Houghton imprint: 895 books
The Return of the King
Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The third 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
As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate...
by Alison McGhee
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school...
by Elinor Lipman
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
“Effortlessly charming . . . The book inspires a very specific kind of modern joy.”
**—New York Times Book Review
The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results.**
Daphne...
by Philip K. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.
In “The Days of Perky Pat,” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live...
The Human Stain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2000
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about...
All Things Reconsidered
My Birding Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Roger Tory Peterson’s unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Though Peterson was widely known for his illustrations, this collection reminds...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond.
It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there,...
A Secret Sisterhood
The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but what about the friendships of women writers? A Secret Sisterhood, drawing on letters and diaries, some never published before, brings to light a wealth of surprising female collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family...
God Particles
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation’s most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux’s book. While themes of intolerance,...
The God of Loneliness
Selected and New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic...
The Paperclip Test
A Personality Quiz Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An entertaining and enlightening personality test, using that humblest of objects—a bent paperclip—to pick the lock of your psyche
What does your workspace say about you? The best clues aren’t in your desk or on your computer. Rather, they’re those paperclips in your wastebasket—the...
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned
The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala—part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan—does...
Love without Wings
Some Friendships in Literature and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1991
HERE IS A CHARMING BOOK OF BELLES lettres from the shrewd and witty stylist whom Susan Cheever has called "one of the best writers alive."
This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms — from true intimacy to professional detente between rivals....
Mariposa Road
The First Butterfly Big Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle’s journey across the United States as he races against the calendar
in his search for as many of the 800 American butterflies as he can find.
Like Pyle’s classic...