Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
The Book of Lists: Horror
An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything! Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun...
by Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with...
Getting into Guinness
One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World’s Most Famous Record Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A fascinating mix of participatory journalism and history, Getting Into Guinness is the never-before told story of the bestselling copyrighted book of all time. Veteran reporter Larry Olmsted began a personal quest to break an existing world record, then to set another one, and soon he was fully immersed...
A Small Nation of People
W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America
Start Where You Are
Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“Gardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knockout!”
—Maya Angelou
Chris Gardner’s astonishing memoir—the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Pursuit of Happyness,...
CONNECT
Building Success Through People, Purpose, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It doesn't take long to understand why The Wall Street Journal calls Keith Harrell "a star with attitude." Keith Harrell, a.k.a. Dr. Attitude, helps you along on your path to success. Keith is a bestselling author, performance coach, and nationally acclaimed motivational speaker recognized...
Meet the Beatles
A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world...
Never Mind the Pollacks
The Literary Music of Neal Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The most important document in the history of rock 'n' roll since the liner notes to *Killroy Was Here.(*This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.)
Never Mind the Pollacks, the first novel from acclaimed humorist Neal...
All In
Poker Night Lessons for Winning Big at Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
All In: Poker Night Lessons for Winning Big at Your Career goes beyond any of the other bestselling poker books on the market and at last tells you how to put your poker playing skills to use in the business world. What if the rules and strategies of poker were the same as those More...you use in...
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks,...
Making Money
A Novel of Discworld
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he'd like to make some real...
by James L Stokesbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War.
A...
Machiavelli
Philosopher of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The author of The Prince—his controversial handbook on power, which is one of the most influential books ever written—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was no prince himself. Born to an established middle-class family, Machiavelli worked as a courtier and diplomat for the Republic of Florence and...
Gettysburg
A Testing of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E....