Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books

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by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010

Winner of the 2010 Cookbook of the Year Award, IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals At last an all-new, full-color cake lover's companion from Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Diva of Desserts! Rose Levy Beranbaum is a much beloved and widely respected baking legend-"a...
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by James Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008

An award-winning novel of urban boyhood: “No other . . . comes as close as this to Catcher in the Rye.” —The Literary Review A Man Booker Prize–winning author brings us inside the head of a young boy in a novel that offers a “splendid evocation of childhood in mid-20th-century Glasgow”...
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Bloodbrothers

A Novel

by Richard Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999

A “vigorous, tough” novel that “dramatizes so well the awful power of family,” b****y the New York Times–bestselling author of The Whites and Clockers (The Atlantic Monthly). Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco has to make a choice: either join his father in the tightly knit world of...
Cover of The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

This New York Times–bestselling author’s story collection “displays consistent excellence in observing the spheres of art, law, money and society” (Publishers Weekly). Whether set in the world of Wall Street, the nineteenth-century Virginia aristocracy, or a boys’ school in New England,...
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Deep Creek

A Novel

by Dana Hand
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010

One of the Washington Post’s Best Novels of the Year: A “fascinating” tale of murder in 1880s Idaho, based on real historical events (The Daily Beast). Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another....
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by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008

In this “beautifully wrought” novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery (New York magazine). It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

American English Idiomatic Expressions & Phrases

by Christine Ammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

From “all systems go” to “senior moment”—a comprehensive reference to idiomatic English.   The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms explores the meanings and origins of idioms that may not make literal sense but play an important role in the language—including phrasal verbs such as...
Cover of The Idea of a Christian Society
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

One of the twentieth century’s great thinkers and writers explores what it means to incorporate Christian values into our worldly lives.   Originally delivered in 1939 at Corpus Christi College, these three lectures by the renowned poet and playwright T. S. Eliot address the direction of religious...
Cover of Selected Essays, 1917–1932
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens. Some one said*: “The dead writers are remote from us because we* know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.   Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth...
Cover of Best Contemporary Women's Fiction
by Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Elizabeth Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010

Six novels in one volume by today’s most outstanding female writers—includes The Magician’s Assistant, Those Who Save Us, and more. From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto, to the multiple award-winning author of This Must Be the Place, this collection...
Cover of The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly). From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is “an extraordinary story of a family’s disintegration...
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by Mary Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Fifteen deftly crafted stories from the award-winning author of The Jazz Palace, “a marvelous storyteller” (Chicago Tribune Books).   Acclaimed author Mary Morris takes us to a Greek village, Cape Canaveral, South America, New York City in the heat of August—and into the heads and hearts of...
Cover of Leeches
by David Albahari
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011

A “sardonic and brutal” journey into Serbia’s underground secret societies and conspiracy theories (*TheIndependent*).** The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time...
Cover of The Love Letter
by Cathleen Schine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

A bookseller is obsessed with a mysterious love note in the New York Times–bestselling author’s “sophisticated and witty valentine of a novel” (People). Intelligent, sexy, and fortyish, Helen MacFarquhar is a woman in control of her life and everyone in it—until an anonymous love...
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