Harper Perennial

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously...

In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Guardian columnist spends a year exploring how to pursue a rich and meaningful life, turning to the...

Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell CompanionAuthor: Joseph CampbellPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: May 01, 1995Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic," by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait,...

A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy...

Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle StoriesAuthor: Sonny BargerPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Apr 29, 2003Number of Pages: 277 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Clayton Reid, a would-be playwright and sometimes bartender, is downtown St. John's iconic man-about-town. Near-crippled by booze, drugs and dirty sex, Clayton, amongst the dozens of other burnt-out...

River Town: Two Years On The Yangtze (P.S.)Author: Peter HesslerPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: May 01, 2006Number of Pages: 402 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Republished in a beautiful new package, the eternal classic that captures the Eternal City in all its vibrant enchantment Bringing to life the legendary city's beauty and magic in all its many...

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a...

On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined,...

The award-winning chronicler of life in Paris reveals the secrets of his home quarter, Saint-Germain-des-Pres A unique blend of history, memoir, and sightseeing essentials, Saint-Germain-des-Pres is...

From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and homeAuthor: Hala AlyanPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication...

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty'S LegacyAuthor: Jane LeavyPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Mar 16, 2010Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0061779008ISBN-13:...

One of Booklist's Must Read Nonfiction picks of 2019 The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an...

Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an...

A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness of life as a woman and writer, on fame and failure, aging and art, from the acclaimed author of...

Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the "lost word" of Basilicata, in the arch of Italy's boot. What is intended as a brief...

Mankind's fascination with Ancient Egypt has never waned in fifty centuries. The magnificent Pyramids, colossal temples and brooding sphinx still awe and enthrall us. Now you can explore all the...

In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented...

A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America's trailblazing female journalists. Kim Todd has restored these long-forgotten mavericks to their rightful place in American history...

One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change. W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate...

Based on the letters and diaries of six members of Queen Victoria's household, Serving Victoria offers unique insight into the queen and her court. Seen through the eyes of her servants?including the...

A delightful romcom about a woman who decides to revisit each of her seven exes, convinced that one of them is "the one who got away." Seven Exes. Seven Missed Chances. Who was the one who got away?...

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern RelationshipsAuthor: Christopher RyanPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: July 05, 2011Number of Pages: 402 pagesLanguage:...

Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.)Author: Colin ThubronPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: July 01, 2008Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0061231770ISBN-13:...

Aurangzeb must rebel against his father, and compete with his brothers, especially Darashikoh who is Emperor Shah Jahan's favoured son, to become the shahenshah of India and sit on the Peacock Throne...

Bill Bryson?s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship?updated with a new...

Shell Games: A True Story Of Cops, Con Men, And The Smuggling Of America'S Strangest WildlifeAuthor: Craig WelchPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Apr 12, 2011Number of Pages: 288...

Shine On, Bright And Dangerous ObjectAuthor: Laurie ColwinPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Dec 14, 2021Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...