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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, Hidden Figures is the never-before-told story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program—and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as “Human Computers,” calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these “colored computers,” as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support

America’s fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Freshman Common Read: MIT, Cedar Crest College, University of Houston, SUNY Oneonta, West Virginia University, College of William and Mary, University of Mary Washington, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Piedmont Virginia Community College

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Hillbilly Elegy:A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.

“[Vance’s] description of the culture he grew up in is essential reading for this moment in history.” —David Brooks, New York Times

“You will not read a more important book about America this year.” —The Economist

Freshman Common Read: University of Wisconsin—Madison, Miami University, Middle Tennessee State University, Flagler College, Augustana College, University of Denver

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

For those who want to give their students a global perspective, this story of a young man from poverty-stricken Malawi who built a windmill from scavenged parts to bring electricity to his village hits all the right notes: a deep look into life in a developing nation, science and engineering insights—and inspiration.

“This is an amazing, inspiring and heartwarming story! It’s about harnessing the power not just of the wind but of imagi-nation and ingenuity. Those are the most important forces we have for saving our planet. William Kamkwamba is a hero for our age.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

Freshman Common Read: University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, Avila University, Purdue University, Maryville University, University of Florida, Central College, Boise State University, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, Utah Valley University, Winthrop University, and California State University, Chico—among others

William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2010 • 9780061730337 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal Conor Grennan

Conor Grennan left his job with a plan to travel the world. Stopping first to volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal, his life changed forever. Conor soon discovered that many of the children with whom he had been playing with were not orphans, but the victims of human traffickers, who had kidnapped children from their homes and families. Shocked and affected by what he learned, Conor opened his own orphanage two years later, with the mission of helping to reunite stolen kids with their families.

“The author stumbles into volunteering in an orphanage in Nepal and gets involved in reuniting trafficked children with their families. The energy of these children will make you laugh even though they’ve been through hardship and loss.”

—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Freshman Common Read: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Mount St. Olive, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ball State University, St. Bonaventure Uni- versity, San Jose State University, Otterbein University, Central College, Wingate University, Michigan Technical University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute—among others

William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2012 • 9780061930065 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

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Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.

Roxane Gay—one of the most-watched and original young cultural observers of her generation—takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.

“Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” —Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest Professor and MSNBC Host

Freshman Common Read: University of California-Los Angeles, Virginia Wesleyan College

Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2014 • 9780062282712 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African SlumKennedy Odede and Jessica Posner

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. Jessica Posner met Kennedy Odede on her junior year abroad. She had traveled to Nairobi to work with Shining Hope for Communities, the youth empowerment group that Kennedy had founded in Kibera, the notorious slum where he was raised. Though it was unheard of for a white person, Jessica decided to live in Kibera with Kennedy, and they fell in love. They went on to found Kibera’s first tuition-free school for girls—a large, bright blue building, which stands as a bastion of hope in what once felt like a hopeless place. This is their story, and they are just getting started.

“Shining Hope for Communities is one of the most hopeful places I have ever visited.” —Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times

Freshman Common Read: University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Coastal Carolina University

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A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Matt Richtel

Digging deeper into his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the issue of distracted driving, Matt Richtel examines the impact of technology on our lives through the lens of Reggie Shaw, a college student, who, while texting and driving, killed two rocket scientists in 2006. Students will follow Reggie through the tragedy of the crash, the police investigation, his prosecution, and the role he plays today as an important advocate against distracted driving. Along the way, Richtel gives students cutting-edge scientific findings about human attention and technology that will help them envision how to manage this crisis both individually and on a societal level.

“A well-written true life account of tragedy, redemption and the public policy challenges of keeping pace with the march

of technology. This book should be placed in every school and legislative chamber in the country.” —Jon Huntsman, former Governor of Utah

Freshman Common Read: Boise State University, University of Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina University

William Morrow: 416 pp. 2015 • 9780062284075 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.ADeadlyWandering.com

Orphan Train: A Novel Christina Baker Kline

Orphan Train tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Molly Ayers, a foster-kid hoping to avoid juvie, and Vivian Daly, the elderly woman she has been assigned to help. Shared experience serves to unite them as it comes to light that the aged Vivian spent time on “orphan trains,” which ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest from 1854 to 1929, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. The subject matter will grab students’ attention because so few people know about this particularly heartbreaking piece of American history, and the novel’s message of resilience and unlikely bonds will carry them through.

“A compelling story about loss, adaptability, and courage. . . . With compassion and deli-cacy Kline presents a little-known chapter of American history and draws comparisons with the modern-day foster care system.” —Library Journal

Freshman Common Read: Edgewood College, Richard Stockton College, Owensboro Community and Technical College, University of Kentucky—among others

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The Round House:A Novel Louise Erdrich

• Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction

This exquisitely told story set on the Ojibwe reservation in contemporary North Dakota follows a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. The Round House is “moving, complex, and surprisingly uplifting . . . likely to be dubbed the Native American To Kill a Mockingbird.” (Parade)

“Erdrich skillfully makes Joe’s coming-of-age both universal and specific . . . the story is also ripe with detail about reserva-tion life.” —Library Journal

Freshman Common Read: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Minne-sota, Oswego State University of New York

Harper Perennial: 368 pp.2013 • 9780062065254 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)


Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It [REVISED EDITION] David Batstone

With the current global refugee crisis, human trafficking is perhaps an even larger issue than when Not for Sale first published 10 years ago. In this revised and updated edition, award-winning journalist, author, and professor David Batstone gives students the facts on the $31 billion human trafficking epidemic, profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are fighting it, and reports on how to stop it.

“Not for Sale not only informs, it challenges each reader to take action. My students were appalled to learn of the prevalence of human trafficking around the world, but this insight inspired many of them to begin working on a local, national, or global level to bring about change. David Batstone will inspire any student.” —Stephanie M. Foote, Director, Academic Success Center, University of South Carolina Aiken

Freshman Common Read: Kennesaw State University, University of South Carolina Aiken

HarperOne: 304 pp.2010 • 9780061998836 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation Edward Humes

Thousands of miles are embedded in almost everything we do and touch and purchase, but we’re scarcely aware of it. A cup of Starbucks coffee materializes in front of us without any signs of the 30,000 miles it has travelled. Behind the scenes, there are grinding commutes, a violent death every 15 minutes on an American highway, and a crushing impact on the environment.

By delving into one week in the life of his family in suburban California—their commutes, traffic jams, grocery stops, and online shopping excursions—the author of first-year favorite Garbology reveals the truths and mounting challenges behind every trip we take and every click we make.

“Like Silent Spring and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Door to Door is a rallying point for cul-ture-wide change. Hume’s tireless curation of figure and fact, his well-reasoned arguments and his uncluttered, well-ordered prose may turn the ship that’s just begun to budge.” —Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review

Freshman Common Read: Indiana University [Kelley School of Business]


Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

On an average day, humans will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data searching the internet. Seth Stephen-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, shows your students how that data can be mined for valuable insight, from the hilarious to the horrifying.

In the spirit of Freakonomics, Everybody Lies challenges our preconceived notions on how people think and explores how big data can be used in new and innovative ways.

“Everybody Lies is an astoundingly clever and mischievous exploration of what big data tells us about everyday life. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” —Steven Levitt, co-author, Freakonomics

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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner single-handedly showed the world that applying economic theory and big data to everyday problems can bear surprising results. Think Like a Freak will take students further inside their special thought process, revealing a new way of approaching the decisions we make, the plans we create, and the morals we choose. It answers the question on the lips of everyone who’s read the previous books: How can I apply these ideas to my life? How do I make smarter, better decisions? How can I truly think like a freak? With short, highly entertaining insights running the gamut from “The Upside of Quitting” to “How to Succeed—With No Talent,” Think Like a Freak will radically alter the way your students think about all aspects of life on this planet.

William Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp.2015 • 9780062218346 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★ Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

Also availableFreakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything William Morrow Paperbacks: 352 pp. 2009 • 9780060731335 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★ Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

SuperFreakonomics:Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes,and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life InsuranceWilliam Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2011 • 9780060889586 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★ Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

When To Rob a Bank:…And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended RantsWilliam Morrow: 400 pp.2016 • 9780062385802 • pb • $15.99 ($19.00/CAN)

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The World According to Star Wars Cass R. Sunstein

Already assigned as required reading for Cornell’s cross-disciplinary course Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science, The World According to Star Wars by an acclaimed legal scholar and Harvard professor shares life lessons from Star Wars and what the series can teach us about being human.

“In this gem of a book, Cass Sunstein uses the Star Wars series to explore profound questions about being a parent, a child, and a human. It will change the way you think about your own journey, might even make you pick up the phone and call your dad.” —Walter Isaacson

“Delightful. . . . informative without being boring, funny without being silly . . . a marvelous swift read. The force is strong with this one.” —The Economist

“[Sunstein’s] enthusiasm is endearing...[the] Harvard Law professor uses George Lucas’s cinematic phenomenon to tackle such disparate topics as the creative process, the writing of constitutional law, and why people commit terrorist acts.” —New Yorker

William Morrow: 240 pp.; index.2016 • 9780062484222 • hc • $21.99 ($26.99/CAN)

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Kathryn Schulz

Of all the things people are wrong about, our condemnation of error should top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. Wrongness is a vital part of how students learn and change. Thanks to error, students can revise their understanding of themselves and amend their ideas.

When asked by the New York Times what book she wished all Harvard freshmen would read, Drew Gilpin Faust, President

of Harvard replied, “Kathryn Schulz’s Being Wrong advocates doubt as a skill and praises error as the foundation of wisdom. Her book would reinforce my encouragement of Harvard’s accomplished and successful freshmen to embrace risk and even failure.”

Freshman Common Read: University of Texas-Pan American, Wellesley College, Washington State College

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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and the Partners That Shape Who We Are Today Rob Dunn

In the name of progress, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and homes, removing whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, and predators. To modern humans, nature is the landscape outside. Biologist Rob Dunn contends that while “clean living” has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. Here, he examines how we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.

“An extraordinary book about a previously little explored subject. With clarity and charm the author takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary

biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition.” —Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Freshman Common Read: Vassar College

Harper: 304 pp.; index.2014 • 9780061806469 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Lauren Redniss

Lauren Redniss has created a fascinating and deeply moving visual biography that walks students through the story of Marie Curie’s life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma. It casts an eye forward to survey the changes wrought by Curie’s discovery of radioactivity—illuminating the path from the Curie laboratory past the bright red mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert through Three Mile Island and the advance in radiation therapy and nuclear power today.

“Absolutely dazzling. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art.” —Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Freshman Common Read: Stanford University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Madison-Wisconsin

Dey Street: 208 pp. 2015 • 9780062416162 • pb • $21.99 ($26.99/CAN)


The Fox Hunt: Escape from Yemen Mohammed Al Samawi

In March 2015, Mohammed Al Samawi did what many of your students do when they need help: he reached out to his social media network. But instead of brunch recommendations or selfie likes, Mohammed was looking for help in escaping the Yemeni Civil War.

Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class Shiite doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Jews as his enemy. Everything he believed was thrown into doubt, however, when he secretly received a copy of the Bible when he was twenty-one. Undergoing a metamorphosis, Mohammed began reaching out to Jews on social media, joined a peace-building organization, and traveled to international interfaith conferences.

When his activities drew death threats, Mohammed was forced to flee to the Southern port city of Aden, only to find his life further endangered when civil war broke out in the spring of 2015. Hiding in the bathroom of his apartment as gunfire and grenades exploded throughout the city, Mohammed—believing these were the final moments of his life—desperately appealed to Facebook friends in the west, who engineered a daring escape plan.

William Morrow: 352 pp.April 2018: 9780062678195 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN)

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria Wendy Pearlman

Northwestern University’s Wendy Pearlman interviewed hundreds of displaced Syrians to create a collective narrative of intimate testimonies that chronicles the experiences of life before, during, and since the start of the 2011 uprising.

In We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled, Dr. Wendy Pearlman provides context with an historical overview to give your students the opportunity to understand a complex and ongoing political situation through an accessible human lens.

“Incendiary—this heart-wrenching testament could not be more timely. Beyond headlines or breaking news or political posturing, this work of witness allows real people to expose Syria’s terrifying heart.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway and Into The Beautiful North

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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring Bassem Youssef

In his satirical news program, Youssef chronicled the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, and the rise of Mohamed Morsi—capturing his nation’s dissent and stamping it with his own brand of political criticism. Accused of insulting the Egyptian presidency and Islam, Youssef fled his homeland—fearful for his safety even after the charges were dismissed.

In Revolution for Dummies, Youssef riffs on the hypocrisy and instability of Egyptian politics: everything from how to govern-ment tried to cover up the violent clashes in Tahrir Square to the military’s announcement that they had created the world’s first AIDS machine that could cure anyone of the disease.

Youssefs most recent project is Democracy Handbook, a ten-part series exploring topics of democracy on Fusion.net. He is also a visiting scholar at the Center of Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

“[Hilarious and heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” —Jon Stewart

Dey Street: 304 pp.2017 • 9780062446893 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in December 2017: 9780062446909 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

The Girl with Seven Names:A North Korean Defector’s Story Hyeonseo Lee

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by the secretive and brutal communist regime created by dictator Kim Il-Sung and his successors. Although her privileged family background insulated her from the cruelest horrors of the regime, living near the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom, and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to realize that she had been brainwashed her entire life. At age seventeen, she decided to escape. Based on her TED Talk, which Oprah called “The most riveting TED talk ever,” Lee’s memoir is one of the first from a female defector from North Korea.

“This is a sad and beautiful story of a girl who could not even keep her name, yet overcame all with the identity of what it is to be human.” —Jang Jin-sung, author of Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee–A Look Inside North Korea

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Loung Ung

One of seven children of a government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung’s family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

“[Ung] tells her stories straightforwardly, vividly, and without any strenuous effort to explicate their importance, allowing the stories themselves to create their own impact.” —New York Times

Angelina Jolie Pitt’s film adaption of Loung Ung’s memoir will release in late 2016 as a Netflix Original film.

Freshman Common Read: Ball State University, Colin County Community College, Stanford’s Three-Book Program, Saint Michael’s College

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. • 2006 • 9780060856267 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) Also Available: Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind • Harper Perennial: 320 pp. • 2006 • 9780060733957 • pb • $13.99 ($17.50/CAN)Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness Harper Perennial: 368 pp. • 2012 • 9780062091918 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

After their father’s death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara—all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest—moved to Hiroshima, their mother’s ancestral home. Eager to go back to America, Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor.

This story of a Japanese-American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II is an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, redemption, U.S.-Japan relations, and the Japanese experience in America.

“Midnight in Broad Daylight is a deeply moving, well-written work that ranks among the better accounts of the injuries in-

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Forty Autumns:A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin WallNina Willner

To students today, the Cold War is a distant memory, as the fall of the USSR occurred in 1991, before most college students were born. It is easy for them to see the Cold War as an example of American fear and even paranoia. Students often believe that spies, subterfuge, and secret missions are the inventions of Hollywood films and popular novels, making it difficult for educators to convey the real threats, fears, and casualties of the time from 1945-1991.

Forty Autumns captures the experience of the Cold War in East Germany and the United States, told through the eyes of one family. It provides an accessible and readable way to teach

students about the events of the Cold War, as well as the human cost of the oppressive regime in East Germany. The timeline at the start of the book connects the family’s story to the broader Cold War, and the book clearly delineates major world events, making Forty Autumns a useful supplement as students learn about American and European history from World War II to the present.

“[A] meticulous and compassionate family memoir… Charting the twists and turns of pol-itics in communist East Germany over more than four decades, it shows how currents of repression and reform affected individual lives.” —Chicago Tribune


How Dare the Sun Rise:Memoirs of a War ChildSandra Uwiringiyimana

Sandra Uwiringiyimana was ten years old when she watched her mother and six-year-old sister be gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren’t from the same community, the same tribe.

In this profoundly moving memoir, Sandra shows the unrelenting strength of one incredible young woman and her family, unveiling how she found a way to give voice to her people and begin the path to healing through art and activism.

“In a world on fire, Sandra’s story of survival delivers essential truths and a message of peace and unity that speaks to us all.” —Tina Brown, founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media/Women in the World

Katherine Tegen Books: 288 pp.2017 • 9780062470140 • hc • $19.99 ($24.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2018: 9780062470157 • pb • $9.99 ($12.50/CAN)

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A Stone of Hope:A Memoir Jim St. Germain with Jon Sternfeld

Born impoverished in Haiti, Jim St. Germain, cofounder of the nonprofit group Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow, moved as a young boy to his grandmother’s cramped apartment in Brooklyn. In Stone of Hope, he vividly describes the isolation of his life in Brooklyn, and, as he got older, how he navigated the world of his gang-ridden neighborhood. At age 15, he was arrested for dealing crack cocaine, but instead of going to prison he was sent to a detention facility, where he was mentored. He earned his GED, a college degree, and a sense of purpose. He became an advocate for at-risk children—returning to work in the detention center that changed his life. Like The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, St. Germain’s memoir introduces students to issues of race, poverty, and social justice.

“Jim’s story is visceral and unsparingly honest. Ultimately it is one of transformation and—most important—hope.” —Booklist

Harper: 304 pp.2017 • 9780062458797 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in July 2018: 9780062458803 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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The Boys in the Bunkhouse:Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland Dan Barry

In a literary tour de force, prize-winning author Dan Barry chronicles the lives of 32 mentally disabled men who labored for decades in a turkey-processing plant in small-town Iowa, and the extraordinary advocates who worked tirelessly to free them.

“I am excited to explore themes of human dignity and re-spect for creation in this year’s All Bonaventure Reads selec-tion. When discussing themes of social justice, the topic of ability is often forgotten. The Boys in the Bunkhouse reminds us of significant shortfalls in attaining equitable treatment of persons with disabilities.” —Chris Brown, director of St. Bonaventure University’s First-Year Experience (FYE) program

“Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

Freshman Common Read: St. Bonaventure University

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Chasing Space:An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second ChancesLeland Melvin

Your students may recognize Leland Melvin: his NASA photo, which he took with his two dogs, went viral in January 2015. A University of Richmond football hero and graduate, Leland, however, is much more than that—he is the only person in human history to have caught a pass in the NFL and walk in space.

From a hamstring injury that ended his NFL career to hearing loss during NASA training, Leland has had more than his share of obstacles to overcome, which makes his perseverance all the more remarkable and inspirational.

“A story of passion and perseverance told by a humble hero. Insightful and inspiring!” —Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit

Amistad: 256 pp.2017 • 9780062496720 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2018: 9780062496737 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What It Means to Be AmericanLaura Wides-Muñoz

The Making of a Dream is the story of a group of young people and how they helped shape major shifts in national policy and public opinion on immigration. It begins at the turn of the millennium, with the first of a series of so-called “Dream Act” proposals; follows the efforts of policy makers, activists, and the undocumented themselves, and concludes with the 2016 presidential election and the first months of the Trump presidency.

Along the way, the Dreamers’ story intersects with the watershed political and economic events of the last two decades: 9/11, the recession, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama presidency, and the rebirth of the anti-immigrant right.

Harper: 304 pp.February 2018: 9780062560124 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN)

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Carry On:A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely FamilyLisa Fenn

When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa Fenn returned to her hometown for a story about two wrestlers at one of Cleveland’s toughest public high schools, she had no idea that the trip would change her life. Both young men were disadvantaged students with significant physical disabilities. Dartanyon is legally blind. Leroy lost his legs in an accident when he was eleven. Brought together by wrestling, they had developed a brother-like bond.

After forming a profound connection with Dartanyon and Leroy, Fenn realized she couldn’t just walk away when the filming ended. Instead, she dedicated herself to ensuring their success—forming an unlikely family.

