Books from HarperCollins
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The Essex Serpent: A Novel
By Sarah PerryOranges and lemons rang the chimes of St. Clement's, and Westminster's division bell was dumb. Time was money in the Royal Exchange, where men passed the afternoon diminishing their hope of threading camels through a needle's eye, ...
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Sex and Death: Stories
By Sarah Hall, Peter HobbsHow we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the governing drives, our two greatest themes.
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Bianca Extra
By Donna Alward, Karen Templeton, Crystal GreenDER COWBOY UND DAS CITY GIRL von GREEN, CRYSTAL Als echtes Citygirl steht Donna auf smarte Businessmänner im Anzug.
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Woman with a Secret: A Novel
By Sophie HannahAll I can see from my car is a female police officer in the road, standing up straight, then bobbing down out of sight; standing up again, bobbing down again. I think she must be saying something to the driver of each car that passes.
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The Illegitimate Duke: Diamonds in the Rough
By Sophie BarnesHe swept his palm across his forehead and turned to find her standing a few feet away, beautiful as ever in her blue silk gown. The wind tugged playfully at the sheer fabric layers and at a few stray strands of her hair. “Yes,” he lied.
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Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Life
By Todd Gold, Brian WilsonWouldn't It Be Nice: My Life
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Wordsworth and the Roast Beef Romance
By Todd StrasserThe message said , “ Hello , you've reached the Chandler residence . Please leave a message after the beep . The machine beeped , and a boy started to talk . “ Uh , hi , this is a message for Janine . Janine , it's Rick Berger .
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Deacon Locke Went to Prom
By Brian KatcherOver in the soccer fields, a knight in shining armor has ridden up on a horse. Seriously. A knight. Okay, he's not so much riding a white stallion as a pony, led by a middle-aged man. And the knight's armor is made out of tinfoil-coated ...
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The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery
By Charles ToddRobinson did what he could to prevent the worst of the jolting, but there was no way to avoid much of it. Robinson said, in the darkness, “Your father's Colonel Crawford, is that right?” “Yes.” My father had retired from active service ...
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The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them
By Todd G. BuchholzIn George Bernard Shaw's 1903 play Man and Superman, Don Juan in Hell worries that “lovers of money and solid comfort, the worshippers of success, of art, and of love, will all oppose to the Force of Life the device of sterility.
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A Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery
By Charles ToddFRANCE Early Autumn, 1918 LIEUTENANT MORRISON DIED as dawn broke on that Friday morning, a casualty of war. I wrote the date and the time in his record. I had sat with him for the last hours of his life—and stayed with him still for ...
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Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
By Daniel KunitzWith Lift, he argues that, as a culture, we are finally returning to this natural ideal—and that it’s to our great benefit to do so.
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Losing Isn't Everything: The Untold Stories and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Losses in Sports History
By Curt Menefee, Michael ArkushYet lost are the stories on the other side of these history-making moments, the athletes who experienced not transcendent glory but crushing disappointment: the cornerback who missed the tackle on the big touchdown; the relief pitcher who ...
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Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
By Charles ToddScotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series.
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My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
By Todd Fisherinsistence, with Harry's usual support, Zinc, our head security guard, had been recruited to get rid of Stanley. I was heartbroken and furious. But as luck would have it, that wasn't the end of the story. A year or so went by.
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Wordsworth and the Lip-Smacking Licorice Love Affair
By Todd StrasserPromising eternal faithfulness to best friend Dee Dee Chandler, Wordsworth the talking Basset Hound finds his head turned by the exotic canine Chloe and her French human, Tucker Swanson, who catches Dee Dee's attention. Original.
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Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters: A Novel
By Jennifer Chiaverini"--Booklist The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense.
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A Divided Loyalty: A Novel
By Charles Todd"Todd's astute character studies . . . offer a fascinating cross section of postwar life.
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A Cruel Deception: A Bess Crawford Mystery
By Charles ToddIn this, the eleventh novel in the award-winning Bess Crawford series, New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd delivers a rich and atmospheric portrait that illuminates the cost of war on human lives—the lingering pain and horror ...
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The Piper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Story
By Charles ToddHamish brings the piper to his home to stay the night and tends to his head wound, but by the time Hamish wakes the boy has vanished. Worried, he goes in pursuit of the injured piper and finds him again collapsed in the heather--dead.