Harper: 2602 books
The Freedom Manifesto
How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The author of How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson, now shares his delightfully irreverent musings on what true independence means and what it takes to be free. The Freedom Manifesto draws on French existentialists, British punks, beat poets, hippies and yippies, medieval thinkers, and anarchists to provide...
by Kate Harper
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Isabella Hathaway has had a dreadful twelve months; her father committed suicide after gaming away the family fortune, her brother is lost in the ongoing skirmishes with Bonaparte and her fiance has jilted her. Little wonder her spirit is bruised. To provide for her two sisters, she must find a suitable...
The United States of Paranoia
A Conspiracy Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Jesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
The fear of intrigue and subversion doesn’t exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part of...
The Hollow Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
“A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero—what a recipe for a great read.”
—Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing
Describing London police detective Nick Belsey, hero of The Hollow Man, an enthrallingly...
by Plum Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
For readers who adore Candace Bushnell, Tinsely Mortimer, and Lauren Weisberger comes New York Times bestselling author Plum Sykes’s sly and amusing satire—now back in print for its 10th anniversary in a gorgeous, eye-catching package, with a new foreword by the author.
Bergdorf Blondes...
The Long Season
The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A timeless classic from baseball's golden era, legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan's witty and candid chronicle of the 1959 Major League Baseball season, which set the standard for all sports memoirs to follow.
Arguably the greatest sports memoir ever penned, The Long Season was a revelation when...
The Last Innocents
The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history.
Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg,...
Bleeding Orange
Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, and Syracuse Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In six decades as a player, assistant coach, and the head man on the bench for Syracuse University's basketball program, Jim Boeheim is synonymous with the blood and thunder of East Coast hoops. In Bleeding Orange, Boeheim recounts for the first time all the pleasures and perils of a career spent...
Most Dangerous Place
A Jack Swyteck Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense—based on shocking true-life events—from the New York Times bestselling author of...
Pennant Race
The Classic Game by Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
From the author of The Long Season—considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time—comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan, which chronicles how his team, the Cincinnati Reds, went on to win the 1961 National League pennant.
With legendary pitcher...
Printer's Error
An Irreverent History of Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Pawn Stars.
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed...
Just Sit
A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
From the cofounders of The Well Daily, a playfully-illustrated, informative, and easy-to-use meditation guidebook—including an eight-week plan for busy novices—that helps even the busiest would-be meditator incorporate this practice into their lifestyle and enjoy its many physical and emotional...
When the Garden Was Eden
Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks—part autobiography, part sports history, part epic, set against the tumultuous era when Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bill Bradley...
Second Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, a sensational new psychological thriller about a woman with a secret identity that threatens to destroy her.
How well can you really know another person? How far would you go to find the truth about someone you love?
When...