Hardcover Nonfiction

by Richard Preston · Random House

by Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark · Times Books/Random House

Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, McNamara analyzes the Vietnam War and his role in it.

by Carol Saline. Photographs by Sharon J. Wohlmuth · Running Press

Based on Sisters, the highly acclaimed photo-essay book which spent 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 1 million copies, this journal is a rich, evocative celebration of an unbreakable bond. It's also an exceptional place to record memories and insights, for oneself or as a gift. The deluxe, hardbound journal features a handsome cloth cover with gold foil stamping, and the pages are high-quality parchment with Wohlmuth's moving photographs and Saline's selected quotations on the meaning of having a sister.

by John Berendt · Random House

by Robert Fulghum · Villard

Titles include "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down On It" and "Uh-Oh and Maybe, Maybe Not".

by Philip K. Howard · Random House

Distressing, disturbing, devastatingly detailed--this stunning examination of how modern laws are diminishing America exposes the drawbacks of rule-bound government, tells why nothing gets done, reveals the phony pretensions of law, and shows why well-intentioned laws have actually devalued rights. In short, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how the buck never stops and how ell-meaning laws are creating a nation of enemies. (Poltics/Current Events)

by Isabel Allende · HarperCollins

by Kathie Lee Gifford and Cody Gifford · Hyperion

Providing an intimate look at Kathie Lee and Cody Gifford at home, a collection of charming vignettes shares their discussions on the nature of heaven, where babies come from, how baby sisters should be treated, and other topics.

by Shirley MacLaine · Bantam

by Dave Barry · Random House

Contains the complete and unabridged texts of: Dave Barry's guide to marriage and/or sex, Babies and other hazards of sex, Stay fit and healthy until you're dead, and Claw your way to the top.

by William J. Bennett · Simon & Schuster

Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.

by Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

by Paul Reiser · Bantam

In the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the highly-rated NBC comedy, "Mad About You", which Time Magazine called "The season's best new sitcom" in its 1992 debut. Every Thursday night more than twenty million viewers watch as Paul Reiser reveals the most intimate and hilarious scenes of a marriage. Now for the first time, Reiser brings his trademark wit to the page in a book that will delight his eagerly-awaiting audience, and anyone else who has ever fallen in love -- or tried not to. In Couplehood, a New York Times bestseller for more than 40 weeks, Reiser reflects on what it means to be half of a couple -- everything from the science of hand holding, to the technique of tag-team storytelling, to the politics of food and why it always seems to come down to chicken or fish.

by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema · Addison-Wesley

From the consulting firm that brought readers Reengineering the Corporation comes a bold new strategy for reinventing competition. The authors describe in detail how companies such as Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab and Intel are creating havoc for their competitors by raising and reshaping customers' value expectations. "To remain competitive into the next century, read this book".--Peter Lynch.

by Anne Frank. Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler · Doubleday

Este libro es el Libro 12 de la Colección III del Proyecto de Lectura de un Millón de Palabras en Inglés (the Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP), una serie de lecturas en inglés de nivel intermedio. Está dirigido a lectores que ya poseen un vocabulario básico de 1500 palabras en inglés. El Proyecto de Lectura de un Millón de Palabras en Inglés (MWRP) es un programa de mejora de la lectura en inglés diseñado específicamente para estudiantes que aprenden inglés como segundo idioma o lengua extranjera (ESL/EFL). Está orientado a lectores que ya dominan un vocabulario básico de aproximadamente 1500 palabras (equivalente a un nivel básico de inglés). Con unos 15 minutos de lectura diaria durante dos años, los lectores pueden alcanzar un nivel intermedio de inglés, dominar más de 3500 palabras y una gran variedad de expresiones, así como adquirir soltura en diversas estructuras oracionales y desarrollar la capacidad de leer obras literarias en inglés de nivel general. La siguiente tabla proporciona información detallada sobre las estadísticas del texto como referencia para el lector: Estadísticas del texto Valor de legibilidad || 76,28 Número total de palabras || 61.028 Número de palabras fuera de las 1500 || 3.656 Tasa de palabras nuevas (%) || 5,99 Tasa de repetición de palabras nuevas || 2,69 Resumen del Contenido This book is rewritten from “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank. “The Diary of a Young Girl” is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on June 12, 1942, her 13th birthday. She began to write in it on June 14, 1942, two days later. On July 5, 1942, Anne’s elder sister Margot received a call-up notice to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany, and on July 6, Margot and Anne went into hiding with their father Otto and mother Edith. They remained hidden for two years and one month. They were betrayed in August 1944. As a result, they were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Of the eight people, only Otto Frank survived the war. Anne died when she was 15 years old in Bergen-Belsen. The diary was discovered on the floor of the hiding place after the family’s arrest. The diary has since been published in more than 60 different languages. The book is included in several lists of the top books of the 20th century.