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INCLUDES:Best Practices & Programming Ideasfrom the Random HouseFirst-Year Reads Advisory Board

dear Freshman Year Reading director:

As a leading book publisher we firmly believe in the importance of engaging in a dialogue withyou and drawing upon your feedback to better guide our efforts. erefore, with this seventhedition of our annual Freshman Year Reading catalog, we are proud to offer the knowledge,creativity, and experience of our inaugural Random House First-Year Advisory Board.

e Random House First-Year Advisory Board was launched in the summer of 2010 with anintensive two-day summit at our new York city headquarters. e board members—dr. Rebecca P.campbell of northern Arizona University, dr. steven Girardot of Georgia institute of Technology,and dr. daphne Rankin of Virginia commonwealth University—met with a variety of publishingprofessionals, including editors, publicists, marketers, and sales representatives, to learn moreabout the publishing industry and to discuss the needs of common reading program facilitators. in addition to attending these meetings, board members also took part in roundtables about topicssuch as Best Practices, ideas for programming, and how to best share program experiences withothers.

e board also examined our Freshman Year Reading catalog and generated numerous ideas forits improvement, many of which have been implemented in this edition. in particular, we hope thatyou find the addition of a “Key Facts” box useful. is informational section highlights importantpoints about each featured text in a color-coded, bulleted fashion, so you can easily identify whatyou need to know about a particular book or author. Key points such as which schools havepreviously selected the book, the book’s key themes, and the author’s availability for campus visitsare listed there. Also included in this year’s catalog is a special two-page “Best Practices” spread,created with the input of the Advisory Board as well as our authors.

in addition to this print resource and our common Reads blog, we have also extended our digitalsocial media network with a common Reads Facebook page and Twitter account. Please refer tothe facing page to find these communities on the web. in addition to providing important news andupdates on these sites, we also occasionally give away free books!

As this year unfolds, we will continue to utilize theexpertise of the Random House First-Year Advisory Board;their invaluable feedback and input will help us to serve youbetter and support you in your programming.

Please dive in to our improved catalog and join us on theweb. We look forward to continuing the dialogue.

sincerely,

michael d. Gentiledirector, Academic marketingRandom House, inc.1745 Broadwaynew York, nY 10019Tel. (212) 782-8387Fax (212) 940-7381

[email protected] Authors at the 2010 Random House First-Year Experience®(FYE) Luncheon. Clockwise from left: Bill Strickland, Thomas Mullen,

Dana Canedy, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Warren St. John

Authors chat with attendees and sign books at the 2010Random House First-Year Experience® (FYE) Luncheon

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life stories—memoir, Biography, and Autobiography ............................................................2Fiction to Talk About ..................................................................................................................24inspiration and Guidance ..........................................................................................................34Best Practices and Programming ideas ......................................................................centerfoldHistory and society ....................................................................................................................42life & college Guides..................................................................................................................52Go Green ......................................................................................................................................56social Action ................................................................................................................................60Philosophy ....................................................................................................................................65money matters ............................................................................................................................66christian interest ........................................................................................................................68index..............................................................................................................................................70order Form ..................................................................................................................................74

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FIST STICK KNIFE GUN A Personal History of ViolenceBy Geoffrey Canada

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FIST STICK KNIFE GUN A Personal History of ViolenceA True Story in Black and WhiteBy Geoffrey Canada; Adapted by Jamar Nicholasin a stunning pairing, acclaimed comicscreator Jamar nicholas presents canada’sraw and riveting account, one of the mostauthentic and important true stories ofurban violence ever told.“Geoffrey Canada’s realistic yet hopeful voicefinds fresh expression through the comic style of Jamar Nicholas. Canada’saccount of his childhood and the role that violence played in shaping hisexperiences provides hard-won and crucial lessons.”

—Pedro A. Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University

“Jamar Nicholas is a master of his craft—his drawings are full of life and trulystunning.” —Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

“I wish every city had a Geoffrey Canada.” —President Bill Clinton

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4449-0 | 144pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBook

About the Author: Geoffrey canadageoFFReY Canada grew up in the South Bronx. Since 1990 he has been the president and chiefexecutive officer of Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization that offers a comprehensive range ofservices to over 10,000 children in a nearly 100-block area of Central Harlem. Harlem Children’s Zone hasbeen featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, andNightline, and has been recognized in The New York Times. In October 2005 Canada was named one of“America's Best Leaders” by U.S. News and World Report. He is featured in the film Waiting for ‘Superman.’

A new edition, including the story of the founding of Harlem children’s Zone

long before President Barack obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort

that is literally saving a generation of children” and First ladymichelle obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey canadawas a small, scared boy growing up in the south Bronx. Hischildhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codesof the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife,and, finally, gun. “a more powerful depiction of the tragic life of urban children anda more compelling plea to end ‘america’s war against itself’ cannotbe imagined.” —The New York Times Book Review

“a slim, revealing volume that should be required reading foranyone who has ever negotiated the complicated hierarchy of ‘rep’and revenge on city streets.” —Boston Globe

To view trailer and official website for the documentary Waiting for ‘Superman,’ featuring Geoffrey Canada, go to:

www.WaitingForSuperman.com

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4461-2 | 192pp.$14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

KeY FActs:Themes: Coming of Age, Perseverance, Regionalism:New York/Urban Interest

Discussion Guides: Teacher’s Guide Available

Alternative Formats: eBook

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New UpdatedEdition

3Life Stories—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

A Message from Geoffrey Canada

When my memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, was first publishedin 1995, it told the story of my life growing up in the south Bronx as both a victim of violenceand as a perpetrator for my own survival. Things in my neighborhood and in manyneighborhoods across the country have not improved since i was young. in fact, they’vegrown worse. Violence has always been a problem, but it has never been as deadly as it istoday. in 2009, the children’s defense Fund reported that nearly nine children and teens arekilled every day as a result of gun violence. With more guns and more drugs available on thestreets than ever before, what chance do kids today have of surviving, let alone thriving, in theworld that has been provided for them?

This year my publisher, Beacon Press, has released a revised edition of Fist Stick KnifeGun, updated to reflect some of the work that has been done over the last fifteen years. AtHarlem children’s Zone, where i am now the president and ceo, we have grown to servenearly one hundred city blocks, reaching more than ten thousand children with freeprogramming and support. one way that we accomplish this is by placing trained and caringadults in the middle of these underserved communities, in order to let these children knowthat they are not alone out there. in Fist Stick Knife Gun i describe what it was like for me to bein the middle of the violence, with nowhere to run and no one to turn to. in the years since iwrote it, i have worked to protect the children who are still trapped in that difficult place.

in addition to the revised edition of my memoir, Beacon Press has also released a newgraphic novel adaptation of Fist Stick Knife Gun by cartoonist and illustrator Jamar nicholas.This new version brings the book into the twenty-first century in a fresh and exciting way. itoffers a new tool for understanding the circumstances and psychology of the children whomust face violence every day.

The problem of youth violence cannot be solved from a distance. While i believe it isessential that people begin to understand thecrisis that our children face, it is more importantthat they start taking steps to protect them. ihope that these two new editions of Fist StickKnife Gun will inspire today’s students, parents,activists, and concerned citizens to take thesesteps. When i was in college, i was absolutelyfocused on one thing: how to improve theoutcomes for the kinds of kids i knew growingup. i still dream of the day that we find theanswer to that question.

Geoffrey CanadaJamar nicholas and geoffrey Canada at the

Random House second annual author eventfor nYC educators


STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINSBy Tracy Kidder

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of thecollege common reading program classic Mountains Beyond

Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “masterof the nonfiction narrative.” in this new book, Kidder gives us thesuperb story of a hero for our time. deo arrives in America fromBurundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war andgenocide, and plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airportwith two hundred dollars, no knowledge of the english language,and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence deliveringgroceries, living in central Park and learning english by readingdictionaries in bookstores. Then deo meets the strangers who willchange his life, eventually pointing him in the direction ofcolumbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.With Strength in What Remains, Kidder breaks new ground, tellingan unforgettable story as he travels back with deo over a turbulentlife in search of meaning and forgiveness. “that 63-year-old tracy kidder may have just written his finestwork—indeed, one of the truly stunning books I’ve read this year—is proof that the secret to memorable nonfiction is so often thewriter’s readiness to be surprised. deo’s experience can feel likethis era’s version of the ellis Island migration. deo is propelled, sooften, by pure will, and his victories . . . summon a feeling ofrestored confidence in human nature and american opportunity.then we plunge into hell. Having only glimpses of deo’s past, wesuddenly get a full-blown portrait. kidder’s rendering of what deoendured and survived just before he boarded the plane for newYork is one of the most powerful passages of modern nonfiction.”

—Ron Suskind, The New York Times Book Review

“tracy kidder’s new book Strength in What Remains is . . . narrativeinfused with a broad, universal appeal and occasional touches ofbrilliance. He offers us fine prose, complex characters, and realisticportrayals. deo’s resilience, his struggle to overcome adversitystrikes a chord in all of us. His story reaffirms our hope that oneperson can make a difference . . . [t]his book is one not to bemissed.” —Seattle Times

“It is a mark of the skill and empathy of mr. kidder, a pulitzer prize-winning author, that he makes deo’s story come alive believably—as the experience of a real individual—and avoids . . . the usualtropes of a triumph-of-the-human-spirit tale. [t]he bookencourages a general hope that individuals can transcend even thegreatest horrors.” —The Wall Street Journal

About the Author: tracy KiddertRaCY kIddeR graduated from Harvard University, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as anarmy officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. KennedyAward, and many other literary prizes. He lives in Massachusetts and Maine.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7761-5 | 304pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Website: www.TracyKidder.comTo view video of Tracy Kidder’s presentation atthe 2009 First-Year Experience® Conference inOrlando, FL, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yaud5t6

KeY FActs:Selected for Common Reading:Caldwell College, Penn State Berks, Stanford University, University of Delaware, and others.

Campus Visits: Author Available

Themes: Global Citizenship, Human Rights,Perseverance/Personal Strength, Transition


Alternative Formats: Audio, eBook

Now in paperback


MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the WorldBy Tracy KidderAn ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable Book

101 George Read NorthUniversity of Delaware

Newark, DE 19716-1106Phone: 302-831-3330

Fax: 302-831-4053

First Year Seminar

A Message from the First Year Seminar Director at the University of Delaware

dear colleagues,

The University of delaware chose Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder’s Strength in WhatRemains as its First Year common Reader in 2010. Strength in What Remains is the story of deogratias(deo), a young medical student from the central African nation of Burundi, who fled the ethnicviolence in Burundi and genocide in Rwanda and was transported to new York city. deo succeededagainst all odds, graduating from columbia University, and subsequently returned to Africa. A trulyremarkable story of survival, despair, determination, evil, and kindness, the book was chosen by anadvisory committee comprised of faculty, students, advisors, and student life staff who believed that itwould provide a unique opportunity for students to consider issues related to that part of the world andto begin addressing questions about personal meaning, transition, and passion. The committee also feltthat the book would encourage our students to consider what it means to be a global citizen.

The choice proved extremely popular among the first year students, and the entire University ofdelaware community engaged in a number of events related to the book. Author Tracy Kidder and thebook’s hero deo visited our campus to share their vision of hope and renewal with our freshman class.Following their visit, a graduate of the University of delaware Honors Program spoke to the freshmanclass via skype from the Village Health Works clinic in Burundi. discussing how she had used herdelaware experience as a bridge to help others achieve a better life in places that the rest of the worldseems to have overlooked, her talk complemented Kidder and deo’s visit.

Strength in What Remains proved not only to be a popularchoice, but to provide a unique opportunity for our students tolearn about another part of the world and to begin to understandthe complexities and interrelationships of the global landscape.

sincerely,Avron Abraham, Ph.d.Faculty directorFirst Year seminar and common Reader Program

Also by Tracy Kidder

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in medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and bring thelifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. demonstrating a clear-eyedunderstanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease, Tracy Kidder’smagnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems.A popular Common Reading selection at over 60 colleges/universities and One City, One Book programs.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7301-3 | 352pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio • eBookthemes: science & society • service • social Justice

To view the author’s talk at the 2009First-Year Experience® meeting, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/yaud5t6

university of delaware students line upto have books signed by deo


A MIGHTY LONG WAYMy Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High SchoolBy Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier PageForeword by Bill Clinton

When fourteen-year-old carlotta Walls walked up the stairs oflittle Rock central High school on september 25, 1957, she

and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. Butthe journey of the “little Rock nine,” as they came to be known,would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulentpath, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break downbarriers, and forever change the landscape of America. completewith compelling photographs, A Mighty Long Way shines a light onthis watershed moment in civil rights history and shows thatdetermination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world are notexclusive to a few special people, but are inherent within us all.“Carlotta walls Lanier’s A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account ofnine brave high school students and their families in a quest forquality desegregated public education. what happened in LittleRock in 1957 resulted in america’s greatest constitutional crisissince the Civil war. Carlotta’s account of events inside and outsideLittle Rock Central High school should be read and studiedparticularly by those who now walk through doors of opportunitywhich Carlotta and her schoolmates first opened over 50 years ago.when I started her book, I couldn’t put it down. It is a must-read.”

—James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, Dean of The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service

“Carlotta walls Lanier was the youngest of the Little Rock 9 to cross the color lines, political barriers and cultural chasms thatcircumscribed her life. she, her family and friends paid a heavyprice that burdened them even as it liberated all of us. Her memoir,which is really our memoir, provides a rare perspective on thathistory in the making.”

—Hank Klibanoff, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and The Awakening of the Nation

“In A Mighty Long Way, this revered american and special friendboldly tells how her high school days have evolved as the centralexperience of her life. I commend Carlotta for the legacy she hasleft and for the lessons she and her colleagues have taught us allwith such nobility.”

—Nancy Rousseau, Principal, Little Rock Central High School (2002–present)

About the Author: carlotta Walls LaNierCaRLotta waLLs LanIeR attended Michigan State University and graduated from Colorado StateCollege—now the University of Northern Colorado, on whose board of trustees she sits. After workingfor the YWCA, she founded her own real estate brokerage firm, LaNier and Company. A sought-afterlecturer, LaNier speaks across the country and has received the Congressional Medal of Honor and twohonorary doctorate degrees. She is the mother of two children, Whitney and Brooke, and lives inEnglewood, Colorado with her husband Ira.

One World | TR | 978-0-345-51101-0 | 336pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

To view video of Carlotta Walls LaNier’s presentation at the 2010

First-Year Experience® Conference in Denver, CO, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/27l9tfw

KeY FActs:Selected for Common Reading:Defiance College, SUNY Potsdam, and others.


Themes: Coming of Age, Inclusiveness, Regionalism:Alabama/The South

Discussion Guides: Available


Now in paperback


A Message from Carlotta Walls LaNier

Why i Wrote This Book:

i started this book in earnest in January of 2006. i had in mind the upcoming 50thanniversary of our entry into little Rock’s central High school. This september 2007 eventmight have been the impetus, but it wasn’t the reason. (Besides, i sort of missed that deadlineby a couple of years!)

As i say in the book, i didn’t talk much about my experiences until the late 1980s, after our30th anniversary, when the nine of us were all together again in little Rock and Bill clintonwas governor of the state. in the years that followed, melba told her story in Warriors Don’tCry. ernie had a movie about his experience, The Ernie Green Story. mrs. Huckaby, theassistant principal, told her story, which was made into a movie called Crisis at Little Rock.Back in the 1960s, mrs. Bates had told her story in The Long Shadow of Little Rock.

so i started making my way into high school and college classrooms to tell my story.invariably, students who knew some of these other works would assume that my story wasalso their story, that my story had already been represented by others. Well, that just was notthe case. each of us has a story—not greater or lesser, just different.

so this is one reason: my story had not yet been told. i was the only one who could tell it.

But why the long wait? Because this journey back in time was deeply painful. To revisitthat period, to really find out what it all meant and how it shaped the life i have lived, took agreat deal of courage i wasn’t sure that i had. Though i had friends along the way who helpedme get at that story, the journey backwards—as it was over fifty years ago—was still a singularand lonely path. Quite frankly, i did not want to go there. But as with all that weighs heavy inour psyches, there are things we need to see in the light of day to understand. As the oldwoman said, when asked about her writing: “How do i know what i think until i see what i say?”

This book is my understanding of my story. it’s out now, and i can see the light of day.

Upon the book’s release, i began to talk about it with students on college campuses. myfavorite moments during these visits are the question and answer sessions. on a recent visit toa campus in north carolina, it seemed that every student was bursting with questions. someof the African American students connected their own educational path with my journey. Bydoing so, they came to know their nation’s history in a more personal and real way. i also enjoygoing to lunch or dinner with students; the talk becomes more intimate. i get to know whothey are, and they can ask me questions that often cause me to think in new ways about mystory.

i would be delighted to visit your campus so your students can get to know my story,which is ultimately their story.

Carlotta Walls LaNier


THE OTHER WES MOOREOne Name, Two FatesBy Wes Moore

in december 2000, The Baltimore Sun ran a short article aboutWes moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes

scholarship. The same paper also ran a huge story about fouryoung men who had allegedly killed a police officer in aspectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still huntingfor two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers.one of the brothers was also named Wes moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence or his inklingthat the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper.After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trialto its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, a convictedmurderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been hauntinghim: Who are you? How did this happen?That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that lasted forseveral years. over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wesdiscovered that the other Wes had experienced a life not unlike hisown. Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and haddifficult childhoods. Both were fatherless. They’d hung out onsimilar corners with similar crews, and both had run into troublewith the police. At each stage of their young lives they had facedsimilar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them toastonishingly different destinies.Told in dramatic alternating narratives that take readers fromheart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys tryingto find their way in a hostile world.“The Other Wes Moore highlights the transformative influence ofcaring adults. . . . moore vividly and powerfully describes not justthe culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up ina world where violence makes you a man, school seems irrelevant,and drug dealing is a respected career choice.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine

“wes moore has not just written a compelling story, but hascreated a perfect case study of how and why young men can godown the wrong path—and how they can be saved. this should berequired reading for anyone who is trying to understand what ishappening to young men in our inner cities.”

—Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone

About the Author: Wes Moorewes mooRe is a Rhodes Scholar and a combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan. As a White HouseFellow he worked as a special assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. He wasa featured speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was named one of Ebony magazine’sTop 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and most recently, was dubbed one of the top young business leadersin America in Crain’s New York Business. He works in New York City.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52820-7 | 272pp.$15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Website: www.TheOtherWesMoore.com

KeY FActs:Selected for Common Reading:• Colleges & Universities

Bay Path College (Springfield, MA); Cabrini College (Radnor, PA); California State University at Bakersfield (Bakersfield, CA), Marquette University

• One City, One BookEverybody Reads (Multnomah County Library in Portland, OR); One Book, One Bakersfield (Bakersfield, CA)


Themes: Coming of Age, Identity, Regionalism: Baltimore/The Northeast


Now in paperback


A Message from Wes Moore

i am living proof that a support system of family, mentors, and educators is critical for success and,as such, have the most tremendous respect for those of you who give tirelessly of yourselves to improvethe future of a child. i would like to humbly thank all of you for being heroes to so many of yourstudents, for inspiring them in ways you probably cannot even fathom yet, and for teaching themcharacter and personal responsibility in addition to academics. it is your example, your belief in them,along with the preparation you give them in the classroom, that will unlock doors of opportunity.

i am a grandchild of a retired school teacher who taught in the Bronx public school system for overtwenty years, the son-in-law of a new York city public elementary school teacher of over twenty years,and a proud advocate for schools and the kids they serve. i have grown up hearing the stories ofredemption and disappointment, of joy and pain, and of the success and failure of so many kids whofind themselves in a system that currently works for some, but doesn’t for too many others. like acaptain on the front lines in Afghanistan, you are the front-line soldiers in the most important battle ournation faces now: the battle to educate and prepare our next generation of leaders.

Just as we need to mobilize leaders and resources around our battles overseas, the same must bedone to help our children navigate their journeys into adulthood.

We are all familiar with the disturbing statistics of low graduation and high dropout rates in ournation’s public schools. And with more than fifty percent of marriages failing in today’s society, andsingle-parent households the norm in many inner-city communities, children lack the guidance that thefamily structure once provided. i am sure we are all alarmed that, in today’s world, young men of colorare more likely to be in prison than in college. For too many in our nation, particularly those who live inour most precarious areas, a broken school system serves as a precursor to entry into the juvenile justicesystem. But i believe this is a problem we can—and must—tackle.

studies show that students from low-income communities can and do achieve at high levels whenthey are given the resources and attention they deserve. And there are amazing educators and civicleaders who are already leading the charge with impressive steam. i know the fixes aren’t simple, nor arethey cheap. But there are a few things to remember: The answer isn’t simply spending more money; it isto spend money wisely with a focus on the children we intend to serve. The costs of inaction areunbearably high when you consider that it costs nearly $200,000 to incarcerate someone in new York,while a recent columbia University study shows that cutting the dropout rate in half would yield 45billion dollars annually in both new federal tax revenues and cost savings.

Promising reforms that embrace alternative teaching platforms, teacher pay systems based onperformance, and the inspired 4.35 billion dollars in “Race to the Top” funds that the obamaadministration has allocated are tremendous, but a national embrace of innovation and policy change isimperative.

We will need fortitude and ingenuity as we embark on theeducation reform battle of our lifetime. The chance to raiseexpectations, the opportunity for our children to do better thantheir parents, and the need to translate the experience of youngstudents into the dreams of a nation must now drive us all. Just asit was imperative for my fellow soldiers and i to win our fights,the same can be said for you and the work you are doing. AsPresident obama recently expressed, “The future belongs to thenation that best educates its citizens.” i could not agree more.

Wes Moorewes moore at the Random House second annual author event for nYC educators


ENRIQUE’S JOURNEYThe Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother By Sonia Nazario

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

When enrique was just five years old, his mother lourdes,seeing no other way out of their poverty in Honduras,

decided to make the hazardous trek north. enrique and his siblingsstruggled without their mother, until enrique finally made his wayfrom the rough streets of Tegucigalpa through mexico and acrossthe dangerous Texan border. Journalist sonia nazario’s expertreporting allows students to encounter each setback alongsideenrique, and the result is as suspenseful and harrowing as it isinformative. Enrique’s Journey is a timely account of one anguished family’sexperience with an issue of international scope and urgency—illegal immigration—but it is also the timeless, mythic story of adangerous journey undertaken to make a broken family whole.“this portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential toreshape american conversations about immigration.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“a stirring and troubling book about a magnificent journey . . . Joseph Campbell would recognize Enrique’s Journey. It’s thestuff of myth . . . [but] Enrique’s Journey is true. . . . a microcosm ofthe massive exodus pouring over the borders of our nations . . .enrique’s suffering and bravery become universal, and one cannotfail to be moved by the desperation and sheer strength of spiritthat guides these lonely wanderers. . . . Enrique’s Journey is aboutlove. It’s about family. It’s about home. . . . the border will continueto trouble the dreams of anyone who is paying attention. . . .Enrique’s Journey is among the best border books yet written.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told . . . readersfed up with the ongoing turf wars between fact and fiction, takenote: Here is fantastic stunt reporting that places this sometimeshard-to-believe story squarely in the realm of nonfiction.”

—The Christian Science Monitor

“a meticulously documented account of an epic journey, oneundertaken by thousands of children every year . . . [nazario]covers both positive and negative effects of immigration,illuminating the problem’s complexity. . . . In telling enrique’s story[she] bears witness for us all.” —San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author: sonia NazariosonIa nazaRIo has spent twenty years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as aprojects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have addressed some of this country’s mostintractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. She has won numerous nationaljournalism and book awards. Nazario is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in LatinAmerican studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Website: www.EnriquesJourney.com

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7178-1 | 336pp.$14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

KeY FActs:Selected for Common Reading at more than 40 colleges and One Book, One City programs.College of Mount St. Joseph, Henderson StateUniversity, Indiana University, University of Missouri,Pennsylvania State University, Rockhurst University,and others.


Themes: Coming of Age, Immigration, Social Justice




A Message from Sonia Nazario

President obama has vowed to put immigration reform on the front burner. That means that studentinterest in Enrique’s Journey, already read by freshman at twenty-seven colleges and universities, will nodoubt increase in the year to come.

in the fall of 2009, i traveled to nearly twenty colleges and universities to talk withstudents about Enrique’s Journey. These visits led to incredibly interesting and movingencounters with students who revealed unique responses to my book. many non-latinostudents told me they had no real concept of the poverty that pushes migrants out ofplaces like Honduras. They said they found the story of what enrique and other migrantchildren are willing to do to reach the U.s. not only moving, but instructive, forcing themto reevaluate what they know about immigration. one African American student inchicago told me how her grandmother had moved from mississippi to illinois and lefther children behind, an experience common among African American women leavingthe south. she said the book gave her a deeper bond with people south of the border.

mexican American students often tell me they have a better understanding of the tensions betweenmexicans and central Americans in the U.s.

The most moving responses, however, are from latino students who say this isthe first book that allowed them to see some glimmer of their own lives and experi-ences. They—or someone in their family—made the journey to the U.s. on top offreight trains or were separated from parents in the process of coming to the U.s.

immigrant students—whether from china, Russia, or Poland—told me theylived with these separations as well.

What has been most promising is the students’ clear desire to alleviate thesituation i describe in Enrique’s Journey. As one Unc—Greensboro student put it so beautifully: Whenthe U.s. decided to put a man on the moon, they said it would take ten years; it actually took just eightyears. some of the astronauts on that moon mission were eighteen years old when the commitment bythe U.s. was first made. “i’m 18,” the student told me. “if we can put a man on the moon in less than tenyears, surely we can make progress in helping to create jobs in latin America in the next decade.”

The woman who administers the freshman read program at northern Arizona University saidEnrique’s Journey appealed to her and worked for many reasons:

it appealed to both male and female students. The protagonist is close to thestudents’ age. The book, she said, is a compelling read that broadens students’awareness of cultures not their own. simply, it is about a hot current issue.

The administration and faculty liked that Enrique’s Journey addressed certainthemes: survival, community, education, family, diversity, racism, violence,drugs, redemption, foreign relations, politics, and immigration. They also likedthat it touches on emotions some first-year students might be dealing with, suchas loneliness, connection to family, and the temptation to succumb to violenceand drugs.

What i have enjoyed most about my discussions at these universities is thatthey have taken a highly polarizing issue—an important issue—and allowed students to see it in anuanced way. As we head into renewed and heated debates about immigration, this is an issue with manyshades of gray, best explored through research, reflection, and most importantly, conversation.

Sonia Nazario


BE DIFFERENTAdventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & TeachersBy John Elder RobisonWith disarming honesty and wit, Robison argues that Asperger’ssyndrome is not so much about disability as it is about difference,offering anecdotes and stories drawn from his life, and the lives ofother Aspergians, to illustrate his claim.Robison presents practical advice to Aspergians, suggesting howthey can improve their communication skills and learn to navigatesocial situations and relationships. Aspergians will find much to support them here as they navigatethe world of “neurotypicals,” while all readers will come away witha deeper understanding of the attributes of Asperger’s—and of atruly unique mind. Do not order before 3/29/2011.Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-88481-7 | 304pp. | $24.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.00author available • alternative Formats: audio • eBookthemes: discovering differences • Life skills

Author Spotlight: John elder RobisonJoHn eLdeR RoBIson lives with his wife and son in Amherst, Massachusetts. His company, JE Robison Service, specializes in the repair and restoration of fine European automobiles.

LOOK ME IN THE EYEMy Life with Asperger’sBy John Elder RobisonAccording to author John elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye isabout “growing up with Asperger’s syndrome—a high functioningform of autism—overcoming my limitations, and ultimatelybecoming a successful adult.”“John Robison’s book is an immensely affecting account of a lifelived according to his gifts rather than his limitations. His storyprovides ample evidence for my belief that individuals on theautistic spectrum are just as capable of rich and productive lives asanyone else.” —Daniel Tammet, author of Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic SavantSelected for Common Reading at Defiance College and SUNY Potsdam, and used in high schools and college courses throughout the country.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-39618-1 | 320pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio • eBookthemes: discovering differences • Identity

Websites: www.JohnRobison.com • www.JERobison.blogspot.com/ www.facebook.com/JohnElderRobison • www.twitter.com/johnrobison/john-robisonTo view video of John Elder Robison’s presentation at the 2009 First-Year Experience®

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A Message from John Elder Robison

Thank you for considering Look Me in the Eye and BeDifferent for your school reading program. i am truly honored thatso many educators have taken up my stories as teaching tools.When i began writing, never in my wildest dreams did i imaginethat i’d be able to touch so many lives in a positive way. it’s veryimportant that we show young people that different does not haveto mean disabled, and that it’s possible to build a good life despiteadversity. my stories deliver those messages.

i dropped out of high school in the 1970s because i could notfit in. But i never let that stop me. i taught myself engineering andcreated special effects for Kiss. i designed games for milton Bradley, restored Rolls Royce automobiles,got married, and raised a family. i am different, but i am far from being disabled by my Asperger’s. inthese books, i share the secrets of my success.

since its release in 2007, Look Me in the Eye has become one of the definitive accounts of life withautism. my stories of rock and roll, video games, strange people, exotic cars, and growing up differentspeak to many young people. At the same time, the insights into my inscrutable autistic mind haveproven valuable to both teachers and mental health professionals. With the 2011 release of Be Different,those insights will extend even farther.

nothing could be more timely . . .

every year, upwards of fifty thousand children are diagnosed with autism inthe United states. We have a tremendous, and still growing, need to helpparents and teachers understand these children, and we have an even greaterneed to help other children understand kids who are different. my booksaddress those needs directly.

my stories also offer hope and insight for the millions of children who are“just a little bit different,” but do not have a diagnosis of a disability or anieP. in some ways, those misfit kids may need my stories most of all.

Look Me in the Eye and Be Different are suitable for middle school to adult readers. Both books aresupported by teaching plans, reading group guides, and a strong online community. You can downloadthe guides for free from the Random House Academic website and www.johnrobison.com.

The teaching guides for my books have been developed inconjunction with two of the leading autism/Asperger schools in thecountry: monarch of Houston, Texas; and ivymount of Rockville,maryland. They will help you integrate my stories into special needsand general english and diversity curriculums.

in addition to writing, i am also active in speaking andteaching. i am available to speak at schools nationwide withinspirational programs for students and families, and continuingeducation for staff. i also teach courses about the Asperger mind andthe use of my books in school curricula at elms college in chicopee, massachusetts.

Finally, i have a large online community on Facebook, on Blogger, and on the Psychology Todaywebsite. i invite you and your students to join me there and continue the dialogue.

John Elder Robison


HALF A LIFEA MemoirBy Darin Strauss

“Half my life ago, i killed a girl.” so begins darin strauss’s Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father’s

oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginningof a different, darker life for the author. We follow strauss as heexplores his startling past—collision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case—and what starts as a personal tale of atragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hardfact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and itmight not be good enough. Half a Life is an honest, ultimatelyhopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, grief, and living withthe past. “at the center of this elegant, painful, stunningly honest memoirthrums a question fundamental to what it means to be human:what do we do with what we’ve been given? . . . what is trulyexceptional here is watching a writer of fine fiction probe, directly,carefully and with great humility, the source from which his fictionsprings.” —The New York Times Book Review

“with honesty and sensitivity, strauss looks not only at how thatfateful incident decades ago ended Celine’s young life, but also athow it greatly affected his. out of undoubtedly complicatedcircumstances, he crafts a simple yet remarkable story about painand guilt, maturity and responsibility, hope and understanding.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Half a Life is an unusually honest, thoughtful and unsettlingmemoir, which readers and critics are destined to call ‘brave’—for itis brave. But the book is more than simply brave, it is a searinglyself-disciplined work of literature, and of self-examination. darinstrauss does not permit himself even one sentence, even onemoment, of lazy thinking, or mitigating excuses. He examines withrigorous honesty every moment of the most awful and tragic eventof his life. after all that admirable work and all that attentivedetail, when he does finally reach a place of cautious hope, theimpact is staggering and unforgettable.”

—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

About the Author: Darin straussdaRIn stRauss is the international bestselling author of the New York Times Notable Books Changand Eng and The Real McCoy, and the national bestseller More Than It Hurts You. His work has beentranslated into fourteen languages and published in seventeen countries. Awarded a 2006Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, Strauss currently teaches at New York University.

Paperback coming May 2011. Do not order before5/31/2011.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8253-4 | 224 pp.$13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Themes: Coming of Age, Ethics/Decision Making,Identity


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Excerpt from Half a Life

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“By the time you’ve run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked every tic of yourterror, it’s lost its power over you . . . [soon it’s] a story on a page, or, more precisely, everybody’s storyon a page.” —John Gardner

Half my life ago, i killed a girl.

i had just turned eighteen, and when you drive in new post-adolescence, you drive with friends. Wewere headed to shoot a few rounds of putt-putt. it was may 1988. The breeze did its open-window workon the hair behind my neck and ears. We had a month before high-school graduation. i was at thewheel. Up ahead, on the right shoulder, a pair of tiny bicyclists bent over their handlebars. The horizonwas just my town’s modest skyline done in watercolors. We all shared a four-lane road; the bicyclestraveled in the same direction as my car. Bare legs pedaling under a long sky. i think i fiddled with theradio. Hey what song is this? so turn it up. Then one of the bike riders did something. i remember onlythat—a glitch on the right. my oldsmobile stayed in the far left lane. After a wobble or two, the bicyclisteased a wheel into the road, maybe thirty feet away. my tires lapped up the distance that separated us.

next the bicycle made a crisp turn into the left lane and my sudden car. dark blond hair appeared veryclearly in my windshield. i remember a kind of mechanical curiosity about why this was happening andwhat it might mean.

This moment has been, for all my life, a kind of shadowy giant. i’m able, tick by tick, to remember eachsecond before it. Radio; friends; thoughts of mini-golf, another thought of maybe just going to thebeach; the distance between car and bicycle closing: anything could still happen. But i am powerless tosee what comes next; the moment raises a shoulder, lowers its head, and slumps away.

And then it’s too late. my forearm hooks to protect my eyes. The front-seat passenger shouts. i picturemy foot disappearing under the dash, kicking down for the brake, straining farther than any real leg cango. Yet the hood of my oldsmobile met celine Zilke at forty miles an hour. Her head cracked thewindshield. i remember the yellow reflector from her spokes, a useless spark, kicking up the glassincline and over the roof.

my car bumped onto the grassy median. And then i must have done all the normal driver things. Puton the clonking hazards, rolled to a stop, cut the engine; i must have stepped onto the grass in my T-shirt and shorts. i simply have no memory of how i got there.

celine Zilke, the girl on the bike, was sixteen and always will be sixteen. And i knew her: celine went tomy school. she was an eleventh-grader. i see her playing field hockey in blue gym shorts—celine hadbeen that lively, athletic type one always imagines in shorts. or i see her settled in beside friends on theconcrete benches just outside the cafeteria, or dashing off notes in the public-speaking class we tooktogether. celine sat by the window.

When i look back now, she strikes me most of all as young.

Excerpted from Half A Life by Darin Strauss, copyright © 2010 by Darin Strauss. Originally published in hardcover by McSweeney’sin 2010 and subsequently in trade paperback by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House PublishingGroup, a division of Random House, Inc. in 2011. All rights reserved.

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I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCEDBy Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui“i’m a simple village girl whose family had to move to the capital, and i have always obeyedthe orders of the men in my family. since forever, i have learned to say yes to everything.Today, i have decided to say no . . . ”nujood Ali was nine when her parents married her to a man in his thirties. At ten, she wasthe first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce, breaking with traditional practice. Writtenwith childlike simplicity and penetrating honesty, this international bestselling memoir is atonce shocking and inspiring, disturbing and redemptive.Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-58967-5 | 208pp. | $12.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Human Rights

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSBy Maya Angelou“Students [. . .] find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the midst oftroubled and sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit and strength awellspring of pride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book as writers themselvesand learned much about the memoir craft.”

—Constance Berman, Director of Professional Studies, Southern Vermont College

Selected for Common Reading at Berry College, Green River Community College (Auburn, WA), Luther College, andothers.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8002-8 | 304pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Inclusiveness

LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME: A Memoir of FriendshipBy Gail CaldwellWriters Gail caldwell and caroline Knapp shared a love of books and dogs, struggles withalcoholism, and a commitment to living self-reliant lives. They walked the woods of newengland together constantly, growing and nurturing a deep bond of friendship. WhenKnapp was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the depth and strength of that bond becameclearer than ever. Unflinching in its expression of grief, and nuanced in its depiction of friendship betweenwomen, this is a searing and intimate testament to the connections people forge and themeaning they create in their own lives and the lives of others.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6738-1 | 208pp. | $23.00/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50Paperback coming August 2011.alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

JOKER ONE: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and BrotherhoodBy Donovan CampbellAfter graduating from Princeton University, motivated by his unwavering patriotism andcommitment, campbell decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a marine officerwould allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. in thisinspiring memoir, campbell recounts a timeless and transcendent tale of brotherhood,courage, and sacrifice.“Campbell’s narrative humanized a war, and challenged me to critically examine the ideas ofleadership and social responsibility; topics I thought I had a handle on prior to reading JokerOne.” —Rachel Duff Anderson, Director of First-Year Experience, Siena Heights University

Selected for Common Reading at Siena Heights University.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7956-5 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • group dynamics • Leadership & motivation

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A JOURNAL FOR JORDANA Story of Love and HonorBy Dana Canedyin 2005, First sergeant charles monroe King began to write what would become a twohundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in iraq. Hewas killed on october 14, 2006. A Journal for Jordan is both a mother’s letter to her son—fierce in its honesty—about the father he lost before he could even speak, and a father’sadvice and prayers for the son he will never know.Selected for Common Reading at Broward College, Texas State University (2010), and University of Texas Arlington.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-39600-6 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

GOD GREW TIRED OF US: A MemoirBy John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeneyone of the uprooted youngsters known collectively as the lost Boys of sudan, John Bul dauwas twelve years old when civil war ravaged his village. As bullets split the night and mortarshells exploded around him, John fled into the darkness—the first terrified moments of ajourney that would lead him thousands of miles into an exile that was to last many years.John’s memoir of his childhood shows African life and values at their best, while his searingaccount of hardship, famine, and war also testifies to human resilience and kindness.Selected for Common Reading at Cazenovia College.

National Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0212-4 | 304pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • genocide • Human Rights

FUNNY IN FARSI A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in AmericaBy Firoozeh DumasWinner of the 2008 Spirit of America Award (National Council for the Social Studies) and other awardsA popular college Common Reading selection

Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Firoozeh dumas’s wonderfully engagingfamily, who moved from iran to southern california in the 1970s, arriving with no firsthandknowledge of the U. s.“What’s charming beyond the humor of this memoir is that it remains affectionate even in theweakest, most tenuous moments for the culture. It’s the brilliance of true sophistication atwork.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Selected for Common Reading at more than 20 colleges and One City, One Book programs.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6837-8 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • discovering differences • Identity

LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT Adventures of a Global CitizenBy Firoozeh Dumasin the best-selling and classroom-adopted memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh dumasrecounted her adventures growing up iranian American in southern california. now sheagain mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories bothtender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, her well-meaning family, newmotherhood, and amusing cultural conundrums, along with insights into the universality ofthe human condition.Selected for the 2010 Common Reading Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.Selected for The Big Read: New Hampshire–2010.

Random House | TR | 978-0-345-49957-8 | 256pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • discovering differences • Identity

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THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING A MemoirBy Hope EdelmanHope edelman was a woman adrift, questioning her marriage, her profession, and her placein the world. confused and worried about how to handle their three-year-old daughter’scuriously disruptive imaginary friend, edelman and her husband decided to take her tomaya healers in Belize, hoping that a shaman might help them banish dodo—and all herepresented—from their lives. This affecting memoir of a family’s emotional journeyexplores what edelman and her husband went looking for in Belize and what they ultimatelydiscovered about the things that can possess and destroy—or heal—us all.Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-50651-1 | 368pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE: The Secret Life of Girls Around the WorldBy Eve EnslerIdeal for Women’s Studies Programs

This daring, provocative, and insightful book delivers fictional monologues and storiesinspired by girls around the globe, including an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; achinese factory worker making Barbies; and a masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endurefemale genital mutilation. We come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: theirresiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, and their triumphs. This is a celebration ofthe authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere tospeak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they are meant to be.Villard Books | TR | 978-0-8129-7016-6 | 192pp. | $13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Identity

BLACK HEARTSOne Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of DeathBy Jim FrederickThis is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne division’s fabled 502ndinfantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” deployed in late 2005 toiraq’s so-called Triangle of death, the Black Hearts were hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire,and roadside bomb attacks. suffering from a particularly heavy death toll and enduring achronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravocompany, 1st Battalion—were caught, over their year-long tour of duty, in a tailspin of poordiscipline, substance abuse, and brutality.drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers, and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men incombat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. Selected as First Book at West Point, United States Military Academy.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-45076-0 | 464pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • group dynamics • Leadership & motivation

THE TRANSLATOR: A MemoirBy Daoud HariThe Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving story of how one person canmake a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the greatest atrocitiesof our time, the genocide in darfur. Having chosen language and storytelling as hisweapons—while others around him were taking up arms—Hari gives us a true andnecessary portrait of a deeply troubled region.Selected for Common Reading at Colorado Mountain College and Mars Hill College.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7917-6 | 224pp. | $13.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: genocide • Human Rights • perseverance/personal strength


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AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRSTOne Woman’s Extraordinary Journey of Faith, Hope, and ClarityBy Mary JohnsonAt seventeen, mary Johnson felt called to join mother Theresa and the missionaries ofcharity. As sister donata, she worked alongside mother Theresa for twenty years. in thisluminous memoir, she offers a glimpse into a world apart, one marked by poverty anddevotion, yet inhabited by young women who, like all young women, wrestle with identity,faith, and meaning.Do not order before 4/5/2011.Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52747-7 | 592pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: gender Issues • Identity • service

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: My Year in a Women’s PrisonBy Piper Kermanshortly after Piper Kerman graduated from smith college, the mistakes of youth caught upwith her in the form of a federal indictment on a ten-year-old narcotics charge. in hercompelling memoir, Orange is the New Black, Kerman reveals what it was like to live in thefacility “club Fed,” the infamous women’s federal correctional facility in danbury,connecticut, and the strange lessons she learned during her thirteen-month stay. Revealingand enraging, it is a bold and wholly original entry in the canon of prison literature, whichoffers a unique perspective on the criminal justice system.Do not order paperback before 3/8/2011.Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52339-4 | 336pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making, gender studies, Identity, social Justice

THE WORLD IS BIGGER NOWAn American Journalist’s Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and ForgivenessBy Euna Lee with Lisa Dickeyin 2009, the journalists euna lee and laura ling were apprehended by north Korean officialswhile working on a report at the border of north Korea and china. They languished incaptivity for months. Here, for the first time, euna lee tells her story, recounting how theywere captured and what they experienced in captivity, her fear that she would be sent to ahard-labor camp, the agony of being separated from her husband and daughter, and thenegotiations that led to their release.Broadway | HC | 978-0-307-71613-2 | 320pp. | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Human Rights • Regionalism: north korea/asia

ALL SOULS: A Family Story from SouthieBy Michael Patrick MacDonaldsouth Boston—“southie”—is a working-class irish neighborhood forever linked to the 1974anti-busing race riots. However, southie is also home to many who (despite the neighbor-hood’s rampant violence, drugs, and poverty) love it fiercely. in All Souls,macdonaldilluminates his troubled home through a nuanced portrait of his family, showing that a placeravaged by gangs and violence is still a beloved home to its inhabitants, who struggle tomaintain the bonds of family and create lives of love and meaning despite incredible obstacles. “My students were completely captivated by All Souls. It gave them their first real under-standing of poverty, violence, and the wounds and scars of racism for white people as well asAfrican Americans. Yet they also understood that this is a book about love, not hate—hope, notdespair.” —Elaine Tyler May, Professor of American Studies and History, Director of Graduate Studies,

American Studies Department, University of Minnesota

Selected for Common Reading at Tufts University and others.

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-807-07213-4 | 296pp. | $13.95/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: Coming of age • Identity


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To watch a video of Euna Leediscussing her book, go to:http://tinyurl.com/2egosxj

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THE ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCEThe True Story of a Cambodian HeroineBy Somaly MamIntroduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foreword by Nicholas D. KristofAs a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. This is the true story ofa cambodian heroine. somaly mam’s book is an unforgettable and inspiring story oftriumph over unthinkable adversity, giving a face and voice to a human-rights disaster ofglobal proportions: the sprawling sex-trade industry of southeast Asia. Written in exquisite,spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts mam’s early life, tells of herawakening as an activist, and relates her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful andcorrupt forces that steal the lives of young girls.Selected for Common Reading at West Texas A&M University.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52622-7 | 224pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Human Rights • social Justice

THE THINGS THAT NEED DOING: A MemoirBy Sean ManningAs the only child of divorced parents, twenty-seven-year-old journalist and caterer seanmanning was forced to leave the energy and vibrancy of new York city behind and return tohis childhood home in ohio to be with his mother during her long battle with cancer.Ultimately, the experience led him to a profound sense of self-discovery and a newappreciation of what is important in life. The Things That Need Doing tells a timeless anduniversal story of love, grief, loss, and growing up.Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46324-1 | 304pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN A Memoir in BooksBy Azar NafisiThis is the moving story of how nafisi and her students managed to escape the harshconstraints of their daily lives through the literature they read together every week. “Resonant and deeply affecting . . . an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction,on the refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art’saffirmative and subversive faith in the voice of the individual.”

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“A memoir about teaching Western literature in revolutionary Iran, with profound andfascinating insights into both. A masterpiece.” —Bernard Lewis, author of The Crisis of Islam

Selected for Common Reading at Ashland University, Case Western Reserve University, Ithaca College, Mount HolyokeCollege, Sweet Briar College (VA), and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7106-4 | 384pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: discovering differences • gender Issues • Human Rights

THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUTMemories of a Prodigal DaughterBy Azar NafisiAzar nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, nowgives us a stunning personal story of growing up in iran, marked by memories of her lifelived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother and set against the background of politicalrevolution.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7390-7 | 368pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Regionalism: the middle east


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THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBy Barack Obama“[Barack Obama] is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly andgenuinely about himself. . . . In these pages he often speaks to the reader as if he were an oldfriend from back in the day, salting policy recommendations with colorful asides about theabsurdities of political life . . . . [He] strives in these pages to ground his policy thinking in simplecommon sense . . . while articulating these ideas in level-headed, nonpartisan prose. That, initself, is something unusual, not only in these venomous pre-election days, but also in theseincreasingly polarized and polarizing times.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Selected for Common Reading at Endicott College, New York Institute of Technology, and others.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-23770-5 | 384pp. | $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • group dynamics • service

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A Story of Race and InheritanceBy Barack Obamain this unsentimental memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mothersearches for a workable meaning to his life. The story begins in new York, where obamalearns that his father—whom he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a caraccident. This inspires an emotional odyssey—first to Kansas, where he retraces the migrationof his mother’s family to Hawaii; and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of hisfamily, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and finally reconciles his dividedinheritance.Selected for Common Reading at Augustana College, Boston College, California State University—Eastbay, ElmhurstCollege, LaGuardia Community College, Quinnipiac University, Southern Methodist University, University of Illinois atChicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, Xavier University of Louisiana, and others.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-8277-3 | 480pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • Inclusiveness

GERTRUDA’S OATH A Child, A Promise, and A Heroic Escape During World War IIBy Ram OrenTranslated by Barbara Harshavmichael stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years oldwhen war broke out and his family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his businessaffairs, travels to France, leaving michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, acatholic nanny. When michael’s mother has a stroke, Gertruda promises the dying womanthat she will make her way to Palestine and raise michael as her own son. Written with theinvaluable assistance of michael, now seventy-two and living in new York city, Gertruda’sOath re-creates michael and Gertruda’s amazing journey.Doubleday Religion | TR | 978-0-385-52719-4 | 320pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00michael stolowitzky is available for campus visits • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: ethics/decision making • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

A REASON TO BELIEVE: Lessons from an Improbable LifeBy Governor Deval PatrickFrom the south side of chicago to the nubian desert, massachusetts Governor deval Patrickhas lived a rich life marked by both obstacle and opportunity. Here, he shares the lessons hehas learned from the places he’s been and the people he’s met, illuminating the harshness ofchildhood poverty, the challenge of relief work in Africa, and the long road to becoming thefirst black governor of massachusetts. Governor Patrick’s story will inspire readers to shapetheir own happiness, empower themselves, and encourage the happiness and empowerment ofothers, ultimately building communities and a country of inspired and inspiring individuals. Do not order before 4/12/2011.Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-3112-0 | 208pp. | $21.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • service • social Justice

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A SENSE OF DUTY: Our Journey from Vietnam to AmericaBy Quang PhamQuang Pham immigrated to the United states in 1975 with his mother and sisters, while hisfather, a south Vietnamese Air Force pilot, remained a prisoner of the communistgovernment in Vietnam. Pham eventually joined the marines and fought in the Persian GulfWar. in A Sense of Duty, he writes movingly and bluntly about his eventual reunion with hisfather, his difficulties assimilating in America, and the racism he experienced as a soldierduring the Gulf War. His is a unique perspective on nation, identity, and immigration, aswell as an affecting portrait of a family both torn apart and reunited by war. Presidio Press | TR | 978-0-89141-876-4 | 288pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • Immigration

THE DEATH OF JOSSELINEImmigration Stories from the Arizona BorderlandsBy Margaret ReganWith a sweeping perspective and vivid on-the-ground reportage, margaret Regan tells of theescalating chaos along the U.s.-mexico border. A varied cast of characters emerges as sherides shotgun with the Border Patrol, interviews deported mexicans and angry Arizonaranchers, visits migrant shelters in mexico, and camps out in the thorny wilderness with “nomore deaths” activists. Using Arizona as a microcosm, Regan explores a host of urgentissues: the border militarization that threatens the rights of U.s. citizens, the environmentaldamage wrought by the new border wall, the desperation that compels migrants to comenorth, and the human tragedy of the unidentified dead in Arizona’s morgues.“This should be required reading for everyone. . . . It gave me inspiration.”

—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0130-1 | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: the southwest

EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY PEOPLE: A Memoir of FamilyBy Condoleezza RiceRice’s résumé is an impressive one: professor of political science, first African Americanfemale secretary of state, concert pianist. Her accomplishments are even more striking giventhat she spent her childhood in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, where she witnessedbombings and Ku Klux Klan attacks, and used “black-only” facilities. in overcoming theseobstacles, she became a strong, self-assured woman—traits she drew on during her time withthe Bush administration, as she advocated for the controversial wars in Afghanistan andiraq. Rice’s memoir reveals how her early experiences sowed the seeds of her political beliefsand helped her achieve success.Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-58787-9 | 352pp. | $27.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • Inclusiveness • service

HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard RodriguezBy Richard RodriguezBest Books for a Transformative New Year, NPR

“His story is extraordinarily sensitive and compassionate, yet disarmingly objective, a genuineact of human and religious faith. Few have presented with such skill the indestructibleintimacy of family love and its resilience under the stress of change. This book provides newunderstanding of the dynamism of language in establishing a person’s private and publicidentity.” —Professor Walter J. Ong, St. Louis University

Selected for Common Reading at Case Western Reserve University.

Bantam | MM | 978-0-553-27293-2 | 224pp. | $7.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | 978-0-553-38251-8 | 224pp. | $15.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • Immigration • Inclusiveness


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SONG FOR MY FATHERSBy Tom SanctonTulane Reading Project 2006

Former Time Paris Bureau chief and best-selling author Tom sancton returns to the neworleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life. Here is the story of ayoung white boy consumed by a passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging,black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Written several years beforeKatrina crashed into new orleans and changed its face forever, Song for My Fathers is all themore moving in the wake of that cataclysm.Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51376-7 | 368pp. | $14.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: new orleans

OUTCASTS UNITEDAn American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a DifferenceBy Warren St. JohnA popular college Common Reading selection

Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach, and asmall southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. “Not merely about soccer, St. John’s book teaches readers about the social and economicdifficulties of adapting to a new culture and the challenges facing a town with a new anddisparate population. Despite their cultural and religious differences and the difficulty ofadaptation, the Fugees came together to play soccer. This wonderful, poignant book is highlyrecommended.” —Library Journal, starred review

Selected for Common Reading at more than 20 colleges and One City, One Book programs.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52204-5 | 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: group dynamics • Human Rights • Inclusiveness

A HOPE IN THE UNSEENAn American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy LeagueBy Ron SuskindA popular college Common Reading selection

This is the story of cedric Jennings, an African American teenager who is ferociouslydetermined to study his way out of the inner city and capture a piece of the Americandream. Author Ron suskind follows Jennings from his early years in high school through hisfirst year at Brown University. This updated edition includes a new chapter on cedricJennings’s postgraduate professional career.Selected for Common Reading at more than 10 colleges and One City, One Book programs.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-0126-0 | 400pp. | $15.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: Coming of age • Inclusiveness

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT A MemoirBy Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch, and Dan WelchWinner, 2010 Alex Award

Told in the alternating voices of four siblings, here is their poignant, harrowing story of theloss of their parents and their subsequent separation from one another. Along the way theyretained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with—growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming outright-side-up.Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-39605-1 | 368pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • perseverance/personal strength


Website: www.OutcastsUnited.comTo watch a video of Warren St. John discussing his book,

go to: http://tinyurl.com/yegm5jjTo view the author’s talk at the 2010 First-Year Experience®

meeting, go to http://tinyurl.com/3y5gehr

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BEATRICE AND VIRGILA NovelBy Yann Martel

From the award-winning, best-selling author of the commonreading favorite Life of Pi comes an ingenious, provocative, and

mesmerizing new novel that explores the greatest questions facinghumanity—questions about who we are and what we are capable ofdoing in order to survive.Fate can take many forms. For Henry, it arrives in an envelope froma stranger containing a story by Flaubert, a play featuring twocharacters named Beatrice and Virgil, and a note signed “Henry,”postmarked with an address in Henry’s own city. From the momenthe finds the address and steps into a taxidermist’s shop—a placeunlike anywhere he has ever been—Henry’s life is changed. in thisextraordinary feat of storytelling, Yann martel poses enduringquestions about life and art, truth and deception, and responsibilityand complicity. Just as with Life of Pi, martel’s wit, pathos, andprobing are sure to hold readers in thrall.“dark but divine . . . this novel might just be a masterpiece aboutthe Holocaust . . . martel brilliantly guides the reader from the too-sunny beginning into the terrifying darkness of the old man’s shopand europe’s past. everything comes into focus by the end, leavingthe reader startled, astonished, and moved.” —USA Today

“Brilliant . . . with this short, crisply written, many-layered book,martel has once again demonstrated that nothing tells the truthlike fiction. . . . another philosophical winner.”

—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“a sophisticated fable . . . It might be best described as an artfulphilosophical novella rather in the spirit of the slim volumesproduced by writers of the French enlightenment . . . Beatrice andVirgil is so imbued with passionate moral and intellectual ardorthat even the cynical should find it engaging.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“It is awe-inspiring when a writer hits a high note; goes dancingalong the edge of something; hurls himself against enormousquestions again and again. . . . writers such as martel are a kind ofhuman sacrifice. It cannot be easy to imagine a way into suffering,come out, lead others into and through it.” —Los Angeles Times

“a follow-up every bit as satisfying as Life of Pi . . . martel’s readerswill be rewarded with a flashing finale . . . without giving too muchaway, the ending is as shocking as lightning on a sunny day. thegoosebumps subside, but Beatrice and Virgil leaves an imprint afterits cover is closed. the protagonist Henry may have failed to write aliterary book about the Holocaust, but Yann martel succeeds inspades.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch

About the Author: Yann MartelYann maRteL was born in Spain in 1963. After studying philosophy at university, he worked odd jobsand traveled before turning to writing at the age of twenty-six. He is the author of the internationallyacclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, which was translated into thirty-eightlanguages and spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Yann Martel lives inSaskatchewan, Canada.

Do not order paperback before 2/22/2011.Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8154-4 | 224pp. $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00


Themes: Discovering Differences, Ethics, Identity



Website: www.Beatrice-And-Virgil.com

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Excerpt from Beatrice and Virgil

Henry’s second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well. it had won prizes andwas translated into dozens of languages. Henry was invited to book launches and literary festivalsaround the world; countless schools and book clubs adopted the book; he regularly saw people readingit on planes and trains; Hollywood was set to turn it into a movie; and so on and so forth.

Henry continued to live what was essentially a normal, anonymous life. Writers seldom become publicfigures. it’s their books that rightly hog all the publicity. Readers will easily recognize the cover of abook they’ve read, but in a café that man over there, is that . . . is that . . . well, it’s hard to tell—doesn’the have long hair?—oh, he’s gone.

When he was recognized, Henry didn’t mind. in his experience, the encounter with a reader was apleasure. After all, they’d read his book and it had an impact, otherwise why would they come up tohim? The meeting had an intimate quality; two strangers were coming together, but to discuss anexternal matter, a faith object that had moved them both, so all barriers fell. This was no place for lies orbombast. Voices were quiet; bodies leaned close together; selves were revealed. sometimes personalconfessions were made. one reader told Henry he’d read the novel in prison. Another that she’d read itwhile battling cancer. A father shared that his family had read it aloud in the aftermath of the prematurebirth and eventual death of their baby. And there were other such encounters. in each case, an elementof his novel—a line, a character, an incident, a symbol—had helped them pull through a crisis in theirlives. some of the readers Henry met became quite emotional. This never failed to affect him and hetried his best to respond in a manner that soothed them.

in the more typical encounters, readers simply wanted to express their appreciation and admiration,now and again accompanied by a material token, a present made or bought: a snapshot, a bookmark, abook. They might have a question or two they hoped to ask, timidly, not meaning to bother. They weregrateful for whatever answer he might give. They took the book he signed and held it to their chest withboth hands. The bolder ones, usually but not always teenagers, sometimes asked if they could have theirpicture taken with him. Henry would stand, an arm over their shoulders, smiling at the camera.

Readers walked away, their faces lit up because they’d met him, while his was lit up because he’d metthem. Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question thatneeded answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy thatis at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas,all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a holein them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it asmile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, wellingfrom within and invisible to the outside eye. it was rather entirely external, coming from the minds ofothers. it existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. in that, being famous was nodifferent from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then peopleproject onto you some notion they have. Henry was essentially unchanged by the success of his novel.He was the same person he had been before, with the same strengths and the same weaknesses. on therare occasions when he was approached by a reader in a disagreeable way, he had the last weapon of thewriter working under a pseudonym: no, he wasn’t XXX, he was just a guy named Henry.

Excerpted from Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel. Copyright © 2010 by Yann Martel. Excerpted by permission of Spiegel & Grau, adivision of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission inwriting from the publisher.


SHANGHAI GIRLSA NovelBy Lisa SeeHonor Book, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) LiteratureAward—FictionA fascinating new novel from author lisa see about two sisters, twocultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America whileremaining inextricably bound to the old.“a buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”

—Booklist

“see is masterly in her powerful depictions of the prejudice andharsh treatment the sisters encounter as they try to assimilate intothe strange new world of Los angeles. possibly the best book yetfrom the author of Peony in Love; highly recommended.”

—Library Journal

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8053-0 | 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: asia

Author Spotlight: Lisa seeLIsa see is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimedmemoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.

SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FANA NovelBy Lisa SeeA New York Public Library Book for the Teen Agelily is haunted by memories of who she once was and of the belovedperson, long gone, who defined her existence. Snow Flower and theSecret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of chinesehistory, deeply moving and sorrowful. With the period detail and deepresonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally chargednovel delves into one of the most profound human relationships:friendship between women. A moving exploration of the power ofmemory, the ramifications of oppression, and the redemptive powersof language.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6806-4 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: gender Issues • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: asia

Also by Lisa See:

DREAMS OF JOY: A Novel Do not order before 5/31/2011. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6712-1 | 336pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00

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A Message from Lisa See

i have always been intrigued by stories that have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up.With Shanghai Girls, i explored the chinese American immigration experience, Angel island, papersons, and a little-known period in our history centered around the so-called confession Program. Atthe same time, i believe that history is not about dates, laws, and wars. Rather, it’s something thathappens to real people. do we stand by our principles or give in to racism, bigotry, and the angry mob?can we endure what the world throws at us and still maintain our humanity and our love for ourfamilies? do we rise to the challenges and succeed, or do we fail?

When i wrote Shanghai Girls, i thought a lot about the people in my own family who had comehere from china during the last one hundred or so years. i was particularly interested in the womenwho journeyed here in arranged marriages at a time when almost no chinese women were allowed toenter the United states. They were often married to men who came to this country as paper sons—chinese who were able to get around the chinese exclusion Act of 1882 by falsely claiming that theywere the sons of American citizens. These were my aunties and uncles when i was growing up, and iwanted to honor their experience and, by extension, the continuing immigration experience of today,no matter where people come from.

We all have someone in our families who was brave enough, scared enough, or crazy enough toleave their home countries and come to America. many of those people passed through ellis island,where they had to answer twenty standard questions and pass a physical exam. The process was hardand sometimes humiliating, but this was nothing compared to what happened to chinese immigrantsat the Angel island immigration station in the san Francisco Bay. Although immigrants from othercountries passed through Angel island relatively easily, chinese immigrants had to answer anywherefrom two hundred to one thousand questions. They were detained and questioned for weeks, months,and sometimes years, at which point they would finally be allowed to the enter the country, be deportedback to china, or commit suicide.

even after the chinese landed, life was not easy. if Angel island is still unknown to most people,then the confession Program of 1957 is an even greater secret. it was a government “amnesty” programthat specifically targeted those chinese who came here as paper sons. People were asked not only toconfess their own fake citizenship status, but also to rat out friends, business associates, and even familymembers. Better yet, if you could accuse someone of being a communist, then you would be given yourlegitimate American citizenship. The program ripped apart families, destroyed businesses, and pushedpeople to face their moral and ethical values.

issues of immigration, legal status, assimilation, love for your home country and love for your newcountry, and when and how we become “American” are all very much part of our continuing nationalconversation, which is one of the reasons that Shanghai Girls has been read in so many schools andbeen selected for one Book, one city programs. The novel provides a jumping off point to talk aboutissues that are at the core of so many students’ lives, to pursue cross-disciplinary discussions (Americanhistory, Western history, Asian American studies, gender studies, literature, sociology), and to opennew areas of research.

i look forward to visiting your campus to engage your community in an important and productivediscussion.

Lisa See


FAHRENHEIT 451By Ray BradburyWinner of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

internationally acclaimed, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s landmark story of a futuresociety where books are outlawed and only one man awakens to the evils of censorship. “Frightening in its implications . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bearsmany alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —The New York Times

Selected for Common Reading at Illinois Central College, Randolph-Macon College, Xavier University, and others.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-41001-6 | 192pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-34296-6 | 208pp. | $6.99/$8.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • teacher’s guidethemes: ethics • group dynamics • science & society

THE OUTWARD ROOMBy Millen BrandAfterword by Peter CameronWhen it was first published in 1937, this novel, set against the backdrop of the Greatdepression, was hailed for its unflinching portrait of a young woman struggling with mentalanguish. Harriet demuth suffers a breakdown after her brother’s death and is committed to amental hospital, where her psychiatrist, a follower of Freud, does little that helps her. Harrietescapes and heads for new York city. As she ekes out an existence and falls in love, a youngwoman’s recovery of her sense of self unfolds, even in a time and place marked by povertyand despair.NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17359-6 | 304pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • perseverance/personal strength

ECOTOPIABy Ernest Callenbachin the tradition of Huxley, orwell, and Verne, callenbach’s controversial and thought-provoking novel describes a future in which the West coast states have seceded to formecotopia, their own environmentally-sound nation.“Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive, positive vision of an ecologically sustainableworld. Essential reading for all who care about the earth’s future.”

—Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point

Selected for Common Reading at Muskingum College.

Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-34847-7 | 192pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: environment • ethics • science & society

THE GUARDIANSA NovelBy Ana CastilloFrom American Book Award-winning author Ana castillo comes a suspenseful, movingnovel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Barely making a living as ateacher’s aide in a new mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew,Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to be a priest.When Gabo’s father disappears while crossing over from mexico, Regina fears the worst.“Castillo writes fiction and poetry of earthy sensuality, wry social commentary, and lyricalspiritualism that confront the cruel injustices accorded women and Mexicans in America, legaland otherwise.” —Booklist (starred review)

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7571-0 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Human Rights • Inclusiveness

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Website: www.AnaCastillo.com

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AWAIT YOUR REPLYA NovelBy Dan ChaonThis unsettling novel follows three young people struggling to carve out lives against thebackdrop of broken families and desolate landscapes. miles desperately searches for hisschizophrenic twin brother across the globe. Ryan learns he is adopted and flees the only lifehe has ever known. lucy, recently orphaned, leaves town with her teacher, only to end up ina run-down mansion in nebraska, with little money and vague plans. They come togetherunexpectedly and shockingly, leaving readers to grapple with questions of identity and thepossibility that there is no such thing as a true, core self. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-47603-6 | 368pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity

EVERY MAN DIES ALONEBy Hans FalladaTranslated by Michael HofmannThis never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic, bestselling writer who saw his lifecrumble when he wouldn’t join the nazi Party—is based on a true story. it presents a richlydetailed portrait of life in Berlin under the nazis and tells the sweeping, deeply-stirring sagaof one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at thefront. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich,they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo ontheir trail and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. Melville House | TR | 978-1-935-55404-2 | 544pp. | $18.95/$23.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics • Identity • social Justice

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEETA NovelBy Jamie Ford“Jamie Ford’s first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty andsadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, andthe depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.”

—Lisa See, best-selling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Selected for the 2010 Schenectady One County, One Book Program.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-50534-7 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: Coming of age • discovering differences • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: seattle

BOMBINGHAMBy Anthony GroomsFrom the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama,Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by personalchaos. As young, African American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence inVietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil rights movement meant nothing more thanearning the right to fight a battle of another kind.Selected for Common Reading at Alabama A&M University, Florida A&M University, Marquette University, SUNY Oswego,and others.

One World/Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-45293-1 | 320pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: teacher’s guidethemes: Coming of age • Inclusiveness • social Justice

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INTO THE FORESTA NovelBy Jean Heglandset in the near future, Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense oftheir world when both society and their family collapse. Hegland’s exploration of the sisters’relationship reveals the full dimension of their bond and what it means to be human andalive in this new world.“The plot draws readers along at the same time that the details and vivid writing encouragerereading. . . . a truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards ofGeorge Orwell’s 1984 and Russell Hoban’s Ridley Walker.” —Publishers Weekly

Selected for Common Reading at Bowling Green State University, Santa Rosa Junior College, and others.

Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | 978-0-553-37961-7 | 256pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio • eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • perseverance/personal strength

THE BLUE NOTEBOOKA NovelBy James A. LevineThis work of fiction, by mayo clinic doctor James A. levine, takes readers into the life ofBatuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural india who was sold into sexual slavery byher father when she was nine. As Batuk navigates the grim realities of the common street—a street of prostitution in mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait forcustomers to pay for sex—she manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughtsand stories in a diary, a place where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest ofcircumstances. All of the U. s. proceeds from this novel will be donated to the internationalcentre for missing & exploited children (www.icmec.org).Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52872-6 | 224pp. | $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Human Rights

THE GLASS ROOMBy Simon Mawernewlyweds in 1930s czechoslovakia, Viktor and liesel landauer are progressive (he isJewish, she gentile), cultured, and urbane. Their house—a modernist masterpiece—reflectsnot only their taste, but also the optimism and creativity of modern europe. But as WorldWar ii encroaches, the landauers flee their home. The glass house becomes a nazi base,then a safe house for refugees, until the landauers return to a post-war europe utterlyscarred and changed forever. in The Glass Room, the tragedy of dashed idealism isbeautifully expressed through the saga of one family and their delicate, forward-lookinghome.Other Press | TR | 978-1-59051-396-5 | 416pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: group dynamics • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDSBy Susan Carol McCarthyinspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands is a novel that tackles race politics inthe south before the civil Rights movement unlike any other book in recent memory. “Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, McCarthy’s debut novel is an engrossing story of onegirl’s coming-of-age during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.” —Library Journal

“The best fiction always bears a strong resemblance to real life . . . McCarthy blends fact,memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace.” —The Washington Post

Selected for Common Reading at numerous high schools, colleges, and communities.

Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38103-0 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: Inclusiveness • Regionalism: the american south • social Justice

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THE TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO A NovelBy Sarah McCoyin the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Annie John comes a novel about thestruggle to break free from the people who raised us and the difficulties of leaving behindone’s homeland for places unknown. Both joyous and heartbreaking, it is the story of a girldiscovering her power and finding the strength to decide what sort of woman she’ll become.“In the voice of her lovably defiant adolescent narrator, Sarah McCoy tells a story of magic,myth, and mystery amid political and cultural unrest . . . A delightful debut.”

—Sheri Reynolds, author of A Gracious Plenty

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46017-2 | 224pp. | $13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • gender Issues • Identity • Regionalism: puerto Rico

THE SPEED OF DARK: A NovelBy Elizabeth MoonWinner, 2004 Nebula Award

The Speed of Dark is an exploration into the world of lou Arrendale, an autistic man who isoffered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. now lou mustdecide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views theworld and the very essence of who he is. The Speed of Dark is a fascinating work of fictionabout choice and consequences.Selected for Common Reading at Clemson University, Ohio State University, and SUNY Oswego.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-44754-8 | 368pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-48139-9 | 384pp. | $6.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • Identity • science & society

THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH: A NovelBy Thomas Mullenset against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America everexperienced—the 1918 influenza pandemic—Thomas mullen’s powerful first novel is a taleof morality in a time of upheaval. A chance encounter and the shots that are fired as a resulthave deafening reverberations throughout the town of commonwealth, escalating untilevery human value—love, patriotism, community, family, friendship—not to mention thetown’s very survival, is imperiled.Colleges and Universities: Bowling Green State University, Montana State University—Billings, Murray State University,Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, University of South Carolina Aiken, Western MichiganUniversity Honors Program, Whitman College; One City, One Book: A Tale For Three Counties (Batavia, NY), Together WeRead (Stanwood and Camano Island, WA), and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7592-5 | 432pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: ethics/decision making • group dynamics • science & society

BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI: A NovelBy Gaile Parkinin the wake of genocide, the residents of a Rwandan apartment building turn to AngelTungaraza for sympathy, comfort—and cake. Recent arrivals from Tanzania, Angel, herhusband, and their grandchildren have come to Rwanda for her husband’s new job and afresh start after their own tragedies. Angel’s kitchen becomes a refuge for people who,despite the official policy of reconciliation, continue to struggle with the effects of war. This is a moving and deft portrayal of what comes after war, when the healing has only just begun.Bantam | TR | 978-0-385-34344-2 | 336pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: genocide • group dynamics • Human Rights


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Website: www.ElizabethMoon.com

Website: www.SarahMcCoy.com

Website: www.ThomasMullen.net

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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONTBy Erich Maria RemarqueThis is the classic anti-war novel about young German soldiers during World War i.Twenty-year-old Paul Baumer’s world of work, duty, culture, and progress is shattered withthe first bombardment in the trenches, and he vows to fight against the principle of hate thatpits young men of the same generation against each other. Few other books have everachieved such dramatic acclaim or enduring success. American journalist Henry louismencken described the novel as “unquestionably the best story of the World War.”Selected for Common Reading at St. Louis Community College.

Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-449-91149-5 | 304pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Ballantine Books | MM | 978-0-449-21394-0 | 304pp. | $6.99/$8.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: Coming of age • group dynamics • Regionalism: europe

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSA NovelBy Arundhati RoyWinner of The Booker Prize

Winner of the prestigious man Booker Prize in 1997, The God of Small Things wasArundhati Roy’s stunning debut. The story of Rahel and estha, twins born to a wealthyindian family, begins in the late 1960s as communism was turning the traditional castesystem upside down. The story shifts between two eras: the present, where Rahel visits hermute brother; and the past, one day in december that tore the family apart. As vivid as it ispowerful, Roy’s novel is reminiscent of Faulkner, Rushdie, and márquez—a sure-firecontemporary classic that should be added to every student’s library.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7965-7 | 352pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • Regionalism: India

SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTHBy Tayeb SalihTranslated by Denys Johnson-DaviesIntroduction by Laila LalamiAfter years of study in europe, this novel’s young narrator returns to his village by the nile inthe sudan. There, he discovers mustafa, an enigmatic stranger who tells him about his ownyears in london and the series of deadly relationships with european women that led himback to his native land. Then mustafa suddenly disappears, leaving the young man—whommustafa has asked to look after his wife—stranded in an unsettled, violent no-man’s-landbetween europe and Africa, caught between tradition and innovation, holiness anddefilement, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17302-2 | 184pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: discovering differences • Inclusiveness • perseverance/personal strength

MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STANDA NovelBy Helen Simonsonmajor ernest Pettigrew, a retired widower, clings to the traditional values of english life—honor, decorum, and a proper cup of tea—as the restof the world moves farther away from those ideals and the suburbs encroach on the englishcountryside. However, Pettigrew’s unexpected friendship with mrs. Ali, the Pakistanishopkeeper, forces him to confront the twenty-first century. This witty novel deftly portrayslate-life romance, the still-potent effects of cultural and racial barriers, and a memorable,dignified man who strives to live his beliefs.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8122-3 | 384pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: discovering differences • Inclusiveness • perseverance/personal strength

Named most important Arabic novel of the 20th century by the

Arab Literary Academy in Damascus

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THE MOUNTAIN LIONBy Jean StaffordAfterword by Kathryn Daviseight-year-old molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, presenting a unitedfront against authority figures and the suburban world they know. When they beginspending summers on their uncle’s ranch in colorado, they relish their encounters with anentirely different world, one that is wild and immediate. However, time inevitably passes,and as molly and Ralph confront impending adulthood, this coming-of-age tale veers intounconventional and tragic terrain.“Hard to match for subtlety and understanding . . . written wittily, lucidly, and with greatrespect for the resources of the language.” —The New Yorker

NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17352-7 | 248pp. | $14.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: Coming of age • environment • ethics

OLIVE KITTERIDGEFictionBy Elizabeth StroutWinner 2009–Pulitzer PrizeA Library Journal Best Book of 2008

olive Kitteridge deplores the changes occurring in her town of crosby, maine, and theworld, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a former studentwho has lost the will to live; olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrationalsensitivities; and her husband, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, olive is brought to a deeper understandingof herself and her life. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition—its tragedies, its joys, and the endurance required of us.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7183-5 | 304pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • group dynamics • perseverance/personal strength

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVEBy Kurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. centering on the infamousfire-bombing of dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the journey weundertake as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of athundering moral statement.” —The Boston Globe

Dell Books | MM | 978-0-440-18029-6 | 224pp. | $7.99/$9.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | 978-0-385-33384-9 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: ethics/decision making • Identity • perseverance/personal strength

MRS. SOMEBODY SOMEBODY FictionBy Tracy WinnWinn chronicles the characters who inhabit the troubled mill town of lowell, massachusetts, depicting their struggles and hopes over the course ofthe twentieth century. Winn paints a permeating portrait of the town and its people, includ-ing a millworker who dreams of marrying rich and becoming “mrs. somebody somebody”;an undercover union organizer whose privileged past shapes her cause; and a Korean Warveteran who returns to the wife he never really knew. Winn’s insight into class and humannature, combined with her nuanced prose, make Mrs. Somebody Somebody truly shine.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8145-2 | 224pp. | $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • group dynamics • Regionalism: massachusetts/newengland

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Website: www.ElizabethStrout.com

Website: www.WinnWriter.com

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LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE ITFind Your Own Path to FulfillmentBy Peter Buffett

most people probably think that having billionaire investorWarren Buffett as a father makes life far from average. But, as

Peter Buffett explains, an individual’s success has more to do withbuilding personal character than using a family platform to getahead. in Life Is What You Make It, Buffett, a musician, composer,and philanthropist, shares the important lessons learned from hisparents—part of an upbringing focused on the importance ofhonorable values as individuals in a community and what we areable to give back.“peter Buffett has given us a wise and inspiring book that shouldbe required reading for every young person seeking to find his orher place in the world, and for every family hoping to give itsdaughters and sons the best possible start in life.” —Bill Clinton

“knowing and admiring peter as we do, Life Is What You Make Itcaptures his spirit, passion, and values beautifully. as parents, it'sthe kind of dialogue about our life's purpose and opportunitywe’re having with our children. we will have everyone in our familyread and discuss Life Is What You Make It.” —Bill and Melinda Gates

“Life Is What You Make It is the ultimate book of common sense—except it isn't common. Because peter Buffett could have had aderived identity and chose not to, he has power and credibilitywhen he tells us how to find a unique self by doing what we love. Ican’t imagine anyone who wouldn't benefit from this spirited, wise,and friendly book.” —Gloria Steinem

“with homespun, heartfelt wisdom, peter Buffett ponders how tomake a meaningful life while making a living. Life Is What You MakeIt is thought-provoking, worthwhile reading.” —Ted Turner

“In his searching book, Life Is What You Make It, peter Buffettchallenges us all to balance ambition and service, personal goalsand work for the common good. It is a book of value and honesty.”

—Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues

“Very few have the upbringing of peter Buffett . . . not the privilegebut rather the restrained usage of that privilege. a very real familywith knots and gnarls like any other, but with an eerie commitmentto serve ideas and the human race in general, whether that bethrough philanthropy, song or conversation . . . or this . . . folkwisdom for the folks.” —Bono

About the Author: Peter BuffettpeteR BuFFett is an established composer/producer. He has released six albums on his own label,as well as eight albums on other labels. Highlights of his film and television work include “Fire Dance”from Dances with Wolves and the score for 500 Nations. Buffett’s theatrical production, Spirit: TheSeventh Fire, was produced on the National Mall. With his wife Jennifer, he is co-chairman of the NoVoFoundation, an organization which seeks to promote equality, end violence, and combat exploitationof women globally by empowering females as agents of change.

Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-46471-2 | 272pp.$23.99/$27.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00

Do not order paperback before 5/3/2011.Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46472-9 | 272pp.$14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00


Themes: Leadership & Motivation, Life Skills, Service


Website: www.PeterBuffett.com

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35Inspiration and Guidance

A Message from Peter Buffett

What path will you choose?

This is a very personal book about values and identity. i make no claim of specialexpertise in the conduct of life, still less in the mystery of life’s meaning. But here andthere in this book, i do presume to offer advice, and i make no apology for that. Thereare certain things i passionately believe to be true. Where i can make a case for thosetruths, where i think i can provide some clarity and perspective, i have not been shyabout doing so.

By the luck of the draw—what my father calls “winning the ovarian lottery”—iwas born into a caring and supportive family, a family whose first and most importantgift to me was emotional security. over time, as a bonus that came as a gradual andwonderful surprise, my family also got to be wealthy and distinguished. my dad,Warren Buffett—by dint of hard work, solid ethics, and steady wisdom—has becomeone of the richest and most respected men in the world. But those are hisaccomplishments, not mine. no matter who your parents are, you’ve still got your ownlife to figure out.

life moves incredibly fast, and it is filled with distractions. As clutter builds up atthe periphery—streams of data coming from every direction and the unremittingbombardment of the media—it becomes ever more challenging to filter out the noise,to remember where the center is.

But, ultimately, we create the lives we live. This is our greatest burden and greatestopportunity. it is also the most basic, bedrock premise of everything i have to say inthis book.

What sort of people will we choose to be? Will we choose the path of leastresistance—or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction? in our dealings with others,will we shy away from intimacy and honesty and tolerance—or will we open ourselvesto robust and candid relationships? in our work lives, will we settle for making a livingor aim at the higher goal of earning a life?

Answers to these questions can only come from inside each of us. The goal of thisbook is simply to raise the questions, to offer a framework for thought and, i hope,discussion.

Your life is yours to create. Be grateful for the opportunity. seize it with passionand boldness. Whatever you decide to do, commit to it with all your strength . . . andbegin it now.

Peter Buffett


THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARYHow a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing toChange Themselves and the World Around ThemBy The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell

straight from the front line of urban America, The FreedomWriters Diary is the inspiring story of one fiercely determined

teacher and her remarkable students.

As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old english teacher at WilsonHigh school in long Beach, california, erin Gruwell confronted aroom of “unteachable, at-risk” students. one day she intercepted anote with an ugly racial caricature. she angrily declared that this wasprecisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust—only to be metby uncomprehending looks. so she and her students, using thetreasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’sDiary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intoleranceand misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels to theirown lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries anddubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civilrights activists “The Freedom Riders.”With funds raised by a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they arrangedfor miep Gies, the courageous dutch woman who sheltered theFrank family, to visit them in california, where she declared thaterin Gruwell’s students were “the real heroes.” Their efforts havepaid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition—appearances on“Prime Time live” and “All Things considered,” coverage in Peoplemagazine, a meeting with U.s. secretary of education RichardRiley—and educationally. All one hundred fifty Freedom Writershave graduated from high school and are now attending college.With powerful entries from the students’ own diaries and a narrativetext by erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting,unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit ofdetermination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to TheTolerance education Foundation, an organization set up to pay forthe Freedom Writers’ college tuition. erin Gruwell is now a visitingprofessor at california state University, long Beach, where some ofher students are Freedom Writers.“there are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, ifsalvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving ofa place on the planet. . . . what could be more soul-satisfying? theseare the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. theeffects of their work will last forever.”

—from the Foreword by Anna Quindlen

About the Author: erin GruwelleRIn gRuweLL, the Freedom Writers, and her nonprofit organization The Freedom Writers Foundationhave received many awards, including the prestigious Spirit of Anne Frank Award. Gruwell has appearedon several television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Primetime, Good Morning America, andThe View. Gruwell is also a charismatic motivational speaker who spreads her dynamic message tostudents, teachers, and business people around the world. She lives in southern California.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-385-49422-9 | 336pp.$14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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TEACHING HOPEStories from the Freedom Writer Teachersand Erin GruwellForeword by Anna QuindlenBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3172-4 | 384pp. $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Website: www.FreedomWritersFoundation.org

KeY FActs:Selected for Common Reading:Austin Peay State University, Bloomsburg University,Indiana University Northwest, Western New EnglandCollege, and others.


Themes: Leadership & Motivation, Life Skills, Social Justice


A Message from Erin Gruwell

since the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary in 1999, i have had the extraordinaryexperience of speaking at hundreds of schools and more than sixty colleges and universities. At everyschool and university, the message has been loud and clear: our “little book that could” inspires parents,educators, and students alike, to find hope and to believe in change. now, ten years later and with morethan a million copies sold, that one simple message is the impetus for therelease of The Freedom Writers Diary, 10th anniversary edition, with ten uniquefollow-up journal entries written by ten of the original Freedom Writers, afterthey shattered stereotypes by graduating high school and pursuing college.

it wasn’t always easy for the Freedom Writers to take that second chanceand stick with it, but they did. college presents new challenges andopportunities to learn and grow, and learning from mistakes and finding whatworks takes time. i learned three lessons on my first day teaching at WilsonHigh school: my students hated reading, they hated writing, and they hated me.As i tried to find a way to reach my students, i was faced with the reality that,for many of them, homelessness, gangs, drugs, suicide, and foster care tookprecedence over Hamlet and The Odyssey. in my eyes, none of those thingscould stop them from graduating from high school.

determined, i tailored my curriculum to include books written by kids who lived in war-torncountries. Anne Frank, elie Wiesel, and Zlata Filipovic gave my students hope and the knowledge thatthe best way to fight is by picking up a pen. Tolerance and acceptance were the cornerstones of everylesson plan that i ever implemented, and what i discovered was that i needed to proactivelydemonstrate the power of inclusion. To reach every student, i needed to engage, enlighten, andempower them. so, with every element of my curriculum, we followed those three steps.

i always knew that my first aim as a teacher was to give a voice to the voiceless. so, after miep Gies,(the woman who hid the Frank family), visited my students and told them not to let Anne’s death be invain, i encouraged my students to continue writing in their journals. once my students began to writetheir story, they soon realized that they could rewrite their ending.

After the release of Paramount Pictures’ Freedom Writers, we found ourselves visiting differentcolleges and schools around the country, and we discovered that our story was universal. collegestudents were finding hope and inspiration in the pages of The Freedom Writers Diary. i am filled withhope every time i visit a college, such as Austin Peay state University that created a Peay Read program

in order to “create a collaborative, integrative learningcommunity,” choosing The Freedom Writers Diary as the2010 common reading book. There are so many otheruniversities choosing The Freedom Writers Diary for theircommon reading programs, and i have seen theoutstanding benefits of its use. The Freedom Writers andi are constantly humbled and exhilarated by the numberof college students who are reading The Freedom WritersDiary, telling us how it has impacted their lives andinspired them to do something—to become a teacher, topursue social activism, and most of all, to be a catalyst

for change.

Erin Gruwell

erin gruwell with a student at austin peay state university

erin gruwell at austin peay state university


LIFE WITHOUT LIMITSInspiration for a Ridiculously Good LifeBy Nick Vujicic

“i do believe my life has no limits! i want you to feel the same wayabout your life, no matter what your challenges may be. As webegin our journey together, please take a moment to think aboutany limitations you’ve placed on your life or that you’ve allowedothers to place on it. now think about what it would be like to befree of those limitations. What would your life be if anything werepossible?” —nick Vujicic, from Life Without Limits

Life Without Limits is an inspiring book by an extraordinaryman. Born without arms or legs, nick Vujicic overcame his

disability to live not just independently but a rich, fulfilling life,becoming a model for anyone seeking true happiness. now aninternationally successful motivational speaker, his central messageis that the most important goal for anyone is to find their life’spurpose despite whatever difficulties or seemingly impossible oddsstand in their way. nick tells the story of his physical disabilities and the emotionalbattle he endured trying to deal with them as a child, a teen, and ayoung adult. “For the longest, loneliest time, i wondered if therewas anyone on earth like me, and whether there was any purpose tomy life other than pain and humiliation.” He shares how his faith inGod has been his central source of strength and explains that oncehe found his own sense of purpose—inspiring others to make theirlives and the world better—he found the confidence to build arewarding and productive life without limits. nick offers practical advice for realizing a life of fulfillment andhappiness by building trust in others, developing supportiverelationships, and gaining strength for the journey. He encouragesthe reader by showing how he learned to accept what he could notcontrol and focus instead on what he could.“Life Without Limits will inspire and move you.”

—Pasadena Star News

“nick’s anecdotes about living without limbs (e.g., a story ofgetting the best of a grade-school bully) make this a worthwhileread.” —Library Journal

About the Author: Nick VujicicnICk VuJICIC is a motivational speaker and the director and founding president of the non-profitorganization, Life Without Limbs. A longtime resident of Australia, he now lives in southern California.He continues to travel around the world, spreading a message of perseverance and hope.

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i have spoken in thirty-eight countries, at hundreds ofevents, and to millions of people around the globe, but neverhave i told the story of my physical disabilities as up-close andpersonal as i do in Life Without Limits: Inspiration for aRidiculously Good Life. With this book, i invite readers to travelwith me on a path paved with hope and filled with both laughterand tears.

Today, too many students enter college with little concept ofthemselves and their goals. many find themselves lost because ofthick depression, heavy drinking, and a sense of purposelessness.By sharing my own personal experiences, i let my readers seethrough the eyes of a person living with a disability. i do this notto paint my pain as more important or greater—it is not—but torelate to the pain that already exists so profusely in each humanbeing. i invite my readers to know that a bright future can be found despite one’scircumstances and emotions.

Having been born without arms and legs, i encounter many unique challenges—challenges that once knocked me into deep depression and overwhelming feelings ofloneliness. By age ten, i was so depressed that i attempted suicide. Bullying, low self-esteem,and despair engulfed me. during my late teens, i finally received the strength to find hopeoutside my circumstances and to find purpose within them. With my newfound courage, ibecame a motivational speaker, using my story to inspire others. now, as both a speaker andauthor, i offer to you my book—a place where i share with my readers strategies to overcomehardship and find happiness, despite any circumstance.

While Life Without Limits tells the story of my life, it crosses cultural boundaries tocommunicate themes far greater than my life-story. it tells of human hope, resilience, andpurpose. it covers topics such as perseverance, attitude, trust, and self-worth. it equips readerswith the tools to become confident, fulfill their potential, and lead a meaningful life.

if you need a discussion piece that inspires students to reflect deeply within their ownlives, consider my book for your common reading program. i love my life just as i love yours.Together, the possibilities for us are just ridiculous. so, what do you say? shall we give it a go,mate?

For more information, please visit www.attitudeisaltitude.com.

Nick Vujicic

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIEAn Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest LessonBy Mitch AlbomAfter learning of his former professor’s terminal illness, mitch Albom flew to BrandeisUniversity, reunited with his old friend, and returned every Tuesday thereafter to visit withhim. morrie schwartz turned these visits into one final “class”: a lesson in how to live. Thisbook is a magical chronicle of mitch and morrie’s time together.Selected for Common Reading at Concordia University, SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo, University of North Dakota,and others.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-0592-3 | 224pp. | $13.99/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Coming of age • ethics/decision making • Identity

WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate QuestionBy Po Bronson“What should i do with my life?” Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when hedecided to write this book—an inspiring exploration of how people successfully transformtheir lives, and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves. Filled withhumor, empathy, and insight, this edition includes nine new stories not included in thehardcover edition.“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the bookwill support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk without force-feeding them patsolutions.” —Publishers Weekly

Selected for Common Reading at Rutgers College, Sam Houston State University, and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75898-0 | 432pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Ballantine | MM | 978-0-345-48592-2 | 464pp. | $7.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • Identity • Life skills

CHARACTER IS DESTINYInspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember By John McCain with Mark Salterin Character Is Destiny, John mccain and mark salter tell the stories of celebrated historicalfigures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit.mccain illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against all odds,righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity, and sacrifice for causes which extendbeyond self-interest.Selected for Common Reading at DeSales College.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7445-4 | 336pp. | $15.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: ethics/decision-making • Identity

MANDELA’S WAY: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and CourageBy Richard Stengel; Preface by Nelson Mandelanelson mandela—freedom fighter, former President of south Africa, and figure ofinspiration worldwide—offers fifteen essential life lessons, drawn from his decades ofactivism. more than a biography of a great man, this is a guide to how to live a meaningfuland legacy-rich life—under any circumstances. “This delightfully inspiring book is a philosophical guide to how we can aspire to achieveMandela’s grace and how we can draw upon his greatness as a model for the comportment ofour lives each day.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

Selected for Common Reading at Loyola University Chicago.

Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-46068-4 | 256pp. | $23.00/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Leadership & motivation • Life skills • social Justice


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MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLEOne Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the ExtraordinaryBy Bill Strickland with Vince RausemacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner Bill strickland has spent the past thirty yearstransforming the lives of thousands of people through manchester Bidwell, the jobs trainingcenter and community arts program he founded in Pittsburgh. Working with corporations,community leaders, and schools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adultsthe opportunities and tools they need to envision and build a better, brighter future.Make the Impossible Possible ultimately teaches us how to build on our passions andstrengths, dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success, and inspire thelives of others.Selected for Common Reading at Frank Phillips College, Indiana University Pennsylvania, Juniata College, Kendall College,Mt. Union College, North Dakota State University, Penn State-New Kensington, Purdue University, University of SouthernIndiana, Voorhees College, Winthrop University, and others.

Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-52055-3 | 240pp. | $14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Leadership & motivation • service • social Justice

ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MINDBy Shunryu SuzukiAfterword by David ChadwickThis succinct yet expansive introduction to Zen is presented here in a special 40thanniversary edition. excerpts from several of Zen master shunryu suzuki’s lectures areprinted here, illuminating his perspective on topics such as the transience of the materialworld and the nature of enlightenment, as well giving practical suggestions regarding thepractice of meditation, focusing on such matters as posture and breathing. Rather thanpromoting a dogmatic approach to a religious tradition, the book offers the elliptical andparadoxical musings of a master, encouraging the reader to embark on his or her own Zen path.Shambhala | HC | 978-1-590-30850-9 | 144pp. | $24.95/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50themes: Identity • Life skills • perseverance/personal strength

THE SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENTRevolutionary New Research That Reveals the Secret to Long-Term HappinessBy Susan Krauss Whitbourne“This remarkable exploration into the core dimensions of human nature takes readers of allages on a journey of liberation. The psychologically revolutionary ideas that flow throughevery chapter free us from simplistic pop-psych notions of ‘midlife crises’ and confining age-based passages. We come to appreciate the extraordinary fluidity of human nature as peoplemature and embark on life’s dynamic pathways, ideally toward personal fulfillment ontriumphant or authentic paths. Emerging from solid, original research, The Search forFulfillment’s sound, practical advice can transform your life. This is a must-read-now book.”

—Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox

Ballantine Books | HC | 978-0-345-49999-8 | 224pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills • science & society

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Relax, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Take advantage of the many resources available to learn about other readingprograms. A good starting point is a monograph published by the national Resource center for e First-Year experience®and students in Transition, Common Reading Programs: Going Beyond the Book. in addition, there are a number of campuseswith well-established and successful reading programs, and the professionals who run these programs are usually very happyto share advice and tips (as well as opinions on books they have used in the past.)

When starting a program, it’s important to include various stakeholders on campus. When it is time to select a book, youwill most likely want some type of campus selection committee. e committee should comprise members of a variety ofconstituencies, including faculty, student services and academic affairs administrators, as well as students.

ink carefully about the scope, mission, learning outcomes, and assessment of your program. For example, will theprogram be a first-year/new student reading program or a campus-wide (common) reading program? What will be thepurpose of the program (this may influence the type of books you will be considering)? How will you inform students aboutthe program and when will they be expected to read the book? Again, take advantage of the numerous resources available tohelp answer these questions.

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SELECTING A BOOK

Use digital and social media to your advantage. Use your university’s existing social media webpage or account (Facebook,Twitter, etc.) or create a dedicated page for your common reading program to create a community around the book selection,author visit and other programming activities. many authors, publishers and lecture agencies have existing material that canbe posted to your community page.

Get students prepared. consider introducing the book during the spring or summer prior to the next academic year. Forexample, if first-year students receive the book during orientation, the orientation leaders and various speakers canadvertise the program and build a feeling of community around the reading of the text. Also, think about having studentsturn in questions for the author as part of an assignment and have a moderator pose the questions to the author. is willincentivize students to come up with more original questions, will save on time during the Q&A and will avoid dreaded“dead air.” make the questions a contest, such as: “can you stump the author?”

Have students create materials in advance of the author’s visit. essay collections are a great idea. You may also considermultimedia approaches—such as blogs, videos, or website. students tend to share more on a personal level when they are not

ENGAGING STUDENTS

ink about the following questions when considering eligible books for your program:

does the book tell a good story?

is the book accessible? Will a variety of students at different reading levels and with different interests be able to engage withthe book? To this point, consider page count. A good rule of thumb is the “300 Rule:” if possible, choose a book with 300pages or less.

does it feature a protagonist students can relate to? ey might be the same age or be dealing with similar life situations(change, challenge, adversity).

does the book touch on teachable themes, such as inclusiveness/diversity, global engagement, etc.?

do the themes of the book correspond to your university’s strategic mission? campus engagement and resources will beeasier to secure if you make this relationship clear.

if having the book’s author speak is part of the plan for your reading program, it is important to consider author availabilityduring the book selection process. speaking fees and availability can vary considerably. You don’t want to go through all thework to select a book, only to find out that the author’s speaking fee will not work for your budget, or s/he is not available tospeak on the dates you need!

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Is the author represented by an agency or speaker’s bureau? most authors will have an agent, and that will be the person tomake inquiries about speaking fees and availability. oen, the book’s publisher will have this information.

encourage as many faculty and students as possible read the book in advance of the author visit. in addition to having moreenthusiastic readers on campus to help you spread the good word about the book and your program, folks who have alreadyread the book will have more interesting questions for the author, making for a more intelligent and productive discussion.

Assign a faculty or administrator to host the author. While one of the benefits of an author visit is for students to engagewith the author, it is important to have a faculty member or administrator act as the dedicated host, someone who has theauthority to assertively manage appearances—to turn down requests or move an author to the next location, for example.

sharing is caring! encourage university departments and divisions to coordinate in advance. Perhaps events may be co-sponsored so the author isn’t pulled in too many directions, and departments can share space, time, money and otherresources.

consider having one large campus talk that is required of all students. is makes the best use of both your programmingtime and the author’s time on campus. many authors say that different departments and disciplines actually tend to havequestions that are more similar in nature than they are different. even if that is not the case, a diversity of questions is a goodthing; it offers a richer conversation when different interests come together, and students learn more.

Mix up the formats of events. e most successful visits offer the author and participants a variety of events to keep thingsfresh and engaging. Have the author speak at a podium for one event, do an on-stage sit-down Q&A at another, andparticipate in a group interview with faculty at a third.

When hosting an author Q&A it’s important to appoint a moderator to move the discussion along. e moderator canaddress basic factual questions upfront, to allow for a more in-depth exchange during the Q&A. e moderator can also bethe person who introduces the author.

Following a large campus-wide talk, arrange for smaller, more intimate discussions with faculty and students, in which theauthor and participants can delve more deeply into topics mentioned in the campus-wide talk. All participants should haveattended the larger campus talk so that they come to the breakout sessions with at least a basic knowledge of the book.

Give authors “a break” (or two)! in order to provide your participants with the best experience possible, foster anenvironment that makes the author comfortable, and one that allows them to put their best foot forward. schedule breaks inbetween sessions and offer some meals “off ”. Arrange to have snacks, water, coffee, and meals available as appropriate. if theauthor is the key attraction at a meal, make sure they have ample time to eat.

Don’t take it personally. When negotiating your author’s visit to campus, there may be many requirements on the part oftheir agency for travel, lodging, and “down time.” ese are based on the agency’s standard contractual obligations designedto cover a wide variety of celebrity, sports, and other speakers. However, most agencies and authors understand that you havestate and university policies that may constrain what you can offer, and will work with you to meet your needs. scheduleample time for planning and negotiation. You should also verify with the author’s agent whether events or speakingengagements may be videotaped or recorded. ey oen have provisions for what is allowable.

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in an open forum and the medium can be anonymous. Another idea is to have students autograph and annotate the author’sbook. in addition to brief messages to the author, annotations can call attention to the passages of the book students findmost compelling or personally resonant. Authors appreciate different perspectives on and reactions to their work, and theycan take home the annotated book as a memento to commemorate the event!

Organize campus-wide discussion groups. some campuses use faculty, some use upper-class students, and some use acombination of faculty, staff, and students to facilitate these discussions. Again, this is a good way for the first-year student tofeel that they are a part of the university community.

Link the book to as much existing campus programming as possible. can the Film studies dept. co-sponsor a viewing of afilm related to your book? Are there plays, arts exhibits or other speakers coming to campus that you could tie into? Perhapsstudent Activities can help as well? Reach out to faculty who teach courses relevant to your book selection, provide them withreview copies of the book, invite them to events and ask them to embed the book in their syllabi and courses. Your bookselection committee will be a great resource in making these connections.

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ACTS OF FAITHThe Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for theSoul of a GenerationBy Eboo Patel

Winner, 2010 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion

“iam an American muslim from india. my adolescence was aseries of rejections, one after another, of the various

dimensions of my heritage, in the belief that America, india, andislam could not coexist within the same being. if i wanted to beone, i could not be the others. my struggle to understand thetraditions i belong to as mutually enriching rather than mutuallyexclusive is the story of a generation of young people standing atthe crossroads of inheritance and discovery, trying to look bothways at once. There is a strong connection between finding a senseof inner coherence and developing a commitment to pluralism.And that has everything to do with who meets you at thecrossroads.”so writes eboo Patel at the beginning of his remarkable account ofcoming of age and coming to understand what led him towardreligious pluralism rather than hatred.Growing up outside chicago, subject to a constant barrage of racistbullying, and unsure of what it meant to be muslim, Patel had agut-wrenching feeling of being excluded from mainstream society.in high school, he rejected everything about his indian and muslimheritage and excelled in academics in an attempt to be like thewhite Americans around him. in college this illusion came undoneas Patel discovered the liberating power of identity politics—and adeep rage at the inequities and hypocrisies of America.Patel soon learned that anger is not an identity, encountering a setof people and ideas that illuminated a different understanding. Hismost important discovery was not about his relationship with hispast, but about his responsibility to make the best part of thatpast—the possibility of pluralism—a reality in the contemporaryworld.“eboo patel is an exciting new voice of a new america: diverse butnot divisive, hopeful but not utopian. He speaks for all of us from arising generation of bright, brown and bold americans who havemuch to offer a country embarking on a new millennium and inneed of new blood.”

—Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Executive Director of the Zaytuna Institute

About the Author: eboo PateleBoo pateL is Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core. He was appointed byPresident Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and NeighborhoodPartnerships and serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hewrites “The Faith Divide” blog for The Washington Post and has contributed to numerous publications. AnAshoka Fellow, Patel was chosen by Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leadersto watch and was selected to join the Young Global Leaders Network of the World Economic Forum.

