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Special Offers! Father's Day 2012

Has Father's Day snuck up on you, too? Don't get in a tizzy! If your dad is anything like ours, he likes nothing better than getting lost...in a good book. From Steve Berry's latest blockbuster, THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR, to Robert Caro's towering L.B.J. biography, THE PASSAGE OF POWER, to Rich Roll's inspiring FINDING ULTRA, we have just the right read for dad.

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CALICO JOE Written by John Grisham Category: Fiction - Sports $24.95 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOB_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxC

From one of our most celebrated authors, here is a surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball. In John Grisham's new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it's what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.

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THE PASSAGE OF POWER Written by Robert A. Caro Category: Biography & Autobiography - Presidents $35.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOBPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxD

Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led Bill Clinton to rave, "With this fascinating and meticulous account of how and why [L.B.J.] did it, Robert Caro has once again done America a great service."

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FINDING ULTRA Written by Rich Roll Category: Sports & Recreation - Running & Jogging $25.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOBfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxA

FINDING ULTRA is the incredible-but-true account of Rich Roll's remarkable transformation, at the age of forty, from out-of-shape average Joe into one of the world's best endurance athletes.

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THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR Written by Steve Berry Category: Fiction - Thrillers $27.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOGvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxB

From Steve Berry, author of THE JEFFERSON KEY and THE AMBER ROOM, comes an exciting new adventure about an ordinary man going to extraordinary lengths to find a treasure that will change everything we thought we knew about the man who discovered America.

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MARILYN & ME Written by Lawrence Schiller Category: Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts $20.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOG_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxG

This intimate memoir recalls a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death and features extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published.

"[Schiller] captures Marilyn, both in photographs and words, and in so doing he gives us intimate access into one of the great stories of the 20th century: the complicated cocktail of joy and sadness that goes along with both beauty and fame."--Colum McCann, author of LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

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MISSION TO PARIS Written by Alan Furst Category: Fiction - Thrillers $27.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOGPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxH

From the "modern-day master of the genre" (Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 prewar Paris. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it.

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THE THIRD GATE Written by Lincoln Child Category: Fiction - Thrillers $25.95 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOGfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxE

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. With a monumental discovery in reach, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto the project to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions... and alarm.

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BITTERS Written by Brad Thomas Parsons Category: Cooking - Wine & Spirits $24.99 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOHvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxF

Part recipe book, part project guide, part barman's manifesto, BITTERS is a celebration of good cocktails made well, and of the once-forgotten but blessedly rediscovered virtues of bitters.

"Engaging... gorgeous... The book practically begs for a dark leather chair, a roaring fireplace, and a Manhattan...a nearly ideal gift."--Serious Drinks

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A BLAZE OF GLORY Written by Jeff Shaara Category: Fiction - Historical $28.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOH_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxK

With A BLAZE OF GLORY Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War taking us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements--the Battle of Shiloh.

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NOCTURNAL Written by Scott Sigler Category: Fiction - Horror $26.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOHPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxL

Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in CONTAGIOUS and rebooted the biotech thriller in ANCESTOR. Now, in NOCTURNAL, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking readers inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent.

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YOURS IN TRUTH Written by Jeff Himmelman Category: Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers $27.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOHfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxI

Granted unprecedented access to legendary Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman traces the full arc of Bradlee's extraordinary forty-five-year career.

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AMERICAN TRIUMVIRATE Written by James Dodson Category: Biography & Autobiography - Sports $28.95 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOEvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxJ

This celebration of three golf legends, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan, on the centennial of their births, explains the circumstances that made each of them so singularly brilliant and how they, in turn, saved not only the professional tour but modern golf itself.

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THE WATCH Written by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya Category: Fiction - Literary $25.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOE_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxO

In this powerful novel set in contemporary Kandahar, an Afghan woman approaches an American military base to demand the return of her brother's body. Roy-Bhattacharya brilliantly re-creates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of battle, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the soldiers, their families, and by one sister.

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SMOKIN' WITH MYRON MIXON Written by Myron Mixon Category: Cooking - Barbecue $22.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOEPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxP

Here's the secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! Containing more than seventy-five award-winning recipes, along with anecdotes from Myron's years as the most winning man in barbecue, SMOKIN' WITH MYRON MIXON is a must have for home-barbecue enthusiasts.

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MANHUNT Written by Peter L. Bergen Category: History - United States - 21St Century $26.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOB8kzbnGHxKXHzOEfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplxM

Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda.

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