Harper imprint: 2546 books
Flings
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity.
In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures...
The Book Club Girl Sampler
Excerpts from New and Upcoming Books Perfect for Book Clubs, Book Club Recommendations and Resources, and Recipes from Your Favorite Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Book Club Girl Sampler includes excerpts from the following titles:
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Porch...
The Tell-Tale Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A man’s life and his capacity for love mysteriously changes after a heart transplant in this dramatic and affecting novel—as provocative and poignant as the works of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes, and Alice Sebold—from the acclaimed Orange Prize nominee and author of Lucky Bunny.
After years...
Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Christopher de Bellaigue, a former contributor to The Economist, brings to light the fascinating story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man who has...
The Freedom Manifesto
How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The author of How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson, now shares his delightfully irreverent musings on what true independence means and what it takes to be free. The Freedom Manifesto draws on French existentialists, British punks, beat poets, hippies and yippies, medieval thinkers, and anarchists to provide...
The United States of Paranoia
A Conspiracy Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Jesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
The fear of intrigue and subversion doesn’t exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part of...
The Hollow Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
“A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero—what a recipe for a great read.”
—Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing
Describing London police detective Nick Belsey, hero of The Hollow Man, an enthrallingly...
by Plum Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
For readers who adore Candace Bushnell, Tinsely Mortimer, and Lauren Weisberger comes New York Times bestselling author Plum Sykes’s sly and amusing satire—now back in print for its 10th anniversary in a gorgeous, eye-catching package, with a new foreword by the author.
Bergdorf Blondes...
The Long Season
The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A timeless classic from baseball's golden era, legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan's witty and candid chronicle of the 1959 Major League Baseball season, which set the standard for all sports memoirs to follow.
Arguably the greatest sports memoir ever penned, The Long Season was a revelation when...
The Last Innocents
The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history.
Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg,...
Bleeding Orange
Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, and Syracuse Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In six decades as a player, assistant coach, and the head man on the bench for Syracuse University's basketball program, Jim Boeheim is synonymous with the blood and thunder of East Coast hoops. In Bleeding Orange, Boeheim recounts for the first time all the pleasures and perils of a career spent...
Most Dangerous Place
A Jack Swyteck Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense—based on shocking true-life events—from the New York Times bestselling author of...
Pennant Race
The Classic Game by Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
From the author of The Long Season—considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time—comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan, which chronicles how his team, the Cincinnati Reds, went on to win the 1961 National League pennant.
With legendary pitcher...
Printer's Error
An Irreverent History of Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Pawn Stars.
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed...