Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
While...
Goldengrove
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into...
Appetite for Definition
An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock ‘n’ roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music—an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family tree of America’s favorite musical...
This Will Be My Undoing
Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect...
236 Pounds of Class Vice President
A Memoir of Teenage Insecurity, Obesity, and Virginity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Jason Mulgrew, popular blogger and author of Everything Is Wrong with Me, continues his depreciating yet hilarious self-reflection with 236 Pounds of Class Vice President.
Set in Mulgrew’s high school years, this genuine and honest memoir revisits his teenage antics and escapades as he,...
90s Bitch
Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
To understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. Trailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Marcia...
The Freedom Line
The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved.
As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions...
by Jim Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop...
The Golden Notebook
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the...
The Stolen Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangled relationships—perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Waters,...
The Oracle Year
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night...
Amateur Hour
Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An emotionally honest, arresting, and funny collection of essays about motherhood and adulthood...
“Being a mother is a gift.”
Where’s my receipt?
Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily...
Boonville
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson—the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother—and Sarah McKay—a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"—search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century...
by Megan Stielstra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal...