Houghton: 1009 books
The Visible World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
“A vibrantly told love story” with tragic roots in WWII Czechoslovakia (The Washington Post).
An American-born son of Czech immigrants grows up in postwar New York, part of a boisterous community of the displaced where he learns fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family...
Friendship
An Expose
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The amusing and erudite anatomy of modern friendship, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Snobbery.
Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far should you go to help a friend in need? And how do you end a friendship that has run...
Whitetail Nation
My Season in Pursuit of the Monster Buck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
A dedicated deer hunter “writes with humor and insight” about his adventures—and misadventures—in the wild (Orlando Sentinel).
Every autumn, millions of men and women across the country don their camo, stock up on doe urine, and undertake a quintessential American tradition—deer hunting....
Travel Writing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“A rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively conversation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction” (Entertainment Weekly).
Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel...
First You Build a Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach).
For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning...
The Hole in the Universe
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).
In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics...
Looking for Spinoza
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
A famed neuroscientist explores the emotions that make life worth living in “clear, accessible, and at times eloquent prose” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet, the neurobiological...
Connectome
How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
“Accessible, witty . . . an important new researcher, philosopher and popularizer of brain science . . . on par with cosmology’s Brian Greene and the late Carl Sagan” (The Plain Dealer).
One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and a Publishers Weekly “Top...
The Life of the Mind
The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1981
“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek
Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The seventh and final volume of the author’s “remarkable” diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times).
“One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” ends as the author wished: not with her last two years...
Avalon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
A novel of England during the Viking era, from an author who “has vividly and colorfully portrayed life during the tumultuous Dark Ages” (Historical Novels Review).
The last quarter of the tenth century was a time of conflict and exploration—while the Anglo-Saxons fought against the Vikings,...
A Sliver of Light
Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Hikers held captive in Tehran tell their story in “a moving memoir by three individuals who found the strength to survive” (San Jose Mercury News).
During the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
From a Nobel Prize winner: “A psychological, even metaphysical thriller that will keep you turning the pages . . . with growing alarm and alacrity.” —The Seattle Times
A Washington Post Book World Favorite Book of the Year
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city’s Central...
The Pure Gold Baby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An “achingly wise” novel about the challenges of motherhood: “Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book” (The Wall Street Journal).
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair...