Harper: 2602 books
The Arm
Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.
Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five...
Medieval Lives
Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.
by Harper Nevermind
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
"A selfish man is not that much different than a tumorous pig. They have similar appetites and often suffer the same fate."From the author of "I Only Got One Hot Wife" comes a profoundly complex and deeply harrowing short story about one man's fears, regrets, and tragic impulses. Stuart...
Tales of Accidental Genius
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy—his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
“She believed...
by Gershom Gorenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Prominent Israeli journalist GershomGorenbergoffers a penetrating and provocativelook at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism,threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinianconflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel...
How to Cook Your Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father
Earlier this year, Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe: The...
How to Be Idle
A Loafer's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living:...
by Paulette Harper
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Arise from the Ashes, are stories of hope from seven women from all walks of life. These women have gone through the fire, walked in places that others dare not tread, but women who are not ashamed of their scars and willing to bare it all.
They share their journey of going from trials...
We Live in Water
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
From New York Times bestselling author, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite
Stories...
Devices and Desires
Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick—next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England.
Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business,...
Flings
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity.
In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures...
The Book Club Girl Sampler
Excerpts from New and Upcoming Books Perfect for Book Clubs, Book Club Recommendations and Resources, and Recipes from Your Favorite Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Book Club Girl Sampler includes excerpts from the following titles:
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Porch...
The Tell-Tale Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A man’s life and his capacity for love mysteriously changes after a heart transplant in this dramatic and affecting novel—as provocative and poignant as the works of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes, and Alice Sebold—from the acclaimed Orange Prize nominee and author of Lucky Bunny.
After years...
Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Christopher de Bellaigue, a former contributor to The Economist, brings to light the fascinating story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man who has...