Harper Perennial: 508 books
The Freedom Line
The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved.
As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions...
by Jim Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop...
The Golden Notebook
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the...
The Stolen Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangled relationships—perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Waters,...
The Oracle Year
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night...
Amateur Hour
Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An emotionally honest, arresting, and funny collection of essays about motherhood and adulthood...
“Being a mother is a gift.”
Where’s my receipt?
Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily...
Boonville
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson—the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother—and Sarah McKay—a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"—search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century...
by Megan Stielstra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal...
What's Important Is Feeling
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.
And...
What Are We For?
The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt, a collection of her most treasured sayings—the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, graduation, and a new generation of feminists.
With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
No one can make you feel inferior...
Lulu in the Sky
A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward towards happiness. After the violence of the Khmer Rouge...
Waterline
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
From Ross Raisin, the highly acclaimed author of Out Backward—a debut novel Colm Tóibín called “compelling, disturbing and often very funny”—comes the moving and story of an ex-shipyard worker’s journey of grief and reclamation in the wake of his wife’s death. Lyrical and resonant, with...
You Learn By Living
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life**.**
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new...
Between Gods
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Profound, honest, and masterfully written—Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
Growing up in a tight-knit Christian family, Alison Pick went to church regularly. But as a teenager, she discovered a remarkable family secret: her paternal grandparents...