Henry Holt And Co : 2157 books
Bonnie and Clyde
The Lives Behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood—now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the...
The Fall of Heaven
The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's...
The Empire and the Five Kings
America's Abdication and the Fate of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
One of the West’s leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America’s withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind
The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations...
Electric October
Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever
The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and underdog...
My Family and Other Hazards
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A funny, heartwarming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home, in this case a quirky, one-of-a-kind, family-run miniature golf course in the woods of Wisconsin
When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin...
Marlena
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, NYLON, Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble
Chosen for the Book of the...
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by Time Out, Bustle, The Atlantic, Electric Literature, Kobo, Kirkus and more...
"Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isn't afraid to ask the deepest...
Unmeasured Strength
A Story of Survival and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In this update to the 2011 New York Times Bestselling book, the reader will find:
• Timely new information about Manning's struggles within the healthcare system
• Additional details about the author's childhood
• And an emotional new essay from the author about her father, who died shortly...
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors'...
The Brooklyn Follies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity....
The Infernal Library
On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."
—The Washington Post
A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more,...
How to Build an Android
The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick
In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas....
by Susan Kuklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
In December of 1994, twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih was honored as a hero. Just two years earlier, he had been a slave, condemned to a lifetime of bonded labor in a Pakistani carpet factory. And five months later, he was dead, murdered in his homeland. Though he is gone, his actions inspired an international...
The Barefoot Lawyer
A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An electrifying memoir by the blind Chinese activist who inspired millions with the story of his fight for justice and his belief in the cause of freedom
It was like a scene out of a thriller: one morning in April 2012, China's most famous political activist—a blind, self-taught lawyer—climbed...