Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
Darkest Hour
How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister—soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
“He was speaking to the nation, the world, and...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Features new material on the Golden State Killer's case and an updated afterword by Patton Oswalt.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
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by Madeleine Albright
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Best Books of 2018 --The Economist
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
A...
This Idea Must Die
Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website”...
Slow Getting Up
A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League
As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice...
The Perfect Machine
Building the Palomar Telescope
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror...
"I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not"
A Collection of Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of American
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Provocative and amusingly heretical, "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not" (a quote attributed to Warren Harding) offers eye-opening revelations debunking long-held American legends.
The Queen
A Life in Brief
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
the Queen
Elizabeth II was not born to be queen. She came into the world on April 21, 1926, the equivalent of the modern Princess Beatrice, first-born daughter of the Duke of York, destined to flutter on the royal fringe. So while Lilibet was brought up with almost religious respect for the...
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order...
Deadly Departure
Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How It Could Happen Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. government. To this day the crash remains clouded in doubt and shadowed by suspicion of a government conspiracy.
If...
Fante
A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road...
Behemoth
The History of the Elephant in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism. They became so deeply ingrained in...
Confidence Men
Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it.
Until August 2007, when that confidence finally...
Bandido Massacre
A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise...