Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
What's Important Is Feeling
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.
And...
What Are We For?
The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt, a collection of her most treasured sayings—the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, graduation, and a new generation of feminists.
With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
No one can make you feel inferior...
Lulu in the Sky
A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward towards happiness. After the violence of the Khmer Rouge...
Waterline
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
From Ross Raisin, the highly acclaimed author of Out Backward—a debut novel Colm Tóibín called “compelling, disturbing and often very funny”—comes the moving and story of an ex-shipyard worker’s journey of grief and reclamation in the wake of his wife’s death. Lyrical and resonant, with...
You Learn By Living
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life**.**
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new...
Between Gods
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Profound, honest, and masterfully written—Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
Growing up in a tight-knit Christian family, Alison Pick went to church regularly. But as a teenager, she discovered a remarkable family secret: her paternal grandparents...
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...
I Am Not a Slut
Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s...
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap...
Knowing Mandela
A Personal Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela...
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Writers Confront the Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have...
A Teacher's Guide to Ladies of Liberty
Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This...
by Caitlin Moran
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“HUXLEY'S MASTERPIECE AND PERHAPS THE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY EVER WRITTEN. .”
— Washington Post Book World
Aldous Huxley's "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history, hailed as the "peak achievement...