Houghton Mifflin - Böcker

With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, a debut author creates a mesmerizing medieval world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that is sure to captivate readers.

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Since its first publication, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and...

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A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baum...

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The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of client-centered therapy. His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology...

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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist mov...

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This arresting novel by one of Germany's foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt. The story, which centers around Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatche...

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Michael Port has built a giant loyal following in the sales and marketing world over the last decade as a keynote speaker and business coach. In his sessions with salespeople, marketers, managers, and business owners, he found that many clients we...

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Winner of the 2022 Tales of the Cocktail Best Cocktail or Bartending Book Finalist for the 2022 IACP Cookbook Award: Wine, Beer, or Spirits Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Beverage with Recipes Award The first cocktail book from the a...

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In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant, made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the heart of the country as personal dramas simmer and World War II looms. Annotated and with an introduction by Melba Cud...

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Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans.

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In Rational Mysticism, acclaimed journalist John Horgan embarks on an adventure of discovery, investigating the ways in which scientists, theologians, and philosophers are attempting to formulate an empirical explanation of spiritual enlightenment...

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In this preschool tale from the world of Gossie & Friends, water-loving goslings Ruby and Rufus play on the pond come rain, sleet, snow, or shine! Ruby and Rufus play at the pond every day. They swim in the rain. They swim when it's windy. Not...

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Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of "Snobbery" and "Friendship" presents this engaging collection of essays that captures his witty, entertaining respo...

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"Snobbery" is Epstein's "deliciously readable" ("Harper's Bazaar") collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, "Snobbery" takes up its subject in contemporary America, exa...

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Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent v...

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When Callahan's small sloop sank west of the Canary Islands, he found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-foot raft, with only enough food and water for 18 days. For 76 days he drifted 1800 miles, the only man in history to survive more than ...

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A visual burlesque of the improbable, with antecedents in animated cartoons, silent films and superhero comic books of the 1960s. It tells what happens when frogs float through the air and explore houses while the inhabitants sleep. David Wiesner ...

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A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could ha...

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Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Crime/Mystery Novel of 2016 "Historical fiction just doesn't get any better than this." - Jeffery Deaver "A rip-roaring ride . . . Wonderfully atmospheric and ent...

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With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "ow...

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With a poet's ear and a poet's expression, Oliver shows what makes a metrical poem work.

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Argues that competition is inherently destructive and that competitive behavior is culturally induced, counter-productive, and causes anxiety, selfishness, self-doubt, and poor communication.

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The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place wher...

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Pringle's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt's career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Index.

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These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bi...

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Disquieting yet magnetic, Incest continues the story begun in the best-selling Henry and June to reveal a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself for the "ultimate transgression"--and to find salvation in the very act of writing. ...

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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984.War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitaria...

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Charles Yu experiments with form and genre to explore the stories we tell ourselves while navigating contemporary life. In "Third Class Superhero," a would- be good guy must come to terms with the darkness in his heart. A couple living i...

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An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.

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In 1943 Copenhagen, the Germans begin their campaign to "relocate" the Jews of Denmark. So Annemarie Johansen's parents take in her best friend Ellen Rosen and pretend that she is a part of their family. This edition includes a new Intro...

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