Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
by Doris Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.
Outer Banks
Three Early Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction
Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous...
The Genius and the Goddess
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens—a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of...
Ghost Waltz
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A woman comes to terms with her family’s dark Nazi past in this memoir from the author of Nine and a Half Weeks—A moving and profound exploration of the legacy of war and hate on an individual life.
Born in Austria at the height of Word War II, Ingeborg Day grew up knowing little about...
by Yossi Klein Halevi
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
New York Times bestseller
Now with a new Epilogue, containing letters of response from Palestinian readers.
"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis...
End of The Good Life
How the Financial Crisis Threatens a New Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y. This is her generation.
Indeed, Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession. For those in the U.S. born after 1976, the American dream is a...
Opium Nation
Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation...
Margaret Thatcher
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically as she did.
Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is...
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God
Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This...
What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”
Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others,...
The Night Shift
Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other...
Mind over Money
The Psychology of Money and How to Use It Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money—perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.
We know we need money and...
Flatscreen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
“OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
Indie-lit star and Faster Times editor Adam Wilson...
After Daniel
A Suicide Survivor's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones’ body on Valentine’s Day, 1994. Struggling with deep depression, he had killed himself using a method clearly outlined in the bestselling book, Final Exit. Six years later, in an account both deeply personal and thoughtfully political, Farr reflects on Daniel’s...