Houghton imprint: 895 books
Human Errors
A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times...
The Bluebird Effect
Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all...
The Fellowship of the Ring
Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord,...
by Cynthia Ozick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture.
If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared — if all we had were reviews that treated books...
by Philip Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Set in Rochester, New York, in the fifties, this extraordinary book-length sequence traces the year in a boy's life leading up to his bar mitzvah and passage into manhood. There is a lively mixture of ethnic groups here-many of them displaced by the war in Europe-with new hopes and dreams. It is a...
A Daughter's Love
THOMAS MORE AND HIS DEAREST MEG
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With the novelistic vividness that made his National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Queen of Scots “a pure pleasure to read” (Washington Post BookWorld), John Guy brings to life Thomas More and his daughter Margaret— his confidante and collaborator who played a critical role in safeguarding...
Arctic Autumn
A Journey to Season's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The Arctic doesn't spring to mind when most people think about autumn. Yet in his continuing effort to invite readers' curiosity through unpredictability, Pete Dunne pairs the transitional season of autumn with this fragile environment in flux. The book begins on Bylot Island in Nunavut, Canada, at...
by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning...
One Child
The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates...
War and Peace
FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton’s three-part saga of FDR at war—proof that he was WWII’s key strategist, even on his deathbed.
“A first-class, lens-changing work.” —James N. Mattis, former United States Secretary of Defense**
Nigel...
Remembering Smell
A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen—was launched on a journey through...
by John Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“At a time when school systems have completely lost focus on what really matters, John Hunter reminds us what we should be teaching our children. His ideas will help anyone who has the courage to understand that a real education must go beyond filling in circles on a standardized test form.” —...
The Bad Food Bible
Why You Can (and Maybe Should) Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn't
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Physician and popular New York Times contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many “bad” ingredients actually aren’t unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being.
Advice about food can be confusing. There’s usually only one thing experts can agree...
Birding Without Borders
An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species—by...