Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
Meant To Be
The True Story of a Son Who Discovers He Is His Mother's Deepest Secret
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Published to strong reviews and major media attention, this heartfelt and inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the highly regarded CEO of Parade Publications tells the emotional story of how he came to terms with an identity and a family that he never knew he had until he reached middle age.
Meant...
My Life Among the Serial Killers
Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary...
Wasted
A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized...
Abraham Lincoln
The Man Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday
“Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still alive.” —Los Angeles Times
From Stephen B. Oates comes a riveting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None....
First Families
The Impact of the White House on Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
What is it like to be America's First Family? In this wonderfully engaging book, Bonnie Angelo, Time correspondent and acclaimed author of First Mothers, probes two hundred years of American history to tell the story of real life within the White House walls—how presidents, their wives, children,...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
Against All Odds
A Life from Hardship to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s...
Somewhere Inside
One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an American...
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement.
In this...
Out of Captivity
Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
“[A] remarkable story….An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.” —Arizona Republic
The spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors...
Between Two Worlds
My Life and Captivity in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
“Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.”
— Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Between Two World is the harrowing...
Reagan Diaries Volume 1
January 1981-October 1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Volume One of the daily diaries of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.
City of Secrets
The Startling Truth Behind the Vatican Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On the night of Monday, May 4, 1998, in Vatican territory, the bodies of the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, and a young lance corporal were found in the barracks of the picturesque force entrusted with protecting the pope. It was the worst bloodbath to take place in more than a century in...