Harper: 2602 books
by Siobhan Harper
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Heather is used to being passed around different medical institutions, being put on different medications and talking to different well meaning therapists, who just want to know what is wrong with her. However, Heather is sick and tired of the whole process, and wants nothing more than to just walk...
Driving the King
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary.
The war is over, the soldiers are returning, and Nat King Cole is back in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, for a rare performance. His...
Power Ball
Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.”
The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League...
You're Welcome, Cleveland
How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James’s return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness—especially when you fulfill your promise and bring home an NBA Championship,...
Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection
A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Discover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special e-book collection featuring Sapiens—a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg—and its acclaimed companion Homo Deus.
by Russell Banks
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen,...
by Francesc Zamora
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
150 Best Sustainable House Ideas features the latest innovations in environmentally friendly home design. From heating and cooling solutions to wind energy systems, solar paneling, thermal glazing, and even Trombe walls, the ideas featured inside are complemented by photographs and architectural plans of gorgeous, sustainable houses around the world.
The Dog Fighter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The anonymous narrator of this remarkable debut novel is a young drifter in search of his future. The son of a passionate beauty and gentle doctor, he roams the border between the United States and Mexico, eventually settling in a sleepy Baja town on the verge of transformation. Here he learns to...
Last Seen Alive
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
One woman is trapped in the death-grip of the past—and every one of its dark secrets—in this riveting novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of The Sisters and Local Girl Missing.
She can run…
As much as Libby Hall needs a vacation, she’s never considered...
The Gift of Failure
How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s *The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, *this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and...
Overdosed America
The Broken Promise of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology,...
VentureGirls
Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow’s Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
From an engineer and entrepreneur, a conversation-changing parenting book about how to engage young women in science, technology, engineering, and math, filled with practical advice for both parents and educators.
As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered...
Rethinking Narcissism
The Bad---and Surprising Good---About Feeling Special
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing.
"What is narcissism?"...
Radical Kindness
The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The beloved creator of Blues Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and protégé of Fred Rogers explores the importance of kindness and how it can change your life in this essential guide and tie-in to the PBS special, “The Power of Radical Kindness.”
Angela C. Santomero, the creator,...