Random House Publishing Group: 10573 books
by Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart—mercy—which has long been the cornerstone of his faith...
The Greatest Generation Speaks
Letters and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartwarming gift for the holidays—a powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and...
S.
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego...
While They Slept
An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free...
The Devil's Playground
A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth...
Prepare for Saints
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An essential exposé of our times—a work that reveals the deep rot in our financial system . . . Everyone should read this book.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times and The Economist • Finalist...
by David Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
The Last Days of Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson
“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post
From Graham Moore, the...
Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited...
Prince Charles
The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen—perfect for fans of The Crown.
Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new...
Ally
My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes a new afterword about the Iran nuclear agreement, the 2016 presidential race, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance
Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a period of transformative change for America...