Harper Perennial: 508 books
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Paris's Rebel Quarter
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative “biographies” of Paris’s great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres—the city’s “rebel quarter,” for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual,...
The Road Is How
A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of waiting for his body to heal. The Road is How re-enchants our modern map of desire,...
The Moment
Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike, a tweet ....
The Bradbury Chronicles
The Life of Ray Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published...
Death in Slow Motion
A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful...
Polaroids from the Dead
And Other Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's...
City of Nets
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist...
This Explains Everything
150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The...
Darkest Hour
How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister—soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
“He was speaking to the nation, the world, and...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Features new material on the Golden State Killer's case and an updated afterword by Patton Oswalt.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
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by Madeleine Albright
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Best Books of 2018 --The Economist
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
A...
This Idea Must Die
Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website”...
Slow Getting Up
A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League
As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice...
The Perfect Machine
Building the Palomar Telescope
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror...