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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Book Sense list dating from October 29, 2009
USA Today list dating from October 29, 2009
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 4, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 8, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 15, 2009
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Written by Bill Simmons
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book. Nowhere in the roundball...
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How to Raise the Perfect Dog
Through Puppyhood and Beyond
Written by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.99
From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer, the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog.
For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent...
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Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul
How to Create a New You
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits "the forgotten miracle"–the body's infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to...
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Where Men Win Glory
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $27.95
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In...
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The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but...
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The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and...
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I
Written by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes. “Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both...
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance...
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Moonwalk
Written by Michael Jackson
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller! Michael Jackson’s one and only autobiography – his life, in his words.
With original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new Introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an Afterword by Michael Jackson’s editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart.
“I’ve always wanted to be able to...
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $26.00
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my...
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Weekends at Bellevue
Written by Julie Holland
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of “serving the underserved” that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of...
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America. Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a...
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Strength in What Remains
Written by Tracy Kidder
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of...
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Mercy Thompson Homecoming
Written by Patricia Briggs
Illustrated by Francis Tsai and Amelia Woo
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $22.95
Mercy Thompson is a walker, a magical being with the power to transform into a coyote. She lives on the fine line dividing the everyday world from a darker dimension, observing the supernatural community while standing apart. When Mercy travels to the Tri-Cities of Washington for a job interview, she quickly finds...
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