Houghton imprint: 895 books
Manhattan, When I Was Young
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1995
A “wonderful memoir” of a woman’s life as a fashion-magazine writer in 1950s and ’60s New York (Publishers Weekly).
Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with eighty dollars, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, a copy of The Poems of Gerard...
420 Characters
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
**Works of fiction the length of Facebook status updates: “Just because a story is short, even really, really short, doesn’t mean it can’t contain multitudes.” —The New York Times Book Review
Alternately surreal, funny, ominous, and lyrical, Lou Beach’s 420 Characters offers an...
Plastic
A Toxic Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
“This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011).
From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize...
The Wreckers
A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
An “entertaining” historical investigation into the scavengers who have profited off the spoils of maritime disasters (The Washington Post).
Even today, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. It is an island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled...
Tolstoy
A Russian Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review).
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was...
Everybody Was So Young
Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review).
Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the...
Resistance
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The “exhilarating” definitive account of the 1943 uprising in Poland’s capital, named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Observer (Los Angeles Times).
No act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...
Allen Klein
The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The story of the notorious rock and roll manager, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest bands in music history.
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the...
by Kathleen Krull
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Music and the alphabet have always gone together. Don't kids learn their letters by singing the ABCs? But you've never seen--or heard--a musical alphabet like this one. Beloved tunes. Unusual instruments. Legendary virtuosos. From anthems to zydeco, the language of music and the music of language...
Men in the Making
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A collection of “artful, emotional” and “manly” short stories from the acclaimed author of The Wake of Forgiveness (Dallas News).
From the critically acclaimed author of The Wake of Forgiveness—“a mesmerizing, mythic saga,” as described by the New York Times—come ten remarkable...
The Ambassadors
From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
From the author of Heretics comes this “informative and enjoyable glimpse at the travails and achievements of emissaries over thousands of years” (Booklist).
We think of ambassadors as simply diplomats—but once they were adventurers who dared an uncertain fate in unknown lands, bringing gifts...
Father's Day
A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
“Every father of a special needs child should read” this memoir by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Friday Night Lights (Temple Grandin).
Buzz Bissinger’s twins were born just three minutes apart, yet life couldn’t have dealt them more different hands. Now grown, Gerry...
Modigliani
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A biographer explores the artist’s tragic life, and transcendent work, in early twentieth-century Paris—“a vibrant portrait of a deeply unhappy man” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris, much like a figure out of...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1989
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s classic, “brilliantly illuminated” account of education in America (*TheNew York Times Book Review*).**
Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an “old-lady teacher.” (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is...