Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Inventing the Truth
The Art and Craft of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
Why Save the Bankers?
And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Thomas Piketty’s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies...
Generation Rx
How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
This in-depth look at the rise of Big Pharma and pill marketing is “a page-turner” (Booklist, starred review).
A finalist for a PEN America Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, this book takes a deep look at how the pharmaceutical industry—with some help from the medical and insurance...
Merchants of Immortality
Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003
A Discover Best Science Book of the Year: “A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging” (The New York Times).
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Library...
Half the Way Home
A Memoir of Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
A New York Times Notable Book: “An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
From the author of King Leopold’s Ghost, Half the Way Home is a compelling memoir about a complicated father-son relationship.
Adam...
by Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World).
An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The sixth volume of the diary of “one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century” (The New York Times Book Review).
Anaïs Nin continues “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” with this volume covering more than a decade of...
The Hill of Evil Counsel
Three Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
Three stories of “sensuous prose and indelible imagery” that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times).
Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the...
Empress Orchid
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
“A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle).
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps...
The Last Empress
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
“Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation” (Rocky Mountain News).
During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person:...
Mule
A Novel of Moving Weight
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A young family man caught in the Great Recession turns to running marijuana cross-country to make ends meet in this “timely, witty, and fast-paced” novel (Booklist).
James and Kate are golden children of the late twentieth century, flush with opportunity. But an economic downturn and an unexpected...
Fire
From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1995
The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest.
Drawing from the author’s original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin’s journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with...
The Airmen and the Headhunters
A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly).
November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast,...
by Patricia Hampl
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a “beautiful bouquet of a book” (Entertainment Weekly).
They say “a daughter is a daughter all her life,” and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and...