“Carry On is a surprising book, not only due to the tremendous hearts within these two young men, but because the failures and triumphs in their stories don’t align with typical narrative rhythms. . . . And as in real life, the moments of understanding, of healing, of unbounded joy will astonish you with the scope of their power.” —Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

Harper Wave: 320 pp.; illustrated.2017 • 9780062427847 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Just Kids Patti Smith

• National Book Award

A chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art and devotion. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography.

Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, their prelude to fame.

“This beautifully written memoir is a haunting elegy for Smith’s soul mate Robert Mapplethorpe and a lost New York

City. One of the best books ever written on becoming an artist.” —Washington Post, Best Books of 2010

Freshman Common Read: Kingsborough Community College

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Open Season: The Systemic Legalization of Discrimination Benjamin Crump

Foreword by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowAfterword by Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General

Your students have heard the term “institutional racism,” but do they know what it really means? Here, Benjamin Crump, president of the National Bar Association, defines it in human terms. As he reflects on the landmark cases he has battled—including representing the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown—Crump shows students how race detrimentally influences the treatment and sentencing of people of color. He also makes it clear how budget cuts for education and high unemployment rates in minority communities directly contribute to higher crime rates.

A passionate advocate of justice for all, Crump insists that America must live up to its promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally.

Amistad: 304 pp.January 2018 • 9780062375094 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN)

High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society Dr. Carl Hart

As a youth, Carl Hart didn’t see the value of school, studying just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist—Columbia University’s first tenured African American professor in the sciences—whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

“His account of the ways in which scientific evidence has been ignored in the war on drugs is as alarming as it is fascinating.” —Boston Globe

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How to Be BlackBaratunde Thurston

For those who want to add a dose of humor as well as autobiography to their class discussions about race in America, The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30+ years of expertise in being black with helpful essays such as “How to Be the Black Friend,” and “How to Speak for All Black People.” How to Be Black will connect with black students who might share the same experience of being one of the only black people at work, in a group of friends or in a class—and it will jumpstart class discussions on the portrayal of minorities in media and the prevalence of discrimination.

“Part autobiography, part stand-up routine, part contemporary political analysis, and astute all over, How to Be Black might do

more to expose and explore the shifting dynamics of race in Amerca than all the Pew data of the past decade.” —Melissa Harris-Perry, contributing analyst for MSNBC and columnist for The Nation

Freshman Common Read: Johnson State College

Harper Paperbacks: 272 pp.2012 • 9780062003225 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle Kristen Green

This provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate and closed its public schools. The community’s white leaders quickly established the private Prince Edward Academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use for their all-white classrooms, while black parents scrambled to find alternative education for their children for five years.

Kristen Green grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, without knowledge of its shameful past. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period, her own

family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light, producing a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today.

“Kristen Green was born to write this book. . . . [She] deftly interweaves the personal and the historical into a compelling narrative that leaves no stone unturned. . . . [N]ot only fascinating but cinematic. . . . [A]n award-worthy book.” —Booklist (Top Pick)

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.

Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be.

“Wrenching, deeply moving. . . . a memoir that’s so brave, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul.” —Seattle Times

Harper: 320 pp.2017 • 9780062362599 • pb • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in June 2018: 9780062420718 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Beauty Sick:How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and WomenRenee Engeln, Ph.D.

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor combines scientific studies with the voices of real young women, she makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, women must break free from these destructive desires, attitudes, and words—and she provides workable solutions to help them embrace their whole selves to transform their lives, claim they futures they deserve, and ultimately, change their world.

“[A] sharp examination of beauty sickness reveals its disturbing impact on women of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds.” —Booklist (starred review)

Harper: 400 pp.2017 • 9780062469779 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in April 2018: 9780062469786 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)★ An Epidemic of Beauty Sickness at tedxtalks.ted.com★ Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage EqualityDebbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell

In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to key players, Love Wins reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind Obergefell v Hodges and the lives at its center. This is a story of law and love—and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered.

“A tender story, inspiring, and ultimately a huge cele- bration. . . . You will never forget Jim Obergefell and his lawyer Al Gerhardstein, two men who fought with every ounce of will they could muster. This book will become a classic.” —Erin Brockovich

Wiliam Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp.2017 • 9780062456106 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood Richard Blanco

This powerful and inspiring memoir from Richard Blanco, the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, explores his coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants, and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. Blanco’s poignant, often hilarious memoir brilliantly illuminates the experience of “becoming” in America—a singular yet universal story that all your students will relate to in some way.

“In this vibrant memoir, Obama-inaugural poet Richard Blanco tenderly, exhilaratingly chronicles his Miami childhood amid a colorful, if suffocating, family of Cuban exiles, as well as his quest to find his artistic voice and the

courage to accept himself as a gay man. And then there is that jaunt to Winn-Dixie with his abuela. . . . ” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Freshman Common Read: Florida International University, Quinsigamond Community College, Duke University

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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Morgan Jerkins

In the spirit of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, This Will Be My Undoing takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans.

Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female

oppression that influences the black community as well the white, male-dominated world at large. Morgan Jerkins is in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects.

Harper Perennial: 272 pp. January 2018 • 9780062666154 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men Michael Kimmel

Sociologist Michael Kimmel tackles the world of late adolescent boys and young men: the “guys” of America, aged 16 to 26. Although these young men may appear to be growing up too fast, they are in fact becoming adults quite slowly. From the mundane—video games, movies and television, sports, and music—to the extreme—violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation, and school shootings—Kimmel reveals the culture that every boy must navigate on his way to adulthood, whether he is a participant or a bystander. Kimmel asserts that what happens to boys in this period often determines the type of men they will be for the rest of their lives.

“Kimmel is our seasoned guide into a world that, unless we are guys, we barely know exists. As he walks with us through

dark territories, he points out the significant and reflects on its meaning. Just as Reviving Ophelia introduced readers to the culture of teenage girls, Guyland takes us to the land of young men.” —Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

Freshman Common Read: Winona State University




Another Brooklyn: A NovelJacqueline Woodson

This novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming is a look back on four friends’ fifteenth year: the year that changed them all forever.

Against the backdrop of a changing neighborhood and a changing world, four brown teenage girls are figuring out their lives. Their dreams of modeling, lawyering, dancing, and writing feeling very real until “the most beautiful among us” becomes pregnant. Suddenly, the world is different, more dangerous, their vulnerability more evident, and their dreams of success begin to feel like part of “another Brooklyn, a different time.”

“The novel’s richness defies its slim page count. In her po-et’s prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life par-allel to the one we’re living.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

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Future Home of the Living God: : A NovelLouise Erdrich

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself as women have begun giving birth to babies that appear to be a primitive species of human. When rumors start of Congress rounding up and confining pregnant women, Cedar Hawk Songmaker will do anything to keep herself and her unborn baby safe.

A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.

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LaRose: A NovelLouise Erdrich

The bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic acci-dent, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.

“Louise Erdrich captures the passion, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leave the reader breathless.”—New Yorker

“The radiance of this many-faceted novel is generated by Erdrich’s tenderness for her characters . . . magnificent . . . a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy, elegy, spirituality, resilience, wit, wonder, and hope that will stand as a defining master work of American literature for generations to come.”—Booklist (starred review)

Freshman Common Read: University of Oregon, University of Missouri

Harper: 384 pp.2017 • 9780062277039 • pb • $15.99 ($19.00/CAN)

The Last Ballad: A NovelWiley Cash

The author of A Land More Kind Than Home presents an illuminating look at the struggles of the labor movement in the early 20th century.

It’s 1929, North Carolina, and Ella May Wiggins works for a measly salary at a mill when union leaflets begin to circulate. Yearning for a better life, Ella attends a large union rally—with tragic results.

Seventy-five years later, her daughter Lilly, now an elderly woman, tells her nephew about the events that transformed and shaped their family.

“Lives are changed forever in this intimate and yet expansive novel about a real-life 1929 North Carolina mill strike. With

subtlety and insight, Wiley Cash reveals the dignity and humanity of people asking for a fair shot in an unfair world. Fraught with the turmoil of social change, The Last Ballad moves inexorably toward a devastating moment of reckoning. A timely and topical portrait of a community in crisis.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of A Piece of the World and Orphan Train

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The Risen: A NovelRon Rash

In the summer of 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, Bill, meet the entrancing Ligeia. Ligeia captivates the brothers, causing them to drift apart—and then she vanishes without a trace.

Decades later, now leading opposite lives, Eugene and Bill are confronted with an unexpected reminder of the past, leading them to examine their own recollections of what really happened that summer.

“A beautiful piece of craftsmanship...I’ve long thought Ron Rash as good as any contemporary American novelist I’ve read. This lovely and disturbing book confirms that opinion.” —Wall Street Journal

Ecco: 272 pp.2017 • 9780062436320 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel Ben Fountain

• Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and a National Book Award Finalist

Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents—and the video that went viral—transformed the Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. Ben Fountain’s novel follows the surviving members of the Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive “Victory Tour” at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys.

“Fountain’s excellent first novel follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day. . . . Through

the eyes of the titular soldier, Fountain creates a minutely observed portrait of a society with woefully misplaced priorities.” —The New Yorker

Freshman Common Read: Brandeis University

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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A NovelZora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God, a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance, continues to inspire the next generation of students.

“No book is more important to me than this one.” —Alice Walker

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith

Freshman Common Read: Manchester Community College, Luther College —among others

Harper Perennial: 256 pp.2013 • 9780060838676 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN) ★ Teaching resources are available at ZoraNealeHurston.com

The Hate U Give: A NovelAngie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, unarmed, at the hands of a police officer.

Soon afterward, Khalil’s death is a national headline. When it becomes clear the police have little interest in investigating the incident, protesters take to the streets and Starr’s neighborhood becomes a war zone. What everyone wants to know is: What really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could destroy her community. It could also endanger her life.

