstores of Harvard Square

Saturday, April 12^th from 3:00 pm until 9:00 pm
www.harvardsquare.com

Highlights of the Bookish Ball include:

3:00 until 7:00 p.m. - A “Passport to Wisdom” Book Stroll – Wander through the bookstores and printed word shops of Harvard Square and gain “Stamps of Wisdom” on your Bookish Ball Passport!  Wisdom Stamps will allow you to be entered to WIN TWO FREE JET BLUE TICKETS to be drawn at 8:00 pm!  Enjoy special in-store events, activities, refreshments, entertainment and shopping discounts at participating stores.

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - A Grand Public Bookish Ball!  Holyoke Center (Forbes Plaza – 1350 Massachusetts Avenue). Join us for a party to honor and celebrate the truly remarkable anniversaries of our long-standing bookstores: the 125th anniversary of the Harvard Coop, the 75th Anniversary the Harvard Book Store, the 60th anniversary Harvard University Press Display Room, the 30^th Anniversary of Newbury Comics, the 25^th Anniversary of The Globe Corner Bookstore and the 15^th Anniversary of James and Devon Gray Booksellers!

Dance to the sweet sounds of THE SWEET DIVINES, a 12 piece soul revival band! EAT CAKE with literary themes designed by Harvard Square Restaurants; Upstairs on the Square, Sandrine’s Bistro, Henrietta’s Table, Grafton Street, The Temple Bar and Z-Square!  Hear Surprise Guest Authors and Local Dignitaries talk about the importance of books and bookstores and community! Come dressed in your best “Great Literary Figure Costume” and win prizes (grand prize is $250 in Harvard Square Bookstore and Restaurant Gift Certificates and a special prize for children: $50 gift certificate from Curious George Books and Toys). 

All events are free and families are encouraged to attend. The Bookish Ball “Passport to Wisdom” featuring a map of all participating Harvard Square bookstores, newsstands, and comic book stores, and restaurants and shops with special offers will be available at the Harvard Square Business Association Kiosk in front of Holyoke Center from 1:00 p.m. throughout the event. The passport will provide information about timed in-store author readings and performances happening in the bookstores and throughout the square.

Book Stroll participants are encouraged to browse all of the bookstores and get their passbooks stamped. Stamped passports must be returned to the Kiosk by 8:00 pm to be entered to win TWO FREE ROUNDTRIP JET BLUE TICKETS and a “Fabulous Shopping and Dining Spree” in Harvard Square.

We hope that you will join us in this celebration of Harvard Square as a place of books and bookstores, of public learning and public discourse, of important anniversaries and as a community that treasures the printed word.

 BOOKSTORES PARTICIPATING
IN THE PASSPORT TO WISDOM STROLL!

Get your “Passport to Wisdom” stamped at any of the following locations:


The HSBA Kiosk in Front of Holyoke Center
Almost Banned in Harvard Square Booksellers
The American Repertory Theater
Bank of America
The Brattle Theater
Curious George Books and Toys
James& Devon Gray booksellers
Lame Duck Books
Lem Lem
Newbury Comics
Games People Play
The Globe Corner Bookstore
Grendel’s Den
The Grolier Poetry Bookstore
Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book & Binding
The Harvard Coop
The Harvard University Press Display Room
The Papercut Zine Library
Raven Used Books
Revolution Books
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books
Tokyo Kid
Uno Chicago Grill
Upstairs on the Square
Z Square Restaurant

and just outside of Harvard Square: Bryn Mawr Books

 

SPECIAL IN-STORE EVENTS & DISCOUNTS!

Curious George Books and Toys, 1 JFK Street, 617-498-0062, established in Harvard Square in 1995 www.curiousg.com

• 10% off of all Curious George Books and Merchandise (anything with Curious George in the title or on the package)!

• Local author Timothy Basil Ering will join us to share and sign his high energy and quirkily wrought books, Frog Belly Rat Bone and Necks Out for Adventure.
• Clarinetist Todd Brunel, Curious George's own Pied Piper, will lead children on a musical adventure.
• Resident illustrator Julia Denos (Sleepover Squad series) will round out the day, so our visitors will have a "Bookish" memento to take home.

