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The Tao Is Silent
Harper Collins |
June 1, 1977 |
240 pages
The Tao Is Silent Is Raymond Smullyan's beguiling and whimsical guide to the meaning and value of eastern philosophy to westerners. "To me," Writes Smullyan, "Taoism means a state of inner serenity combined with an intense aesthetic awareness. Neither alone is adequate; a purely passive serenity is... More Info
Augustine
Harper Collins |
October 13, 2009 |
432 pages
Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. His autobiography, Confessions, remains among the most important religious writings in the... More Info
The Runaway Bunny Board Book
Harper Collins |
February 27, 1991 |
34 pages
Clement Hurd redrew some of his pictures for this new edition of the profoundly comforting story of a bunny’s imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time.
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The Graveyard Book
Harper Collins |
September 28, 2010 |
336 pages
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a... More Info
Where the Wild Things Are
Harper Collins |
November 9, 1988 |
48 pages
In the forty years since Max first cried "Let the wild rumpus start," Maurice Sendak's classic picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children's books of all time. Now, in celebration of this special anniversary, introduce a new generation to Max's imaginative... More Info
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 25th Anniversary Edition
Harper Collins |
May 9, 1985 |
40 pages
If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim....... More Info
Goodnight Moon Board Book 60th Anniversary Edition
Harper Collins |
August 2, 1991 |
34 pages
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by... More Info
Frog and Toad Together
Harper Collins |
October 3, 1979 |
64 pages
Best Friends Frog and Toad are always together. Here are five wonderful stories about flowers, cookies, bravery, dreams, and, most of all, friendship.
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In the Night Kitchen
Harper Collins |
January 18, 1996 |
40 pages
1971 Caldecott Honor Book Notable Children's Books of 1940--1970 (ALA) Best Books of 1970 (SLJ) Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT) Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1970 (NYT) Children's Books of 1970 (Library of Congress) Carey-Thomas Award 1971--Honor Citation Brooklyn Art Books for... More Info
Do You Want to Be My Friend?
Harper Collins |
March 1, 1987 |
40 pages
"Do you want to be my friend?" asks the lonely little mouse. He follows a tai1, but all he finds at its end is a rather unfriendly horse. The little mouse just wants someone to play with-but he'll have to follow a lot of tails before he can find just the right companion.
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Strawberry Girl 60th Anniversary Edition
Harper Collins |
March 31, 1995 |
208 pages
The land was theirs, but so were its hardships Strawberries -- big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven′t even begun their planting. ";Don′t count your biddies ′fore they′re... More Info
My Heart Is Like a Zoo
Harper Collins |
December 22, 2009 |
32 pages
A heart can be hopeful, or silly, or happy. A heart can be rugged, or snappy, or lonely. A heart holds every different feeling, and debut author-artist Michael Hall captures each one with a delicate touch. For each feeling, the bold, graphic artwork creates an animal out of heart shapes, from... More Info
Four Souls
Harper Collins |
October 13, 2009 |
240 pages
From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks. After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the... More Info
Strange Fruit
Harper Collins |
January 23, 2001 |
168 pages
Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life... More Info
Perpetrators Victims Bystanders
Harper Collins |
September 15, 1993 |
352 pages
The man the New York Times has called "the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust" tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
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The Prophets
Harper Collins |
October 16, 2001 |
704 pages
Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship. The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of the... More Info
Immortality
Harper Collins |
October 20, 1999 |
368 pages
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that... More Info
Kinship with All Life
Harper Collins |
January 28, 1976 |
160 pages
Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience? Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a... More Info
Nine Gates
Harper Collins |
August 26, 1998 |
240 pages
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by... More Info
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Love Medicine
Harper Collins |
May 5, 2009 |
400 pages
The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multi-generational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of... More Info
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In the Garden: Who's Been Here?
Harper Collins |
April 25, 2006 |
48 pages
Christina and Jeremy have been sent to the garden to gather vegetables for dinner. But they quickly realize that they are not the first visitors to the garden today. There's a slimy trail on a leaf in the cucumber patch, and some corn kernels have been pecked off the cob. Not only that, someone has... More Info
Slowness
Harper Collins |
April 11, 1997 |
176 pages
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated... More Info
Entering the Silence
Harper Collins |
March 17, 2009 |
526 pages
The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence... More Info
Salvation
Harper Collins |
December 18, 2001 |
256 pages
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether talking... More Info
And Then There Were None
Harper Collins |
March 29, 2011 |
320 pages
The World's Bestselling Mystery "Ten . . ." Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." "Nine . . ." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.... More Info
The Professor
Harper Collins |
January 4, 2011 |
352 pages
From Terry Castle, the brilliant cultural commentator whom Susan Sontag called "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," comes a long-awaited collection of captivating personal essays. The title piece at the heart of the anthology—Castle's candid, wry, and rueful... More Info
Blonde
Harper Collins |
September 15, 2009 |
752 pages
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story,... More Info
The Pathfinder
Harper Collins |
June 17, 2014 |
528 pages
The Pathfinder marked the return of Natty Bumppo, the hero of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, thirteen years after the publication of The Prairie. For a time, Bumppo’s thoughts turn toward the domestic, but in the end Bumppo returns to his proper home in the wilderness.... More Info
When Women Were Priests
Harper Collins |
April 15, 1995 |
288 pages
This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed.
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Caps for Sale
Harper Collins |
September 4, 1987 |
48 pages
Caps for Sale is a timeless classic, in print for over fifty years, and beloved by generations of readers. This easy-to-read story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity. Children will delight in following the peddlers efforts to outwit the... More Info
Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition
Harper Collins |
September 6, 2005 |
32 pages
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to themittens and the kittens, toeverything one by one --... More Info
Built to Last
Harper Collins |
August 20, 2002 |
368 pages
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from... More Info
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Collins |
May 23, 2006 |
336 pages
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty... More Info
Abarat
Harper Collins |
August 30, 2011 |
528 pages
A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it’s not one she expects. Welcome to the Abarat, a... More Info
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Harper Collins |
April 25, 2006 |
560 pages
One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that... More Info
Bones
Harper Collins |
October 25, 2005 |
272 pages
Top food stylist and food writer Jennifer McLagan has a bone to pick: too often, people opt for boneless chicken breasts, fish fillets, and cutlets, when good cooks know that anything cooked on the bone has more flavor -- from chicken or spareribs to a rib roast or a whole fish. In Bones, Jennifer... More Info
Rosalind Franklin
Harper Collins |
September 30, 2003 |
416 pages
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 powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of... More Info
Selected Poems
Harper Collins |
February 9, 2000 |
208 pages
Tomas TranstrÖmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth... More Info
The One
Harper Collins Children's |
May 6, 2014 |
336 pages
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--
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