Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Why We Lost
A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A commander’s “compelling” behind-the-scenes view of the United States at war after 9/11, from high-level strategy to combat on the ground (The Wall Street Journal).
Over his thirty-five year career, Daniel P. Bolger rose through the ranks of the army infantry to become a three-star general,...
Aristotle's Children
How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times).
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but...
God's Harvard
A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Behind the scenes at Patrick Henry College: “A deft and honest narrative of evangelical education . . . historical background, close observation and skeptical wit” (Publishers Weekly).
One of the Christian Science Monitor’s annual “Books We Liked Best”
Take a walk down the...
Winter Brothers
A Season at the Edge of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1982
A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review).
The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through...
PrairyErth
A Deep Map
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and...
The Evil Hours
A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
“An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review).
Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers....
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War...
by Susan Van Kirk
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.
In CliffsNotes...
by Betty Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
A spooktacular and delicious collection of Halloween recipes
When it comes to fun food, nothing beats Halloween. From scary treats (Boneyard Dirt Pops) to frightening main dishes (Spiderweb Black Bean Burgers) to blood-curdling beverages (Chilling Jack-o'-Lantern Smoothies), this must-have...
Kingbird Highway
The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
An ornithologist’s account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: “A fascinating memoir of an obsession.” —Booklist
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across...
Failure
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of “heartbreaking tenderness” (Gerald Stern).
A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author’s dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs,...
Noah Webster
Man of Many Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
An “excellent” biography of the man behind Webster’s Dictionary and the role he played in American history (School Library Journal, starred review).
Noah Webster may be best remembered for the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but there was much more to his accomplishments....
The Wrong Enemy
America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed...
by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly).
In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications...