Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
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The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The story of a young man's outrageous adventures in China and his search for identity in the most unexpected of places.
Mitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily, the country's only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese...
The Myth of Moral Justice
Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem.
In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
Mornings Like This
Found Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
Beggar's Garden
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Critically lauded, The Beggar’s Garden is a brilliantly surefooted, strikingly original collection of nine linked short stories that will delight as well as disturb. The stories follow a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from...
Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller
With a new introduction by the author and additional material, this 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by Thomas Moore provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times.
In this special 25th anniversary edition of Thomas...
Does Jesus Really Love Me?
A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this timely work—part memoir, part investigative analysis—a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.
When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried. And cried....
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...
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...
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...
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 Last Dive
A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under...