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books by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Lord of the Rings: One Volume: Collector's Ed

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought ...

The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.

Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Buzz Bissinger

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

A remarkable memoir from the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August . Buzz Bissinger?s twins were born three minutes?and a world?apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent his life attending special schools. He?ll never drive a car, or ...

Imagine: How Creativity Works
Jonah Lehrer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of ...

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

From the best-selling author of Fun Home , Time magazine?s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel?s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious ...

The Hand That First Held Mine

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know ...

1984

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Jonathan Safran Foer follows his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated , with an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting story about New York City in the period following September 11 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close recasts recent history through the eyes of Oskar Schell, an unusually intelligent nine-year-old on an urgent ...

Graceling

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Kristin Cashore?s bestselling, award-winning fantasy Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, a smart, beautiful teenager who lives in a world where selected people are given a Grace, a special talent that can be anything from dancing to swimming. Katsa?s is killing. As the king?s niece, she is forced to use her extreme ...

The Hobbit

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. ...

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force?and darling?in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. He won that race seven years in a row, setting a course ...

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Now including a wonderful new photo insert chronicling Merle?s life, this national bestseller explores the relationship between humans and dogs. How would dogs live if they were free? Would they stay with their human friends? Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert? Merle was living wild and Ted was looking for a pup to keep him ...

Animal Farm and 1984

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

George Orwell's two subversive masterpieces?now together in one edition?are "weapons of self-respect as well as of self-defense," writes Christopher Hitchens in his introduction. Animal Farm A biting satire of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm imagines a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. ...

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Through aWindow is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of an intimately intertwined community—one that reads like a novel, but is one of the most important scientific works ever published.The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their ...

The God Delusion

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) ...