Harper imprint: 2546 books
Good Dog
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Inspired by Garden & Gun magazine’s popular “Good Dog” column, a rich collection of true stories celebrating the unique relationship between humans and their canine companions, penned by some of today’s top writers, including Jon Meacham, Roy Blount, Jr, Dominique Browning, and P.J. O’Rourke.
When...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition
A Year of Food Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007,...
The Great Grisby
Two Thousand Years of Literary, Royal, Philosophical, and Artistic Dog Lovers and Their Exceptional Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A scholar, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic explores the multifaceted role dogs play in our world in this charming bestiary of dogs from literature, lore, and life.
While gradually unveiling her eight-year love affair with her French bulldog, Grisby, Mikita Brottman ruminates on the singular...
by Rachel Ashwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Shabby Chic designer Rachel Ashwell shows readers how to turn any house or apartment into a comfortable, functional, beautiful, and stylish home, in this bestselling guide to getting the most out of flea-market finds and vintage treasures.
How Not to Write a Novel
200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted.
"Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'"
"But how shall I absolve this dilemma?...
Stonewalled
My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today’s media.
Americans are at...
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write...
In the City of Bikes
The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the city's cycling, from the craze of the 1890s,...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...
Illusion of Justice
Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America’s criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.
Over...
The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen
A Hit-the-Ground Running Approach to Stocking Up and Cooking Delicious, Nutritious, and Affordable Meals
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The author of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking shows you how to love your kitchen and learn to make creative, delicious food without breaking your budget.
You can become a confident cook—even if the drawer with the take-out menus is the only part of your kitchen you currently use! Kate...
The Story of Ain't
America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating "artificial notions of correctness," basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The...
Dogfight at the Pentagon
Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The genome's been mapped.
But what does it mean?
Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the...