Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
by Robert Hamburger, Barbara Hamburger
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Now fully revised and updated, this popular guide and compendium of good eating captures the true character and flavor of the most intimate and affordable eating establishments Paris has to offer. Classified as either traditional or modern, these bistros and wine bars are located by arrondisement...
The Bistros, Brasseries, and Wine Bars of Paris
Everyday Recipes from the real Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
You can spend years in Paris and never hear the same answer twice to this cookbook's underlying question: what is the difference between a bistro, a brasserie, and a wine bar? In his third cookbook, acclaimed author and expert on all things French Daniel Young explains the nuances between the three,...
by Colin Thubron
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about...
Korea
A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.
Fascinating for its vivid presentation of...
Skin City
Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Part exposé, part x-rated travel guide -- the ultimate insider's look at America's adult playground
Vegas. It's a place where Midwestern couples become uninhibited swingers, where shy schoolgirls morph into sexy strippers pulling in $1,000 a night, and where randy tourists come to score at...
by Colin Thubron
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition—never more so than since the collapse of the...
Fifty-nine in '84
Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
“All fans of baseball, all fans of a good story, will love this book."
— Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winner
“This is a beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone baseball era that even die-hard fans will find foreign, and about a pitcher...
Either You're in or You're in the Way
Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The hilarious, implausible, and touching story of twin brothers accomplishing the impossible—making a feature film (with a cast and crew with 11 Academy Awards and 26 nominations) with no experience, no money and no contacts.
When identical twin brothers Logan and Noah Miller's homeless father...
High Strung
Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Last Days of Tennis's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
“A book full of aces....A true page-turner.”
—Associated Press
“This is good stuff, and it’s written with flair.”
—The Oregonian
High Strung by Stephen Tignor is the gripping untold story of the fiercest rivalry in the history of professional tennis. Viewed through the...
The Big Scrum
How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
John J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football—a game that would become the nation’s most popular sport. Miller’s sweeping, novelistic retelling captures the violent, nearly lawless days of late 19th century football and the...
by Rachel Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she's suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown she'll never wear again, and the next thing she knows it's morning . . . and she has the nastiest hangover of her life.
To make matters worse, she's wearing nothing but a spritz of Escada and lying next to Sebastian...
by Hailey North
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
She Dreamed of Finding Mr. Right
Margaret "Call me Meg" McKenzie Cooper will do anything to make her children's dreams for a daddy come true-even if it means accepting a stranger's outrageous marriage proposal. Only she hadn't counted on the man's brother being the dangerously sexy...
by Lisa Kleypas
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Lysette buried her face against Max's throat. "But he's going to take me away. Don't let him, don't -- "
"You're not going anywhere," Max interrupted. "Calm yourself, Lysette. It's not good for you to become excited." His possessiveness made her strangely giddy....
by Leda Swann
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
She was a slave to her desire . . . and to his!
A proper British governess, Louisa Clemens knows her place—and it certainly is not with the wild and exotic stranger she meets in Naples. Still, this commanding, mesmerizing man inflames her imagination in a most improper manner. When the...