Houghton imprint: 895 books
One Wild Bird at a Time
Portraits of Individual Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries
In his modern classics One Man’s Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and...
A Naturalist at Large
The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Some of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” (New York Times)
From one of...
How to Raise a Wild Child
The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
**“This timely, significant work carries a far-reaching message for families and the planet.”—Publishers Weekly
“In a time when the connection between humans and the rest of nature is most vulnerable, Scott offers parents and teachers a book of encouragement and knowledge, and to children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2003
What should the vocabulary of a well-rounded high school graduate be like? These 100 words provide the starting point in answering that question. The list is representative of the words that serious students will encounter in their coursework and will come to use as adults, whether in conversation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Avid North American birders share wit, wisdom, advice, and what fuels their passion for birds.
Birding gets you outside, helps you de-stress, exercises your body and mind, puts your day-to-day problems in perspective, and can be lots of fun. Birders know this, and in this collection of thirty-seven...
Birds of Prey
Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America’s birds of prey
by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The...
I Know How You Feel
The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An expert's rich exploration of the intense, complicated landscape of women's friendships.
“Do I have enough friends?” “Why did my friendship end?” and “What makes a good friendship work?"
These are questions that F. Diane Barth, a psychotherapist widely recognized for...
by Stephen Shunk
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A complete guide to the natural history, ecology, and conservation of North America’s 23 woodpecker species.
From the iconic Woody Woodpecker to the ubiquitous Northern Flicker, woodpeckers have long captivated our attention. Their astonishing anatomy makes them one of the most specialized...
by Charles Simic
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that...
Farewell, My Only One
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
A bestseller and nominated for the prestigious Goncourt Prize in France, Farewell, My Only One brings to life one of the great romances of all time and evokes the vibrant color and tumult of the Middle Ages.
In the early twelfth century, William reaches Paris full of hope and without a penny. There,...
Dear Zealots
Letters from a Divided Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world.
“Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one...
The Glass Hammer
A Southern Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1995
The Glass Hammer, the fourth book of poems by the celebrated author of After the Lost War, is a southern narrative poem. It tells the story of a boy brought up in a military family in Texas and Alabama, and it is as rich in emotion and experience as any novel, as family life itself. In a sequence...
Driven
A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Now in paperback, a “piercing and beautiful” (Domenica Ruta) memoir about one woman’s road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her
Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape....