Harpercollins E Books imprint: 5637 books
by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition
Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant...
Lullabies for Little Criminals
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Heather O’Neill’s critically acclaimed debut novel, with a new introduction from the author to celebrate its ten-year anniversary
Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother...
Cat Playing Cupid
A Joe Grey Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Excellent….These Joe Grey mysteries will stay popular for many years to come.”
—Tampa Tribune
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Kirkus Reviews says that award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy has “raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre.”In Cat Playing Cupid, Murphy’s fourteenth...
Return to Sullivans Island
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
“Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.”
—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides
In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller...
The Best of Everything
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“The Best of Everythingis one of the best things you’ll put on your shopping list this week.”
—Tennessee Tribune
Readers who just can’t get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black—the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The Best-Kept Secret,...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith
One of the most important...
Christietown
A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery, and Agatha Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved sleuth Miss Marple. Of...
by Tony Hillerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former...
Shakespeare's Philosophy
Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's...
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the...
Smothered in Hugs
Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review
“His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles...
More Mirth of a Nation
The Best Contemporary Humor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More seriously funny writing from American's most trusted humor anthology
Witty, wise, and just plain wonderful, the inaugural volume of this biennial, Mirth of a Nation, ensured a place for the best contemporary humor writing in the country. And with this second treasury, Michael J. Rosen has once...
The Baroque Cycle
Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Get all three novels in Neal Stephenson's New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle" in one e-book, including: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. This three-volume historical epic delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century.
by Kathleen E Woodiwiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure. He...