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-807-00622-1 | 192pp.$14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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A Message from Eboo Patel

Religion can be a bubble of isolation, a barrier of division, a bomb of destruction . . . or abridge of cooperation. The forces building barriers and bombs are strong—their messagedominates the discourse about the role of religion in the world. i wrote Acts of Faith because ibelieve religion can be a bridge of cooperation, and college students are in a powerful positionto build these bridges.

on one level, Acts of Faith is my journey of discovery, of how i became an interfaithbridge-builder. college is a time when young people grapple with identity—who they are in aworld of people very different from them. one of the compliments i cherish most about Actsof Faith is that the way it tells my personal story helps students understand and articulate theirown.

on another level, Acts of Faith tells the story of islam, illuminating those dimensions of itsscripture, history, and heroes that support interfaith bridgebuilding. campuses tell me thatthis is extremely useful to them for two reasons. First, much of what students know aboutislam comes from the evening news, and Acts of Faith offers a much-needed alternativeperspective on the faith of 1.5 billion adherents worldwide. second, my approach to islamillustrates a new paradigm for religion in general. Whether the student is a Hindu or ahumanist, whether the campus was founded by Jews or catholics, Acts of Faith gets peopleasking the question: “What is it in my tradition and other traditions that would supportinterfaith bridge-building?”

Finally, Acts of Faith is about a national and global story of the role that religion plays inthe world. America is the most religiously diverse nation in human history and the mostreligiously devout nation in the West at a time of great global religious conflict. We have thechance to be a model of interfaith cooperation, and young people are in a unique position tomake us so.

But really, Acts of Faith is about the intersection of all three—a historical tradition, aunique global moment, and a personal story. The ultimate message of the book is this: Findthose dimensions of your tradition that help you positively impact the world and work withothers who are doing the same.

There is nothing i love more than engaging with a campus community on the issuesraised by my book. since Acts of Faith was published, i have visited nearly fifty campuses,from small liberal arts colleges to large public universities, from ivy league schools in Bostonto catholic colleges in the Bay Area. i have given keynote talks to auditoriums with thousandsof students, held workshops for faculty teaching courses in religion, and trained staff on howto positively engage the diversity of their campus community.

my life changed as a college student, from one focused on my own personal success to oneof service and significance. Acts of Faith tells the story of those changes. my goal when i visitcampuses is to help change the lives of others.

Eboo Patel


THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKSBy Rebecca Skloot

Winner of 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for NonfictionWinner of 2010 Wellcome Trust Book PrizeThe American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Young AdultScience Book AwardSelected as a Best Book of the Year by over 30 publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and USA Today

Her name was Henrietta lacks, but scientists know her as Hela.she was a poor southern tobacco farmer who worked the

same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without herknowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they were vitalfor developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer,viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to importantadvances in cloning, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping; andhave been bought and sold by the billions, with devastatingconsequences for her family.now Rebecca skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the“colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to starkwhite laboratories with freezers full of Hela cells; from Henrietta’ssmall, dying hometown of clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slavequarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to east Baltimore today,where Henrietta’s children, unable to afford health insurance,wrestle with feelings of pride, fear, and betrayal. “what is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks really about? science,african american culture and religion, intellectual property ofhuman tissues, southern history, medical ethics, civil rights, theoverselling of medical advances? . . . the book’s broad scope wouldmake it ideal for an institution-wide freshman year readingprogram.”

—David J. Kroll, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was an excellent summerreading selection. over 2100 first-year students as well as facultymembers, research professionals, and university staff took part inover 80 discussion groups during VCu’s welcome week. Hermessage inspired students to become passionate and engagedwith both learning and inquiry. throughout their first semester, thebook continued to serve as an excellent model of research writingfor our newest students.”

—Daphne L. Rankin, PhD, Associate Vice Provost for Instruction, Virginia Commonwealth University

About the Author: Rebecca sklootReBeCCa skLoot has taught at the University of Memphis, New York University and the Universityof Pittsburgh. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW, andher writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; ColumbiaJournalism Review; and elsewhere.

Crown | HC | 978-1-4000-5217-2 | 384pp. $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00

Do not order paperback before 3/8/2011.Broadway | TR | 978-1-4000-5218-9 | 400pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Website: www.RebeccaSkloot.comTo view video of author at DePauw University’s Ubben Lecture,

go to: http://tinyurl.com/24h6xux

Selected for Common Reading at more than 30 colleges/universities including:University of Arkansas, University of California SantaBarbara, Morehouse College, Spelman College,Virginia Commonwealth University, and Universityof Wisconsin, and others.

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i first learned about Hela cells, and the woman behind them, as a teenager sitting in a freshmanbiology class. i knew only fragments of Henrietta’s story, but those fragments inspired me to start askingquestions—about science and mortality, bioethics, and how i’d feel if my own cells were used inresearch. i didn’t yet know that her cells had launched a multibillion dollar industry while her childrenlived in poverty, or that the cells had devastating consequences for the family.

Henrietta’s story captures the imagination of students in any number of disciplines, including thesciences, medicine, African American studies, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism, andcreative writing. i’ve spoken about Hela at schools around the country, where students are transfixedby the story. i tell them that if you could pile all Hela cells ever grown on a scale they would weighmore than one hundred empire state Buildings, and that Hela has been fused with mouse cells tocreate Henrietta-mouse hybrid cells. it’s the stuff of science fiction, but it’s true, and students love it.combine that with the story of Henrietta’s family—a tale about science, religion, race, and class—andstudents’ reactions are powerful.

during Q&As, the first question is usually: “Wasn’t it illegal to take her cells and use them inresearch without asking?” The answer is no—not in 1951, and not in 2011. Today, most Americans havetheir tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And since the late sixties, whentesting newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each baby born in the United states hashad blood taken, and those samples are often stored and used by scientists. This means that themajority of college students in this country have tissues of their own being used in research, and neitherthey nor their parents likely realize it.

As a college professor, i always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields thatstudents will study throughout their careers and that allow them to explore the real-world consequencesof intellectual discoveries. other professors tell me The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks does just that,bringing together health, community, family, ethics, religion, science, storytelling, history, business, law,and humanity.

since spring 2010, i have talked about my book at more than one hundred schools nationwide. As aregular guest lecturer who’s also worked as a correspondent for radio and television, i understand theimportance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been called “moving and engaging of boththe heart and mind.” You can visit the events page of my website at Rebeccaskloot.com to see if i’ll bespeaking at your school, and you can contact me through the site. i look forward to visiting even moreschools as part of their Freshman experience Programs.

As a college biology major, i couldn’t have imagined that Henrietta’s story would lead me tobecome a writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. There’s no telling what effectthis story could have on students. i can’t wait to find out.

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BLIND DESCENTThe Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on EarthBy James M. Tabor

At the beginning of the new millennium, the earth’s deepestcave—the supercave—remained undiscovered. in 2004, two

great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world.American Bill stone was committed to the vast cheve cave, locatedin southern mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. onthe other side of the globe, the Ukrainian explorer AlexanderKlimchouk targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercavein the Republic of Georgia. in Blind Descent, journalist James m. Tabor draws on unprece-dented access to logs, journals, photographs, video footage, and interviews with the participants to describe the thousand-footdrops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrouswaterfalls, and mile-long belly crawls encountered along the way.This book ultimately stands as a compelling addition to the literature of scientific discovery. “a fascinating and informative introduction to the sport of cavediving, as well as a dramatic portrayal of a significant man-vs.-nature conflict. . . . what counts is tabor’s knack for maximizingdramatic potential, while also managing to be informative andattentive to the major personalities associated with the mostimportant cave explorations of the last two decades.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“gripping and well-written account of the treacherous world ofdeep cave exploration . . . best suited to true-adventure fans or anyrecreational readers seeking a pulse-raising tale of real-life dramaand grim determination.” —Library Journal

“ . . . [L]ike The Perfect Storm or Shadow Divers.” —The Washington Post

“Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. tabor takes us on anodyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the heartsof rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”

—Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers

About the Author: James M. taborJames m. taBoR’s last book was the international award-winning Forever on the Mountain: The TruthBehind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters. The writer and on-camerahost of the acclaimed national PBS series The Great Outdoors, Tabor was also co-creator and executiveproducer for the 2007 History Channel special Journey to the Center of the World. Tabor is a formercontributing editor to Outside magazine and Ski Magazine; his writing has also appeared in Time,Smithsonian, Barron’s, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and manyother national publications.

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Agony. Ecstasy. Injury. Death. Betrayal. Brotherhood and sisterhood. Accidents. Triumphs.Unknown realms. Exploration and discovery. Overwhelming obstacles. Ingenious victories.

These are some of the reasons why i think Blind Descent would make good reading forfirst-year students. Here are two great truths: Hockey games, reduced to their essences, arenothing more than two players racing towards the puck; everything else that happens isconnecting tissue, secondary, quotidian. The same is true of life. Reduced to its essence, life isa series of critical moments linked by days, months, years, or decades of the stuff we do to passtime. Work. Play. eat. sleep. drive. Party. study, etc.

There are some people who are not content to wait for life to bring them critical moments.For a variety of reasons, they go out of their way to create such junctures, often placingthemselves in harm’s way to do so. Who are these people? George leigh mallory, the greateverest pioneer, who gave his life to the quest. navy lt. donald Walsh, who descendedapproximately 36,000 feet in the waters of the Pacific in 1961—a feat never repeated. JacquesYves cousteau, who courted death countless times to open the undersea world for the rest ofus. lindbergh. magellan. cortes. messner. Armstrong et al.

such people exist today, doing the same things such people have always done. i think ofthem as the human race’s great forerunners, going places and doing things that no one hasever done before, proving that the rest of us—somehow, some way—could go to those sameplaces and do those same things.

Blind Descent is about two such men and the people they lead in their quest to discoverand explore the deepest cave on earth. Their actions are on par with those of the great polarexplorers, mountaineers, oceaneers. one can even make a credible case that their explorationswere as dangerous and isolated as those of the Apollo astronauts.

What these people did required taking ultimate risks, (sometimes dying in the process),and undergoing physical, mental, and emotional ordeals that the rest of us can barely imagine,let alone endure. so Blind Descent captures people in the most critical moments imaginable. itexplains how and why they got to those moments and how they dealt with them. somereviewers compared my book to The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, which might seem oddat first glance. Storm was about the ocean; Air the mountains, after all; and Descent is aboutcaves. But all of these books are really about people—people who, by choice rather thanchance, find themselves in extremis. come to think of it, in that regard they’re not unlikeoedipus, lear, Henry Fleming, and santiago—or, in the real world, columbus, davidcrockett, John Brown and . . . well, you get the idea.

Blind Descent is written as well as i could write it. it’s about people doing ultimate thingsas well as they can be done. some die. some live. none come back unchanged. This makes fora book worth reading.

James M. Tabor


FREEDOM: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human RightsBy Amnesty International USAin honor of its 50th anniversary, Amnesty international, the notable and noble human rightsorganization, has brought together several internationally acclaimed writers, asking them tocontribute stories inspired by the Universal declaration of Human Rights. empathetic andthought-provoking, but never didactic, Paulo coehlo, nadine Gordimer, Yann martel, Joycecarol oates, and many more present ruminations and meditations on struggles for freedomand equality, and efforts against repression and injustice, encouraging an understanding ofthe victories that have been won and how much more still needs to be done to ensure that thebasic rights of all are respected and protected. Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-58883-8 | 432pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics • Human Rights • social Justice

BEYOND FUNDAMENTALISMConfronting Religious Extremism in the Age of GlobalizationBy Reza Aslan“In this provocative and engaging book, Reza Aslan shows why he is one of America’s leadinganalysts of the confusing and frightening forces that confront us. It is Aslan’s great gift to seethings clearly, and to say them clearly, and in this important new work he offers us a wayforward. He is prescriptive and passionate, and his book will make you think.”

—Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7830-8 | 240pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • Identity • Inclusiveness

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NO GOD BUT GOD: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of IslamRandom House | TR | 0-8129-7189-2 | 336pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook

NOBODIES: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global EconomyBy John Bowein Nobodies, John Bowe travels from the agricultural quagmires of Florida to the factories andbrothels of saipan, filing a first-hand report on the working conditions that our governmentand our corporations depend on, but are trying their best to ignore. Bowe delivers a soberinglook at the moral costs of cheap goods—from orange juice to cut-rate fashions—to which oureconomy has grown so accustomed.This is rich and vibrant reporting—not a polemic, but a presentation of things as they are onthe underside of American commerce.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7184-2 | 336pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: global Citizenship • Human Rights • social Justice

HOLLOWING OUT THE MIDDLEThe Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for AmericaBy Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalasit is happening across America, and it will have a tremendous impact on the nation’s culturaland economic life—young people are leaving small towns in droves, often with the encour-agement of their parents, to seek a more prosperous life elsewhere. But what does this meanfor the future of rural communities? carr and Kefalas moved to iowa to speak to some ofthese young people, and here they present the stories of working-class “stayers,” ambitious andcollege-bound “achievers,” “seekers” who head off to war, and the “returners” who eventuallycome back. Their portrait of small-town America is detailed, illuminating—and worrisome. Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-807-00614-6 | 256pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Coming of age • group dynamics • Regionalism: Iowa/the midwest/Rural america

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FACTORY GIRLS: From Village to City in a Changing ChinaBy Leslie T. ChangA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

Former Wall Street Journal Beijing correspondent leslie chang investigates the lives offemale chinese migrant workers—an enormous and growing population upon whom muchof the world’s economic growth depends. A book of global significance that provides newinsight into china, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villagesto cities is remaking individual lives and transforming chinese society, much as immigrationremade America a century ago.“Chang’s deeply affecting book tells the story of the invisible foot soldiers who made China’sstirring rise possible.” —The New York Times

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52018-8 | 448pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Regionalism: China/asia • social Justice

PARADISE BENEATH HER FEETHow Women Are Transforming the Middle EastBy Isobel Colemanin the middle east, islam is often used to justify the oppression of women. However,coleman shows how some muslim activists are promoting moderate and progressiveinterpretations of islam to promote women’s rights. men and women in saudi Arabia, iraq,iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are profiled, illuminating how they are working to createeconomic, political, and educational opportunities for women—using the tenets of islam tosupport their endeavors. This hopeful book suggests that, by working for women’s rightsfrom within islam, rather than from outside and against it, the middle east and the lives ofits women can be transformed. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6695-7 | 352pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Human Rights • Inclusiveness

NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBy Barbara DemickAmerican journalist Barbara demick interviewed six north Koreans who attempted to build careers, relationships, and lives in north Korea, onlyto defect when they realized the extent of the government’s deception and abuse of its owncitizens. never before has such a penetrating view of contemporary north Korea beenpublished. Readers will be amazed by this insider’s account of the world’s most isolated state. “Demick’s potent blend of personal narratives and piercing journalism vividly and evocativelyportrays courageous individuals and a tyrannized state within a saga of unfathomablesuffering punctuated by faint glimmers of hope.” —Booklist (starred review)

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52391-2 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • Human Rights • Regionalism: north korea/asia

SONIC BOOMA Guide to Surviving and Thrivingin the New Global EconomyBy Gregg EasterbrookWith humor, pitch-perfect reporting, and clear, elegant prose, Gregg easterbrook explainswhy, although economic recovery is on the horizon, the next phase of global change will beproblematic. First, he contends that the world is about to become far more globally linked.second, the next wave of global change will be primarily positive: economic prosperity,knowledge, and freedom will increase more in the next fifty years than in all of humanhistory to this point. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7413-3 | 272pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: global Citizenship • group dynamics • Life skills

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HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESSWritten and Illustrated by Sarah Gliddensarah Glidden happily signed up for a “Birthright israel” tour (an all-expenses-paid,government-sponsored trip to israel open to young Jews), assuming that she would beconfronted with government propaganda and a whitewashed image of the country. However,visiting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and other sites, she finds herself reconsideringher original assumptions about not only the trip, but israel as a whole and her own Jewishidentity. This wry and fresh graphic novel introduces a voice unafraid to tackle the contentiouspolitics of the middle east and the charged personal politics of being young and Jewish today.Vertigo | HC | 978-1-401-22233-8 | 208pp. | $24.99/$28.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50author availablethemes: Coming of age • Identity • Regionalism: middle east

THE INNOCENT MANBy John Grishamin 1982, a twenty-one-year-old waitress in oklahoma named debra sue carter was raped andmurdered. For reasons that were never clear, the police suspected former local baseball starRon Williamson and his friend dennis Fritz, whom they charged with capital murder. Withthe prosecution’s case built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches andconvicts, Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence, and Williamson was sent to death row.This book is a disturbing account of the very real flaws in the criminal justice system. A must-read for those interested in law and justice.Selected for Common Reading at Greensboro College.

Dell Books | MM | 978-0-440-24383-0 | 448pp. | $7.99/$11.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Delta | TR | 978-0-385-34091-5 | 400pp. | $16.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook • teacher’s guidethemes: ethics/decision making • perseverance/personal strength • social Justice

QUIRK: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar PersonalityBy Hannah Holmesneuroscience has shed light on human motivation and behavior, helping to explain how andwhy humans, as a species, do what they do. now, Holmes suggests, brain science can explainindividual personality traits and even replicate those seemingly unique characteristics in mice.These experiments are illustrating the genetic basis of personality, showing how “personalityquirks” have actually played a significant role in the evolution of the human race. Whether youare neurotic, outgoing, or optimistic, your personality contributes to the diversity ofhumankind, and that diversity, Holmes argues, is key to humankind’s evolutionary success. Do not order before 2/22/2011.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6840-1 | 288pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Identity • Inclusiveness • science & society

SAY EVERYTHINGHow Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It MattersBy Scott Rosenbergcritics complain that blogs indulge meaningless chatter and navel-gazing. Rosenberg,however, offers a refreshing and convincing argument to the contrary. Blogs have had a majorimpact on politics, business, and personal lives, breaking major news and creating virtualcommunities that mean everything to their members. Here, major players in the blogosphereare introduced, as Rosenberg traces the rise of the medium. At the same time, readers areasked to consider the philosophical issues raised by the ubiquity of blogging: How much is toomuch information online? is anonymity liberating or dangerous? What does “authenticity”mean now—if anything?Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-45137-8 | 416pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Communications • group dynamics • Identity


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NOT QUITE ADULTS: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for EveryoneBy Richard Settersten, Ph.D. and Barbara E. RayThe stereotypes about today’s twenty-somethings are familiar: They are immature; won’tcommit to marriage, childrearing, and a stable job; and remain too attached to theiroverbearing “helicopter” parents. However, the data presented here flies in the face of theseassumptions. The millennial generation is growing up in a world markedly different than thatof their parents; therefore, their different pathways to adulthood may be just what they needto ensure their long-term happiness and success. Because it is so unlike much of what iswritten about this generation, Not Quite Adults offers a thoughtful read for compellingdiscussion. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-80740-0 | 272pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Coming of age • Identity • peer group skills

THE WOMAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY: An American Journalist in YemenBy Jennifer SteilYemen is a conservative muslim country. so, it came as a surprise when a major newspaper inthe capital of sana’a asked Jennifer steil—a single, American woman—to teach a journalismclass to the staff. she accepted with both curiosity and anxiety. Attempting to promote freespeech and impartial journalism, she is confronted by open plagiarism and blatant sexismagainst female employees. However, she comes to appreciate the complex dignity of muslimwomen and forges friendships with people whose beliefs seem worlds apart from her own. Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-3050-5 | 336pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: gender Issues • Inclusiveness • Regionalism: Yemen/the middle east

BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME: A True StoryBy Timothy B. TysonWinner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007; A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist; A New York Public LibraryBook to Remember

in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of con-science. Tim Tyson’s riveting narrative of a fiery summer of racial conflict and one family’sstruggle to build bridges in a time of destruction is a complex rendering of a true story inwhich violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to powerful effect.“Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditationson race in America that I have ever read.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

Selected for Common Reading at Furman University, Queens University of Charlotte, University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, University of Wisconsin at Richland, University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and Science, Villanova University, andothers.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-8311-4 | 368pp. | $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Inclusiveness • social Justice

COVERING: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil RightsBy Kenji YoshinoWinner, 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award; Winner, 2006 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award

in Covering, one of the country’s most brilliant young legal scholars fashions a new paradigmof civil rights. drawing on his experiences as a gay Japanese American, Yale law professorKenji Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of our authentic selves is aharm from which the law should sometimes protect us. more profoundly, he also claims thatlaw will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture ofauthenticity.Selected for Common Reading at Pomona College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Yale University, and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-375-76021-1 | 304pp. | $15.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: discovering differences • Identity • Inclusiveness • social Justice

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sHeRRIe nIst-oLeJnIk, ph.d., is a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and theformer director of the Division of Academic Enhancement. An active researcher and sought-after lecturer, she has published numerous articles and textbooks focused on studying andlearning at the college level.

