Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Snobbery
The American Version
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Observations on the many ways we manage to look down on others, from “a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page” (The New York Times Book Review).
Snobs are everywhere. At the gym, at work, at school, and sometimes even lurking in your own home. But how did we, as a culture,...
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
**A British radio station struggles through the London blitz, in a “**wonderful” novel of World War II England (A.S. Byatt), by a veteran of the BBC.
The nation is listening. It’s 1940, and BBC radio is on the air. Dedicated to the cause, it’s going to do what it does best: keep the...
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
Man Booker Prize Finalist: This “marvelous novel” about an abandoned husband, set in Moscow a century ago, is “bristling with wry comedy” (Newsday).
March 1913. Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. English painter Frank Reid returns from work one night to find...
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
“A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe).
It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a Florentine family of long and fading noble lineage....
The Visible World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
“A vibrantly told love story” with tragic roots in WWII Czechoslovakia (The Washington Post).
An American-born son of Czech immigrants grows up in postwar New York, part of a boisterous community of the displaced where he learns fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family...
Friendship
An Expose
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The amusing and erudite anatomy of modern friendship, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Snobbery.
Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far should you go to help a friend in need? And how do you end a friendship that has run...
Whitetail Nation
My Season in Pursuit of the Monster Buck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
A dedicated deer hunter “writes with humor and insight” about his adventures—and misadventures—in the wild (Orlando Sentinel).
Every autumn, millions of men and women across the country don their camo, stock up on doe urine, and undertake a quintessential American tradition—deer hunting....
Travel Writing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“A rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively conversation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction” (Entertainment Weekly).
Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel...
First You Build a Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach).
For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning...
The Hole in the Universe
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).
In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics...
Looking for Spinoza
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
A famed neuroscientist explores the emotions that make life worth living in “clear, accessible, and at times eloquent prose” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet, the neurobiological...
Connectome
How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
“Accessible, witty . . . an important new researcher, philosopher and popularizer of brain science . . . on par with cosmology’s Brian Greene and the late Carl Sagan” (The Plain Dealer).
One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and a Publishers Weekly “Top...
The Life of the Mind
The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1981
“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek
Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The seventh and final volume of the author’s “remarkable” diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times).
“One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” ends as the author wished: not with her last two years...