A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
A Memoir
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 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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Where Men Win Glory
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $28.00
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 Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1998
Price: $24.95
Read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Large Print.* All Random House Large Print Editions are published in 16-point type
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of...
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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $25.95
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 American Civil War
A Military History
Written by John Keegan
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and...
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Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley with Ron Powers
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $16.95
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to...
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American Creation
Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $26.95
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic...
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You Were Born for This
7 Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles
Written by Bruce Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $23.00
His New York Times phenomenon The Prayer of Jabez changed how millions pray. Now Bruce Wilkinson wants to change what they do next.
Anyone can do a good deed, but some good works can only happen by an act of God. Around the world these acts are called miracles–not that even religious...
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Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Trade Paperback, 992 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting...
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The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $25.00
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always...
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