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Destiny of the Republic A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 978-0-385-52626-5 Candice Millard HC: $27.95 US / $32.

extraordinary episode in American history now largely forgotten--in 1880 a truly remarkable man was elected President by acclamation, only to be shot by a madman.

1 Destiny of the Republic A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Candice Millard HC: $27.95 US / $32.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 DDay Gen Adult RANDOM HOUSE, INC. The Time of Our Lives Past, Present, Promise Tom Brokaw HC: $26.00 US / $30.00 Can From the bestselling author of THE RIVER OF DOUBT, a relentlessly compelling narrative in the vein of Erik Larson's DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, about an extraordinary episode in American history now largely forgotten--in 1880 a truly remarkable man was elected President by acclamation, only to be shot by a madman. But there the drama only begins. Death in the City of Light The Serial Killer of Occupied Paris David King HC: $26.00 US / $30.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Crown For readers of colorful, character-rich narrative nonfiction, the gripping account of the hunt for a serial killer in Paris during the Nazi occupation.

State vs. Defense The Battle to Define America's Empire 978-0-307-40841-9 Stephen Glain HC: $26.00 US / $30.

created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to

Power in Words The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House

00 Can A Pocket History of the Civil War Citizen Soldiers, Bloody Battles, and the Fight for America's Future

95 Can on sale 08-23-2011 Eisenhower The White House Years 978-0-385-52353-0 Jim Newton HC: $29.95 US / $34.

2 State vs. Defense The Battle to Define America's Empire Stephen Glain HC: $26.00 US / $30.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Crown A masterful account of how 60 years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country. Power in Words The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House TR: $18.00 US / $20.00 Can A Pocket History of the Civil War Citizen Soldiers, Bloody Battles, and the Fight for America's Future Martin Graham HC: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale Eisenhower The White House Years Jim Newton HC: $29.95 US / $34.00 Can on sale Warriors of God Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel Nicholas Blanford HC: $30.00 US / $34.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Random House For readers of Ahmed Rashid and Peter Bergen, a penetrating look, by a journalist with unprecedented access, at one of the most controversial organizations in the Middle East: Hezbollah.

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power Community Organizing in Radical Times 978-1-935554-66-0 Amy Sonnie and James

95 US / $17.95 Can on sale 10-04-2011 A Journey My Political Life 978-0-307-39063-9 Tony Blair TR: $19.00 US / $.

00 Can on sale 08-16-2011 192 pages: carton 12 National Geographic Showcasing unique images of artifacts and remains from the World Trade

3 Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power Community Organizing in Radical Times Amy Sonnie and James Tracy TR: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale Apollo's Angels A History of Ballet Jennifer Homans TR: $20.00 US / $23.00 Can on sale pages: carton 24 Reading Jackie Her Autobiography in Books William Kuhn TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale A Journey My Political Life Tony Blair TR: $19.00 US / $.00 Can on sale Memory Remains 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar Francesc Torres HC: $50.00 US / $57.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 National Geographic Showcasing unique images of artifacts and remains from the World Trade Center's Ground Zero site, photographed by renowned Spanish artist Francesc Torres, this official companion book to exhibitions in New York, Spain, and London offers a profound and thought-provoking way for all who wish to honor the 10th anniversary of September 11 and a distinctive book for art and photography book collectors.

Born and Bred in the Great Depression 978-0-375-86197-0 Jonah Winter; illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root HC: $17.99 US / $19.

99 Can on sale 07-10-1995 32 pages: carton 96 Random House BFYR Christmas in Williamsburg 300 Years of Family Traditions 978-1-4263-0867-3 Karen

Children's Books Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #25: Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last!

99 Can on sale 12-27-2011 The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 978-0-679-76388-8 Isabel Wilkerson TR: $16.

4 Born and Bred in the Great Depression Jonah Winter; illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root HC: $17.99 US / $19.99 Can on sale The Statue of Liberty Lucille Recht Penner TR: $3.99 US / $5.99 Can on sale pages: carton 96 Random House BFYR Christmas in Williamsburg 300 Years of Family Traditions Karen Kostyal HC: $17.95 US / $20.50 Can on sale pages: carton 26 National Geo. Children's Books Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #25: Abraham Lincoln A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last! Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce; illustrated by Sal Murdocca DG: $5.99 US / $6.99 Can on sale The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson TR: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale The Civil War of 1812 American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Alan Taylor TR: $18.00 US on sale Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last! Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca HC: $12.99 US on sale

1862: Fredericksburg A New Look at a Bitter Civil War Battle

00 Can on sale 09-13-2011 Never Forgotten 978-0-375-84384-6

99 Can on sale 10-11-2011 Witches The Absolutely True Tale of

Hiding During World War II 978-0-375-86695-1 Marisabina Russo;

5 1862: Fredericksburg A New Look at a Bitter Civil War Battle Karen Kostyal HC: $27.90 US / $32.00 Can on sale Never Forgotten Patricia C. McKissack HC: $18.99 US / $20.99 Can on sale Witches The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem Rosalyn Schanzer HC: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale Signing Their Rights Away HC: $19.95 US / $22.95 Can Storyteller Patricia Reilly Giff DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 Can on sale I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II Marisabina Russo; illustrated by Marisabina Russo HC: $17.99 US / $19.99 Can on sale A personal and moving story of a Jewish Italian family during World War II. Franklin and Winston A Christmas That Changed the World Douglas Wood HC: $16.99 US / $19.00 Can on sale

No Ordinary Joes The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in World War II 978-0-307-88845-7

8): Hitler's Youth 978-0-85768-299-4 Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun HC: $19.95 US / $22.

THIS CLASSIC COMIC STRIP COLLECTION! The Twilight Warriors 978-0-7679-3242-4 Robert Gandt TR: $15.

00 Can War at Sea: Surface Action An Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures Booster Expansion 978-0-7869-5854-2

99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 pages: carton 12 Wizards of the Coast A Train in Winter An Extraordinary Story

6 No Ordinary Joes The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in World War II Larry Colton TR: $16.00 US / $18.00 Can on sale Charley's War (Vol. 8): Hitler's Youth Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun HC: $19.95 US / $22.95 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Titan Books AN EXPLOSIVE NEW VOLUME IN THE LIBRARY OF THIS CLASSIC COMIC STRIP COLLECTION! The Twilight Warriors Robert Gandt TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 Can War at Sea: Surface Action An Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures Booster Expansion Wizards Miniatures Team NT: $15.99 US / $17.99 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Wizards of the Coast A Train in Winter An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two Caroline Moorehead HC: $.00 US / $32.00 Can 400 pages: carton 12 Random House Canada They were the courageous women of the French Resistance. Their actions put them in the gravest danger. Their friendship would keep them strong. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures: Angels Twenty Starter An Axis & Allies Miniatures Game 978-0-7869-5865-8 Wizards

99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures: Angels Twenty An Axis & Allies Miniatures Game

99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 How to Wreck a Nice Beach The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

00 Can on sale 11-08-2011 336 pages: carton 24 Melville House Now in paperback: The history of the vocoder, how popular

7 Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures: Angels Twenty Starter An Axis & Allies Miniatures Game Wizards Miniatures Team NT: $39.99 US / $46.99 Can on sale Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures: Angels Twenty An Axis & Allies Miniatures Game Wizards Miniatures Team NT: $24.99 US / $27.99 Can on sale How to Wreck a Nice Beach The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks Dave Tompkins TR: $25.95 US / $29.00 Can on sale pages: carton 24 Melville House Now in paperback: The history of the vocoder, how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp W.H. Davies TR: $15.00 US on sale pages: carton 24 Melville House In the traditions of Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Ted Conover's Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes to William T. Vollmann's Riding Toward Everywhere National Geographic History Book An Interactive Journey Marcus Cowper HC: $40.00 US / $48.00 Can on sale Three Armies on the Somme The First Battle of the Twentieth Century William Philpott TR: $19.00 US / $.00 Can RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman 978-0-679-45672-8 Robert K. Massie HC: $35.

00 Can on sale 11-08-2011 688 pages: carton 12 Random House The long-awaited biography of

author whose towering Peter the Great won the Pulitzer Prize.

95 Can on sale 09-20-2011 Making Our Democracy Work A Judge's View 978-0-307-39083-7

00 Can Revolt Revolution and Counterinsurgency in the Ancient World 978-1-84603-999-7

8 Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman Robert K. Massie HC: $35.00 US / $40.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Random House The long-awaited biography of one of the most fascinating and important women in history, Catherine the Great--by an author whose towering Peter the Great won the Pulitzer Prize. First Family Abigail and John Adams Joseph J. Ellis TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale Making Our Democracy Work A Judge's View Stephen Breyer TR: $16.00 US / $18.00 Can Revolt Revolution and Counterinsurgency in the Ancient World Michael Kegerreis HC: $24.95 US / $27.95 Can on sale The Victorian Criminal Neil R. Storey TR: $12.95 US / $14.95 Can on sale The Ninth Beethoven and the World in Harvey Sachs TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 Can on sale

Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons 978-0-307-38741-7 Richard

00 Can 400 pages: carton 24 Vintage The fourth and final volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear

The Trumpet of Conscience 978-0-8070-0170-7 Martin Luther King, Jr. TR: $12.

00 US on sale 12-06-2011 MLK A Celebration in Word and Image 978-0-8070-0316-9 Martin Luther King, Jr. HC: $15.

9 Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons Richard Rhodes TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can 400 pages: carton 24 Vintage The fourth and final volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post- Cold War age. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. VINTAGE. The Trumpet of Conscience Martin Luther King, Jr. TR: $12.00 US An Honourable Englishman The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper Adam Sisman HC: $35.00 US on sale MLK A Celebration in Word and Image Martin Luther King, Jr. HC: $15.00 US on sale A stunning collection of photographs of and quotations by Dr. King compiled by r enowned photojournalist Bob Adelman. Prophetic Encounters Religion and the American Radical Tradition Dan McKanan HC: $34.95 US / $40.00 Can A broad, definitive history of the profound relationship between religion and movements for social change in America.

Looking for Lincoln The Making of an American Icon 978-0-375-71214-2 Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. TR: $30.00 US RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

00 Can on sale 10-18-2011 352 pages: carton 8 National Geographic Fresh, surprising, and provocative stories shed new light on the Civil War.

10 Looking for Lincoln The Making of an American Icon Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. TR: $30.00 US RANDOM HOUSE, INC. The Untold Civil War Little-Known Stories From the War Between the States James Robertson; Edited by Neil Kagan HC: $40.00 US / $45.00 Can on sale pages: carton 8 National Geographic Fresh, surprising, and provocative stories shed new light on the Civil War. After 150 years of studying this watershed event in America's history, we learn there is yet more to the tale. Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris TR: $18.00 US The Killing of Crazy Horse Thomas Powers TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can Manifest Destinies America's Westward Expansion and the Road to thecivil War Steven E. Woodworth TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can

Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons 978-0-307-38741-7 Richard Rhodes TR: $17.00 US / $19.

challenges faced in a post- Cold War age. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. VINTAGE. Showdown JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins 978-0-8070-0074-8 Thomas G. Smith HC: $26.95 US / $31.

India A Sacred Geography 978-0-385-53190-0 Diana L. Eck HC: $27.00 US / $31.

11 Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons Richard Rhodes TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can 400 pages: carton 24 Vintage The fourth and final volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post- Cold War age. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. VINTAGE. Showdown JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins Thomas G. Smith HC: $26.95 US / $31.00 Can 256 pages: carton 12 Beacon Press A classic NFL/civil rights story-- the showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Kennedy White House. India A Sacred Geography Diana L. Eck HC: $27.00 US / $31.00 Can 336 pages: carton 12 Harmony A spiritual history of the world's most religiously complex and diverse society, from one of Harvard's most respected scholars. Arrows of the Night Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq Richard Bonin HC: $26.95 US / $29.95 Can on sale pages: carton 12 DDay Gen Adult Never has there been a foreigner more crucially involved in a U.S. decision to go to war than Ahmad Chalabi. In this newsmaking portrait, a 60 Minutes producer with unparalleled access to Chalabi charts his journey from Iraqi exile to CIA operative to masterful Washington influencer, a decades-long quest to return to his homeland at any cost.

The Ghosts of Cannae Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic 978-0-8129-7867-4 Robert L. O'Connell TR: $17.00 US / $19.

00 Can on sale 10-11-2011 The Golden Mean A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great 978-0-307-74068-7 Annabel Lyon TR: $15.95 US / $.

12 The Ghosts of Cannae Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic Robert L. O'Connell TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can on sale pages: carton 24 The Mafia History and Legend Marco Gasparini HC: $45.00 US / $51.00 Can on sale The Golden Mean A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great Annabel Lyon TR: $15.95 US / $.00 Can Eight Pieces of Empire A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse Lawrence Scott Sheets HC: $28.00 US / $33.00 Can 320 pages: carton 12 Crown A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrow, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it. Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons Richard Rhodes TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can The Storm Before Atlanta Karen Schwabach DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 Can on sale

The Fifth Queen 978-0-307-74491-3 Ford Madox Ford TR: $15.95 US / $17.

Unreal Estate Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles 978-0-7679-3265-3 Michael Gross HC: $28.00 US / $33.

00 US on sale 12-06-2011 Youth and Beauty Art of the American Twenties 978-0-8478-3725-0 Essays by Teresa A. Carbone, Bonnie Costello, Randall R. Griffey, and Sarah M. Lowe HC: $60.00 US / $65.

13 The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale pages: carton 24 Vintage Ford's trilogy about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece. FIRST TIME IN VINTAGE CLASSICS. Unreal Estate Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles Michael Gross HC: $28.00 US / $33.00 Can 496 pages: carton 12 Broadway The Discovery of Jeanne Baret A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe Glynis Ridley TR: $15.00 US on sale Youth and Beauty Art of the American Twenties Essays by Teresa A. Carbone, Bonnie Costello, Randall R. Griffey, and Sarah M. Lowe HC: $60.00 US / $65.00 Can on sale pages: carton 12 Skira Rizzoli Published in conjunction with a national tour of the featured works to the Brooklyn Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties is the first publication devoted to American painting, sculpture, and photography of the 1920s including works by Walker Evans, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe. For the scholarly audience, the essays provide a dramatically new perspective on the fine arts of the 1920s. For a broader audience, it presents a new outlook on the Jazz Age, demonstrating the striking disparity between the paintings, sculptures, and photographs featured here and the familiar images associated with the decade's popular culture.

A Note to Retailers About Books: Best of all, books are recession-proof!

A Note to Retailers About Books: Best of all, books are recession-proof! RANDOM HOUSE, INC. Poetry After 9/11 978-1-61219-000-6 Dennis Loy Johnson TR: $14.95 US / $16.95 Can on sale 08-16-2011 128 pages: carton 24 Melville House This 10th anniversary edition is an important