Houghton imprint: 895 books
Saving Bravo
The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner...
Let It Bang
A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
The quest, funny and searing, of a young man black man learning to shoot—a fascinating odyssey into race, guns, and self-protection in America
The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to relate...
by Tabish Khair
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders
In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous...
The Dalai Lama
An Extraordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
The first definitive biography of the Dalai Lama—a story by turns inspiring, surprising—from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject
The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame,...
by Italo Calvino
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures
In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate...
The Winter Army
The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
**"Compelling and readable...I had serious trouble putting this book down."—John C. McManus, author of Fire and Fortitude and The Dead and Those About to Die
The epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s...
How to Tell Fate from Destiny
And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear—How to Tell Fate from Destiny is here to help! With more than 500 headwords, the book is replete with advice on how to differentiate commonly...
by Amy Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From the author of Good as Gone (“So gripping you might want to start to question your own family’s past”—Entertainment Weekly) comes a brilliant and timely thriller: Strangers on a Train by way of Thelma and Louise.
Dana Diaz is an aspiring stand‑up comedian—a woman in a man’s...
by Allison Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Co-host of Lifetime's Cook Yourself Thin Allison Fishman shows you how to eat great—and look even better!
In You Can Trust a Skinny Cook, Allison Fishman teaches you how to stay thin and trim without giving up on the good things in life. She shows you how to take control of your health by...
Cookies for Kids' Cancer
All the Good Cookies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A new collection of delicious cookie recipes—all for a good cause
In 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 killer of kids in the United States and the disease her...
Child Made of Sand
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Reader’s familiar with Thomas Lux’s quick-witted images ("Language without simile is like a lung/ without air") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ("The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers") will find in his new collection, Child Made of Sand, not only the signature...
The Best American Sampler
The Best American Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique...
by Richard Olney
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Richard Olney was considered a culinary genius for his ability to elevate cooking to a practical art. He wrote evocatively about the beauty and pleasure in cooking by focusing on preparing simple foods well. This new edition of his classic cookbook includes a fresh cover, new interior design, and...
The Hebrew Republic
How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Political economist Bernard Avishai has been writing and thinking about Israel since moving there to volunteer during the 1967 War. now he synthesizes his years of study and searching into a short, urgent polemic that posits that the country must become a more complete democracy if it has any chance...