Houghton: 1009 books
The Evil Hours
A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
“An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review).
Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers....
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War...
by Susan Van Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
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by Betty Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
A spooktacular and delicious collection of Halloween recipes
When it comes to fun food, nothing beats Halloween. From scary treats (Boneyard Dirt Pops) to frightening main dishes (Spiderweb Black Bean Burgers) to blood-curdling beverages (Chilling Jack-o'-Lantern Smoothies), this must-have...
Kingbird Highway
The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
An ornithologist’s account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: “A fascinating memoir of an obsession.” —Booklist
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across...
by Edward Morlae
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
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When Sergeant Morlae turned up at the Atlantic office and, with his head cocked on one side, remarked ingratiatingly, "I'm told this is the highest-toned office in the United States," there was nothing to do but to assure him he was right and to make him...
Failure
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of “heartbreaking tenderness” (Gerald Stern).
A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author’s dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs,...
Noah Webster
Man of Many Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
An “excellent” biography of the man behind Webster’s Dictionary and the role he played in American history (School Library Journal, starred review).
Noah Webster may be best remembered for the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but there was much more to his accomplishments....
The Wrong Enemy
America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed...
by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly).
In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications...
In the Land of Israel
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1993
A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas.
Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers,...
When Jesus Became God
The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
“[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife,...
Jerusalem, Jerusalem
How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe).
How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth?...
With Head and Heart
The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1981
“One of the great religious leaders of [the twentieth] century” tells his story of growing up under segregation and finding his calling as a minister (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Howard Thurman was a singular man—a minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched...