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Bel Canto
Harper Perennial |
August 2, 2005 |
352 pages
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a... More Info
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State of Wonder
Harper Perennial |
May 8, 2012 |
384 pages
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past. Reprint. A... More Info
Thinking
Harper Perennial |
October 29, 2013 |
432 pages
Thinking by John Brockman has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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House of Earth
Harper Perennial |
October 22, 2013 |
288 pages
Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a... More Info
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Mrs Queen Takes the Train
Harper Perennial |
October 8, 2013 |
384 pages
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of... More Info
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
April 7, 1999 |
320 pages
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated... More Info
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The Round House
Harper Perennial |
September 24, 2013 |
368 pages
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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The Map That Changed the World
Harper Perennial |
April 28, 2009 |
368 pages
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it... More Info
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Teach Your Children Well
Harper Perennial |
August 6, 2013 |
352 pages
Combining cutting-edge research with 30 years of clinical experience, a renowned psychologist, focusing on how we view success, raise our children and expend our energies and resources, shows us how to shift our focus to a parenting style that promotes academic success, a sense of purpose,... More Info
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The Zero
Harper Perennial |
August 7, 2007 |
352 pages
Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, and deteriorating eyesight, a situation that is further challenged when he is recruited to gather... More Info
Victory
Harper Perennial |
June 4, 2013 |
464 pages
When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same gender. Four decades later, in 2011, New York legalized gay marriage and the armed services stopped enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Successful social movements are... More Info
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
May 30, 2006 |
448 pages
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of... More Info
Poetry, Language, Thought
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
November 6, 2001 |
256 pages
Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the... More Info
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The Poisonwood Bible
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
July 5, 2005 |
576 pages
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds... More Info
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Harper Perennial |
April 29, 2008 |
464 pages
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in... More Info
I Never Had It Made
Harper Perennial |
May 6, 2003 |
320 pages
Before Barry Bonds, before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is... More Info
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
Harper Perennial |
May 9, 2006 |
336 pages
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 through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to... More Info
A People's History of the United States
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
August 2, 2005 |
768 pages
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and... More Info
House Made of Dawn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
April 13, 2010 |
208 pages
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and... More Info
The Antelope Wife
Harper Perennial |
August 28, 2012 |
320 pages
A new and radically revised version of the classic novel the New York Times called "a fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival." When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico and carries her far from her... More Info
Redeemers
Harper Perennial |
July 24, 2012 |
560 pages
In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets,... More Info
The Ballad of Bob Dylan
Harper Perennial |
May 15, 2012 |
528 pages
Drawing on revelatory interviews, a rich analysis of lyrics, and a lifelong study of one of the greatest songwriters of our time, Daniel Mark Epstein delivers a singular, nuanced, and insightful examination of Bob Dylan?the poet, the musician, and the man. Interweaving in-depth conversations with... More Info
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Harper Perennial |
October 17, 2006 |
352 pages
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable debut of a stunning literary talent Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the... More Info
My New American Life
Harper Perennial |
May 8, 2012 |
336 pages
"While working for an idealistic college professor, 26-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian ""brothers"" return, in this powerful novel set in the aftermath of 9/11. Reprint. 35,000 first... More Info
With My Body
Harper Perennial |
June 19, 2012 |
480 pages
From the author of the international bestseller "The Bride Stripped Bare" comes the raw and resonant story of a middle-aged wife and mother who attempts to reclaim her lost sense of self by exploring the memory of an old love affair.
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Tinderbox
Harper Perennial |
June 26, 2012 |
400 pages
This compelling narrative history of Pakistan, spanning a thousand years, investigates the events, people, circumstances and mindset that fractured a nation and documents the conflict between Muslim and Hindu culture, and the role their relationship has played in defining modern Pakistan. Original.... More Info
How to Be a Woman
Harper Perennial |
July 17, 2012 |
320 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do... More Info
The Art of War
Harper Perennial |
July 31, 2012 |
352 pages
A stunning and gritty graphic novel integrating the iconic strategy text by Sun Tzu into a sweeping thriller set in the near future when Wall Street is militarized and China is the world's dominant economy. Kelly Roman served time for a horrific friendly fire incident. Once free, he discovers that... More Info
Coming of Age on Zoloft
Harper Perennial |
June 5, 2012 |
336 pages
When Katherine Sharpe arrived at her college health center with an age-old complaint, a bad case of homesickness, she received a thoroughly modern response: a twenty-minute appointment and a prescription for Zoloft--a drug she would take for the next ten years. This outcome, once unlikely, is now... More Info
Marriage Confidential
Harper Perennial |
June 5, 2012 |
352 pages
"Marriage Confidential" tackles this question with bracing candor, taking us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a "post-romantic" mood and a fair number of marriages end up "semi-happy." It's a world where the husbands of "workhorse wives" pursue the Having It All dream that... More Info
Opium Nation
Harper Perennial |
November 8, 2011 |
368 pages
Returning to Afghanistan after nearly 20 years in the U.S., a veteran reporter discovers a nation altered by the toxic effects of a multi-billion-dollar opium business and recounts her remarkable encounters with poppy farms, corrupt officials, sympathetic ex-pats, drug lords, smugglers and addicts.... More Info
Anarchy Evolution
Harper Perennial |
October 18, 2011 |
290 pages
Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also has a Ph.D. and teaches evolution at UCLA. Here, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. As an adolescent growing up when "drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given... More Info
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Harper Perennial |
March 20, 2012 |
256 pages
Delivers the story of a fearless young woman who became a dress-making entrepreneur in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, thus saving her family and bringing hope to the lives of dozens of women in her war-torn nation. Reprint.
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The Bean Trees
Harper Perennial |
December 6, 2011 |
315 pages
Barbara Kingsolver's 1988 debut novel is a classic work of American fiction. Now a standard in college literature classes across the nation, and a book that appears in translation across the globe, The Bean Trees is not only a literary masterpiece but a popular triumph?a narrative that readers... More Info
Reconciliation
Harper Perennial |
December 23, 2008 |
329 pages
Offers the assassinated Pakistani former prime minster's assessment of the growing tensions between Islam and the Western world, tracing the roots of international terrorism by Islamist extremists and revealing how democracy and Islam can be compatible.
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Accidentally on Purpose
Harper Perennial |
May 5, 2009 |
272 pages
Describes how the author, the daughter of a conservative Irish Catholic family, became unexpectedly pregnant after a one-night stand with a man ten years younger than herself and how she developed a lasting friendship with her baby's father throughout the course of her unconventional pregnancy.... More Info
Collected Stories
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
September 22, 1999 |
352 pages
Twenty-six stories by the 1982 Nobel laureate, dating from 1947, reveal the dimensions of reality, life's mysteries and miracles, and the unexpected ironies, tragedies, and humors of human behavior
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The Language Instinct
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
September 4, 2007 |
576 pages
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves... More Info
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
August 2, 2005 |
464 pages
"With a new introduction by the author"--Jacket.
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