Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
The Kingdom by the Sea
A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review).
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of...
North Country
A Personal Journey Through the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Bruce Medway is the target of a deadly conspiracy in “this darkly tangled thriller” by the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon (Kirkus Reviews).
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don’t want to do. And in the seedier corners of...
by Carlene Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
A “dazzling and gorgeously written” novel of art, faith, and life-changing friendship inspired by the correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell (Ann Packer).
In the summer of 1957, two writers are immersed in their craft at an artist’s colony nestled in upstate New York...
Totalitarianism
Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1968
The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.
In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state...
The Sparkling-Eyed Boy
A Memoir of Love, Grown Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make—“built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have” (USA Today).
Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction—a Bakeless Prize winner—re-creates...
Crises of the Republic
Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 1972
Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. “Lying in Politics”...
Gossip
The Untrivial Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
A look at the delights—and dangers—of gossip, from a New York Times–bestselling, “erudite writer, gifted with rare insight and a wry sense of humor” (USA Today).
Gossip is no trivial matter. In this enlightening and entertaining study, the author of Snobbery takes a look at a human...
by James Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book: The People vs. God in “a funny, ferocious fantasy” from the two-time Nebula Award–winning author (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Hallelujah! God is not dead. He’s just been a deep-freeze coma in the Arctic. Strapped for cash, the Vatican has sold the body (a...
Linotte
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This “amazingly precocious” diary of girlhood in the early twentieth century is filled with a “special charm” (The Christian Science Monitor).
Born in Paris, Anaïs Nin started her celebrated diary at age eleven, when she was immigrating to New York with her mother and two young brothers....
The Evening Chorus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A “delicate and incandescent” novel of love, loss, escape, and the ways the natural world can save us amid the chaos of war (San Francisco Chronicle).
World War II. Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide his time, he studies a nest of redstarts...
A Fair Maiden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
A teenager’s involvement with an older man is not what it appears in a tale of seduction by the New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Mulvaneys.
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when...
by Richard P Wasowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Get the most from Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook with CliffsNotes—the original study guides
Whether you've read the novel countless times or are a newcomer to Nicholas Sparks' work, this book is the perfect study guide companion to The Notebook. You'll fall in love with the story of Noah and...
Storm Over the Land
A Profile of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps.
Drawn from Carl Sandburg’s magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States,...