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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction paperbacks across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
Barnes & Noble list dating from November 19, 2008
Book Sense list dating from November 27, 2008
USA Today list dating from November 27, 2008
Barnes & Noble College list dating from December 5, 2008
New York Times list dating from December 7, 2008
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than...
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The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $14.95
“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our...
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The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $7.99
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here...
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Change We Can Believe In
Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise
Foreword by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $13.95
At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”...
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The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at...
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