Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books

In the Country We Love

My Family Divided

by Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents...

Sleights of Mind

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

by Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010

"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield—it will also change the way you think about the mind." —Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the...

Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

by Caroline Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British...

A Cruel and Shocking Act

The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

by Philip Shenon
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a...

Killing the SS

The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed...

The Short Bus

A Journey Beyond Normal

by Jonathan Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was...

Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911

Your Guide to Writing it Right

by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

Previously published as part of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. Online sensation Grammar Girl makes punctuation fun and easy in Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911. Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad punctuation—but she's also determined...

Killing Jesus

A History

by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to...

The Sixth Extinction

An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have...

The Eating Instinct

Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

by Virginia Sole-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important...

The Devil's Teeth

A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

by Susan Casey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006

A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon...

Falter

Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...

The Moral Arc

How Science Makes Us Better People

by Michael Shermer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015

Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously...

Dark Summit

The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

by Nick Heil
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008

The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber,...
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