Henry Holt And Co : 2157 books
Washington's General
Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown
Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his honor dot city...
Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...
A House in Corfu
A Family's Sojourn in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea.
In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there.
This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend...
A Taste for Intrigue
The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The man who changed the course of modern France
In 1981, François Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led the country for 14 years, longer than any other French head of state in modern times. Mitterrand mirrored...
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team
It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in...
A Whole New Ball Game
The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
"Play ball!" yelled the umpires as the teams of the AAGPBL took the field in the tense, war-torn days of 1943. Like all professional baseball players, these athletes scrambled to their positions, tossed balls across diamonds, and filled the air with chatter. But there was something different...
What Makes Olga Run?
The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the process
In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....
My Mother's Kitchen
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
My Mother's Kitchen is a funny, moving memoir about a son’s discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love
Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring...
The Thirtymile Fire
A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath, from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them
The Thirtymile fire in the remote North Cascade range near the Canadian border in Washington began as a simple...
The Kingdom of Infinite Number
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Just as bird guides help watchers tell birds apart by their color, songs, and behavior, The Kingdom of Infinite Number is the perfect handbook for identifying numbers in their native habitat. Taking a field guide-like approach, it offers a fresh way of looking at individual numbers and the properties...
by Richard North Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce...
The Professor's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
A daughter's future and her father's past converge in Emily Raboteau's explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race
"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother, Bernie, winds up in...
High as the Horses' Bridles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A Washington Post Top 50 of 2014 Fiction pick
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, selected by Phil Klay
Electric Literature 2014: Year of the Debut
A Largehearted Boy Favorite Novel of 2014
Slaughterhouse 90210's Most Rapturous Book of 2014
Vol. 1 Brooklyn A Year of Favorites: Jason Diamond picks
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.
At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus...