Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
Deadliest Sea
The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its...
The Secret Life of Lobsters
How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey.
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here...
by Marjorie Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan…. [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary.”
—USA Today
“[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true….I loved every moment!”
—Adriana Trigiani, author...
Alex & Me
How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were "You be good. I love you."
What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the thirty years they...
An Eagle Named Freedom
My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“A hauntingly beautiful story of rescue and rehabilitation….[A] gorgeous tale of redemption.”
—Susan Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse
“I could not put this book down.”
—Stacey O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the Owl
In...
Dare to Repair, Replace & Renovate
Do-It-Herself Projects to Make Your Home More Comfortable, More Beautiful & More Valuable!
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
There's no place like home!
And that's why we're back. Dare to Repair, Replace & Renovate is the sequel to Dare to Repair, the national bestselling home repair book for women.
In our first book, we taught you how to fix a leaky faucet. In this book, we teach you how to replace it....
Dog Years
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction
"Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing." -- The New Yorker
When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as...
by Jane Buckingham
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A stylishly smart collection of practical advice for the busy modern woman
With information on entertaining, etiquette, housekeeping, basic home repair, decorating, sex, and beauty, this indispensable book has everything today's young woman should know-but may not! The Modern Girl's Guide to...
Come Back, Como
Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Comois Steven Winn’s tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding...
Weeds
In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.”
—Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder
“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.”
—Carl...
Secrets of the Cat
Its Lore, Legend, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
“Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare.”
—Smithsonian
“May be the most elegantly written, witty, perceptive statement about felines ever published.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
In Secrets of the Cat, author Barbara Holland engagingly...
I Is an Other
The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
“Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing, as he deciphers the subtle implications embedded in advertising slogans, familiar slang and government double-talk…. You'll...
Highest Duty
My Search for What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving...