Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
An account of how America’s greatest crisis began, by “the Civil War’s master historical detective” (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).
This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?
The...
One Man Great Enough
Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
From the author of The Class of 1846: “A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln’s pre-presidential life.” —The Washington Post Book World
How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the...
Name-Dropping
From FDR On
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
“[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable” (Newsday).
A New York Times Notable Book
“Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith,” says...
by Richard Selzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune).
“Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” raved The New York Times of this extraordinary collection....
Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal).
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind...
Strange Angel
The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist).
The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform...
Einstein's Greatest Mistake
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well” (Popular Science).
In this “fascinating” biography, the acclaimed author of E=mc2 reveals that in spite of his indisputable brilliance, Albert...
Sister Aimee
The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review).
Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
An “intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving,” argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author (Booklist).
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling...
Judgment Days
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s up-close account of how a white president and a black minister ultimately came together to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
They were the unlikeliest of partners: a white Texan politician and an African American minister who led a revolution. But together, President...
Queen of Scots
The True Life of Mary Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film ***Mary Queen of Scots ***starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie “reads like Shakespearean drama” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
“A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy.” —Amanda Foreman, author...
Reversing the Curse
Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
“A true insider’s perspective on the 2004 Red Sox” and their World Series win, from the bestselling author of Curse of the Bambino (USA Today).
On October 27, 2004, the Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in eighty-six years—breaking the infamous Curse of the Bambino and...
I Live for This!
Baseball's Last True Believer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
An award-winning sportswriter teams up with LA Dodgers manager and Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda to reveal the secrets of his unlikely success.
Tommy Lasorda is baseball's true immortal and one of its larger than life figures. A former pitcher who was overshadowed by Sandy Koufax, Lasorda went...
Growing Up Gronk
A Family’s Story of Raising Champions
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Huge boys, huge dreams, huge success—how one family from Buffalo put five boys on the track to realizing their athletic potential and making it “big.”
“The beauty of Growing Up Gronk is that you never really have to grow up at all. A fascinating look inside a larger-than-life football...