Random House imprint: 4901 books
by Cristina Marcano, Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and...
I Should Have Honor
A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan—and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment
“Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality.”—Malala Yousafzai,...
In Command of History
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World...
Worth the Fighting For
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tellsthe story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years.
After five and a half years as...
Lazy B
Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2002
**The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most powerful women in America.
“A charming memoir about...
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation:...
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
**“An exquisitely...
Crashing Through
A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his life crashing...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Chicago Tribune• The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people...
When My World Was Very Small
A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.
And so begins the journey...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg
Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr....
Alpha Docs
The Making of a Cardiologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In the tradition of Scott Turow’s One L and Atul Gawande’s Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology.
It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition...
Everything Happens for a Reason
And Other Lies I've Loved
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi
**“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject,...