Holt Paperbacks imprint: 250 books
The Northern Farm
A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures "the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebee farm...in truly beautiful prose" (Kirkus Reviews). Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring,...
The Mountain Bike Experience
A Complete Introduction to the Joys of Off-Road Riding
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
In this fun, friendly primer, Dave King, acknowledged as a mountain biking "guru" by Sports Illustrated, opens the sport to everyone--young or old, athletic or not. Along the way, you'll discover how to keep fit, enjoy the great outdoors, and even change your outlook on life's everyday challenges.
With...
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919
Biography of a Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.
The Famine Ships
The Irish Exodus to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among...
Slanted and Enchanted
The Evolution of Indie Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon
You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Patrick McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, beginning with the need to be tall, and much more, in this outrageous collection of short pieces that reveals his tortuous trip along the writer's path.
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1993
With “a style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor” (People), Patrick F. McManus delivers another stellar collection of witty cautionary tales of the great outdoors in The Good Samaritan Strikes Again.
Gathering together twenty-four of his hilarious essays—originally...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1990
America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living.
Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other...
A Hunter's Road
A Journey with Gun and Dog Across the American Uplands
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.
The Long Gray Line
The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The first trade paperback edition of the New York Times best-seller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Atkinson.
This is the story of the twenty-five-year adventure of the generation of officers who fought in Vietnam. With novelistic detail, Atkinson...
The Pink Triangle
The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands...
The Fool's Progress
An Honest Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two.
When his third wife abandons...
American Mafia
A History of Its Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
"Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book Review
Organized crime—the Italian American kind—has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides...
The Winter Soldiers
The Battles for Trenton and Princeton
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow to the Revolutionary War efforts. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called "the times that try men's souls."
The Winter Soldiers is...