Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books
Anonymous Lawyer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before...
Bringing Down the Mob
The War Against the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The riveting, often bloody account of how the fifty-year attack by the federal government virtually extinguished the nation's most powerful crime syndicate
In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating...
The Giant, O'Brien
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths,...
In the Shadow of Liberty
The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners?
Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery...
by Jeb Blount
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Get the crucial guidance you need to thrive during this economic slump with Sales Guy's 7 Rules for Outselling the Recession. Successful selling always involves finding opportunity in obstacles. That's true now more than ever. Jeb Blount, a globally recognized sales expert and host of the top-rated...
Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda
The Making of a Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Behind the famous painting by Diego Velázquez lies a rich story of the artist's life in art
What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, The Surrender at Breda is today recognized as Velázquez's narrative masterpiece.
Breda...
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Short Fiction from the author of Revolutionary Road
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A literary event of the highest order, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yates's peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time.
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar...
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child...
Lost Battalions
The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
"A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis . . . Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity."—David Levering Lewis, The Nation
During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the...
Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal
An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture
Recklessness, thy name...
by Robert Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped...
by David McPhail
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
All her life, Beatrix Potter loved to paint. From a young age, she painted the bunnies, mice, and other pets who populated her family home. These characters later populated her stories, which are beloved the whole world over. With beautiful scenes rich in detail, David McPhail transports us to the charming, English countryside and the wonderful world of Beatrix Potter.
The Coldest Winter
A Stringer in Liberated Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
In this elegant and affecting companion to her "extraordinary" memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe)
In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American...
Old Man River
The Mississippi River in North American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America
In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which...