JodI patRICk HoLsCHuH, ph.d., is an associate professor in the Department ofCurriculum and Instruction at Texas State University. An award-winning educator, she teachesundergraduate courses on building effective and efficient study habits. She also works withcollege instructors on enhancing students’ capacity to learn at the university level.


COLLEGE RULES!, 3rd EditionHow to Study, Survive, and Succeed in CollegeBy Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D. and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D.

An updated, expanded edition of the popular guide written bytwo college professors that gives students a crash course in

college survival 101.in a sink-or-swim environment, this handbook is a lifeline, helpingstudents navigate the uncharted waters of university life. nowextensively revised, College Rules! shares essential advice andstrategies that are not taught in lectures or seminars. students learnhow to study effectively, handle stress, prepare for tests, staymotivated, balance academics and a social life, and avoid commonrookie mistakes. offering much more than study tips, this go-toguide provides students with the tools they need to thrive, both intheir classes and in the campus community.This updated and expanded edition of College Rules! gives studentsthe tools to:· Study smarter—not harder

· Plan their course schedule

· Master computerized learning technologies

· Figure out their professors’ expectations

· Research efficiently—at the library and online

· Read so they can actually remember things at test time

· Organize effective study groups

· Feel engaged and interested—even in “yawn” courses

· Learn killer test strategies and survive exam week

· Avoid common mistakes the easy way—by learning from others’ sad but true stories

· Set themselves up for stellar recommendations

“the authors make perhaps their greatest contribution when theytalk about the power of college to change how students look at theworld.” —The New York Times

About the Authors: sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.Dand Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D.

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A Message from Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D.

Transitions—life is full of them. Transitions can be exciting, feared, hopeful,anticipated, or a combination of all of these emotions. The transition to college, inparticular, is a milestone that can be a struggle for many. There are lots of reasons why thistransition can be difficult, but the main issue may be that there are, to be blunt, unfamiliar“rules” governing college life. Through elementary and secondary school, students havebeen monitored, prodded to do well, and provided with all sorts of safety nets. in college,this type of regulation falls by the wayside, as students are expected to manage themselvesindependently.

in effect, the rules quickly change. There’s more freedom, and with that freedomcomes responsibility—for both one’s successes and one’s failures. Professors do not remindstudents to stay on top of assignments posted in the syllabi, give them bonus points,reward them for effort alone, or offer them multiple chances to succeed. The idea thatwith freedom comes responsibility eludes many students in transition.

We wrote College Rules! to help students understand the “trade secrets” key to makingthis transition like a pro. College Rules! provides students with a common language to talkabout their successes, as well as any problems that they are experiencing. They learn theimportance of monitoring their own grasp of the material, reading critically,understanding the learning process, having a repertoire of research-based learningstrategies at their disposal, managing their whole lives (not just their time), and thinkingat higher levels by going beyond memorization. This rather “heavy” stuff is presented withhumor and with scenarios based on the experiences of students in our own classes.Because the students who have the toughest time making the transition often say thatcollege feels like a “have to” rather than a “want to,” we also provide a means to helpstudents discover (or rediscover) their inner learner.

But perhaps most importantly, College Rules! fulfills one of the major roles of a collegeeducation: it helps students become life-long learners, who have the ability to learn ontheir own, regardless of the books they read or the courses they take. We have seenstruggling learners transform into efficient and effective students because they took whatthey learned from College Rules! and ran with it. college became a life-changingexperience for them because they could think critically, take responsibility for their ownlearning, and apply a variety of approaches when the going got tough. And isn’t that whatcollege is all about?

each year we are asked to speak at colleges nationwide on how to help students domore than just “get through” college. As experienced teachers, we understand the need toengage our audience and speak about real-life stories relating to what works and does notwork. imagine how differently students could end their first year if they were armed withthe information about transitioning to college right from the very first day. We lookforward to speaking at more schools through the First Year experience program.

Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D.


THE ONE-WEEK JOB PROJECTOne Man, One Year, Fifty-Two JobsBy Sean Aikenlike many others of his generation, sean Aiken graduated from college and asked himself,“What should i do with my life?” Thus, he started the one-Week Job Project, where hetransformed his uncertainty about his future and traveled around the world, working fifty-two jobs in fifty-two weeks. All of his wages were donated to charity. inventive andempowering, witty and wise, The One-Week Job Project is a book that will give students thecourage to follow their passions.Villard Books | TR | 978-0-345-50803-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills • peer group skills

THE INVISIBLE GORILLAAnd Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive UsBy Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simonsin The Invisible Gorilla, christopher chabris and daniel simons, creators of one ofpsychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitivescientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we thinkthey do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we are actuallymissing a whole lot.chabris and simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings onattention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get usinto trouble.Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-45965-7 | 320pp. | $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills • peer group skills

MADE TO STICKWhy Some Ideas Survive and Others DieBy Chip Heath and Dan HeathWhy do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthyideas? chip and dan Heath tackle these vexing questions head-on. in this indispensableguide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring”hoax, to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship, to a vision for a new product at sony—drawtheir power from the same six traits. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny,Made to Stick reveals the vital components of winning ideas—and shows us how to make ourown messages stick.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6428-1 | 336pp. | $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00authors available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook• teacher’s guidethemes: group dynamics • Leadership & motivation • Life skills

SWITCHHow to Change Things When Change Is HardBy Chip Heath and Dan HeathThis compelling narrative about the difficulty of bringing about genuine, lasting change inourselves and in others—especially when one has few resources and no title or authority—isa riveting read that will change lives. combining psychology, sociology, management, andcase studies from a host of different fields, the authors tell countless stories of people andorganizations who have successfully created significant change, by using what the authorscall Bright spots to break bigger goals down into more manageable steps—what the authorscall small steps.Crown Business | HC | 978-0-385-52875-7 | 320pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00authors available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: group dynamics • Life skills • social Justice

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CRACKING THE HIDDEN JOB MARKETBy Donald AsherTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-494-9 | 208pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2011A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-ChangersBy Richard N. BollesTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8270-9 | 368pp. | $18.99/$20.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? JOB-HUNTER’S WORKBOOKBy Richard N. BollesTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8009-5 | 64pp. | $11.99/$12.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Identity • Life skills

THE CAREER COUNSELOR’S HANDBOOKBy Richard N. Bolles Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8870-1 | 320pp. | $19.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Life skills • service

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? FOR TEENSDiscovering Yourself, Defining Your FutureBy Carol Christen, Richard N. Bolles, and Jean M. BlomquistTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-141-2 | 192pp. | $15.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Coming of age • Identity • Life skills

MAJOR IN SUCCESS, 5TH ED.Make College Easier, Fire up Your Dreams, and Get a Great JobBy Patrick Combs; Foreword by Jack CanfieldTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8865-7 | 208pp. | $14.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Life skills • peer group dynamics

10 THINGS EMPLOYERS WANT YOU TO LEARN IN COLLEGEThe Know-How You Need to SucceedBy William D. CoplinTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8524-3 | 272pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: Life skills • peer group skills

GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGEA Professor, A Dean, and A Student Tell You How to Maximize Your ExperienceBy Peter Feaver, Sue Wasiolek, and Anne CrossmanTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8856-5 | 264pp. | $14.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: Life skills • peer group skills

LECTURE NOTES: A Professor’s Inside Guide to College SuccessBy Philip Freeman, Ph.D.Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8754-4 | 160pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Life skills • peer group skills

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THE RAGGED EDGE OF SILENCE: Finding Peace in a Noisy WorldBy John Francis

in 1972, disgusted by humankind’s poor treatment anddestruction of the environment, John Francis started walking,

rejecting all forms of motorized transportation. still, he felt hewasn’t doing enough to show his dissent. Therefore, on his twenty-seventh birthday, he took a vow of silence; he didn’t utter anotherword for the next seventeen years. Rather than withdraw into acloistered, uncommunicative existence, however, Francis earnedboth undergraduate and graduate degrees, learned to play thebanjo, and began working for the U.n.in his previous book, Planetwalker, Francis related the everydayrealities of his walking years, presenting a compelling example ofhow to live one’s political ideals. in The Ragged Edge of Silence, heturns his attention exclusively to the silence he cultivated. However,he moves beyond his own experience, using it as a jumping-offpoint to ruminate on the history of human attempts at silence andhow to achieve silence in an increasingly noisy world. Anecdotesand insights explore the scientifically-proven benefits of silence andthe relationship between silence and creativity, while practicaltechniques explain how everyone can achieve a workable,meaningful state of quiet in their own lives. silence is not a monolithic concept; there is introspective silenceand interactive silence, both of which—counterintuitively—offerunique and constructive means of communication. Francis urges usto rethink the place of silence in the world, to embrace it in order tocultivate mindfulness and self-awareness, and to deepen our bondswith others and the environment.

About the Author: John FrancisJoHn FRanCIs is Founder and Director of the nonprofit environmental education organizationPlanetwalk and author of Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence (National GeographicBooks, 2008). John has led environmental walks in many countries and consulted on environmentalmanagement and sustainable development. He travels the world, speaking on pilgrimage and change.As a National Geographic Education Fellow, John is developing Planetlines, an environmental studiescurriculum for grades K-12 and universities.

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PLANETWALKER: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.By John Francis, Ph.D.2007 Gold Winner—Nautilus Book Awards in the categories of Ecology/Environment and Independent Press

After witnessing the devastating effects of the 1971 oil spill in san Francisco Bay, John Francisbegan a remarkable, solitary pilgrimage that would change his life irrevocably. An amazinghuman-interest story with a vital message about saving our environment, Planetwalker is alsoan engaging coming-of-age odyssey, full of the positive experiences, the challenging times, thecharacters encountered, and the learning gained along the way.Selected for Common Reading at University at South Carolina Upstate.

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Excerpts from the Ragged edge of silence

Amid the clamor of day and the quietude of night, it waits for discovery. like the wildernessbeside an asphalt road, in a vacant city lot, or park, silence is the refuge and the void to whichwe are both drawn and repelled. At its edge all creation begins and ends.

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i soon discovered that charles, despite being blind from birth, must have been an individualof strong will and determination to live beyond the boundaries of his sightlessness. He was notsatisfied with merely hearing me recount stories of my journey; he wanted to walk the rockytrails and the narrow brushy paths up and down the hills all the way to the sea. He asked me ifi would be his eyes. With charles, my walking took on a new dimension.

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“do you hear it?” charles asked….“You don’t hear the plane, do you?”

i tilted my head and cupped my hand around my right ear as i listened for the growl of anengine. “i don’t hear it,” i said. “is it a plane?”

He nodded his head and said that he had heard it just a moment ago, and that if we continuedto listen we would hear it again. in a few moments, we heard the low groan of a small propplane that passed over the spot where we were standing. charles explained that the sound ofthe engine as it reached us was not uniform. “You may think that the sound reaches usuniformly as if we were in a smooth sphere.” He waved his hand in a circle above his head. “itdoesn’t, because of the wind and maybe some other atmospheric conditions. The result is thatwe can hear the sound sporadically as the plane approaches until those conditions haveminimal effect. it’s like a ragged edge,” he offered triumphantly.

Excerpted from the Introduction of The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World by John Francis, Ph.D., NationalGeographic Books, 2011.

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FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: An Epic Adventure in Local LivingBy Doug Finedid you know it takes more water to sustain a vegetable crop in new mexico for a year thanit would to sustain a Bangladeshi village of five hundred? did you know almost allcomponents of a solar-powered water pump are made in Japan or denmark? did you knowit takes 16,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly an organic banana from Honduras to silver city, newmexico? neither did doug Fine. Farewell, My Subaru is the hilarious and inspirationalaccount of a long island suburbanite’s attempt to go green—extreme green—in rural newmexico.Selected for Common Reading at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Villard Books | TR | 978-0-8129-7789-9 | 224pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: environment • ethics/decision making • global Citizenship

ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCEThe Hidden Impacts of What We BuyBy Daniel Goleman“The theme of ecological awareness and environmental sustainability emerged as weconsidered a variety of books. The selection committee felt that such a theme would offermany options for engagement and use of the book across all colleges and disciplines. It couldconnect with new university efforts in the area of heightened environmental awareness andaction and provide opportunities to facilitate community service options for students andfaculty.” —Ron Daniel, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Virginia Tech

Selected for Common Reading at Virginia Tech.

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HOPE BENEATH OUR FEET: Restoring Our Place in the Natural WorldEdited by Martin KeoghContributions by Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, and Howard Zinnmartin Keogh posed the question “if our world is facing imminent environmentalcatastrophe, how do i live my life right now?” to a number of prominent thinkers andactivists; their responses make up this stimulating collection. Alice Walker, Bill mcKibben,Howard Zinn, and michael Pollan, among many others, offer constructive ways to engage,participate, and make an impact. They offer solutions and approaches that often are at odds,but are nevertheless unified by a sense of possibility, purpose, and passion. Readers will beinspired to perform the suggested solutions themselves, while coming up with their owninnovations as well. North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-556-43919-3 | 330pp. | $18.95/$21.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author availablethemes: environment • Leadership & motivation • science & society

PLENTY: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile DietBy Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnonPlenty relates the remarkable, amusing, and inspiring adventures of a canadian couple whomake a year-long attempt to eat only foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius oftheir apartment. This food-focused experiment offers a way to think about globalization,monoculture, the oil economy, environmental collapse, and community, as the authorsreveal a meaningful way to relate to the very essence of human survival: the food we eat.“A funny, warm, and seductive account of how we might live better—better for this earth,better for the community, better for our bellies!” —Bill McKibben

Selected for Common Reading at Humboldt State University.

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THE EARTH’S LAST WILDERNESSA Quest to Save AntarcticaBy Robert Swan with Gil Reavillin 1985, when Robert swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was nota high priority in his mind. But upon his return, the earth’s perilous state became personal:Robert’s ice-blue eyes were singed a pale gray, a result of being exposed to the sun’s rayspassing unfiltered through the depleted ozone layer. His commitment to preserving theenvironment was born, and in The Earth’s Last Wilderness, swan details his journey toawareness, providing the information and tools readers need to reverse the harm done to the planet thus far and secure its future for generations to come.Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3176-2 | 304pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: environment • ethics/decision making • science & society

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GREEN VOLUNTEERS 8th EditionBy Fabio AusendaDo not order before 3/29/2011.Universe | TR | 978-88-89060-19-3 | 256pp. | $16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: environment • social Justice

ED BEGLEY, JR.’S GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE LIVINGLearning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious Life By Ed Begley, Jr.Clarkson Potter | TR | 978-0-307-40514-2 | 352pp. | $22.50/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.25themes: environment

READY, SET, GREENEight Weeks to Modern Eco-LivingBy Graham Hill and Meaghan O’NeillVillard Books | TR | 978-0-345-50308-4 | 240pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: environment • Life skills

THE WATER BOOKA Simple Approach to One of Earth’s Most Precious ResourcesEdited by Anna KrusinskiDo not order paperback before 3/29/2011.Hatherleigh Press | TR | 978-1-578-26345-5 | 128pp. | $11.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: environment • science & society

SHIFT YOUR HABITEasy Ways to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Save the PlanetBy Elizabeth RogersThree Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46530-6 | 288pp. | $14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: environment • Life skills

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THE ENOUGH MOMENTFighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights CrimesBy John Prendergast with Don Cheadle

in their follow-up to the bestselling Not On Our Watch, whichbrought awareness to the genocide in sudan, human rights

activist John Prendergast and oscar-nominated actor andphilanthropist don cheadle present The Enough Moment: Fightingto End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes, an empowering look athow people’s movements and inspired policies can stop genocide,child soldier recruitment, and rape as a war weapon in Africa. As Prendergast and cheadle describe, an “enough moment” is defined as that time when outrage triggers action and bystandersbecome “Upstanders,” or people who take action on behalf ofothers. They illustrate with such examples:• A high school student in Chicago started Youth United for Darfur to raise

awareness of genocide.

• A seventy-eight-year-old retired educator in Seattle founded a coalition of churchesand organizations to raise awareness and funds for humanitarian relief.

• A young Darfurian woman founded an association of women journalists that use radios and phones to warn towns of militia groups in their area.

Prendergast and cheadle shed light on this burgeoning massmovement against human rights crimes, showing how it iscomposed of citizen activism, social networking, compassion,celebrities, and globalization. They also provide action steps for theinterested citizen and interview well-known and influential peopleon how they have been moved to action by their enough moments.interviews in The Enough Moment include: madeleine Albright,Ann curry, Robin Wright, mia Farrow, and emile Hirsch.“an important, valuable toolkit that will inspire many.”

—Kirkus Reviews

About the Authors: John Prendergast and Don cheadleJoHn pRendeRgast is a human rights activist and author. He is co-founder of the Enough Project (EnoughProject.org), an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. During the Clinton administration, he wasinvolved in a number of peace processes in Africa while he was Director of African Affairs at the NationalSecurity Council and Special Advisor at the Department of State.

don CHeadLe is an actor, film producer, philanthropist, and author. Cheadle rose to prominence forhis supporting roles in the films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven. In 2004, his lead role as Rwandanhotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda earned him an AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

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A Message from John Prendergast

Three of the most horrible scourges facing humanity are genocide (the destruction of people basedon their identity), rape as a war weapon (the deliberate destruction of women through targeted sexualviolence), and child slavery (children who are forcibly recruited to become killing machines or sexslaves).

All three seem overwhelming and intractable, but the reality is that there are specific and concretesolutions that can be implemented, if only there were the political and popular will to do so.

Help is indeed on the way. in the last five years, a growing people’s movement has been born in theUnited states and other countries to stop the genocide in darfur. similarly, there are rapidly expandinginternational efforts to protect and empower the women of eastern congo, who are subject to sexualviolence more extreme than anywhere else in the world, as well as the children of central Africa (theinvisible children), who have experienced the highest abduction rates in the world at the hands of thebrutal lord’s Resistance Army rebel group.

once they learn about these human rights crimes, people are eager to learn how they can make adifference. We’ve learned a lot in the last few years, from our travels around the U.s. meeting concernedcitizens, about how to empower people to get involved, how to appeal to a wide cross-section of folks todemonstrate how change happens, and how the individual—working in the context of community—isat the center of change throughout history. The women’s movement, the civil rights movement, thelabor movement, the environmental movement, the anti-apartheid movement—all of these werepropelled in large part by passionate and dedicated individuals, often small in number at the beginning,who believed in standing up for human rights and human dignity.

For the first time in history, we have a real international anti-genocide movement. We also have agrowing chorus that could become a movement focused on stopping the destruction of women in thecongo. We have a non-traditional, underground phenomenon called “invisible children” sweepingthrough college campuses, dedicated to finding a solution to the child soldier phenomenon in centralAfrica. Building the scale and scope of these efforts through this book and associated campaignsprovides a unique and historic opportunity to help alter the course of history.

The Enough Moment presents the transformative tales of what we call “Frontline Upstanders” fromwar zones in Africa, “citizen Upstanders” from around the U.s., and “Famous Upstanders” from theworld of celebrity, including Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, madeleine Albright, Ryan Gosling, TracymcGrady, Ann curry, and mariska Hargitay. The book also provides an expansive menu of action itemsto empower each reader to become part of the movement. These stories will be channeled into whatamounts to a recruitment drive: to help build a meaningful people’s movement dedicated to endingthese human rights crimes.

Ultimately, all the greatest policy ideas in the world mean nothing if we don’t have a permanentconstituency of people behind the ideas, demanding that our elected officials do something. The Enough Moment provides a way for readers to become part of this popular movement against massatrocities that, if successful, could literally help change the fate of millions of people.

John Prendergast


THE YOUNG ACTIVIST’S GUIDE TO BUILDING A GREEN MOVEMENT AND CHANGING THE WORLDBy Sharon J. Smith

Apowerful and practical guide to environmental activism,featuring proven strategies and lessons learned from the

winners of earth island institute’s Brower Youth Awards—America’s top honor for young green leaders—The Young Activist’sGuide is now available in paperback.some of the world’s most inspiring and effective leaders aren’t evenold enough to vote. in The Young Activist’s Guide, the director ofearth island institute’s Brower Youth Awards distills the hard-wonlessons of its youth leaders into clear and effective strategies forgetting organized, taking action, and making environmentalchanges that matter. This easy-to-follow, definitive resourceexplains how to plan a campaign, recruit supporters, hold a rally,raise money, attract media attention, pass legislation, lobbypoliticians, and more in order to make a significant and sustainableimpact on the health of our planet.

