Books from Random House Incorporated

  • The Light Of Conscience: How A Simple Act Can Change Your Life
    By Bill Shore

    During our ride, they discussed MTV's rumor that 'N Sync star Justin Timberlake had assaulted a female fan. Mollie has been to two 'N Sync concerts, ...

  • American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
    By Karen Abbott

    Frankel, 54. continued an allowance: Rose Thompson Hovick to Gypsy Rose Lee, May 26, 1938, Series I, Box 1, Folder 9, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRTD. “Louise," Rose wrote: Rose Thompson Hovick to Gypsy Rose Lee, May 10, 1938, Series I, ...

  • How to Succeed in Business Without a Penis: Secrets and Strategies for the Working Woman
    By Karen Salmansohn

    Integrating humor with practical business advice, a thorough handbook for women explains how to compete in the corporate environment, discussing such topics as finding hidden career goals, taking advantage of inherently female qualities, ...

  • Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
    By William Bratton, Nicholas F Gallicchio Profesor of Law and Co-Director Institute for Law & Economics William Bratton, William W. Bratton

    ... Profesor of Law and Co-Director Institute for Law & Economics William Bratton, William W. Bratton, Peter Knobler ... Captain Frank O'Hara of District 4 made a video that ran eight minutes and was one of the best I'd ever seen.

  • Sin In The Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
    By Karen Abbott

    A history of America's most famous brothel, Chicago's Everleigh Club, which catered to some of America's leading moguls, actors, and writers from 1900 to 1911, profiles its aristocratic proprietors and their efforts to elevate the industry ...

  • Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
    By Nicholas Blanford

    ... that his efforts to politically and socially mobilize the Shia community were becoming complicated by the emergence of Palestinian militants in south Lebanon and with it the initial sparks of a cross-border conflict with Israel.

  • The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
    By Bill Shore

    I received such gifts from Brian Frawley, Augustinian College, Jean-Jacques and Maries Raoul, and Diane and Jerry Stubbs. I received those gifts and more from Zach and Mollie Shore, and also Bonnie Shore, who was as unselfish in support ...

  • Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
    By Jonathan Bate

    Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.

  • The Discoverers
    By Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Clare Boothe Luce

    Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.

  • Henry Clay: The Essential American
    By Jeanne T. Heidler, David S. Heidler

    Smith, Nanette Price, 282,322, 402,412,417 Smith, Perry, 337 Smith, Samuel, 240–41,253 South Carolina elections in 208,288, 307, 378 nullification in, 227–28, 238,240,242, 251-56, 257 secessionists im, 482 and tariffs, 227–28, ...

  • The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
    By Rodney Stark

    A critical analysis of the important role of Christianity in the history of the West argues that the Christian faith's emphasis on reason, progress, moral equality, and freedom led to technological innovation, the rise of science, open ...

  • Solving the Puzzle of Your Hard to Raise Child
    By William G. Crook, Laura J. Stevens

    William G. Crook, Laura J. Stevens. medical community and the public to the importance ... J. Rea , M.D. , Bernard Rimland , Ph.D. , Marshall S. Ringsdorf , D.M.D. , Sherry Rogers , M.D. , Mrs. Raymond Rubicam , Phyllis Saifer , M.D. xxii.

  • Selected Letters of William Styron
    By William Styron

    Handpicked by his estate, a collection of the literary master's correspondence spans sixty years and documents major historical and cultural events as well as his receipt of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and other accolades.

  • Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
    By William Styron

    An anthology of essays by the award-winning late author furnishes a intimate glimpse inside the private world of the novelist in a collection that includes the author's experiences with fellow writers, his relationship with world leaders, ...

  • My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
    By William Styron

    These are the people and events, tragic and joyful, historical and intimate, that aroused Styron's unrivalled curiosity"--

  • The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps
    By William Styron

    A collection of vignettes by the late Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner is culled from abandoned manuscripts based on his experiences as a Marine and features characters who struggle ...

  • A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth
    By William Styron

    Three stories detail a former slave's return to his birthplace, the impact of war on personal relationships, and a mother's death, all viewed through the eyes of a youth in Tidewater Virginia

  • Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
    By Laura Claridge

    The first biography of the iconic woman whose name stands for good manners tells the story of a Baltimore blueblood with a populist heart, who helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book "Etiquette." 16-page b&w ...

  • Quickening
    By Laura Catherine Brown

    For his enormous generosity of spirit , I would like to thank Joseph Hindy . Finally , I would like to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to BJ Robbins and Susanna Porter , without whom this book would not exist .

  • Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy
    By Ann Blackman

    In his letter outlining the assignment, Secretary of State John Forsyth gave Greenhow a $700 advance for what was ... never missing an opportunity to attend dinner parties at Forsyth's home, where she could engage the secretary in ...