Random House

New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding delivers her most glamorous and intriguing book to date in a novel about the disappearance of a gorgeous young actress, and a mother whose life is thrown into turmoil as a result.Losing Julia has become a constant in Cindy Carvers life. The first time Julia disappeared, she was five years old and...

A NovelSeptember 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitlers Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw,...

Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies. But he got much more than he bargained for....Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the...

The Story of Eleanor of AquitaineWhen I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to memy triumphs and most of my misfortuneswas due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself their equaland in many ways their superiorbut it seemed that I depended on them, while seeking to...

With translation rights sold in twenty-five countries, Gordon Dahlquists spectacular and extraordinary debut novel was one of the most-talked-about acquisitions of 2005. Now this monumental Victorian thriller is destined to be the publishing sensation of 2006.It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temples fianc, written on...

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult...