Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books
This I Believe
The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies of a group of remarkable men and women
Based on the National Public Radio series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty essayists—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins the book's title. Each piece...
Under the Stars
How America Fell in Love with Camping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
“The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and...
Where My Heart Used to Beat
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A sweeping drama about the madness of war and the power of love that marks acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks's return, after twenty years, to the fictional territory of his #1 international bestseller Birdsong
London, 1980. Robert Hendricks, an established psychiatrist and author, has so...
Elvis
The Story of the Rock and Roll King
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
An only child, a mama's boy-Elvis was a shy kid who struggled to make friends and found comfort singing in church and learning guitar. While in high school, he continued his music but was often ridiculed by students. On a whim, he recorded a song for his mom's birthday at Sun Record Studios as part...
Parallax
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the...
Casting with a Fragile Thread
A Story of Sisters and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past.
A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—behind...
The Day the World Went Nuclear
Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest...
Thick As Thieves
A Brother, a Sister--a True Story of Two Turbulent Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A memoir about two siblings who loved each other (sometimes); the thrill of the shoplift, the power of the written word, the agony of addiction, and the joy of someone who understands you and still stays true
Steve Geng—thief, addict, committed member of Manhattan's criminal semi-elite—was...
Autobiography of Us
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss and love; a confession of what passed between two women who met as girls in 1960s Pasadena, California
Coming of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of...
Crooked Kingdom
A Sequel to Six of Crows
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!
**Crooked Kingdom: the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they...
Riding Out the Storm
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Zach is riding the Greyhound bus through a snowstorm to visit his older brother Derek, whom he hasn't seen in seven months. That's when their parents finally went broke paying Derek's doctor's bills and had to give him up as a ward of the state. Nothing—not drawing in his sketchbook, not basketball—lets...
by Eric Knight, Ann M. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone.
But...
by Jill Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The new novel from Jill Wolfson—an exciting, fresh voice in middle-grade fiction
Whitney has been in so many foster homes that she can give a complete rundown on the most common varieties of foster parents—from the look-on-the-bright-side types to those unfortunate examples of pure evil....
The Jolly Roger Social Club
A True Story of a Killer in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama--a tale of greed, political history, and murder
In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow...