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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 18, 2009
Book Sense list dating from November 19, 2009
USA Today list dating from November 19, 2009
New York Times list dating from November 29, 2009
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An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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