Harper imprint: 2546 books
Costly Grace
An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A leading American evangelical minister—whom public figures long turned to for guidance in faith and politics—recounts his three conversions, from childhood Jewish roots to Christianity, from a pure faith to a highly politicized one, and from the religious right to the simplicity of Jesus’ Sermon...
Antiquity
From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as...
The Ruined House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the...
Grace Without God
The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Meet “the Nones”—In this thought-provoking exploration of secular America, celebrated journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion.
Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier and...
It's Dangerous to Believe
Religious Freedom and Its Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life...
The Book Of The People
How to Read the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
From renowned historian, biographer and novelist, A.N. Wilson, a deep personal, literary, and historical exploration of the Bible.
In The Book of the People, A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship...
The Arm
Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.
Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five...
Medieval Lives
Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.
Tales of Accidental Genius
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy—his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
“She believed...
by Gershom Gorenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Prominent Israeli journalist GershomGorenbergoffers a penetrating and provocativelook at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism,threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinianconflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel...
How to Cook Your Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father
Earlier this year, Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe: The...
How to Be Idle
A Loafer's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living:...
We Live in Water
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
From New York Times bestselling author, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite
Stories...
Devices and Desires
Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick—next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England.
Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business,...