Harper Perennial

From one of the world?s most celebrated and admired public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt, a collection of her most treasured sayings?the perfect gift for Mother?s Day, graduation, and a new generation...

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Edge Question Series)Author: John BrockmanPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: July 29, 2014Number of Pages: 336...

What Kind Of Woman: PoemsAuthor: Kate BaerPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0063008424ISBN-13:...

As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman?s latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling ?Edge Question Series? asks more than 175 leading scientists, philosophers,...

More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption,...

A one-of-a-kind illustrated companion to the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series, which invites readers into the beloved heroine?s world?and shares her wisdom and inspiration. Through fourteen books,...

To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy...

Although When Death Becomes Life is about courage and innovation and dedication, it is foremost a book about hope.... This monumental and enthralling history of one of modern medicine's most rousing...

So deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's...

A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends...

In this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe...

A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time, especially for those of us old enough to remember 1968.--John Banville An immersive, literary thriller set in 1960s Dublin about...

White Guilt: How Blacks And Whites Together Destroyed The Promise Of The Civil Rights EraAuthor: Shelby SteelePublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: May 29, 2007Number of Pages: 181...

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, revisit Tom Piazza?s award-winning appraisal of a city in crisis?with a new afterword placing the story of New Orleans in the context of the ongoing threat to...

Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged society woman. But Natalie had no interest in...

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway?Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction,...

New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to...

A contemporary classic of queer women's writing. --Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer's whirlwind and whiplash affair as she...

Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives. Women from the Ankle...

Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceAuthor: Joseph Gies,...

This breakout novel from a brilliant stylist--dropping us into the life a female rock star--centers on that moment when we decide whether to go all-in or give up our dreamsAuthor: Stacey...

In Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him. During the past four decades he's reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times,...

Write Away: One Novelist'S Approach To Fiction And The Writing LifeAuthor: Elizabeth GeorgePublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Mar 15, 2005Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, And Other Dilemmas In The Writer'S LifeAuthor: Bonnie FriedmanPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Jun 09, 2020Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage:...

Writing To LearnAuthor: William ZinsserPublisher: Harper PerennialPublication Date: Jun 04, 1993Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0062720406ISBN-13: 9780062720405

As he stepped to the plate at Yankee Stadium on opening day in 1966, Bobby Murcer carried with him the hopes and expectations of Yankees fans looking for the next Mickey Mantle. Bobby wasn't the next...

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where...

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Inquirer Desperate to obliterate her...

A frighteningly prescient novel of today?s America?one man?s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan. ?You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep...