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LEFTY: An American Odyssey, featured on Sports Illustrated!

LEFTY: An American Odyssey, featured on Sports Illustrated!

Don’t miss this exclusive excerpt of LEFTY: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY, as featured on SportsIllustrated.com. The article also includes video footage of Lefty Gomez and Babe Ruth while they toured together in Japan.
Click here to read the excerpt and watch the video.
LEFTY is on sale now, wherever books are sold.

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Author and Editor discuss YOURS IN TRUTH, buzzed-about biography of Ben Bradlee

Author and Editor discuss YOURS IN TRUTH, buzzed-about biography of Ben Bradlee

Readers learned more about YOURS IN TRUTH, an intimate portrait of Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post during a Twitter chat with author Jeff Himmelman and his Random House editor.
Granted unprecedented access to Ben Bradlee and his colleagues, friends and private files,  Himmelman drew on never-before-seen internal Post [...]

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New Releases

Celebrate Mom during Twitter Event on May 8

To honor moms everywhere, Lands’ End is partnering with New York Times bestselling author, mother and grandmother Nancy Thayer to host a Mother’s Day celebration on Tuesday, May 8 from 8-10 pm EST on Twitter at #landsend.
“Nancy explores the fulfilling and challenging aspects of women’s lives – including motherhood – in her novels.  We’re huge [...]

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Enter for the chance to win THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce

Enter for the chance to win THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce

“Marvelous! I held my breath at his every blister and cramp, and felt as if by turning the pages, I might help his impossible quest succeed.”—Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he [...]

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Enter to win an advanced copy of Kurt Andersen’s TRUE BELIEVERS

Enter to win an advanced copy of Kurt Andersen’s TRUE BELIEVERS

In TRUE BELIEVERS, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling alternates between the present and the 1960s—and indelibly captures the [...]

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It’s Not About the Pom-Poms

It’s Not About the Pom-Poms

A forty-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all wrong. . . .

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Enter to win an advanced copy of WIFE 22 by Melanie Gideon!

Enter to win an advanced copy of WIFE 22 by Melanie Gideon!

For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.

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A letter to readers from Kathryn Harrison, author of ENCHANTMENTS

When I was eleven or twelve my mother gave me Robert K. Massie’s Nicholas and Alexandra. It was the first “grownup” book I read and loved, but without having studied European history I focused on the individuals involved in the Russian revolution rather than the sweeping social [...]

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