Harper Perennial
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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The Making of the President 1968
$16.99 Add to cart“White unites a novelist’s knack of dramatization and a historian’s sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.” —Newsweek
The third book in Theodore H. White
- Series: Landmark Political
- Author: White, Theodore H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061900648
- Language: English
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Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
$21.99 Add to cartGroundbreaking, insightful, and compulsively readable, Revolution in Mind goes beyond myth and polemic to give us the story of one of the most controversial and important intellectual endeavors of the
- Author: Makari, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061346624
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945
$16.99 Add to cart“Otto Friedrich’s powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again.” –Arthur
- Author: Friedrich, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0060976403
- Language: English
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Getting Together and Staying Together: Solving the Mystery of Marriage
$16.99 Add to cartThe facts are nothing short of startling–no matter how many people seem to walk down the aisle, the divorce rate in America is at a record high. What’s the secret to getting into a happy marriage and… [more below]
- Author: Glasser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2000
- ISBN10: 006095633X
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
$18.99 Add to cartAs the world has begun to turn more of its attention toward the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius is more timely than ever.
Written as a personal diary for spir
- Author: Forstater, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0060955104
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
$19.99 Add to cartThe coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyol
- Author: Weinberg, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0060932856
- Language: English
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Civilization of the Middle Ages
$21.99 Add to cartNow revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.
- Author: Cantor, Norman F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 03 1994
- ISBN10: 0060925531
- Language: English
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Soong Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.
- Author: Seagrave, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 19 1986
- ISBN10: 60913185
- Language: English
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Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance’s boast is manifest–these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one w
- Author: Murphy, Cait N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060889381
- Language: English
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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
$19.99 Add to cartIt was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard L
- Author: Baatz, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0060781025
- Language: English
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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less
- Author: Rosen, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062297112
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover’s Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
$19.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.
No art form is as instantly and continuously g
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062113399
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
$15.99 Add to cartColm T ib n on Joni Mitchell – James Wood on The Who – Stacey D’Erasmo on Kate Bush – Daniel Handler on Eurythmics – Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders – Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other write
- Author: Terzian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061579742
- Language: English
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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
