Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
In My Blood
Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history...
by James Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)
1599 was an epochal...
Dispatches from the Edge
A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what...
The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book • Now a Major Motion Picture
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.
The making of...
Vindication
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless strongly influenced political philosophy in Europe...
I Love Yous Are for White People
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed...
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest...
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Deluxe Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Due to copyright restrictions, this eBook may not contain all of the images available in the print edition.
"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style,...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today**)**
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s...
Bad Blood
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain—and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily—in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread...
Sleeping with Cats
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events...
by Andrew Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Amazing stories! Incredible quotes! Sordid details! This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors
What do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have...
Rousseau's Dog
Two Great Thinkers At War in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And...
Limbo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could...