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 / $32.00 Can on sale 09-20-2011 368 pages: carton 12 DDay Gen Adult RANDOM HOUSE, INC. The Time of Our Lives Past, Present, Promise 978-1-4000-6458-8 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 978-0-307-45289-4 David King HC: $26.00 US / $30.00 Can on sale 09-27-2011 432 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 / $30.00 Can on sale 08-02-2011 496 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 978-0-8070-0169-1 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 978-1-84908-547-2 Martin Graham HC: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale 08-23-2011 Eisenhower The White House Years 978-0-385-52353-0 Jim Newton HC: $29.95 US / $34.00 Can on sale 10-04-2011 Warriors of God Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel 978-1-4000-6836-4 Nicholas Blanford HC: $30.00 US / $34.00 Can on sale 10-11-2011 528 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 Tracy TR: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale 09-27-2011 Apollo's Angels A History of Ballet 978-0-8129-6874-3 Jennifer Homans TR: $20.00 US / $23.00 Can on sale 11-29-2011 672 pages: carton 24 Reading Jackie Her Autobiography in Books 978-0-307-74465-4 William Kuhn TR: $15.95 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 09-20-2011 Memory Remains 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17 978-1-4262-0833-1 Francesc Torres HC: $50.00 US / $57.00 Can on sale 08-16-2011 192 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 10-11-2011 The Statue of Liberty 978-0-679-86928-3 Lucille Recht Penner TR: $3.99 US / $5.99 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 Kostyal HC: $17.95 US / $20.50 Can on sale 10-11-2011 64 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! 978-0-375-87024-8 Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce; illustrated by Sal Murdocca DG: $5.99 US / $6.99 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: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale 10-04-2011 The Civil War of 1812 American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies 978-0-679-77673-4 Alan Taylor TR: $18.00 US on sale 10-04-2011 Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last! 978-0-375-86825-2 Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca HC: $12.99 US on sale 12-27-2011
1862: Fredericksburg A New Look at a Bitter Civil War Battle 978-1-4263-0836-9 Karen Kostyal HC: $27.90 US / $32.00 Can on sale 09-13-2011 Never Forgotten 978-0-375-84384-6 Patricia C. McKissack HC: $18.99 US / $20.99 Can on sale 10-11-2011 Witches The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem 978-1-4263-0869-7 Rosalyn Schanzer HC: $16.95 US / $18.95 Can on sale 09-13-2011 Signing Their Rights Away 978-1-59474-520-1 HC: $19.95 US / $22.95 Can Storyteller 978-0-440-42175-7 Patricia Reilly Giff DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 Can on sale 08-09-2011 I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II 978-0-375-86695-1 Marisabina Russo; illustrated by Marisabina Russo HC: $17.99 US / $19.99 Can on sale 09-27-2011 A personal and moving story of a Jewish Italian family during World War II. Franklin and Winston A Christmas That Changed the World 978-0-7636-3383-7 Douglas Wood HC: $16.99 US / $19.00 Can on sale 09-13-2011
No Ordinary Joes The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in World War II 978-0-307-88845-7 Larry Colton TR: $16.00 US / $18.00 Can on sale 10-04-2011 Charley's War (Vol. 8): Hitler's Youth 978-0-85768-299-4 Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun HC: $19.95 US / $22.95 Can on sale 10-25-2011 112 pages: carton 12 Titan Books AN EXPLOSIVE NEW VOLUME IN THE LIBRARY OF THIS CLASSIC COMIC STRIP COLLECTION! The Twilight Warriors 978-0-7679-3242-4 Robert Gandt TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 Can War at Sea: Surface Action An Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures Booster Expansion 978-0-7869-5854-2 Wizards Miniatures Team NT: $15.99 US / $17.99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 pages: carton 12 Wizards of the Coast A Train in Winter An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two 978-0-307-35694-9 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 Miniatures Team NT: $39.99 US / $46.99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures: Angels Twenty An Axis & Allies Miniatures Game 978-0-7869-5866-5 Wizards Miniatures Team NT: $24.99 US / $27.99 Can on sale 10-25-2011 How to Wreck a Nice Beach The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks 978-1-61219-092-1 Dave Tompkins TR: $25.95 US / $29.00 Can on sale 11-08-2011 336 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 978-1-61219-022-8 W.H. Davies TR: $15.00 US on sale 11-08-2011 336 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 978-1-4262-0679-5 Marcus Cowper HC: $40.00 US / $48.00 Can on sale 10-18-2011 Three Armies on the Somme The First Battle of the Twentieth Century 978-0-307-27837-1 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 US / $40.00 Can on sale 11-08-2011 688 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 978-0-307-38999-2 Joseph J. Ellis TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale 09-20-2011 Making Our Democracy Work A Judge's View 978-0-307-39083-7 Stephen Breyer TR: $16.00 US / $18.00 Can Revolt Revolution and Counterinsurgency in the Ancient World 978-1-84603-999-7 Michael Kegerreis HC: $24.95 US / $27.95 Can on sale 11-22-2011 The Victorian Criminal 978-0-7478-0814-5 Neil R. Storey TR: $12.95 US / $14.95 Can on sale 08-23-2011 The Ninth Beethoven and the World in 1824 978-0-8129-6907-8 Harvey Sachs TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 Can on sale 11-08-2011
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 / $19.00 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 978-0-8070-0170-7 Martin Luther King, Jr. TR: $12.00 US An Honourable Englishman The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper 978-1-4000-6976-7 Adam Sisman HC: $35.00 US on sale 12-06-2011 MLK A Celebration in Word and Image 978-0-8070-0316-9 Martin Luther King, Jr. HC: $15.00 US on sale 10-04-2011 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 978-0-8070-1315-1 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. The Untold Civil War Little-Known Stories From the War Between the States 978-1-4262-0812-6 James Robertson; Edited by Neil Kagan HC: $40.00 US / $45.00 Can on sale 10-18-2011 352 pages: carton 8 National Geographic Fresh, surprising, and provocative stories shed new light on the Civil War. After 150 years of studying this watershed event in America's history, we learn there is yet more to the tale. Colonel Roosevelt 978-0-375-75707-5 Edmund Morris TR: $18.00 US The Killing of Crazy Horse 978-0-375-71430-6 Thomas Powers TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can Manifest Destinies America's Westward Expansion and the Road to thecivil War 978-0-307-27770-1 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 / $19.00 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 978-0-8070-0074-8 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 978-0-385-53190-0 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 978-0-385-52473-5 Richard Bonin HC: $26.95 US / $29.95 Can on sale 11-15-2011 272 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 09-13-2011 336 pages: carton 24 The Mafia History and Legend 978-2-08-030150-5 Marco Gasparini HC: $45.00 US / $51.00 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 / $.00 Can Eight Pieces of Empire A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse 978-0-307-39582-5 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 978-0-307-38741-7 Richard Rhodes TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 Can The Storm Before Atlanta 978-0-375-85867-3 Karen Schwabach DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 Can on sale 12-13-2011
The Fifth Queen 978-0-307-74491-3 Ford Madox Ford TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 Can on sale 10-04-2011 608 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 978-0-7679-3265-3 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 978-0-307-46353-1 Glynis Ridley TR: $15.00 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 / $65.00 Can on sale 10-11-2011 304 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.