Harper Perennial

An exquisite, heart-breaking novel by an Irish discovery. Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm...

Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his...

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David?Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting...

My Life In And Out Of The Rough: The Truth Behind All That Bull**** You Think You Know About MeAuthor: John DalyPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Mar 27, 2007Number of Pages: 208...

A riveting true story of a young woman's days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. When graduate...

Never The Hope Itself: Love And Ghosts In Latin America And HaitiAuthor: Gerry HaddenPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Jun 23, 2021Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family,...

Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman?s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results. Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying?and failing. The Emmy...

Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read.--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden...

I'm a fabulist by trade, warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his...

A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history. -- Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles...

The powerfully erotic memoir that inspired the legendary film?with a new afterword by the author's daughter Niine and a Half Weeks is a true story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its...

Nine Gates: Entering The Mind Of Poetry, EssaysAuthor: Jane HirshfieldPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Aug 26, 1998Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

No Apparent Danger: The True Story Of Volcanic Disaster At Galeras And Nevado Del RuizAuthor: Victoria BrucePublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Feb 19, 2002Number of Pages: 272...

Some people are born to lead and destined to teach by the example of living life to the fullest, and facing death with uncommon honesty and courage. Peter Barton was that kind of person. Driven by...

New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays...

Author: SophoclesPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Aug 07, 2012Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0062132083ISBN-13: 9780062132086

Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and...

A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title For democracy's weary champions, White's time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline (Madeleine Albright). "I am a member of a party of one, and I...

The most authoritive, authentic text of a classic guide to acting In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the...

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get...

One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against...

One Soldier's Story: A MemoirAuthor: Bob DolePublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: May 2006Number of Pages: 289 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0060763426ISBN-13: 9780060763428

Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel?a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier...

At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by...

Christopher R. Browning?s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews?now with a new afterword and additional...

In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has...

Internationally acclaimed poet Lang Leav's debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling coming of age narrative set against the backdrop of...

The Deep In a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark...

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of...