Brown Bookstore
This Week At The Store - November 7 to 14, 2009
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Make the Cold Weather Bearable
The campus shop has everything you need to bundle up against the coming months of cold weather. From toke hats to hoodies, to mittens, gloves, and scarves; find the bearable necessities for living on campus in Providence.
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Sean Conway tells us how to "Cultivate LIfe" Monday November 9, 5:00 p.m. The Faculty Club Join us as popular TV host Sean Conway reveals home and gardening secrets to create a healthy and restful environment.
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Chinua Achebe The Education of a British Protected Child Tuesday November 10, 4:00 p.m. Salomon 101 The Brown Bookstore is proud to be a part of Africana Studies celebration welcoming author Chinua Achebe to the faculty. Hear the foremost African author of his time relate his early childhood years and tell of his formation into the writer we admire today. |
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Toby Lester introduces us to "The Fourth Part of the World" Wednesday November 11, 5:30 p.m. JCB Library We are pleased to support the John Carter Brown Library in welcoming Toby Lester, a research fellow at the library, to introduce us to the epic story of the map that first named "America" in 1507. |
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A New Literary History of America See our display of the books discussed in the New Literary History of America, a collaboration of some of today's finest authors including Gish Jen, Jonathan Lethem, Walter Mosley, Bharati Mukherjee, Sarah Vowell, and Ted Widmer among others. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, the book has taken the literary world by storm and re-introduced readers to many nearly forgotten classics. |
