Harper Perennial
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By: Moore, Thomas
The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA highly original approach from best selling author Thomas Moore, restoring sex to its rightful place in the human psyche as an experience of the soul.
In The Soul of Sex, Thomas Moore at last restor
- Author: Moore, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930950
- Language: English
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Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe first commercial, in-depth biography of the American-born Roman Catholic priest who may well be declared a saint. . . . “Delightful. . . . No magisterial biography emanating a suffocating aur
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0060776854
- Language: English
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By: Brockman, John
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartFeaturing a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant–but accessible–ideas to expand every mind.
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Th
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0062109391
- Language: English
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By: Shlaes, Amity
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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By: N Scott Momaday
Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”–American Scholar
“Momaday’s poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic.” — Library Journal (
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063218119
- Language: English
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By: Colwin, Laurie
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartWith a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welc
- Author: Colwin, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0063046423
- Language: English
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By: Sophocles
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressiv
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 006202034X
- Language: English
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By: Craig Ferguson
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“With American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written
- Author: Ferguson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061998494
- Language: English
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By: Simon Winchester
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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By: Shapiro, Dani
Devotion
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Devotion‘s biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy–appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story.” — Jennifer Egan, author of The
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0061628352
- Language: English
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By: Massing, Michael
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history–Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther–w
- Author: Massing, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143437
- Language: English
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By: Jerkins, Morgan
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of the Year
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”–Book Riot
Now in paperback and featuring a new aft
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062873067
- Language: English
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By: Gefter, Philip
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Wise and ebullient.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Now in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning phot
- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0062442740
- Language: English
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By: Blow, Charles M.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times Notable Book Lambda Literary Award Winner Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award
“Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade “[An] exquisite memoir . . . De- Author: Blow, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0544570111
- Language: English
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cart“One of the most diverting political bios in recent memory.” — Entertainment Weekly
Revised and updated with a new epilogue, Madam Secretary is the moving and inspiring memoir of one of the most disti
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062265466
- Language: English
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By: Tarrant, John
The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“An exquisite mapping of the Buddhist and totally beyond Buddhist path of liberation, done with the lightest of touches, with perfect grace and clarity and warmth of heart, in a way that makes it so h
- Author: Tarrant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931116
- Language: English
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By: Saul Friedlander
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece th
- Author: Friedlander, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0060930489
- Language: English
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell’s cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such in
- Author: Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0060817321
- Language: English
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By: Hendricks, Rhoda
Classical Gods and Heroes
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartAll the wonder, terror, and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology.
Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient autho
- Author: Hendricks, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0688052797
- Language: English
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By: King, Ross
Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartPart of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher–history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and b… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0061768928
- Language: English




















