Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
The Golems of Gotham
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Many years have passed since Oliver Levin -- a bestselling mystery writer and a lifetime sufferer from blocked emotions -- has given any thought to his parents, Holocaust survivors who committed suicide. But now, after years of uninterrupted literary output, Oliver Levin finds himself blocked as a...
Oh the Moon
Stories from the Tortured Mind of Charlyne Yi
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From actress, comedian, musician, and writer Charlyne Yi comes this collection of illustrated, interconnected short stories and anecdotes that blends comedy, fantastic adventures, and a storm of feelings that will make you want to laugh and cry at the same time—reminiscent of the works of Demetri...
Time Warped
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond explores the mysteries of our perception of time in her book Time Warped.
Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a...
Male and Female
A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "male" and "female" in modern American society. On its publication in 1949, the New York Times declared, "Dr. Mead's book has come to grips with the cold...
Sex and Temperament
In Three Primitive Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli...
New Lives for Old
Cultural Transformation--Manus, 1928-1953
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and burdened by a complex moral code, the Manus seemed ill-equipped to handle the massive impact that World War II had on their secluded world. But a unique...
An Innocent Fashion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes...
Nikki's Threesome
The Bride Stripped Bare, With My Body, and I Take You
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
The Story of a Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction, the poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers—a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation...
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
In the publishing tradition of Driven to Distraction or The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, this prescriptive book by a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating,...
Talk to Me
How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer's Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
“Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around.”—Anne Lamott
Interviewing...
Cash Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
“Cash Out is one of those novels that begs for more adjectives: relentless, madcap, polished, lean, vivid, warped, original, horrifying and hilarious in equal measure.”
—Marcus Sakey, author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes and The Amateur
Imagine a story by Ben Mezrich (The Accidental...
As Nature Made Him
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine—and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally...
by Pat Frank
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From Pat Frank—author of the classic apocalyptic sci-fi novel Alas, Babylon—comes a political thriller set, and written, at the dawn of the Cold War, now back in print.
In Pat Frank’s riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War...