Henry Holt And Co : 2157 books
Vincent and Theo
The Van Gogh Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Printz Honor Book • YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner • SCBWI Golden Kite Winner • Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award Winner
From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.
The deep...
Double Trouble
Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2001
From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image
In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall Show, put on dark glasses, and blew...
Her
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Wall Street Journal, "Favorite Books of the Year 2013"
Cosmopolitan, "Best Books of the Year for Women"
Library Journal, "Best Books of 2013"
Salon, "Best Books of 2013"
"Haunting... more than a beautifully written memoir. [A] powerful and raw love...
My Soul Is a Witness
A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights.
From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional,...
Home Lands
Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the more communities he saw close-up, the clearer it became to him that...
The Fabulous Sylvester
The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester
Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San...
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
America and China, 1776 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day
From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's...
Fever
The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
The first major biography of the legendary singer—an enthralling account of a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous
era of American music
"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s...
The Magician and the Cardsharp
The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression
It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly...
After the Darkest Hour
How Suffering Begins the Journey to Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that explains the transformative power of suffering
Most people understand that suffering and sorrow are inevitable parts of every life and that illness, death, or loss of a loved one are universal experiences, not retribution...
Goodbye, Vitamin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Booklist, and The Independent
Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction
"A...
by Carole Radziwill
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
"Radziwill's delicious debut novel… is a poignant tale of love and loss."—Publishers Weekly
"One of the richest, most deeply satisfying stories I've read in a long time."—BookPage
"Carole Radziwill writes like a cross between Sophie Kinsella and Christopher...
Kate
The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image
Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine...