Harper imprint: 2546 books
The Midnight Cool
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The Whiting Award—winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops...
Love, Africa
A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict...
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap...
by Shireen Dodson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
An Inspiring Approach to Reading
From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Ramona the Pest to Wringer, here are 100 great books guaranteed to stir the imagination, spark conversation, and lead the way to adventure.
In 100 Books for Girls to Grow On, Shireen Dodson, author of the acclaimed The...
Drink
The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous...
Zumwalt
The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“Painstakingly researched and crafted, Larry Berman’s Zumwalt is a compelling and rich portrait of one of the nation’s great patriots.”
—Walter Anderson, former editor and CEO of Parade
Zumwalt is a compelling portrait of the controversial military man who is widely regarded as the...
A Shattered Empire
Book Three of the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Mitchell Hogan's gritty and breathtaking conclusion to the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence—the award-winning fantasy series that started with A Crucible of Souls and Blood of Innocents—a young sorcerer must learn to wield his extraordinary powers to defeat two warring empires.
In a battle...
The Wolf Border
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From the award-winning author of The Electric Michelangelo, one of the most decorated young British writers working today, comes a literary masterpiece: a breathtaking work that beautifully and provocatively surveys the frontiers of the human spirit and our animal drives.
For almost a decade,...
Houseboat on the Seine
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat,...
Ever After
A Father's True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned...
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,...
Hubris
The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation,...
Francis I
The Maker of Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch—Francis I—who turned France into a great nation.
Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law,...
Knowing Mandela
A Personal Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela...