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by Patricia Maclachlan
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In Snowflakes Fall, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life’s natural cycle: its beauty, its joy, and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise of renewal that can be found in our lives—snowflakes fall, and return again as...
by Patricia Maclachlan
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In Snowflakes Fall, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life’s natural cycle: its beauty, its joy, and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise of renewal that can be found in our lives—snowflakes fall, and return again as...
Dear Donald, Dear Bennett
The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined...
South Africa By Road
A Regional Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Seasoned travellers know that the journey is half the experience. It is in this spirit that South Africa by Road gives insight into the many national treasures that line our highways and byways – from vibrant cities to charming country towns and one-horse dorps steeped in history. South Africa by...
by Nancy Horan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This new deluxe eBook edition features more than sixty-five additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your eReader via the convenient links. Access them as you...
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering...
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin...
The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin...
by Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming,...
And Sons
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish
“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
Who is A. N. Dyer?...
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life**
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry...
by Fannie Flagg
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.
The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at...
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers
On New Jobs, Old Loves, Fighting the Man, Having a Kid, Saving the World, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet.
Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together on their own...
by Rachel Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
“[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People (four...