Houghton: 1009 books
A Dangerous Friend
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 1999
Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek).
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times
In this “extraordinary,” beautifully constructed...
Becoming George Sand
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A married woman’s affair makes her reconsider the nature of love in this “beautiful, wise novel” (Edmund White).
Maria Jameson is having an affair—a passionate, life-changing affair. Yet she wonders whether this has to mean an end to the love she shares with her husband.
For...
Rodin's Debutante
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A “beguiling and unnerving” novel of a young man haunted by an act of violence, from the award-winning author of An Unfinished Season (Booklist, starred review).
As a small-town boy in the early twentieth century, Lee Goodell learned about a brutal crime—and the efforts of his father, a judge,...
Triumph
The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated).
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American...
Christianity and Evolution
Reflections on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
The author of The Phenomenon of Man reconciles passionate faith with the rigor of scientific thinking.
With his unique background as a geologist, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a powerful exponent of the view that scientific theories could comfortably coexist...
by Rust Hills
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Wise advice on plot, character, and style from a legendary Esquire editor: “Every aspiring fiction writer ought to read this.” —Writer’s Digest
Over the course of his long and colorful career as fiction editor for Esquire magazine, L. Rust Hills championed the early work of literary...
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes!
Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to...
by Richard Brautigan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
**A **book “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times).
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and ’70s who came of age during the heyday of Haight-Ashbury...
Key Grip
A Memoir of Endless Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
An award-winning memoir of an adventurous and winding journey through life: “A nonstop pleasure” (Susan Isaacs).
A key grip, Dustin Beall Smith explains, is the person on a film set who supervises the rigging of lights, set wall construction, dolly shots, stunt preparation, and more. Smith...
Rameau's Niece
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly).
In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet...
The Kingdom by the Sea
A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review).
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of...
North Country
A Personal Journey Through the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Bruce Medway is the target of a deadly conspiracy in “this darkly tangled thriller” by the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon (Kirkus Reviews).
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don’t want to do. And in the seedier corners of...
by Carlene Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
A “dazzling and gorgeously written” novel of art, faith, and life-changing friendship inspired by the correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell (Ann Packer).
In the summer of 1957, two writers are immersed in their craft at an artist’s colony nestled in upstate New York...