Harper Perennial
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters”
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America’s trailblazing female journalists. Kim Todd has restored these long-forgotten mavericks to their rightful place in American history.
- Author: Todd, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0062843621
- Language: English
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDR
$13.99 Add to cartIn Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raco
- Author: Humes, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231487
- Language: English
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspond
$22.99 Add to cart“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius…probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.” –Bob Dylan
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0061137456
- Language: English
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Conamara Blues: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartTranslating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O’Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worl
- Author: O’Donohue, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060957255
- Language: English
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
$18.99 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions beg
- Author: Bateson, Mary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926309
- Language: English
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
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Inanna
$18.99 Add to cartA fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world’s first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. “A great masterpiece of universal literature.”–Mircea Eliade
- Author: Wolkstein, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 03 1983
- ISBN10: 0060908548
- Language: English
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Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son
$17.99 Read more- Author: Qaderi, Homeira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062970321
- Language: English
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
$15.99 Add to cartThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
“The journey began
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062230573
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Guide to Italy
$19.99 Add to cart“Exciting, original, and convincing. . . . This book is essential reading for all concerned with who really wrote the works of Shakespeare. A thrilling journey of discovery.” –Sir Derek Jacobi, Shake
- Author: Roe, Richard Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0062074261
- Language: English
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Coolidge
$21.99 Read more“Amity Shlaes’s new biography carries a different and highly relevant message. . . . Read Coolidge, and better understand the forces bearing on the President and Congress almost a century later.” — P
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0061967599
- Language: English
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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
$18.99 Add to cartWhile the United States battled Vietnamese Communists in the 1960s and 1970s, in neighboring Cambodia dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declared war on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering
- Author: Siv, Sichan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061375411
- Language: English
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
$24.99 Add to cart“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0061228605
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
$18.99 Add to cartAfter enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the “lucky child,” the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ung, Loung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0060733950
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
$18.00 Add to cart“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
In his first work of narrative nonf
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062937804
- Language: English
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All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
$20.99 Add to cartWhy do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don’t our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?
Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most
- Author: Lockman, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 006286145X
- Language: English
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Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
$18.99 Add to cart“Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’–a mes-sage that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts’ life predi
- Author: Dodes, Lance M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061987395
- Language: English
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
$18.99 Add to cart“Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. . . . If you want to be inspired, read this book
- Author: McClure, Tori Murden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0061718874
- Language: English