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Lame Duck Books, 12 Arrow Street, 617-868-2022

Year established in business: 1983. Year established in Harvard Square: 2005 www.lameduckbooks.com

Lame Duck specializes in Used and Rare Books including American & European Literary First Editions, Latin American Literature, Philosophy, Intellectual History, Autographs, Manuscripts, and Illustrated Books.  Art, Appraisals, Archives We are always interested in purchasing individual volumes and collections of books, letters and manuscripts of literary, philosophical, artistic and historical significance. We provide consultation and appraisal services and serve as agents in the institutional placement of archives of importance. 

• Visitors can pick up a passport and get it stamped and enjoy something good to eat!

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The Globe Corner Bookstore, 90 Mt. Auburn Street, 617-497-6277

Year Established in business in Harvard Square: 1982. Formerly of 28 Church Street.  www.globecorner.com

The Globe Corner Bookstores, an independent bookstore located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, carries one of North America's largest selections of books and maps for the traveler. We provide a full range of travel and outdoor recreation reference materials for a destination: guidebooks, maps, atlases, recreation guides, travel literature, nature guides, photography books, cookbooks, and language products.

• We will give a 15% discount (off list price) to any customer with a Bookish Ball "Passport to Wisdom" on April 12th.
• All books and maps on Eastern Europe are 15% off list price in April.
• Visitors are welcome to have refreshments! 
• We will have a Destination of the Month window featuring Eastern Europe!

SPECIAL EVENT!

• Great Days & Nights in Eastern Europe from 4:00– 7:00 p.m.

      The Globe Corner Bookstore's staff and "alumnae" who have journeyed through and lived in Eastern Europe will talk about their travels and ways to survive the high Euro. They will answer questions about extended stays in Prague, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Dubrovnik, Zagreb and Sarajevo. Advice will cover travel east from Vienna and Moscow, backpacking in the Balkans, cycling in Hungary, coastal escapes in Croatia and Montenegro, hiking in       Transylvania, riding the Trans- Siberian rails - and much more about Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia.

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Harvard Book & Binding Service, 5 JFK Street, 617-233-6756

Established in Harvard Square in 1970 – 38 years!        

• Emergency Book Binding Class – How to fix paperbacks using household tools – throughout the day!
• Pick up a card for $38 off any restoration binding work over $100.00! Stop in for a free estimate!
• On display a book about the 12 Caesars printed in Italy in 1475!

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Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., 617-661-1515

Year Established in business and in Harvard Square: 1932 www.harvard.com

Over it's 76 year history, Harvard Book Store has opened several bookstores in the greater Boston area, including the famous Harvard Book Store Cafe (1980-1994), located on Newbury Street. In Harvard Square, Harvard Book Store originally opened in 1932 at 19 Boylston Street (what is now JFK St.). The Harvard Book Store Law Annex once stood at 12 Plympton Street, from approximately 1965 - 1991.

Harvard Book Store, Harvard Square's literary landmark, is a privately-owned, independent bookstore serving the university and neighborhood community since 1932.

Harvard Book Store Events:

• Join us for refreshments!
• We have bargain books for sale on our sidewalk and we will have entertainment inside or in front of our store.  

Special Events:

• PICO IYER will discuss his new book on the DALAI LAMA. http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2036
• GRAPHIC NOVEL ART EXHIBITION: Harvard Book Store, in conjunction with Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, is proud to present high-quality prints from Howard Zinn’s A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF AMERICAN EMPIRE, edited by Paul Buhle and illustrated by Mike Konopacki. Excerpted from a section entitled “Just Following Orders” (pages 129–34), these six prints showcase Konopacki’s striking cartoon rendition of a crucial part of Zinn’s autobiography. The illustrations also incorporate archival photographs and documents, which make this living experience of history even more vivid.

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The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, 617 499-2000

Year Established in business and in Harvard Square: 1882 www.thecoop.com

First Location, March 1882: 13 Harvard Row- College House on Mass. Ave – a few shelves in a fruit stand. Second Location, April 1882: Drury’s Tobacco Shop in Holyoke House. Third Location, October 1883: Dane Hall, Old Law School Building – replaced by Lehman Hall. Fourth Location, 1903: Lyceum Hall, replaced by present store in1924-1925.

