Harper Perennial
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
$19.99 Add to cartA timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy–using
- Author: Young, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0062936743
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation
$17.99 Add to cartThe 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 poli
- Author: Halevi, Yossi Klein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0062362321
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
$19.99 Add to cart“You’llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again.” –Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus t
- Author: Nordhaus, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 006187325X
- Language: English
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No Way Down
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ru
- Author: Bowley, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834793
- Language: English
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Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
$15.99 Add to cart“First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn’s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.” —Boston Globe
“A
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825875
- Language: English
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
$15.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
Dis
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0061136689
- Language: English
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Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
$20.99 Add to cartBestselling author of Love’s Executioner and The Gift of Therapy, psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful col
- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0060958383
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Heart: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartA new volume of poems by the award-winning author of October Palace.
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060951699
- Language: English
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Simple & Direct
$18.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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The Thurber Carnival
$18.99 Add to cart“An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
James Thurber’s unique ability to c
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 60932872
- Language: English
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After: Poems
$17.99 Add to cart“Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest, most memorable contemporary poets.” –David Baker, The American Poet
“Hirshfield’s poems . . . send ripples across the reflecting pool of our collective conscious
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0060779195
- Language: English
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cart“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almos
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0060752513
- Language: English
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Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Galvanizing and urgent….a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle.” –National Public Radio
A riveting true
- Author: Worley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062971328
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
$17.99 Add to cart“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”–Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
“Nora Ephron for the millennial generation.”-
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063319128
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes–this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at ho
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063142899
- Language: English
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Time Warped
$18.99 Add to cart“…a fascinating foray into the idea that our experience of time is actively created by our own minds and how these sensations of what neuroscientists and psychologists call “mind time” are created.”
- Author: Hammond, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062225200
- Language: English
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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
$17.99 Add to cart“DON’T believe the naysayers. The American Dream–the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you’ll make it–is alive and well.”
—New York PostAdam W. Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings is
- Author: Shepard, Adam W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061714275
- Language: English