Angie Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty.

“Angie Thomas has written a stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching novel that will be remem-bered as a classic of our time.” —John Green

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Go Set a Watchman: A NovelHarper Lee

Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee’s earliest known novel. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014, and is now published for the first time. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman is set during an era of rapid change and significant progress in Civil Rights legislation, and it engages with questions of racial equality and justice that are still at the forefront of our national conversation.

“A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions.” —Washington Post

“Go Set a Watchman comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don’t know how much we need them. Only in retrospect, only when they’re already here and we’re discussing the issues they raise and the emotions they engender, do we appreciate the beautiful synchronicity that links the historical moment with the individual imagination that so heroically explores it.”—Chicago Tribune

Harper: 288 pp.2016 • 9780062409867 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.

Brave New World: A NovelAldous Huxley

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future—of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley’s most enduring masterpiece.

“[A] masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.”—Wall Street Journal

Harper Perennial: 288 pp.2006 • 9780060850524 • pb • $15.99 ($18.50/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at HarperAcademic.com.




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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That MatterCeleste Headlee

It’s no secret that the art of effective communication is on the decline. Between the rise of technology and the increasingly erosive political landscape, Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever. In an incredibly timely and insightful book, NPR veteran Celeste Headlee outlines strategies to become a better conversationalist and improve communication skills:

• Be there or go elsewhere. Human beings are incapable of multitasking, and this is especially true of tasks that involve language. Think you can type up a few emails while watching a video? Think again.

• Check your bias. The belief that your intelligence protects you from erroneous assumptions can end up making you more vulnerable to them. We all have blind spots that affect the way we view others. Check your bias before you judge someone else.

• Hide your phone. Don’t just put down your phone, put it away. New research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone can negatively impact the quality of a conversation.

Harper Wave: 272 pp.2017 • 97800626690015 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN)

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There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know about Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of TomorrowJeffrey J. Selingo

Your students and their parents have heard all of the post-college horror stories: they’ll spend the next 10 years trying to find a job with a salary big enough to cover their college loan payments while they remain financially dependent on their parents. Although this is the bleak outlook college students are told to prepare for, Jeffrey J. Selingo argues that this doesn’t have to be the case.

Selingo gives the next generation what they desperately need: detailed advice and new approaches that will help every student, no matter their major or degree, find real employment—a journey that is not linear, but personal and unique.

“Jeffrey Selingo’s book belongs on the desk of every career counselor, on the shelf of every parent, and in the hands of every young person planning his or her future. There Is Life After College is essential reading for navigating the new workplace terrain.” — Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

William Morrow: 320 pp.2017 • 9780062388858 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

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Getting from College to Career (Revised Edition): Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World Lindsey Pollak

It’s the classic conundrum that faces college students, recent graduates and young professionals: How do I get a job with no experience and how do I get experience without a job? In this newly revised edition, consultant and Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn Lindsey Pollak presents 101 things to do to build a great résumé and gain excellent experience. Pollak helps students use social media on the job hunt, stand out in today’s ultra-competitive job market, and make every networking opportunity a success.

“A well-written, lively and easy to follow guide.” —Time.com

HarperBusiness: 352 pp.2012 • 9780062069276 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

Letting Go (Sixth Edition): A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College YearsKaren Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger

Letting Go answers the questions your students’ parents have as their children enter college:

• When should parents encourage independence?

• When should they intervene?

• What issues of identity and intimacy await students?

• What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students—and for parents?

• What is different about today’s college environment?

• What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes?

“Coburn and Treeger offer an exemplary resource filled with practical insight to enhance familial support for today’s college students.” —Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., Dean of Academic and Student Success, Johns Hopkins University

William Morrow Paperbacks: 464 pp.2016 • 9780062400567 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) A workshop outline for orientation programs and downloadable handouts for students and parents are available at harperacademic.com/pages/letting-go.

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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the ClassroomStanley Fish

This lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor touches on hot-button issues to reveal how successful argument can be used to win over popular opinion.

For students, Winning Arguments is a fun read and a powerful tool that will stay with them long after they finish the book. For, as Stanley Fish writes, “argument is unavoidable, argument is interminable, argument is all we have.”

“Fish mines cultural touchstone from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory.” —New York Times Book Review

Harper: 224 pp.2017 • 9780062226679 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read OneStanley Fish

Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.

“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.” —Financial Times

“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount, Jr.

