e-book sale!

For the entire month of August, Harper Perennial is offering 20 of their finest books for just $.99 each! You can fill your e-reader with works from some of your favorite authors and discover new ones, too!

The books include fiction, short stories, and memoir. Click the titles below to learn more about the 20 books in this special offer.

 86'd by Dan Fante

 The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen 

 Celebrity Chekhov by Ben Greenman

 A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
 
 Diary of a Very Bad Year by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager / Keith Gessen

 Down and Out on Murder Mile byTony O'Neill

 Everything is Going to be Great by Rachel Shukert

 Everything is Wrong With Me by Jason Mulgrew

 The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor

 Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way by Bryan Charles

 I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

 It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me by Ariel Leve

 Kapitoil byTeddy Wayne

 Postcards from a Dead Girl by Kirk Farber

 Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude by Neal Pollack

 The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau

 Town House by Tish Cohen

 Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper

 Who By Fire by Diana Spechler

Art Memoir - a favorite with book groups, now in paperback

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal  

"A family memoir written with a grace and modesty that almost belie the sweep of its contents: Proust, Rilke, Japanese art, the rue de Monceau, Vienna during the Second World War. The most enchanting history lesson imaginable." -The New Yorker 

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots, he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.

And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were rich and respected. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.

Author Edmund de Waal's porcelain has been displayed in many museum collections around the world, and he has recently made an installation for the dome of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan, and studied English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family. 

Middle East Travel Memoir - now in paperback

 The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Woman's Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth by Jennifer Steil 

In a world fraught with suspicion between the Middle East and the West, it's hard to believe that one of the most influential newspapers in Yemen would be handed over to an agnostic, Campari-drinking, single woman from Manhattan who had never set foot in the Middle East. Yet this is exactly what happened to journalist, Jennifer Steil.  

Restless in her career and her life, Jennifer, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, initially accepts a short-term opportunity in 2006 to teach a journalism class to the staff of The Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the beautiful, ancient, and very conservative capital of Yemen. She is quickly confronted with the realities of Yemen - and their surprising advantages.  In teaching the basics of fair and balanced journalism to a staff that included plagiarists and polemicists, she falls in love with her career again. In confronting the blatant mistreatment and strict governance of women by their male counterparts, she learns to appreciate the strength of Arab women in the workplace. And in forging surprisingly deep friendships with women and men whose traditions and beliefs are in total opposition to her own, she learns a cultural appreciation she never could have predicted.  What's more, she just so happens to meet the love of her life. 

Kids' pick: easing into back-to-school

Bailey by Harry Bliss 

Vermont-based illustrator Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. He has illustrated such children's books as A Fine, Fine School; Which Would You Rather Be; Countdown to Kindergarten; and Adventures of a Chicken. 

Bliss is both author and illustrator of his newest book, Bailey, a dog who surprises and charms his fellow human classmates with his irrepressible antics.

Follow Bailey the dog as he gets ready and goes to school. Should he wear the red or blue collar? Both are so fashionable! Will he be late? That squirrel is a distraction! And what about Bailey's homework? Would you believe he ate it? That is what dogs do, after all.