Henry Holt And Co imprint: 1523 books
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious...
by Siri Hustvedt
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly...
Panda Math
Learning About Subtraction from Hua Mei and Mei Sheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Learn about subtraction with the San Diego Zoo's famous baby pandas in Panda Math
Hua Mei was the first giant panda cub born in the United States that survived more than a few days. She was born at the San Diego Zoo, and four years later her mother had another baby, Mei Sheng. Hua Mei and her...
The Good Psychologist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"Noam Shpancer portrays the oft-hidden world of psychotherapy with unparalleled authenticity, compassion, and wit . . . An astonishing debut."—Jonathan Kellerman
Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client—an exotic dancer whose...
The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
If I Get to Five
What Children Can Teach Us About Courage and Character
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon shares the lessons of courage, compassion, and resilience that he's learned from his exceptional young patients
If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being. The medical world knows him as Fred Epstein, M.D., the neurosurgeon...
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China.
Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan, and her father teaches her English as they listen to Voice of America every evening on the...
Who Wants to Be a Princess?
What It Was Really Like to Be a Medieval Princess
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Did you ever wish to be a princess? Have you ever wanted to wear a pretty pink gown, sing to your forest animal friends, and attend a fancy fairy-tale ball?
Then meet Beatrice—she represents what being a princess in the Middle Ages was really like. Pink gown? More like itchy wool! Sing to...
Bullies
A Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
**Vulture's The Best Books of 2016**
**Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016**
**featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads**
The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous...
by Laurie Blum
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
There is an enormous amount of financial aid money available in direct scholarships and grants to fund college study; the trick is to identify the sources of athletic awards and to find the right one for you. In Free Money for Athletic Scholarships, Laurie Blum shows the high school athlete where...
Our Game
An American Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Our Game is a book by Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University and author of acclaimed baseball books Our Game: An American Baseball History and Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era.
Throwing Stones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Can Andy live up to his brother's basketball legacy?
When Andy Soaring's older brother, Pete, died in World War I, Andy's life changed forever. Now, five years later, Andy is fourteen and beginning to feel the weight of his brother's legacy, especially when he holds Pete's basketball in his...
The Lazarus Files
A Cold Case Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.
On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her...