Harper Perennial: 508 books
Does Jesus Really Love Me?
A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this timely work—part memoir, part investigative analysis—a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.
When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried. And cried....
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
The Last Dive
A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under...
It's Not About the Bra
Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back Into Competitive Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Youth sports aren't just about fun and games anymore. What should be a pleasurable experience is often marred by poor sportsmanship, trash talking, win-at-all-cost attitudes, and, in the worst cases, violence. But World Cup soccer champion and Olympic gold medalist Brandi Chastain has a solution....
Beowulf
An Updated Verse Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The acclaimed verse translation of the timeless epic tale of bravery and battle--the enduring saga of the hero Beowulf and the monster Grendel--the first true masterpiece of English literature.
"No self-respecting college professor will want his students to be without it....Renditions...
28 Barbary Lane
"Tales of the City" Books 1-3
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels—the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume—have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new...
Back to Barbary Lane
"Tales of the City" Books 4-6
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels—the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume—stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies...
by Armistead Maupin
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love...
by Armistead Maupin
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to...