Harper Perennial
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Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
$18.99 Add to cart“A dramatic tale. . . . Sherry brings the pirates vividly to life with his rousing telling of their daring cruises and outrageous feats. . . . I heartily recommend Raiders and Rebels to anyone who enj
- Author: Sherry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061572845
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$18.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
$17.99 Add to cart“I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred
- Author: Dog, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0060926821
- Language: English
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For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes “the most important book ever written about American intelligence.”–David Kahn, author of The Codebreake… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0060921781
- Language: English
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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most fascinating figures in Vietnam during the War was Pham Xuan An, a Time correspondent; and, unbeknownst to me and my colleagues who covered the conflict, a clandestine Vietcong agent.
- Author: Berman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0060888393
- Language: English
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
$19.99 Add to cart“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to co
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0060773367
- Language: English
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Clear Light of Day
$17.99 Add to cartSisterly love is the focus of this novel, set in Old Delhi against the backdrop of some of India’s most significant historical events, including the death of Gandhi and the malaria epidemic.
- Author: Desai, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0618074511
- Language: English
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The Most Wonderful Time
$18.99 Add to cart“The Most Wonderful Time is a lovable, unexpectedly thought-provoking Christmas romp of a novel from the ever-sparkling pen of Jayne Allen!” — Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Dia
- Author: Allen, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0063137968
- Language: English
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The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
$18.99 Add to cartA Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, an
- Author: Bashir, Yousef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062917331
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara
$21.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s
- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0062303414
- Language: English
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The Music of the Primes
$17.99 Add to cartInthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics–… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062064010
- Language: English
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Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God
$18.99 Add to cart“Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean, is fascinated by evolution, creativity, and I
- Author: Graffin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0061828513
- Language: English
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during t
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061571377
- Language: English
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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
$19.99 Add to cart“A fast-paced political thriller…. Wrong’s gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo’s courage and a cautionary tale.” —New York Times Book Review
“On one level, It’s Our Turn
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0061346594
- Language: English
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
$19.99 Add to cart“Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding.” — Kirkus Reviews
A completely revised and updated edition of the
- Author: Marcus, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933917
- Language: English
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When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
$16.99 Add to cartIn this powerful and vitally important new book, internationally acclaimed therapist and bestselling author Susan Forward, Ph.D., provides invaluable advice for women whose men betray their confidence
- Author: Forward, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 22, 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931159
- Language: English
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Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children
$19.99 Add to cartA new book about parenting from the prolific author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is a history-making bestseller with more than 7 millio
- Author: Gray, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 26 2000
- ISBN10: 0060930993
- Language: English
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Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry
$18.99 Add to cartGlasser’s classic bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold, examines his alternative to Freudian psychoanalytic procedures, explains the procedure, contrasts it to conventional treatment, and de… [more below]
- Series: Colophon Books
- Author: Glasser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0060904143
- Language: English
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George Washington: The Founding Father
$17.99 Add to cartBy far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and pr
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060753676
- Language: English
