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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction paperbacks across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
USA Today list dating from February 2, 2012
Barnes & Noble list dating from February 8, 2012
Book Sense list dating from February 9, 2012
New York Times list dating from February 12, 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are...
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The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $16.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success...
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The Zombie Survival Guide
Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Written by Max Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $13.95
The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to...
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Radical
Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Written by David Platt
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $14.99
WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?
It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their...
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MWF Seeking BFF
My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend
Written by Rachel Bertsche
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $15.00
When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search...
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The Complete Persepolis
Now a Major Motion Picture
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her...
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