Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books
The Book of Practical Faith
A Path to Useful Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
More than ever before, many of us are struggling to cope with the trials and tribulations of modern life. In this concise and eloquent volume, D. Patrick Miller inspires us to meet these challenges with a practical faith, which he describes as "the way out of misery, the way into self-knowledge,...
Teller of Tales
The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review)
This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan...
Balsamic Dreams
A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary.
It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign...
We've Already Gone This Far
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A heartfelt, vital collection; the debut of an exciting new talent already hailed as one of George Saunders' "favorite young American writers"
In Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and friends--citizens of working-class Wequaquet--right when the ground beneath...
Fencing the Sky
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A haunting novel of the American West about an accidental murder that springs from the best intentions.
Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mike Arans never imagined that, moments later, he'd find himself swinging a nylon loop around Merriweather...
Infamy
The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II
Less than three months after Japan bombed...
A Chance to Win
Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he...
Queenan Country
A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humorists seeks the answer to an eternal question: What makes the Brits tick?
One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue....
The Lions of Iwo Jima
The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys
Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units...
Pearl Harbor Betrayed
The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A naval historian draws on newly revealed primary documents to shed light on the tragic errors that led to the devastating attack, Washington's role, and the man who took the fall for the Japanese tactical victory.
Michael Gannon begins his authoritative account of the "impossible to forget"...
The Pope of Physics
Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely...
by Rick Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed set
From the War in North Africa to the Invasion of Normandy, the Liberation Trilogy recounts the hard fought battles that led to Allied victory in World...
To Conquer Hell
The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War I
On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France. Their...
My Colombian War
A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A timely, evocative account of a reporter's reckoning with her homeland's volatile past
Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young girl: friendships and parties, school and family. But soon it became apparent...