Random House imprint: 4901 books
by Charlotte McConaghy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Avery is a sweeping, romantic fantasy novel about loss and identity, and finding the courage to love against all odds. Published as part of the Random Romance series.The people of Kaya die in pairs. When one lover dies, the other does too. So it has been for thousands of years until Ava.For although...
The Day We Met
Four short meet cute love stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Four free, deliciously romantic short stories.
WHEN JACK MET EVIE he found his usual movie star charm wasn't enough to catch her attention. In fact, she seemed to be actively avoiding him . . . He's heard Evie has a fatal fear of paparazzi, but that doesn't mean he should ignore his heart,...
Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
When Hollywood Had a King
The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.
The Music Corporation of America was founded...
Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe
A Memoir of Life on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Throughout his childhood, Mike O’Connor’s family pretended to be normal. But Mike and his two younger sisters knew that their parents were hiding something–a secret they didn’t dare talk about. The family appeared to be no different from any of their small-town Texas neighbors–that is, until...
American Ulysses
A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History...
Learning to Sing
Hearing the Music in Your Life: An Inspirational Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church...
Gladstone
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine...
Lincoln and Whitman
Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It was more than coincidence—indeed, it was all but fate—that the lives and thoughts of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman should converge during the terrible years of the Civil War. Kindred spirits despite their profound differences in position and circumstance, Lincoln and Whitman shared a vision...
Destiny and Power
The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.
**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book...
Franklin and Winston
An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores...
I Love You, Ronnie
The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and...
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested...
On His Own Terms
A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BOOKLIST, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • From acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century.
Fourteen years...