Harper Perennial
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1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
$11.99 Add to cartA brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treas
- Author: Bridgeford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2004
- ISBN10: 184115041X
- Language: English
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Logical Family: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”–Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decad
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062391259
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
$17.99 Add to cartDeceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity–six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What’s Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, “F
- Author: Smith, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0061374059
- Language: English
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The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s no secret that parents want their children to have the lifelong cultural and intellectual advantages that come from being bilingual. Parents spend millions of dollars every year on classes, compu
- Author: King, Kendall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0061246565
- Language: English
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
$18.99 Add to cartOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061138843
- Language: English
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Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic, inspiring account of a poet’s experience teaching school children to write poetry
When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to
- Author: Koch, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060955090
- Language: English
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Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy
$17.99 Add to cartIn Counseling with Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser takes readers into his consulting room and illustrates, through a series of conversations with his patients, exactly how he puts his popular ther
- Author: Glasser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060953667
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Rainer Marie Rilke
$18.99 Add to cartFor poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the m… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 1981
- ISBN10: 0060907274
- Language: English
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Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do
$16.99 Add to cart“If this book isn’t a minor classic–and one uses the term ‘minor’ only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major–well, one doesn’t know what book is. Let’s compromise
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09 2004
- ISBN10: 60733144
- Language: English
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis “tender and lyrical” memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-“searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story… [more below]
- Author: Monette, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0156005816
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Castle
$18.99 Add to cart“Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention… Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” –George R.R. Ma
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062414798
- Language: English
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human pr
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062374346
- Language: English
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Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
$18.99 Add to cartDoes Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America is part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, pol
- Author: Chu, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062049747
- Language: English
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.” — James Su
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ariely, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0061995045
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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My Life and Hard Times
$15.99 Read more“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks b
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060933089
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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The Enlightened Mind
$17.99 Add to cartA magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell’s poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching
A collection
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0060923202
- Language: English
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…. A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game–at once engaging and tightly argued.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and
- Series: American History
- Author: Lears, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 08, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060747501
- Language: English
