Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books

by Anton Myrer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

“Once an Eagle is simply the best work of fiction on leadership in print.” **—**General Martin E. Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Required reading for West Point and Marine Corps cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and...

Adore

A Novella

by Doris Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons—taboo-shattering passions that last for years,...

Walt Whitman

A Life

by Justin Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.
by Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the...
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews. Millay...
by Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought...

Trespass

Poems

by Thomas Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

The 2013 National Poetry Series selection, chosen by poet and novelist Charlie Smith. Established in 1978 by legendary editor Dan Halpern, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy...

Coincidence

A Novel

by J. W. Ironmonger
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

What determines the course of our lives? Chance . . . or destiny? On Midsummer's Day, 1982, three-year-old Azalea Ives is found alone at a seaside fairground. One year later, her mother's body washes up on a beach—her link to Azalea unnoticed. On Midsummer's Day, 1992, her adoptive...

Some Other Town

A Novel

by Elizabeth Collison
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

Channeling the emotional intensity of Susan Minot and Amy Bloom—and infused with a witty, dream-like surrealism reminiscent of Margaret Atwood—this mesmerizing debut takes us inside the unsettling world of Margaret Lydia Benning, which turns upside down when she falls in love…and then unravels...
by Sarah Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013

Winner of the Portico Prize Winner of the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Sarah Hall has been hailed as "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" (The Guardian). Now, in this collection...
by Dan Fante
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avenging his friend's murder. Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up with the wrong people in New York,...

The Actual One

How I Tried, and Failed, to Avoid Adulthood Forever

by Isy Suttie
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

A hilarious, razor-sharp debut memoir about the moment when you realize that your friends have all grown up and left you behind, for readers of Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, and Kelly Williams Brown’s Adulting. Isy Suttie wakes...
by Caitlin Moran
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

The follow-up to Caitlin Moran's breakout hit, How to Be a Woman—A hilarious collection of award-winning columns, available to American readers for the first time ever. Possibly the only drawback to the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty...

The Year of Reading Dangerously

How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

by Andy Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and...
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