Houghton imprint: 895 books
Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who...
Play On
The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.”
Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline...
Belichick
The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The definitive biography of the NFL’s most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach
Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL—the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the...
Deep South
Four Seasons on Back Roads
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“Theroux’s eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It’s Theroux’s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile.” — New York Times Book Review
Paul Theroux has spent the past fifty years roaming the globe, describing...
No Time to Spare
Thinking About What Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”
On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation...
by Bryan Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps—the guides who lead the souls of the recently departed through the Seven Gates of the Underworld—and done her best to avoid the notice of gods and mortals alike. But when a young boy named Ramses St. Cyr manages to escape his foretold...
by Micah Dean Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
“[T]his novel is extraordinary . . . It is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, mixed with H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, set in the creepiest screwed-up town since ’Salem’s Lot . . . [A] major achievement.” — Adam-Troy Castro, Sci Fi magazine
Swine Hill was full of the dead....
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in *The Silmarillion *and The Lord of the Rings.
The book...
The Two Towers
Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling...
by Julian May
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1982
The Many-Colored Land, the first volume in Julian May's dazzling series of science fiction-fantasy novels, began with a des perate act of exile. A group of talented misfits from a future society chose to pass through a time-portal into the unknown dangers of a world six million years past, the world...
Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."**—**The New York Times Book Review
"Theroux is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
This title in the popular 100 Words series is an informative and entertaining resource that can help anyone be right on the money when looking for words that will make a point, seal the deal, or just keep folks listening. Chosen by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, these words will...
The First Frontier
The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America'
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here is...
Cattle Kingdom
The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
The open-range cattle era lasted...