Chuck Palahniuk
A romantic-comedy in the form of dispatches from an embedded teen terrorist disguised as a foreign exchange student, Pygmy is a cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.
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Michael Scott
The Sorceress, the third installment in the New York Times bestselling Nicholas Flamel series, finds Nicholas weakened and contemplating wielding Clarent, evil twin sword of Excalibur, to protect the twins of prophecy long enough to find an Elder to teach them the third elemental magic—Water Magic.
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Sam Haskell
Sam Haskell rose from mail room to Worldwide Head of Television at William Morris by keeping a promise to his mother to live a decent life. His memoir, Promises I Made My Mother, is a testament to mothers everywhere who instill in their sons the lasting values they need to become good men and devoted fathers.
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Elizabeth Edwards
While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth Edwards met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in Resilience, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life's biggest challenges.
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Jane Mayer's The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals named 2009 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.
In memoriam: Eleanor Perenyi, author of Green Thoughts.
Random House congratulates its 2009 James Beard Foundation Award winners: Fat by Jennifer Mclagan (Cookbook of the Year and Single Subject), Screen Doors and Sweet Tea by Martha Hall Foose (American Cooking), Alinea by Grant Achatz (Cooking from a Professional Point of View), Dale DeGroff (Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional Award), and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Outstanding Restaurant Award for Jean Georges).
Random House congratulates Cormac McCarthy on being awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American fiction.
Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction); American Lion by Jon Meacham (Biography); Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (General Nonfiction).
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol to be published by Doubleday this September.
In memoriam: Deborah Digges.
Jane Mayer wins the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Dark Side.
In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.
World publication rights to a book being written by former President George W. Bush have been acquired for Crown. “My goal is to bring the reader inside the Oval Office for the most consequential moments of my personal and political life,” says Mr. Bush of his work-in-progress, tentatively scheduled for fall 2010 release.
Unnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri and A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif are regional winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and Best First Book, respectively.
Random House congratulates its winners of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle awards: The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French (Biography) and The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (Nonfiction).
Peter Singer, author of The Life You Save, visits The Colbert Report.
Random House, Inc. congratulates Harvard University president and historian Drew Gilpin Faust upon winning the New York Historical Society’s Fourth Annual American History Book Prize for This Republic of Suffering.
Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2008 Agatha Award nominees: Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry (Best Novel) and The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Best Children’s/Young Adult).
Tobias Wolff wins the Story Prize for his short story collection Our Story Begins.
Random House, Inc. acquires Ten Speed Press for the Crown Publishing Group.
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill awarded 2009 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Vintage Español enters into joint venture with Random House Mondadori: publisher to become Spanish-langugage market leader in U.S.
In memoriam: Christopher Nolan.
Random House congratulates Sana Krasikov, finalist for The New York Public Library’s 2009 Young Lions Fiction Award for her short story collection One More Year.
In memoriam: John Updike.
Random House congratulates its finalists for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle awards: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction); Maimonides: The Life and World ofOne of Civilization’s Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer (Criticism); The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple (Biography); The Eaves of Heavenby Andrew X. Pham (Autobiography); The Forever War by Dexter Filkins, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust, The Dark Side by Jane Mayer (Nonfiction).
A select number of major Random House, Inc. books, including Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, are or soon will be available as applications for purchase and reading on an iPhone and an iPod Touch.
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