Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books

Darkest Hour

How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

by Anthony McCarten
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

by Michelle McNamara, Patton Oswalt
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: Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel...
by Madeleine Albright
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

by John Brockman
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

by Nate Jackson
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

by Ronald Florence
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

by Richard Shenkman
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

by Robert Lacey
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

by Christopher R. Browning
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

by Christine Negroni
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

by Dan Fante
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

by Ronald B. Tobias
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

by Ron Suskind
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

by Peter Edwards
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...
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