Tracy Kidder

Good Prose

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Reference - Writing Skills; Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Language Arts - Authorship
978-0-8129-8215-2 (0-8129-8215-0)

August 27, 2013 | $18.00



Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd...

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Values; Juvenile Nonfiction - Health - Diseases
978-0-8041-2167-5 (0-8041-2167-2)

April 9, 2013 | $41.00



Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one...

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Values; Juvenile Nonfiction - Health - Diseases
978-0-8041-2168-2 (0-8041-2168-0)

April 9, 2013 | $24.00



Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one...

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

eBook | 288 pages | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Values; Juvenile Nonfiction - Health - Diseases
978-0-307-98088-5 (0-307-98088-X)

April 9, 2013 | $12.99

   Meet Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Tracy Kidder follows Farmer's quest as he focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save...

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

Hardcover Library Binding | 288 pages | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Values; Juvenile Nonfiction - Health - Diseases
978-0-375-99099-1 (0-375-99099-2)

April 9, 2013 | $23.99

   Meet Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Tracy Kidder follows Farmer's quest as he focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save...

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

Hardcover | 288 pages | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Values; Juvenile Nonfiction - Health - Diseases
978-0-385-74318-1 (0-385-74318-1)

April 9, 2013 | $18.99

   Meet Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Tracy Kidder follows Farmer's quest as he focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save...

Good Prose

Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House | Reference - Writing Skills; Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Language Arts - Authorship
978-1-4000-6975-0 (1-4000-6975-0)

January 15, 2013 | $31.00



Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd...

Good Prose

eBook | 224 pages | Random House | Reference - Writing Skills; Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Language Arts - Authorship
978-0-679-60472-3 (0-679-60472-3)

January 15, 2013 | $15.99



Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd...

Home Town

eBook | 464 pages | Random House | Social Science
978-0-307-82647-3 (0-307-82647-3)

September 5, 2012 | $13.99



In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he...

Strength in What Remains

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-8129-7761-5 (0-8129-7761-0)

May 4, 2010 | $19.00



In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a...

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-8129-8055-4 (0-8129-8055-7)

August 25, 2009 | $21.00



This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.

In...

Strength in What Remains

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7393-8338-4 (0-7393-8338-8)

August 25, 2009 | $23.00



Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of...

Strength in What Remains

eBook | pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-58836-851-5 (1-58836-851-3)

August 25, 2009 | $13.99



BONUS: This edition contains a Strength in What Remains discussion guide.

In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi...

Strength in What Remains

Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4000-6621-6 (1-4000-6621-2)

August 25, 2009 | $30.00



Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of...

My Detachment

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Biography & Autobiography - Military
978-0-8129-7616-8 (0-8129-7616-9)

October 24, 2006 | $18.95



My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes...