Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses...
Crazy '08
How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest—these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest team—the first dynasty of...
The Day the World Came to Town
9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town...
The Long Way Home
An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
“The Long Way Home is a riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer…. Deeply compelling.” — Douglas Brinkley
“Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning just about all...
The End of Days
Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?
Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when?
It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought...
by Mr. Mark Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?
We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of Maryland(!)—have become so engrained that our map might...
by Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left...
Sex with Kings
500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant...
In Search of Sisterhood
Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This history of the largest block women's organization in the United States is not only the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), but also tells of the increasing involvement of black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Founded at a time when liberal arts education...
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Anexotic and instructive tale, told with life, learning and just the right measure of laughter on every page. O’Donnell combines a historian’s mastery of substance with a born storyteller’s sense of style to create a magnificent work of art.” — Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary...
The Map That Changed the World
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it...
Dereliction of Duty
Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."
—H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became...
Empires of the Word
A Language History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries...
Being Wrong
Adventures in the Margin of Error
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong,...