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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
USA Today list dating from May 3, 2012
Barnes & Noble list dating from May 16, 2012
Book Sense list dating from May 17, 2012
New York Times list dating from May 27, 2012
The Passage of Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $35.00
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both...
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Bombshell
Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging
Written by Suzanne Somers
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $26.00
Are you ready to rethink and redefine your approach to aging? This powerhouse book tells you how to go from dreading it to making it the greatest passage of your life! Dubbed a health pioneer by the Wall Street Journal and called “crazy smart” by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Suzanne Somers has...
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Written by Anna Quindlen
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $26.00
In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more. As she did in her beloved New...
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $27.00
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who...
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The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Written by Charles Duhigg
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $28.00
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people...
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and...
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The Big Miss
My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
Written by Hank Haney
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.00
The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain. He was with Tiger 110 days...
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Weeknights with Giada
Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner
Written by Giada De Laurentiis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $35.00
Giada De Laurentiis is one of America’s most-loved culinary stars, adored for her Food Network hit shows and her New York Times bestselling cookbooks alike, both of which feature her fresh, flavorful Italian recipes. For the first time, Giada tackles weeknight cooking, sharing her favorite tips and go-to dishes—all in her...
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Quiet
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Written by Susan Cain
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $26.00
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we...
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Written by Cheryl Strayed
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $25.95
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America...
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Both of Us
My Life with Farrah
Written by Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco and Kent Carroll
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has...
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A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
Written by George R.R. Martin Adapted by Daniel Abraham
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
You’ve read the books. You’ve watched the hit series on HBO. Now acclaimed novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson bring George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones to majestic new life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. Comprised of the initial six issues of...
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