Harper Perennial
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
$18.99 Add to cartIn Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the
- Author: Hutchison, Kay Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0062130714
- Language: English
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Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows
$18.99 Add to cart“Isabel Vincent has written a riveting account of the life of the international socialite and billionairess Lily Safra, allegedly the third richest woman in the world…. It’s a very good read.” — Do
- Author: Vincent, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0061133949
- Language: English
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
$26.99 Add to cart“A stunning five-century study of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060928832
- Language: English
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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
$17.99 Add to cart“A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents . . . I have rarely read anything on the subject more powerful or poignant t
- Author: Walker, Lou Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0060914254
- Language: English
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The Stargazer’s Guide
$16.99 Add to cartThe Stargazer’s Guide is an accessible astronomy guide to the history, science, and myth of the night sky, perfect for anyone entranced by the stars. Guiding readers through what there is to see in th… [more below]
- Author: Winterburn, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0061789690
- Language: English
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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 Add to cart“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