Special Events:

• Clifford The Big Red Dog: Stories, snacks, crafts and a costume character visit. Three Appearances: 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
• Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Harvard's Hasty Pudding players enact part of their 160th original production, FABLE ATTRACTION at 4 p.m.
• Actors' Shakespeare Project: The ASP troop will delight all with sonnets and snippets from their spring production. Two Appearances 3:30 p.m. & 5:30 p. m.
• Harvard Author Linda J. Bilmes: Co-authored with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, Harvard lecturer Linda J. Bilmes' new book, THE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR, argues that the true cost of the Iraq conflict will make current estimates seem like yard sale bargains. Book discussion and signing at 6:00 p.m.
• To celebrate 125 years of community involvement, The Harvard Coop will donate a percentage of all book sales on Saturday, April 12th to the PBHA's Summer Urban Program!  PBHA is a student-run nonprofit based on the campus of Harvard University. The PBHA Summer Urban Program enrolls more than 900 campers from low-income families and offers a meaningful teaching experience to 90 teenage junior counselors from across Boston and Cambridge. Learn more about this program, and find out how you can help from the student volunteers who will be at The Coop all afternoon!
• Main Window on Mass Ave. will have a display of memorabilia from the past 125 years of its history in Harvard Square.

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The Harvard University Press Display Room

1354 Massachusetts Avenue (Holyoke Center Arcade), 617-495-2625 Year established in business: 1948  www.hup.harvard.edu

The Harvard University Press Display Room features an enormous selection of Harvard University Press Books New and Old. Including the World Famous “Loeb Classical Library.”

• We will have bowls of FREE candy!
• Our ever popular “Bargain Book Section” will be freshly stocked with hard to find items at greatly reduced prices from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

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James & Devon Gray booksellers

12 Arrow Street, 617-868-0752 www.graybooksellers.com

Established in Harvard Square in 1993.

Antiquarian booksellers who have specialized for fifteen years, in procuring and selling books printed form the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries!

• Join us for wine and cheese and other refreshments!

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Newbury Comics 36 JFK Street, 617-491-0337  www.newbury.com
Established in Harvard Square in 1978.

• 10% discount in the Harvard Square on any book, magazine, or graphic novel for Passport to Wisdom holders!

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Papercut Zine Library, 45 Mount Auburn Street, 617-492-2600 www.papercutzinelibrary.org  

Established in business and in Harvard Square: 2005

The Papercut Zine Library is a fully-lending library of independent publications, or zines.  There are over 10,000 zines in the collection, covering a wide variety of topics.

• We will offer visitors refreshments!
• We will have a sidewalk sale!
• We will have entertainment inside
• We will have a special workshop or other event or special display!

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RRaven Used Books, 52-B John F. Kennedy Street, 617-441-6999,

www.ravencambridge.com  Year Established in Harvard Square: 2005

Raven Used Books specializes in carefully selected scholarly used books. Adding over 1,000 books a week, Raven always has fresh stock on the shelves. Particularly strong categories include philosophy, art, architecture, history, political theory, anthropology, religion, literature, and poetry. Raven Used Books are always buying good paperback and hardcover books. Please make an appointment to sell books. Feel free to contact us for more information or questions about stock.

• 20% off any one book per customer coupon for the event!

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Revolution Books, 1158 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, 617-492-5443

Year Established in business: 1979. Year Established in Harvard Square: 1986  www.revolutionbookscamb.org

More than a store, Revolution Books is a center of revolutionary ferment – a crucible in which the most liberating science, revolutionary communism, interacts and mixes it up with all the streams of progressive, radical, and revolutionary intellectual life — a place to engage the whole world.

At the core of Revolution Books is the path breaking work of Bob Avakian which goes beyond even the best of the previous socialist societies and re-envisions a socialism that is both visionary and viable, on the road to the truly liberating future of Communism. With its communist foundation, Revolution Books features a broad and diverse cutting edge collection of revolutionary and political theory, literature and poetry, history and science, and a selection of periodicals. Revolution Books will continue featuring author readings, revolutionary programs and discussions, poetry readings, films and other events.

• We will offer 10% off all stock on the date of the Bookish Ball!
• We will have a sidewalk sale!
• We will have refreshments!

