Books from Random House Incorporated

  • Cloud Atlas: a Novel
    By David Mitchell

    Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.

  • Success with Words: A Guide to the American Language
    By Peter Davies

    Provides practical information on English usage, diction, grammar, American dialects, and the differences between British, American, and Canadian English

  • Looking for Class: Seeking Wisdom and Romance at Oxford and Cambridge
    By Bruce S. Feiler

    Seeking Wisdom and Romance at Oxford and Cambridge Bruce S. Feiler. Why else would he get all teary - eyed over a conversation about potatoes ? I knew you had it in you , Bruce . That's it , you must be in love .

  • A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare
    By Robert Harris, Jeremy Paxman

    Interviews with experts and an examination of previously classified documents underlie a study of the history, technological development, and expanding strategic role of chemical and biological warfare, in an updated study that incorporates ...

  • The New Contrarian Investment Strategy
    By David N. Dreman

    ... end of 1980 is enlightening : the P / E's of the Top 50 dropped 50 percent — from ratios averaging more than 3 times the S & P to 1.5 times before moving up again . ... Relative price / earnings ratios of the Kidder Peabody Top 50 .

  • Cinnamon Skin
    By John D. MacDonald

    And he had taken Walker Garvey's youngest daughter with him.” “Garvey?” I asked. I felt a presence behind my left shoulder and glanced back and saw Meyer there, listening with a rapt expression. I was glad to see him, because it was ...

  • A Gothic Treasure Trove
    By Reader's Digest

    A Gothic Treasure Trove

  • Vegetables and Desserts
    By Reader's Digest Association

    More than two hundred clear and easy-to-follow recipes for nutritionally adapted versions of classic vegetable and dessert dishes are accompanied by detailed nutritional information

  • Family Health Guide and Medical Encyclopedia

    Family Health Guide and Medical Encyclopedia

  • Treasury of Great Books
    By Reader's Digest Editors

    Reader's Digest Editors ... Copyright © 1980 The Reader's Digest Association , Inc. Copyright © 1980 The Reader's Digest Association ( Canada ) Ltd. Copyright © 1980 Reader's Digest Association Far East Ltd. Philippine Copyright 1980 ...

  • Tales of the Uncanny
    By Reader's Digest Editors

    READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS Editor : Joseph W. Hotchkiss Executive Editor : John S. Zinsser , Jr. Senior Managing Editor : Anthony Wethered Managing Editor : Barbara J. Morgan Assistant Managing Editors : Anne H. Atwater ...

  • The Age of Miracles: A Novel
    By Karen Thompson Walker

    Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

  • Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women
    By Mariah Burton Nelson

    ... 67-70 , 210 Conkwright , Lynn , 104 Council of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators ( CCWAA ) , 170 , 224n Cox , Lynne , 55 Craftsbury Sculling Camp , 29 Crestar Classic , 141 Croteau , Julie , 13-24 , 61 collegiate career of ...

  • Random House Webster's College Dictionary
    By McGraw-Hill, RH Disney Staff

    Over 180,000 entries present definitions with the most common meanings first, including hundreds of contemporary vocabulary from a wide range of subject areas.

  • The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs
    By Joe Bob Briggs

    I'm afraid somebody might have sued me while you were selling that set of patio furniture . ” But Melvin reassured me that I was protected . “ Not only can we sign you up to the Montgomery Ward Legal Services Plan today and cover any ...

  • Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer
    By Edward Jay Epstein, Armand Hammer

    “ Oil Millionaire W. Phillips Dies at 54 , ” Honolulu Advertiser , December 5 , 1975 . 16. Merilyn Phillips Hodgson interview ; Gordon Hodgson interview . 17. Phillips lawsuit . 18. Shelhi interview . 19. Ibid . 20.

  • Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the...
    By Roger Crowley

    A thrilling account of the brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe.

  • A Sudden Country
    By Karen Fisher

    His life turned upside down by the deaths of his children from smallpox and desertion of his Nez Percé wife, Hudson's Bay Company trader James MacLaren joins a group of settlers headed west to Oregon in 1847 and encounters Lucy Mitchell, ...

  • Video Games: A Guide for Savvy Parents
    By David Sheff

    The best of the best football games are the “ John Madden " series . The “ Madden " CD game has particularly great graphics , including filmed footage of Madden and referees , but the SNES and Genesis versions are almost as good .