Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books
Missing Microbes
How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert
Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research...
Old School
Life in the Sane Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Old School is in session....
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.
It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not...
Shake the Devil Off
A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America
Zackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency...
The Midnight Assassin
Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885.
In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date.
Overflowing with his trademark outdoorsman's wit, Patrick F. McManus's newest collection ponders the strange allure of the RV, the existential implications of being lost, the baffling tendency...
The River at the Center of the World
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
Chinese Lessons
Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's
hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book Review
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to...
Bell Weather
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A captivating adventure set in a fantastical world where a young woman must uncover the secrets of her past while confronting the present dangers of a magical wilderness
When Tom Orange rescues a mysterious young woman from the flooded Antler River, he senses that their fates will deeply intertwine.
At...
Bravo!
Poems About Amazing Hispanics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive...
by Marisa Montes
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Follow los monstruos and los esqueletos to the Halloween party
Under October's luna, full and bright, the monsters are throwing a ball in the Haunted Hall. Las brujas come on their broomsticks. Los muertos rise from their coffins to join in the fun. Los esqueletos rattle their bones as they...
by Laura E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
I didn't have no hope of seeing the ghost stallion but I looked anyway. 'Course he wasn't really a ghost. He was flesh and bone, with blood running through him so wild that nobody tried to break him.
Since Ma ran off, Pa doesn't pay much attention to Mary Elizabeth. Maybe it's because she doesn't...
The Adirondacks
A History of America's First Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace.
In this lyrical narrative history, the...
Ace of Spades
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are
When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto...
The Genius of the System
Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the genius...