Books from Random House
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Stand Up And Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks
By Alan EnglishAustralians: Ryan, Webb, Smith, Moore, Cardy, Brass, Catchpole, Thornett, Taylor, Prosscr, Heming, Purcell, O'Callaghan, Taylor, Tulloch. 14.1.70, Thomond Park, Limerick: Munster 9 South Africans 25 Munster: A. Horgan (Cork ...
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The Edge of Science: Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time
By Alan BakerJoseph Moore wentin the boat, alongwith twomembers ofthe tender'screw, Archie Lamont and WilliamMcCormack. Moore was thefirsttogo ashore,while his fellows mindedtheboat. The young reliefkeeper hurried up the stone steps that had been ...
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Dragon's Kin: Fantasy
By Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffreyYoung Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon on Pern.
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Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
By Jon T. Hoffman3 Aug I944, BDP: Streit interview with author; Capt John Todd interview with author, 7 Feb 1996; Aubuchon interview with author. ... 20 and 2] Jun I944: Puller to Virginia excerpts, I and 3 Aug I944; Mrs. Puller to Cdr Smith.
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Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution
By Selina ToddThe play provoked a barrage of press and political criticism, but was embraced by those whose lives had now been placed centre stage. This is the story of how a working-class teenager stormed theatreland, and what happened next.
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The Flickering Mind: Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
By Todd OppenheimerBut Sue Nelson, a longtime language arts teacher at Crittenden, remembers those days quite clearly. “We never got any support." Nelson said. "Anyone who is any good with computers is out working in industry making big bucks.
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The Borgia Ring
By Michael WhiteA must-read! READERS ARE LOVING THE BORGIA RING! 'I was hooked from the first page' -- ***** Reader review 'Couldn't put it down.
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Back From The Brink: Ireland's Road to Recovery
By Marc ColemanAlthough he never reached Volcker's highs of 17 per cent. he was nonetheless to be blamed by many Republicans for the defeat of George Bush by Bill Clinton. To many of them. Greenspan. a Reagan appointee. had let the side down badly.
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A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain
By Tamasin Cave, Andy RowellLobbyist Tim Bell is said to be a master at killing stories. Now in his seventies, Bell has been weaving his magic with the British media for the best part of four decades. As chair of Bell Pottinger, Bell is still hands on for his big ...
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Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese
By Andy CooganAndy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants.
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A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain
By Tamasin Cave, Andy Rowell, Christopher RowellAnd much more. A Quiet Word shows just how effectively the voice of public interest is being drowned out by the word in the ear from the professional persuaders of the lobbying industry.
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The Wright Stuff
By Rick GlanvillBradley was approaching five years old and ready to start at the junior school. For the Wright family, history was repeating itself. Just as Buster had quit Nesta, Ian left Sharon. It hurt Ian like hell to leave the children, ...
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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
By Sarah DunantNot least to Pope Clement VII, who was one of his biggest patrons. As a Medici, Clement came from a noble lineage of the erotic: his uncle, Lorenzo the Magnificent, had written an infamous sonnet extolling the virtues of sodomy within ...
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Innocent: A murdered son. A grieving mother. The fight to clear her name.
By Sarah RoseThat day at the zoo, Thierry was in his clement. Nabeel got him up on his shoulders and he was pointing at all the animals. Afterwards, Nabeel took us to McDonald's for a Happy Meal. It was a perfect day. I thought it was really sweet ...
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The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
By Sarah DunantThese are not clement times for a pregnant woman to be on the streets.” He looked up at me as if he was seeing me properly for the first time. “With child? Is it a godly creation?” And as he spoke his hood fell back and now I caught ...
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Fifty Years Fighting: Another Step In Time
By Jan de VriesCooper's ligaments provide additional support to the breast and divide the breast into 15 to 25 lobes, similar to spokes on a wheel. Each lobe consists of mammary glands or alveoli, grape-like structures that are lined with secretory ...
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Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History
By Russell MillerDavid Hurn remembers Koudelka's arrival particularly well: 'Elliott phoned and said “Look I've got this young Czech photographer and he has a few rolls of film and he wondered if he could use your darkroom.” So I said “Yes, ...
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The Burning Of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
By Angela BourkeThe torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later. Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction
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Mindful Hypnobirthing: Hypnosis and Mindfulness Techniques for a Calm and Confident Birth
By Sophie FletcherI ended up standing up. My partner was fully involved, telling the midwives to let me get on with it and holding on to me to keep me standing. Four pushes later, at 1pm, our beautiful baby arrived, screaming, into the world.
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Shopaholic to the Rescue: (Shopaholic Book 8)
By Sophie KinsellaEverybody loves Sophie Kinsella: "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale.