Harper Perennial: 508 books
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...
The Social Sex
A History of Female Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship.
In today’s culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea...
Truth Facts
The Truthiest Truths and Factiest Facts of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In an age of "alternative facts," we all need a little more truth in our lives. And humor.
Welcome to Truth Facts, a collection of information graphics that poke fun at societal quirks and everyday absurdities through charts and graphs. Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist...
by William Glasser M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
This interesting societal study by the father of Reality Therapy presents a view that since survival is no longer the major issue for humans, development of self and identity is a normal social quest.
The Agile Gene
How Nature Turns on Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.
Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to...
Brain Lock
Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The 20th anniversary edition of the definitive classic on defeating obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the author.
An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something...
Ten Days to Self-Esteem
The Leader's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Do you wake up dreading the day?
Do you feel ciscouraged with what you've accomplished in life?
Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living?
If so, you will benefit from this revolutionary way of brightening your moods without drugs or lengthy therapy. All you need...