Special Events:

• We will have a discussion of the newly published AWAY WITH ALL GODS!  Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian and how it fits in with the resurgence of critical thinking about the role of religion in the world, especially the rise of religious fundamentalism at 6:30 - 8 pm   Sat. April 12^th.

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Schoenhof’s Foreign Books, 76 A Mount Auburn Street, 617.547.8855

Year established in business: 1856. Year established in Harvard Square: 1948 www.schoenhofs.com.  Shoenhof’s was originally on Mass Ave originally where Bob Slate Stationary is now located.

Founded in 1856, Schoenhof’s is the oldest foreign language book dealer and the one of the oldest bookstores in the United States. Established in Harvard Square, in 1948, the oldest foreign-language bookseller in the country stocks volumes for adults and children in more than 50 languages. They also carry dictionaries and language-learning materials for 700-plus languages and dialects, plus quirky gift items and translations of children's classics. They also offer comprehensive distribution, mail order, and special order services and are the best source for JOYCEANA - a selection of titles in a variety of languages for the Joyce aficionado.

• We will offer 10% off all items in the store.
• We will offer assorted cookies.

Special Events:

• Book Reading and Signing at 6.00 PM with Ecuadorian author Esteban Mayorga.

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Tokyo Kid, 36 JFK Street, 617-661-9277 www.tokyokid.com

Year established in business and in Harvard Square 1993

• We will offer 10% off all MANGA products in our store.
• We will offer Free Candy!

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Almost Banned in Harvard Square Booksellers – Sidewalk of 1324 Mass. Avenue.
Established in Harvard Square in 2007. 

• Weather Permitting, Ken O’Brien, a formerly homeless person in Harvard Square, will be selling ALL books for $2.00 during the Bookish Ball.
• Throughout the day Almost Banned will employ other homeless individuals looking to soon be off the streets and like Ken warm and safe in an apartment.

Cambridge Public Library – Visit our Booth at Holyoke Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CPL

• Copies of our book, Secret Gardens of Cambridge and our adorable Cambridge Public Library pandas will be for sale.
• Expect a surprise visit from Bamboo, the library’s popular mascot.

The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter – Visit our Booth at Holyoke Center, 1350 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, www.hshsc.org

            The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, run entirely by Student volunteers has            provided food, housing, and a friendly supportive environment for two dozen men and women each night during the five coldest months of the year.

 

• Pick up information about the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
• Face-painting for kids and adults

The Harvard Independent “Great Literary Figures” COSTUME CONTEST!!!

      Join us at our table in Holyoke Center from 5:00 p.m. until 7:45 to sign-in for the Great Literary Figures COSTUME CONTEST! Win fantastic prizes!!! First prize is $250 in Harvard Square Bookstore and Restaurant Gift Certificates.  Special Children’s Costume Prize - $50 Gift Certificate for Curious George! 

Restaurants Participating in the Bookish Ball!

Upstairs on the Square, has come up with a host of special ways to celebrate the Bookish Ball!

Literary Lunch on the day of the Bookish Ball featuring a special prix fixe lunch for $25, with offerings from some of our best literary cooks, like James Beard and MFK Fisher 11 am to 3 pm

An Alice in Wonderland Bookish Ball Tea - $28. Enjoy our wonderful artisanal afternoon tea of savory and sweet treats, all served with silver teapots and three-tiered trays, in our “Alice in Wonderland” dining rooms from 3 to 4:30 pm

• To celebrate Harvard Book Store’s 75th birthday: $7.50 per glass of  Cremant d’Alsace,a refreshing sparkling wine from Alsace.

• To celebrate the Harvard Coops’ 125th birthday: $12.50 cocktail, “the Hemingway,” guaranteed to get you almost to Key West…

• Late-Night Literary Lights -- visit us after the Ball in our “Book” Club Bar, where we will be serving a glass of champagne and any dessert for $15.

UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop Street, 617-864-1933 www.upstairsonthesquare.com

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At Uno Chicago Grill;

      We will offer a 20% discount to any guest who has a receipt from any of the bookstores participating in the Bookish Ball.

      We also have our downstairs lounge which will have free coffee, and snacks for anyone who wants to sit and do a little reading from the new books they purchased.

