Houghton imprint: 895 books
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Now published for the first time, For Country, Cause & Leader offers an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville. This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil...
Sober for Good
New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
Finally someone has gone straight to the real experts: hundreds of men and women who have resolved a drinking problem. The best-selling author Anne M. Fletcher asked them a simple question: how did you do it? The result is the first completely unbiased guide for problem drinkers, one that shatters...
The Five
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton,...
by Virginia Kidd Agency Inc., Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future, the Akans recently outlawed...
by Filip Florian
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Joseph Strauss (a dentist and bachelor, client of the Eleven Titties brothel and of Der Große Bär beer cellar) leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows a captain of dragoons to Bucharest, where the officer is to ascend the throne as prince of the United Principalities of Romania. War is...
Fast into the Night
A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A captivating memoir of one woman’s attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huskies with whom she shares a fascinating and inextricable bond
At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that’s where she found herself...
The Streak
Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The fascinating story of baseball’s legendary “Ironmen,” two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played
When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he...
The Escape Artists
A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
—David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon
Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author, delivers...
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the...
Everybody Behaves Badly
The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
*“*An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume combines...
by Gretchen Holt-Witt
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Every cookie makes a difference!
In December 2007, Gretchen Holt-Witt set the lofty goal of baking and selling 96,000 cookies during the holidays, all in the name of funding research for pediatric cancer, the #1 disease killer of kids in the United States and the disease her young son was battling....
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in...
Finding My Elegy
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." — Margaret Atwood
Though internationally known and honored for her imaginative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin started out as a poet, and since 1959 has never ceased to publish poems. Finding My Elegy distills her life's...
The Best American Series
20 Short Stories and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. This special edition contains selections from the following editions:
The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks
The Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat
The...