Books published by Houghton Mifflin

The completely revised and updated edition of ?the definitive guide to modern infant adoption? (Los Angeles Times).

Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for ?real life? (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city in this ?touching and wickedly funny novel? (Publishers Weekly) by one of Granta's Best Young american Novelists.

Drawing on the real-life stories of twenty exemplary caregivers, Dr. Charles Garfield explains the widely used Shanti caregivers model he originated-and shows how to set limits, avoid burnout, accept gratitude, and grapple with issues of life and death when caring for people with HIV/AIDS.

As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother's death and her husband's detachment from the emotional life of his family.

Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterword by Richard Wilbur.

Nebula Awards 29 continues the series tradition of featuring fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies. Includes "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" by Harlan Ellison, "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, "Alfred" by Lisa Goldstein, plus works by the winners in all four Nebula categories.

This anthology showcases only the "best of the ballot" for the Nebula Awards, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressly for this volume. "An indispensable representation of the genre's best recent writing and a reliable indication of its leading edge".--"Booklist".

At first he was The Kid, then The Splendid Splinter and Thumping Theodore - to say nothing of Teddy Ballgame. But the tag that really fits is Hitter. ?A riveting retrospective? (Baseball americanca). Index; career statistics; photographs.

For the eleventh consecutive year, Harvest offers the best of sci-fi and fantasy writing--featuring works by Greg Bear, Mike Resnick, David Gerrold, Martha Soukup, Ben Bova, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many others--as well as a spirited essay on the latest in science fiction and fantasy films.

Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara's birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.

The Nebula Awards are "the Oscars of Science Fiction"--the only SF awards voted by SF writers themselves. In this 28th annual edition, editor James Morrow notes that the vast majority of this superlative fiction probes the essential question, "Is science good or bad?" Contributors include John Clute, Nick Lowe, Poul Anderson and Steven King.

Always the Young Strangers, the author's recollections of his childhood and youth in Galesburg, Illinois, is presented in a shortened version for younger readers.

Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become ?migrants for God? she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents' radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest for control within their own family. And so Harper finds she must make the hardest choice of all. ?Sure to be controversial, prepare for a stimulating conversation.?--The New Advocate

Once upon a time there was a very nice but very plain princess named Jennifer, who, following proper fairy-tale protocol, fell for a very handsome but very conceited prince named Alexander. When Alexander offends a powerful witch, it falls to Jennifer to save him. In the course of doing so, she meets a wizard and soon wonders if she's such a proper fairy-tale princess after all--a good little princess would love Alexander, but does she?

In the third book in the Lemonade War series, siblings Evan and Jessiemust solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.

From George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.George "Tubby" Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman, a job at which he grimly excels, dutifully paying the mortgage on an average English suburban row house, and supporting an ungrateful family. As the years roll by, he comes to feel like a hostage to his wife and children, regarding them as wardens and himself as a prisoner.One day, after winning some money from a bet at the races, George steals away from his family to visit the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF?the perfect ending to his failed escape."A work of rare vigor and imagination."?New York Herald-Tribune Book Review

In this stunning collaboration of two exceptional talents, the striking charcoal illustrations and nimble text reveal what happens at night when the gargoyles come to life.

Boy Bot meets School's First Day of School in this hilarious and reassuring take on first experiences and making new friends, from a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner.

For Phillipa Maakestad - theatre professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter - life is finally, miraculously, calm. What better moment, then, to fall headlong into a passionate affair, fly off to France with her new lover, and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?

Michael Dyson was granted an exclusive interview with the president for this book, and Barack Obama's own voice shines through. This intimate access provides a unique depth to this engrossing analysis of the nation's first black president, and how race shapes and will shape our understanding of his achievements and failures alike.

Those are the rules in Rowan's Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton's family has lived for centuries. It's an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it. The other kids at school may think the Glen kids are weird, but Ivy doesn't care.