Holt Paperbacks imprint: 250 books
Homicide
A Year on the Killing Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's...
Beyond the Wall
Essays from the Outside
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1984
In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.
Coping with Lyme Disease, Third Edition
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Now completely revised and updated-the bible for the thousands who contract Lyme disease each year
Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of a tick, is one of our nation's fastest-growing epidemics. Since Coping with Lyme Disease was first published in 1993, the number of sufferers afflicted...
Living with a Brain Tumor
Dr. Peter Black's Guide to Taking Control of Your Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Each year, 100,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with a brain tumor. With his new book, Dr. Peter Black fills a gap in the lay readership, providing an accessible medical resource for adult patients and their families. Dr. Black, who has operated on more than 3,000 patients with brain...
The Good Sleeper
The Essential Guide to Sleep for Your Baby--and You
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
A refreshingly straightforward method for training infants to become great sleepers for life, inspired by clinical psychologist Janet Kennedy's popular psychotherapy practice, NYC Sleep Doctor
Cry it out or co-sleep? Bassinet or swing? White noise machine or Bach? How many hours anyway? For...
We Believe You
Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
"Me too. It happened to me too."
More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private,...
Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman...
White Hunters
The Golden Age of African Safaris
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." Brian Herne's White Hunters is the story of seventy years...
by David J. Wolpe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
"All beginnings require that you unlock new doors."--Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
In this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those considering a return to the faith of their forebears, for those drawn...
How We Believe
Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics
Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular...
Steppenwolf
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his...
The Autobiographer's Handbook
The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
At last—the contemporary masters of memoir have come together to reveal their strategies and impart their advice. This book contains an unprecedented wealth of knowledge in one place.
In The Autobiographer's Handbook, you're invited to a roundtable discussion with today's most successful...
Rogers Hornsby
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A relentless competitor, Rogers Hornsby--arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history--was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it. In this biography, Charles Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport.
Wild Ride
The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel.
Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monroe Wright, Calumet Farm was to the world of thoroughbred racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball -- a sports dynasty. The stable bred...