Harper imprint: 2546 books
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
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...
by Michael Haag
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
From the international bestselling author of The Templars and The Tragedy of the Templars comes a fascinating account of one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in religious history.
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken...
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.
When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from...
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...
Capital Dames
The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this...
They All Love Jack
Busting the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England.
But what if there...
Spoiled Rotten
How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always...
Invasive
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
“Think Thomas Harris’ Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife’s edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Hannah...
Lives in Ruins
Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones—the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all.
Pompeii,...
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him.
Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when...
Only Killers and Thieves
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Barnes & Noble Discover Award Winner
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 of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s...
I Am Not a Slut
Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s...
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Is there a traitor at Dreamland?
When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored...
The Lost
A Search for Six of Six Million
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship,...