Harper Paperbacks: 176 pp.2012 • 9780061840531 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

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Darling Days: A Memoir iO Tillett WrightEcco: 400 pp. 2017 • 9780062368218 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★ iO Tillett Wright’s TED Talk, Fifty Shades of Gay: www.ted.com

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Garth SteinFreshman Common Read: Medaille College

Harper Paperbacks: 336 pp.2009 • 9780061537967 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield Gayle Tzemach LemmonFreshman Common Read: Texas A&M San Antonio (FYE Book Club)


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Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare BeganAlex Cooper with Joanna Brooks

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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American DreamAdam ShepardFreshman Common Read: Methodist University, North Carolina Central University, Lewis University (Illinois), St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and Voorhees College—among others


The Shed That Fed a Million Children: The Mary’s Meals Story Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

William Collins: 320 pp.2016 • 9780008152246 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus Laura Kipnis

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The Wild Truth Carine McCandlessForeword by John Krakauer

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BBad Feminist .................................. 6Barry, Dan .................................... 17Batstone, David .............................. 8Beauty Sick ................................... 22Being Wrong ................................ 11Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 27Blanco, Richard ............................ 23Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,

The .............................................. 5Boys in the Bunkhouse, The ....... 17Brannen, Peter ............................. 34Brave New World ......................... 29Brooks, Joanna ............................. 35

CCalcaterra, Regina ....................... 34Carry On ....................................... 19Cash, Wiley .................................. 26Cenziper, Debbie ......................... 23Chabon, Michael ......................... 35Chasing Space .............................. 18Coburn, Karen Levin .................. 31Commonwealth ........................... 33Cooper, Alex ................................ 35Crump, Benjamin ........................ 20

DDarling Days ................................ 33Deadly Wandering, A.................... 7Devoured ...................................... 33Door to Door ................................. 9Dressmaker of Khair Khana,

The ............................................ 34Dubner, Stephen J. ....................... 10Dunn, Rob .................................... 12

EEgan, Sophie ................................. 33Ends of the World, The ............... 34Engeln, Renee ............................... 22Epic Measures .............................. 34Erdrich, Louise ...................8, 25, 26Etched in Sand ............................. 34Everybody Lies ............................... 9

FFenn, Lisa...................................... 19Find Me Unafraid .......................... 6First They Killed My Father ....... 15Fish, Stanley ................................. 32Flight Behavior ............................. 34

Forty Autumns ............................. 16Fountain, Ben ............................... 27Fox Hunt, The .............................. 13Freakonomics ............................... 10Future Home of the Living God 25

GGay, Roxane .............................. 6, 22Getting from College to Career

(Revised Edition) .................... 31Girl in the Woods ........................ 35Girl with Seven Names, The ....... 14Go Set a Watchman ..................... 29Green, Kristen .............................. 21Grennan, Conor ............................. 5Guyland ........................................ 24

HHarari, Yuval Noah ...................... 35Hart, Carl ...................................... 20Hate U Give, The ......................... 28Headlee, Celeste ........................... 30Hidden Figures .............................. 4High Price ..................................... 20Hillbilly Elegy ................................. 4How Dare the Sun Rise ............... 16How to Be Black .......................... 21How to Write a Sentence ............ 32Humes, Edward ............................. 9Hunger .......................................... 22Hurston, Zora Neale .................... 28Huxley, Aldous ............................. 29

JJerkins, Morgan ........................... 24Jesuit Guide to (Almost)

Everything, The ....................... 35Just Kids ........................................ 19Kamkwamba, William .................. 5Kimmel, Michael ......................... 24Kingsolver, Barbara ..................... 34Kipnis, Laura ................................ 36Kline, Christina Baker .................. 7

LLaRose ........................................... 26Last Ballad, The ............................ 26Lee, Harper ................................... 29Lee, Hyeonseo .............................. 14Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach .....33, 34Letting Go (Sixth Edition).......... 31Levitt, Steven D. ........................... 10Little Princes .................................. 5Love Wins ..................................... 23

MMacFarlane-Barrow, Magnus ..... 36Making of a Dream, The ............. 18Martin, James ............................... 35Matis, Aspen ................................. 35McCandless, Carine .................... 36Mealer, Bryan ................................. 5Melvin, Leland ............................. 18Midnight in Broad Daylight ....... 15Moonglow ..................................... 35

NNot For Sale .................................... 8

OObergefell, Jim ............................. 23Odede, Kennedy ............................ 6Open Season ................................ 20Orphan Train ................................. 7

PPatchett, Ann ................................ 33Pearlman, Wendy ........................ 13Pollak, Lindsey ............................. 31Posner, Jessica ................................ 6Prince of Los Cocuyos, The ........ 23

RRadioactive ................................... 12Rash, Ron ................................27, 36Redniss, Lauren ........................... 12Revolution for Dummies ............ 14Richtel, Matt ................................... 7Risen, The ..................................... 27Round House, The ......................... 8

SSakamoto, Pamela Rotner .......... 15Sapiens .......................................... 35Saving Alex ................................... 35Schulz, Kathryn ........................... 11Scratch Beginnings ...................... 36Selingo, Jeffrey J. .......................... 30Serena ............................................ 36Shed That Fed a Million Children,

The ............................................ 36Shepard, Adam W. ....................... 36Shetterly, Margot Lee .................... 4Smith, Jeremy N. .......................... 34Smith, Patti ................................... 19Something Must Be Done About

Prince Edward County........... 21St. Germain, Jim .......................... 17Stein, Garth .................................. 33Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth........... 9Sternfeld, Jon ................................ 17Stone of Hope, A .......................... 17Sunstein, Cass R. .......................... 11SuperFreakonomics ..................... 10

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