Uno Chicago Grill, 22 JFK Street, 617-497-1530 www.unos.com

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Enjoy Mystery Thrillers - Drinks and Appetizers at Z-Square Restaurant.

Special Drinks:

The Tailspin by Catherine Coulter: Orange & muddled New Amersterdam Gin, Citronse and Sloe Gin Sugar.

The Appeal by John Grishom: Godiva White, Espresso Kahlua and Chambord.

Special Appetizers:

Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein: Crispy Fried Squid Rings with pickled cherry peppers and chipotle mayo.

Phantom Prey by John Sandford: Z Sliders hand crafted beef burgers cheddar, bacon and BBQ, avocado, bacon & blue cheese and mozzarella Proscuitto.

Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline: Fried Green Tomatoes with horseradish tartar sauce and organic greens.

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Grendel's Den 37th Anniversary "Beowulf & Beer Dinner" Wednesday April 16th, 6:30 PM.  Passport to Wisdom Holders get $5.00 off!!!

Uncover the literary origins of Grendel's Den as Owner Kari Kuelzer presents four courses of special dishes, and discusses the Grendel's connection to the written word. The dinner also includes four courses of beer pairings presented by a Magic Hat brewmaster. $37 per person including tax and gratuity. Tickets are limited so reserve early! Call (617) 491-1160 to reserve by phone using a credit card. 89 Winthrop Street. Harvard Square

AND on Saturday, April 12^th…Our entire food menu is half price from 5 til 7:30 PM every night Plus Passport to Wisdom holders get a $1 off lunch on Saturday April 12th until 3 pm. ($1 off discount is limited to one per Passport holder, and cannot be combined with other discounts)

Cakes for the Bookish Ball!

Literary themed cakes and cupcakes will be authored by pastry chefs from the following fabulous Harvard Square Restaurants: Grafton Street, Henrietta’s Table, Sandrines Bistro, The Temple Bar, UpStairs on the Square, and Z-square Restaurant! 

Cake will be served to all guests of the Bookish Ball at 8:00 p.m. on Forbes Plaza, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue.

Other Businesses
Participating in the Bookish Ball:

The American Repertory Theater: $10 off regularly priced tickets to Cardenio (May 10-June 8) during the day of April 12 (12pm-8pm). Guests can stop by the Loeb Drama Center box office and show their Passports to Wisdom to receive the discount.  64 Brattle Street, 617-496-2000 www.amrep.org

Bank of America will have a table outside our branch for the Bookish Ball event. We will have balloons, candy, and give-aways. 1414 Massachusetts Ave. 617-349-7606 www.bankofamerica.com

Lem Lem: Offering 10% off selected items during the Bookish Ball. 12b Eliot Street, 617-547-1447. www.lemlemgallery.com

Games People Play: Come see A Whimsical Window of Books about GAMES! 1100 Massachusetts Ave, 617-492-0711, www.thegamespeopleplay.com  

First Parish in Cambridge has placed a GOTBOOKS container on Massachusetts Ave. (at the Corner of Church Street). Got Books collects and reuses books that otherwise might be thrown out or recycled as paper. They will also take videotapes and cd's but not magazines or telephone books. These items go to their weekly Charity Book Sale held on Friday and Saturday and are sold for $1.00 per book. Container (by weight) proceeds go to a fund designated for the greening of the two historic First Parish buildings. 3 Church Street, 617-876-7772, www.firstparrshcambridge.org  http://www.gotbooks.com  

The Brattle Theater will offer $6.50 tickets to anyone who shows their “Passport to Wisdom” on Saturday, April 12. We are screening Jean-Luc Godard's adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel CONTEMPT. Showtimes are 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 p.m.

40 Brattle Street, www.brattlefilm.org 617-876-8021  

Bentley Publishers, 1734 Massachusetts Avenue, 617-547-4170

www.bentleypublishers.com

Year Established in business and in Harvard Square: 1950

Bentley Publishers is an automotive reference publisher focusing on Engineering, Motor Sports, and Technical Service for European cars featuring Books, DVD, and web subscription products. Our retail bookstore & showroom is open to visitors and for retail business.

Bryn Mawr Book Store 373 Huron Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138
617-661-1770 www.brynmawrbookstore.com  

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The Bookstores and Printed Word Shops of Harvard Square: