Houghton imprint: 895 books
Fastest Things on Wings
Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A heartwarming memoir by “one of California’s hardest-working hummingbird rehabilitators . . . will leave the average bird lover agog” (The Washington Post).
Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers,...
Prairie Spring
A Journey Into the Heart of a Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A grasslands nature trek that “weaves together spiritual insight, plant biology, geology lessons and American history—and a plethora of bird sightings” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A nature writer and avid birder offers a portrait of a season in the heartland of North America as he...
Night of the Republic
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who “seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart” (Chicago Tribune).
In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas station...
All Strangers Are Kin
Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
An American woman determined to learn the Arabic language travels to the Middle East to pursue her dream in this “witty memoir” (Us Weekly).
The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you don’t ask a waiter,...
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan
Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1989
From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books).
No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters...
Bordeaux
A Novel in Four Vintages
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
A novel about a wine enthusiast’s descent into addiction, and “the cheerful face that money can put on an unhappy life” (Publishers Weekly).
After dedicating countless hours to building his software company—an effort that yields him a fortune—Wilberforce walks into a London restaurant,...
The Error World
An Affair with Stamps
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
An obsessively readable memoir about the passions—and perils—of collecting, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just My Type.
From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys,...
by Anya Seton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1900
In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. In those days of hardship, famine, and Indian attack, there was only one way, in the minds of the governors of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies, to hold together the sanity and identity of...
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1985
This journalist’s portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is “a book of great economy and power [with] a supreme sense of the absurd” (New Republic).
Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic...
by Pillsbury Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The first-ever collection of prizewinning Bake-Off dessert recipes
For more than 50 years, the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest has showcased the most delicious, exciting and uniquely American recipes our country's home cooks have to offer. Now this all-in-one collection of desserts from this legendary...
by Stanley Williams, Fen Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
This true, up-close account of a volcano’s eruption “artfully blends science writing and history with pure, heart-pounding action” (Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down).
In 1993, Stanley Williams, an eminent volcanologist, was standing on top of a Colombian volcano called...
by François Payard, Anne E. McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This “sophisticated collection of 100 cookie recipes” from the legendary pastry chef will take you “well beyond the basic chocolate chip cookie” (Publishers Weekly).
For three generations, François Payard’s family has been pleasing palates with mouth-watering pastries and confectionaries....
Train Go Sorry
Inside a Deaf World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).
Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by...
Women in Scripture
A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books and the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2000
“This splendid reference describes every woman in Jewish and Christian scripture . . . monumental” (Library Journal).
In recent decades, many biblical scholars have studied the holy text with a new focus on gender*. Women in Scripture* is a groundbreaking work that provides Jews, Christians,...