RANDOM HOUSE

(P/B) THE SPOOKY ART
"Writing is spooky," according to Norman Mailer. "There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words." In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer's craft. (From the publis...
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(P/B) WRESTLING WITH MOSES
The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York's most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly in need of "urban renewal." Standing up against government plans for the cit...
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A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE 1990-2005
"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures -Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege of Saraje...
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(H/B) BLACK FLAGS
In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven...
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(P/B) ROSIE'S WALK
Rosie the hen is going for a walk, but she'd better watch out - there's a very sneaky fox hot on her tail feathers! Rosie's Walk has become a beacon in the world of children's picture books, an ever-popular classic which generations have enjoyed. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) INFERNO
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire conflict. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people - of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad - Hastings p...
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(H/B) DOG LOVES BOOKS

THE SNOWMAN
What this book is about... The Snowman James builds a snowman. The snowman comes to life! Read about all the fun they have! Ready to Read - Preschool-Kindergarten Does your child know the alphabet? Is your child eager to begin reading? Step 1 is the perfect first step! Big Type end Easy Words - Rhyme and Rhythm - Picture Clues (From the publisher)...
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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
What this book is about... Home for Christmas Where is the best place to spend Christmas? The Cat in the Hat knows that! Read this holiday adventure and find out for yourself. Reading on your own Grades 1 - 3 Is your child comfortable tackling new words? Does your child like to read on his or her own? It's time for Step 3. Engaging characters - Easy to follow plots - Popular topics (From the publisher)...
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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Celebrate the Christmas spirit with this beautiful new edition of the beloved holiday poem. Rich with detail, the cozy pictures of a warm and welcoming Victorian home bring the yearly visit from St. Nick to glowing life. Here is a lap-size book that is perfect for the whole family to enjoy together. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) SO, ANYWAY...
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark comedy tro...
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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!
The Grinch has been foiled! The Grinch hates Christmas, and wants to stop it from coming. So he forms a devious plan: to impersonate Santy Claus and to steal the Whos' Christmas presents. But come Christmas morning, the Grinch is in for a shocking surprise. He did not stop Christmas from coming! And the Grinch realizes something new. That maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. That maybe Christmas . . . perhaps . . . means a little bit more! (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TRASH
SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM BY STEPHEN DALDRY AND RICHARD CURTIS Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking and fast-talking to ...
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(P/B) DANIEL
Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler re-names the traumatised child Daniel and brings him home to Sweden, intending to "civilise" him. But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert and his real family. His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also a...
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(P/B) TIGERLILY'S ORCHIDS
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives... Living opposite, ...
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(P/B) PHANTOM
THE MURDER HAS BEEN SOLVED. BUT HAS JUSTICE BEEN DONE? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt: the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict. THE POLICE DON'T WANT HIM BACK... Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his own. Beneath the city's eerie tranquillity, he discovers a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances seemingly unnoticed by the police. At ev...
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(P/B) TELL-ALL
Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss...
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(P/B) OF LOVE AND EVIL
I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance... I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light... And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me... Thus begins Anne Rices lyrical, haunting new novel, a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins that once again summons up dark a...
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ROSIE'S WALK

AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ROBERT OPPENHE (P/B)