HarperAcademic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
A classic from writer Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a beautiful and haunting tale of a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures. @HarperPerennial https://t.co/9qujaRhitF
Paperback, 2005
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Cynthia Manick’s NO SWEET WITHOUT BRINE is filled with “exuberant, engaging poems composed with confidence and flair.” (Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger) Read a sample: https://t.co/HrHUj0GwB8 @AmistadBooks #poetry #Blackpoet #poetrybywomen #womanpoet https://t.co/ObxKyr0mMg
Paperback, 2014
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
We're thrilled with a recent adoption for Rumaan Alam's LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND at Stockton University. Learn more about this title for your course over at our book page: https://fal.cn/3jaDI #courseadoption https://t.co/8JcByjP6oV
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Lee Kravetz
Now available in paperback is Lee Kravetz's blend of mystery and multigenerational story, THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P.! Learn more, and read an excerpt, at our book page: https://t.co/W2HMgw7gsw https://t.co/KSMsCFca2F
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim
Now in paperback, Juhea Kim's Beasts of a Little Land is "a stunning chronicle of the Korean peninsula during the tumultuous decades leading to independence and partition." (Alexis Schaitkin, author of Saint X) @eccobooks https://t.co/wUdtHwEK60
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
“An Appalachian David Copperfield.... Barbara Kingsolver’s DEMON COPPERHEAD reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.” — New York Times @harperbooks #BarbaraKingsolver #comingofage #Appalachia #demoncopperhead https://t.co/ozStMhK8aF
Paperback, 2024
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
In We Carry Their Bones, forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle explores the legacy of the notorious Dozier Boys School, the true story behind Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys. @WmMorrowBooks https://t.co/MLqI3MBHA5
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka
NOTES ON AN EXECUTION by Danya Kukafka unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men. @WmMorrowBooks #crimefiction #amreading #womeninfiction #serialkiller https://t.co/9pZUhQkuOC
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Roanne Van Voorst
Roanne van Voorst's Once Upon a Time we Ate Animals, now available in paperback, is a provocative exploration of a hypothetical future in which animal consumption is a thing of the past. Read the first chapter here: https://t.co/Bxe4hzHmRy. @HarperOneBooks https://t.co/It6ieduthV
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin's classic The Dispossessed is commonly assigned in literature courses...but sometimes we see it assigned in other departments, such as Sociology! https://t.co/cMWJp8EUtG
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