Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
Hotel Living
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos’s debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled...
Joyner's Dream
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Joyner’s Dream is the sweeping story of a family and its dubious legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a persistent knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s, continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations...
Mozart's Last Aria
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Award-winning author Matt Rees takes readers to 18th centuryAustria, where Mozart’s estranged sister Nannerl stumblesinto a world of ambition, conspiracy, and immortal music while attempting touncover the truth about her brother’s suspicious death. Did Mozart’s life endin murder? Nannerl must...
by Sandra Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles.
But something else is happening. Through Chrysalis's reunion with her brother,...
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In the title story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a young, struggling writer discovers that his father has begun to publish short stories—good ones, too—under the son's own name. The result is a brilliant and occasionally hilarious look at the meeting point of creative anxiety and the combustible father-son relationship.
Lugo in Normal Time
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a single father with an alcohol problem becomes an unlikely tragic hero. Always acting against his good intentions—both before the story begins, with his ex-wife and during it, with his fourteen-year-old...
Border to Border
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, an immigrant working at an amusement park faces a daunting, dramatic decision when he loses one of his dental crowns. "Having a choice," Maxim realizes, "only meant he was going to make the wrong choice."
First Marriage
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a honeymooning couple in Arizona faces the vast future ahead of them—and the immediate problem of a dead animal stinking up their rental car. This meditation on marriage, commitment, and all...
In the Pines
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"In the Pines," from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, is the story of a thrice-widowed, seventy-something woman living in a retirement home on an old Civil War battlefield. When a soldier wanders in from the backyard and befriends her, she believes she's found herself a new man.
One Dog Year
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, an elderly, declining John D. Rockfeller waits in his wheelchair for an airshow to begin, pondering the tension between eking out every last moment of life and experiencing, for the first time in a long time, a moment of genuine adventure.
Buzzers
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In a story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a young man en route to study in Italy sits on the plane as it prepares for take-off and receives a text message that his ailing father has finally passed away. Overwhelmed and grief-stricken, he...
Mr. Adam
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Originally published at the dawn of the Atomic Age, Mr. Adam is a riveting, chilling novel from the author of the post-apocalyptic classic Alas Babylon, revealing the dangers of nuclear power—and the far greater danger of government bureaucracy.
A young newspaperman accidentally turns up...
The Way Inn
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Up in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors—hailed as “Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud,” by the Daily Telegraph—that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi,...
The Secret Architecture Of Our Nation's Capital
The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the center of our nation's capital and explains...