Harper Perennial
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Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
$19.99 Add to cart“Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” –New York Times
A beautifully desi
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions #51
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063465620
- Language: English
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Stormchild
$18.99 Add to cart“[A] page-turner….Cornwell unleashes danger and violence, from both man and nature.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is
- Series: Sailing Thrillers
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0062092650
- Language: English
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Only One Year: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy’s Confession.” –Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
After the success of her New York Times bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Le
- Author: Alliluyeva, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0062442627
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
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The Perfect Machine
$18.99 Add to cartAlmost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the S… [more below]
- Author: Florence, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0060926708
- Language: English
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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
$17.99 Add to cartSeed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture.
We are on the cu
- Author: Bly, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0061836540
- Language: English
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
$18.99 Add to cartA finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award
“A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in case you’re wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable st
- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328508005
- Language: English
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Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature
$18.99 Add to cartSymmetry is all around us. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world, this unique, pervasive phenomenon indicates a dynamic relationship between objects. Combining a rich historica
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060789417
- Language: English
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The Best Little Motel in Texas
$17.99 Add to cartA charming, edgy mystery about a young woman who unexpectedly inherits the best little motel in Texas – replete with a feisty set of golden working girls, a poisoned priest, and a sleepy hometown thro
- Author: Lane, Lyla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0063469324
- Language: English
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
$18.99 Add to cart“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal
“An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a “real-life Game of Thrones“ (New York Time
- Author: Gabriele, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0063336715
- Language: English
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Veni, Vidi, Vici (Second Edition): Conquer Your Enemies and Impress Your Friends with Everyday Latin
$18.99 Add to cartAn updated edition of Eugene Ehrlich’s classic yet cheeky guide for using everyday Latin to your advantage
As entertaining as it is informative, VENI, VIDI, VICI has more than 1,000 Latin words and ph
- Author: Ehrlich, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061768030
- Language: English
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Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
$20.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period aft
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062268686
- Language: English
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Why New Orleans Matters
$19.99 Add to cartMore than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, revisit Tom Piazza’s award-winning appraisal of a city in crisis–with a new afterword placing the story of New Orleans in the context of the ongoing threat
- Author: Piazza, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062414771
- Language: English
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American Negra: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cu
- Author: Alford, Natasha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063237113
- Language: English
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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year — NPR, Esquire, Elle
Finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award
Longlisted for Reading the West
“Brilliant . . . stunning . . . deserves a
- Author: Labrie, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063280736
- Language: English
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
$19.99 Add to cart“A page-turner…deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.” — Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai
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- Author: Thwe, Pascal Khoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0060505230
- Language: English
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Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World’s Largest Casino
$19.99 Add to cart“The book seems at times like a legal thriller, a psychological drama, a morality tale, and a scandal sheet.” — Richard Tambling, Hartford Journal Inquirer
Jeff Benedict, the author of No Bone Unturne
- Author: Benedict, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0060931965
- Language: English
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The Years with Ross
$18.99 Add to cartFrom iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross
“Extremely ent
- Series: Perennial Classics #285
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0060959711
- Language: English
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A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument
$18.99 Add to cartA charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn, and begins a quixotic but obsessively serious challe… [more below]
- Author: Rees, Jasper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061626627
- Language: English
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The Fallen Angels
$18.99 Add to cart“If you love historical drama…then look no further.”
—Boston GlobeThe magnificent sequel to A Crowning Mercy, Fallen Angels reunites New York Times bestseller Bernard Cornwell–whom the Washington
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0061725455
- Language: English
