Harper Perennial: 508 books
by Russell Banks
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen,...
The Dog Fighter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The anonymous narrator of this remarkable debut novel is a young drifter in search of his future. The son of a passionate beauty and gentle doctor, he roams the border between the United States and Mexico, eventually settling in a sleepy Baja town on the verge of transformation. Here he learns to...
Overdosed America
The Broken Promise of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology,...
by Kenneth Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context.
Kenneth Goldsmith wants you to...
Tao Te Ching
A New English Version
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching llods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit....
Irrationally Yours
On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, “Ask Ariely”.
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized...
Ordinary Decent Criminals
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver’s early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication—an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland.
For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia....
Escaping Into the Open
The Art of Writing True
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Both autobiography and primer, Escaping into the Open is an inspiring, practical handbook on the joys and challenges of the writing life. Renowned author and writing instructor Elizabeth Berg interweaves the story of her own journey from working mother to bestselling novelist with encouraging advice...
by Norman F. Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was...
The Gift of Therapy
An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.
The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential...
by Clive Barker
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville.For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies.But its ignorance is not bliss. Opening the door between worlds, Clive Barker delivers his characters into the heart of the...
Imajica
Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passion—complete with new illustrations and a new Appendix.
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies...
The Great and Secret Show
The First Book of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good...
English Made Easy
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"English Made Easy," a story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, explores the persistence of grief in the life of a single mother and recent widow. Moffett's story is a moving meditation on how we process loss—both within ourselves and with those around us.