Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Trieste
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In Italy, an elderly mother awaits a reunion with the son stolen from her by the Nazis—“A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book” (The Jewish Daily Forward).
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
From a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the twentieth-century drama that was called “the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (The New York Times).
This modern verse play by the author of The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and other modern masterpieces...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian).
Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre...
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Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
An “informative and vividly reported book” that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive (San Francisco Chronicle).
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, and Vanity...
Crazy Woman Creek
Women Rewrite the American West
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
A “blessedly unromantic” portrait of real women’s lives in the contemporary American West (Kathleen Norris).
This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska...
A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.
Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new...
Stand Up Straight and Sing!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In this uplifting memoir, the acclaimed singer reflects “on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring” (Booklist).
Jessye Norman is one of the world’s most admired and beloved singers—and her life story is as moving and dramatic as the great operatic roles she has performed on...
by Eudora Welty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1979
This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor).
From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and...
The Lion Seeker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
National Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both “page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny” (NPR, All Things Considered).
Called “a latter-day Exodus” by Kirkus Reviews, The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on...
The N Word
Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari...
Live Through This
A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
An “achingly beautiful” memoir about a mother’s mission to rescue her two teenage daughters from the streets and bring them back home (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job...
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading.
Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor...
Hello, Gorgeous
Becoming Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“Masterful . . . Many books have been written about Streisand but few, if any, put readers as close to the subject as Mann does” (Miami Herald).
A legendary singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker with multiple Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and even two Peabody awards to her name, Barbara...
Anything Can Happen
Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
A look at the human comedy from a prize-winning writer who is “bright, funny and tells it like it is” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
In this insightful collection, an accomplished essayist and humorist offers a class in “Tyranny for Beginners;” warns about the snares of dinner parties; explains...