Houghton: 1009 books
by Daniel Moran
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
The animals...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1979
From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France.
“The word ‘Trappist’ has become synonymous with ‘ascetic’ and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But . . . Penance and asceticism...
by James Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1998
New York Times Bestseller: A priest struggles against the Vietnam War—and his own passions—in “a classic page-turner” (Chicago Tribune).
Vietnam was bitterly contested not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia but on the American home front. This novel filled with “probing psychological...
Saddled
How a Spirited Horse Reined Me In and Set Me Free
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse explains how caring for an animal taught her to care for herself.
One day, at the age of thirty-one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years...
Easter Rising
A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An “alternately funny and heartbreaking” memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Newsweek).
In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish...
My Life in Orange
Growing Up with the Guru
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A memoir of formative years spent on a series of communes: A “wonderful account of a frankly ghastly childhood . . . Hilarious and heartbreaking” (Daily Mail).
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2006
Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a series of suspicious suicides in the “intricate [and] chilling” follow up to The Blind Man of Seville (Publishers Weekly).
In an exclusive suburb of Seville, Spain, a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, the tragic conclusion to an apparent...
by George Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Take a darkly hilarious trip through a South Carolina town with the “unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
“Usually stories about small, quirky, southern towns are full of adorable, quirky characters that share their unusual philosophies...
Leaving Cold Sassy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
“A gift” for those who loved the heartwarming million-copy bestseller Cold Sassy Tree (The New York Times).
Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns’s classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which returns to the story of the unforgettable Will Tweedy....
A Curtain of Green
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1991
The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker).
When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice...
The Power of Half
One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
A true story of making a difference: “What does your family stand for? Read this book—it will change your life” (Daniel H. Pink).
It all started when fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen had a “eureka” moment. Seeing a homeless man in her neighborhood at the same moment when a glistening...
The Lost Cyclist
The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
This “fascinating” story of a nineteenth-century mystery “should appeal to most lovers of history, as well as to bicycling enthusiasts. Strongly recommended” (Library Journal).
In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed...
Running Ransom Road
Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
One man’s chronicle of his road to recovery as he quits drinking, puts on sneakers, and sweats his way through sobriety.
Caleb Daniloff never set out to be a marathoner. Then again, he never set out to be a drunk, either. But after years of sobriety, he puts on a pair of running shoes and...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
“Graceful and often witty” insights from the legendary economist, drawn from his most influential works (Library Journal).
The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time—from The...