About the Author: sharon J. smithsHaRon J. smItH is the director of Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Awards, a program thathonors the best and brightest environmental leaders in the United States under twenty-three years ofage. She has worked extensively with youth and student networks in the global justice, peace, andenvironmental movements. Smith graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with degrees inconservation and resource studies and anthropology.

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Foreword by Julia Butterfly Hill

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: If You Want to Go Far, Go Together

1. Find Your Passion

2. Create an Action Plan

3. Build a Green Movement

4. Spread Your Message

5. Politics

6. Corporate Campaigns

7. Protest with Power

8. Make Media Headlines

9. Grow the Green

10. Green Your Campus

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A Message from Sharon J. Smith

There are 18 million college and universitystudents in the United states, and billions of dollarsare spent at these educational institutions each year.The collective environmental footprint of students isenormous, making the academic universe a perfectplace to spark conversations about sustainability. nowonder, then, that students are hungry for stories,tools, and solutions that will help them make adifference on a large scale.

i wrote The Young Activist’s Guide to Building aGreen Movement and Changing the World in part tomake the invisible visible. While we hear lots about the adults who are solving environmentalproblems, an enormous amount of groundbreaking work has been undertaken by students,who simply saw a problem and then rallied their peers to change the status quo. i wanted toshine a spotlight on amazing youth such as Jessie-Ruth corkins, whose science project savedher school $90,000 and greened its heating system, and Billy Parish, whose small studentgroup became one of the most influential coalitions in America addressing climate change.

my hope is that these stories will serve as a catalyst, showing ordinary people how theseemingly impossible is actually possible. The eco-heroes in my book made national headlinesfor passing legislation, founding lasting nonprofits, protecting local wildlands frombulldozers, and raising millions of dollars for sustainability—all before their twenty-thirdbirthdays. my book offers students a roadmap to sparking their own green movements locally,using the best practices generated by their own peers.

i invite you to consider adopting my book for your common reading program, as a way toopen a dialogue about the very real environmental challenges young people are inheriting inthe twenty-first century. As we know, conversation is our richest source of solutions andinspiration, and every local challenge is best met with a locally crafted solution.

my book is just the beginning: i am available for speaking engagements, as are many ofthe individuals featured in the success stories in the book. Please feel free to contact me atwww.buildagreenmovement.org to request a visit.

i’d like to close with margaret mead’s words. Asmany times as i have read them, they never losetheir power—especially in light of my ownexperience watching students succeed in dizzyingways in their own ventures: “never doubt that asmall group of thoughtful, committed citizens canchange the world. indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Sharon J. Smith

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WORLD VOLUNTEERS: 4th EditionThe World Guide to Humanitarian and Development VolunteeringBy Fabio Ausenda and Erin McCloskeyWhen it comes to humanitarian volunteering, how does one choose the right organizationthat matches their interest, experience, age, and availability? This guide is a great tool forpeople without previous volunteering experience abroad who want to get involved inhumanitarian aid projects throughout the world. The projects listed can be either short orlong-term for professionals who want to take a leave of absence or for retired professionalswho want to make their skills and experience available to help others. For young peoplewithout volunteering experience abroad, the World Volunteers guide lists manyorganizations offering work-camps to help familiarize them with development andhumanitarian work worldwide.Universe | TR | 978-88-89060-13-1 | 256pp. | $16.95/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00themes: Leadership & motivation • service • social Justice

SHOWING UP FOR LIFEThoughts on the Gifts of a LifetimeBy Bill Gates, Sr. and Mary Ann MackinForeword by Bill GatesThrough a wide-ranging arpeggio of stories and anecdotes, lessons and insights, inveteratedo-gooder Bill Gates, sr.—lawyer, activist, husband, father, philanthropist—conveys thevalues and principles he’s learned in life, has instilled in his children, and now practices on aworld stage as the co-chair of the Bill and melinda Gates Foundation.Broadway Business | TR | 978-0-385-52702-6 | 208pp. | $13.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Leadership & motivation • service • social Justice

DO IT ANYWAYThe New Generation of ActivistsBy Courtney E. MartinYoung people today are apathetic and not interested in political activism or social change.That, at least, is what older generations claim—but courtney martin presents a verydifferent view. she depicts the lives and careers of eight young activists, including a prisonsocial worker; an eighth-grade teacher in the Bronx; a former soldier working to endviolence against women in the military; and Rachel corrie, the activist killed in the Gazastrip while protesting israeli policies against Palestinians. meet this new generation ofactivists and be inspired to create change in your own world and beyond.Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-807-00047-2 | 224pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00author available • alternative Formats: eBookthemes: service • social Justice

CITIZEN YOUDoing Your Part to Change the WorldBy Jonathan Tisch with Karl WeberForeword by Cory BookerThis is a stirring call to “active citizenship,” which moves beyond charity and volunteerism,advocating instead a holistic, systemic approach to changing the world. This call to actionwill inspire readers to join this empowering and world-changing mission.“Tisch documents a shift from volunteerism to active citizenship, less about alleviatingsymptoms and more about addressing root causes in problems like poverty, hunger,homelessness, and disease. By the time a concluding list of 51 ways to ‘join the movement’rolls around, it’s likely Tisch will have inspired readers to take him up on one of them.”

—Publishers Weekly

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ETHICSThe Essential WritingsEdited by Gordon MarinoPhilosopher Gordon marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of bothancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years ofthought—from Plato, Kant, and nietzsche to Alasdair macintyre, susan Wolf, and Petersinger—and cover a broad range of topics, from timeless questions of justice, morality, andfaith, to the hot-button concerns of today, such as animal rights and gender issues. Thismodern library edition is the perfect single-volume reference for students, teachers, andanyone eager to engage in reflection on ethical questions, including “What is the basis forour ethical views and judgments?”Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7778-3 | 640pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: discovering differences • ethics/decision making • Identity

THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVEHow to Do Your Part to End World PovertyBy Peter Singerin The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter singer makes the irrefutable argument thatgiving will make a huge difference in the lives of others without diminishing the quality ofour own. This book is an urgent call to action and a hopeful primer on the power ofcompassion—when mixed with rigorous investigation and careful reasoning—to lift othersout of despair.Used for: Wesleyan Integrative Summer Experience.

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THE BLACK SWAN: Second EditionThe Impact of the Highly ImprobableBy Nassim Nicholas TalebA black swan is a highly improbable event that is unpredictable, carries a massive impact,and later appears more predictable than it was. Why do we not acknowledge these blackswans until after they occur? According to Taleb, humans are hardwired to learn specificswhen they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know andrepeatedly fail to consider what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimateopportunities; too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize; and notopen enough to rewarding those brave enough to imagine the “impossible.”Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010.

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THE MONEY CLASSLearn to Create Your New American DreamBy Suze Ormanin 2010, the American dream may very well have been dashed.Paying the everyday bills, let alone saving for college or buying ahouse, is a challenge. suze orman offers a bold, inspiring call toredefine the American dream, showing how economic security,and even prosperity, is still attainable. she explains how to escapecredit-card debt and invest wisely, even if you are just starting yourcareer. orman knows how to thrive in this new economiclandscape—and she shares this knowledge in this necessary, timelybook. Do not order before 3/8/2011. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-1-4000-6973-6 | 304pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook

Author Spotlight: suze Ormansuze oRman is the author of nine consecutive New York Times bestsellers and has hosted six PBSspecials based on her books. She is the host of the award-winning Suze Orman Show, which airs onCNBC and Sirius/XM radio, and a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine.

moneY matteRsCollege students today face a world of economic uncertainty. It is vital that these students be equipped withthe skills essential for navigating this new economy. With books by acclaimed personal financial experts Suze Orman and David Bach, students learn to make smarter financial decisions, while developing anunderstanding of the nature of today’s economy.

Also by Suze Orman:

SUZE ORMAN’S ACTION PLANNew Rules for New Times suze orman’s bestselling financial action plan provides up-to-dateinformation on new legislation that could affect how individuals willachieve their financial goals. includes: an explanation of new Ficopractices and a new strategy for dealing with credit card debt; guidance onhow to live within one’s means; and strategies to keep individuals on thepath to achieving his or her goals in this new age of financial honesty. Plusan all-new chapter on kids and money—how to give children a solidfinancial education, no matter their age.Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8155-1 | 256pp. | $9.99/$12.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: eBook

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GO GREEN, LIVE RICH50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying By David Bach and Hillary RosnerBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2973-8 | 192pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook

DEBT FREE FOR LIFEThe Finish Rich Plan for Financial FreedomBy David Bachdavid Bach helps readers close the door on debt and open the doorto true financial freedom. He offers a new philosophy made fortoday—a practical, inspirational, and paradigm-shifting approachto finance that teaches students how to pay down debt and adopt awhole new way of living. With step-by-step advice and online tools available exclusively toreaders, Bach shows how to revolutionize one’s finances andbecome debt-and-worry-free. in these lean times, it’s still possibleto live financial dreams. david Bach shows his readers how.Crown Business | HC | 978-0-7679-2986-8 | 256pp. | $19.99/NCR | Exam Copy: $10.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook

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Also by David Bach

FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEYHow To Stop Getting Ripped Off and Save a Fortunein Fight For Your Money, financial guru and consumer advocatedavid Bach has written the ultimate guide to making smarterfinancial decisions and protecting yourself from companies thatwant to separate you from your hard-earned income. starting withan A to Z list of items for which you are paying too much—yourcell phone, cable bill, cars, credit cards, insurance, airfare, hotelsand many more—Bach shows how you are being taken. Then the“Fight for Your money Toolkit” shows you how to fight back, withsample letters, call scripts, and real-life stories of ordinary peoplewho have fought back and won.Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-2984-4 | 448pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00author available • alternative Formats: audio edition • eBook

daVId BaCH is the author of several bestselling books including The Automatic Millionaire and Fightfor Your Money. Bach has appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to share his strategies forliving and finishing rich, and in several episodes of the CNBC special The Millionaire Inside. HisFinishRich® seminars are the leading financial seminars in North America, having been taught byfinancial advisors to more than half a million people in more than 2,000 cities. Website: FinishRich.com.

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THE NEXT CHRISTIANSThe Good News About the End of Christian AmericaBy Gabe LyonsAlthough more than 76 percent of Americans self-identify as christian, churches today facedeclining attendance, waning influence, and an abysmal public perception. despite this stateof affairs, Gabe lyons sees reason to hope. in the wake of the stunning research presented inhis best-selling book, unChristian, which revealed the growing disenchantment among younggenerations for traditional christianity, lyons has witnessed the beginnings of a new iterationof the faith. in The Next Christians, he introduces us to believers across the christianspectrum who are reclaiming the mantle of christianity, offering a fresh interpretation that isengaged, authentic, and beautiful.Doubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-385-52984-6 | 240pp. | $19.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00alternative Formats: eBookthemes: ethics/decision making • Identity

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THE WALKClear Direction and Spiritual Power for Your LifeBy Shaun Alexanderif you are ready to start walking with God—that is, truly walking with God, rather thanlagging behind or running ahead of Him—this is the book for you. shaun Alexander, yourcompanion as you undertake this journey, explains that there are five stages of spiritualmaturity, starting at the stage of Unbeliever, and moving through Believer, example of christ,Teacher, and imparter. evolving through each stage, you will find your life transformed as youlearn to grow in wisdom and grace. The changes you will undergo will have positive benefitsfor both you and those around you.WaterBrook Press | HC | 978-0-307-45951-0 | 240pp. | $17.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.00alternative Formats: audio edition • eBookthemes: Identity • Life skills

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10 THINGS EMPLOYERS WANT YOU TO LEARN IN COLLEGE ........................................55

ACTS OF FAITH ....................................................42

Aiken, Sean ........................................................54

Albom, Mitch ....................................................40

Alexander, Shaun ..............................................69

Ali, Nujood ........................................................16

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ..................32

ALL SOULS..........................................................19

Amnesty International USA................................48

Anderson, Kristen Jane ......................................68

Angelou, Maya ..................................................16

Asher, Donald ....................................................55

Aslan, Reza ........................................................48

Aslan, Reza ........................................................48

AUDACITY OF HOPE, THE ....................................21

Ausenda, Fabio ..................................................59

Ausenda, Fabio ..................................................64

AWAIT YOUR REPLY ............................................29

Bach, David ........................................................67

BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI ....................................31

BE DIFFERENT ....................................................12

BEATRICE AND VIRGIL ........................................24

Begley, Ed, Jr. ....................................................59

BEYOND FUNDAMENTALISM ..............................48

BLACK HEARTS....................................................18

BLACK SWAN: Second Edition ............................65

BLIND DESCENT ..................................................46

BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME..............................51

BLUE NOTEBOOK, THE ........................................30

Bolles, Richard N. ..............................................55

BOMBINGHAM ..................................................29

Bowe, John ........................................................48

Bradbury, Ray ....................................................28

Brand, Millen ....................................................28

Bronson, Po........................................................40

Buffett, Peter......................................................34

Caldwell, Gail ....................................................16

Callenbach, Ernest..............................................28

Campbell, Donovan............................................16

Canada, Geoffrey..................................................2

Canedy, Dana ....................................................17

CAREER COUNSELOR’S HANDBOOK, THE..............55

Carr, Patrick J. ....................................................48

Castillo, Ana ......................................................28

Chabris, Christopher and Daniel Simons ............54

Chang, Leslie T. ..................................................49

Chaon, Dan ........................................................29

CHARACTER IS DESTINY ......................................40

Christen, Carol, Richard N. Bolles, and Jean M. Blomquist ........................................55

CITIZEN YOU ......................................................64

Coleman, Isobel ................................................49

COLLEGE RULES!, 3rd Edition ..............................52

Combs, Patrick....................................................55

Coplin, William D. ..............................................55

COVERING ..........................................................51

CRACKING THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET ..................55

Dau, John Bul ....................................................17

DEATH OF JOSSELINE, THE ..................................22

DEBT FREE FOR LIFE ............................................67

Demick, Barbara ................................................49

DO HARD THINGS................................................68

DO IT ANYWAY ..................................................64

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER ................................21

DREAMS OF JOY..................................................26

Dumas, Firoozeh ................................................17

EARTH’S LAST WILDERNESS, THE ........................59

Easterbrook, Gregg ............................................49

ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE ................................58

ECOTOPIA ..........................................................28

ED BEGLEY, JR.’S GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE LIVING ..........................................................59

Edelman, Hope ..................................................18

ENOUGH MOMENT, THE ......................................60

ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY ..........................................10

Ensler, Eve ..........................................................18

ETHICS................................................................65

EVERY MAN DIES ALONE ....................................29

EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY PEOPLE..................22

FACTORY GIRLS ..................................................49

FAHRENHEIT 451 ................................................28

Fallada, Hans......................................................29

FAREWELL, MY SUBARU ....................................58

Feaver, Peter ......................................................55

FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEY ....................................67

Fine, Doug..........................................................58

FIST STICK KNIFE GUN ..........................................2

Ford, Jamie ........................................................29

Francis, John, Ph.D. ..........................................56

Frederick, Jim ....................................................18

FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY ..................................36

Freedom Writers, The and Erin Gruwell ..............36

FREEDOM ..........................................................48

Freeman, Ph.D., Philip Mitchell ..........................55

FUNNY IN FARSI..................................................17

Furtick, Steven ..................................................69

Gates, Bill, Sr. ....................................................64

GERTRUDA’S OATH ..............................................21

GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE ..................55

GLASS ROOM, THE ..............................................30

Glidden, Sarah ..................................................50

GO GREEN, LIVE RICH..........................................67

GOD GREW TIRED OF US......................................17

GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE ..............................32

Goleman, Daniel ................................................58

GREEN VOLUNTEERS, 8th Ed. ..............................59

Grisham, John ....................................................50

Grooms, Anthony ..............................................29

GUARDIANS, THE ................................................28

HALF A LIFE ........................................................14

Hari, Daoud ........................................................18

Harris, Alex and Brett Harris ..............................68

Heath, Chip and Dan Heath ................................54

Hegland, Jean ....................................................30

Hill, Graham ......................................................59

HOLLOWING OUT THE MIDDLE ............................48

Holmes, Hannah ................................................50

HOPE BENEATH OUR FEET ..................................58

HOPE IN THE UNSEEN, A......................................23

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET ..................................................29

HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS ........................................................50

HUNGER OF MEMORY ........................................22

I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE..........................18

I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED ................16

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS..................16

IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS ................44

INNOCENT MAN, THE ..........................................50

INTO THE FOREST ................................................30

INVISIBLE GORILLA, THE ....................................54

Johnson, Mary ..................................................19

JOKER ONE..........................................................16

JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, A....................................17

Keogh, Martin, ed. ............................................58

Kerman, Piper ....................................................19

Kidder, Tracy ....................................................4, 5

KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE ....................................23

LaNier, Carlotta Walls ..........................................6

LAST TOWN ON EARTH, THE ................................31

LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT ........................17

LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS ....................30

LECTURE NOTES ..................................................55

Lee, Euna............................................................19

LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME........................16

Levine, James A. ................................................30

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LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT ................................34

LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS ........................................38

LIFE YOU CAN SAVE, THE ....................................65

LIFE, IN SPITE OF ME ..........................................68

LOOK ME IN THE EYE ..........................................12

Lyons, Gabe........................................................69

MacDonald, Michael ..........................................19

MADE TO STICK ..................................................54

MAJOR IN SUCCESS, 5th Ed. ..............................55

MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND......................32

MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE ......................41

Mam, Somaly ....................................................20

MANDELA’S WAY ................................................40

Manning, Sean ..................................................20

Marino, Gordon, ed ............................................65

Martel, Yann ......................................................24

Martin, Courtney E. ..........................................64

Mawer, Simon ....................................................30

McCain, John......................................................40

McCarthy, Susan Carol ........................................30

McCoy, Sarah......................................................31

MIGHTY LONG WAY, A ..........................................6

MONEY CLASS, THE ............................................66

Moon, Elizabeth ................................................31

Moore, Wes ..........................................................8

MOUNTAIN LION, THE ........................................33

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS ......................5

MRS. SOMEBODY SOMEBODY ............................33

Mullen, Thomas ................................................31

Nafisi, Azar ........................................................20

Nazario, Sonia ....................................................10

NEXT CHRISTIANS, THE ......................................69

Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., Sherrie and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. ..........................52

NO GOD BUT GOD ..............................................48

NOBODIES ..........................................................48

NOT QUITE ADULTS ............................................51

NOTHING TO ENVY ..............................................49

Obama, Barack ..................................................21

OLIVE KITTERIDGE ..............................................33

ONE-WEEK JOB PROJECT, THE ............................54

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK................................19

Oren, Ram ..........................................................21

Orman, Suze ......................................................66

OTHER WES MOORE, THE ......................................8

OUTCASTS UNITED ..............................................23

OUTWARD ROOM, THE........................................28

Pacheco, Elizabeth..............................................59

PARADISE BENEATH HER FEET ............................49

Parkin, Gaile ......................................................31

Patel, Eboo ........................................................42

Patrick, Deval ....................................................21

Pham, Quang ....................................................22

PLANETWALKER ................................................56

Platt, David ........................................................69

PLENTY ..............................................................58

POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING, THE ......................18

Prendergast, John ..............................................60

QUIRK ................................................................50

RADICAL ............................................................69

RAGGED EDGE OF SILENCE ..................................56

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN ..............................20

READY, SET, GREEN ............................................59

REASON TO BELIEVE, A........................................21

Regan, Margaret ................................................22

Remarque, Erich Maria ......................................32

Rice, Condoleezza ..............................................22

ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE, THE ..........................20

Robison, John Elder............................................12

Rodriguez, Richard ............................................22

Rogers, Elizabeth ..............................................59

Rosenberg, Scott ................................................50

Roy, Arundhati ..................................................32

Salih, Tayeb ........................................................32

Sancton, Tom ....................................................23

SAY EVERYTHING ................................................50

SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENT, THE..........................41

SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH ..............32

See, Lisa ............................................................26

SENSE OF DUTY, A ..............................................22

Settersten, Ph.D., Richard ..................................51

SHANGHAI GIRLS................................................26

SHIFT YOUR HABIT ..............................................59

SHOWING UP FOR LIFE........................................64

Simonson, Helen................................................32

Singer, Peter ......................................................65

Skloot, Rebecca ..................................................44

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE ....................................33

Smith, Alisa and J.B. MacKinnon ........................58

Smith, Sharon J. ................................................62

SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN ................26

SONG FOR MY FATHERS ......................................23

SONIC BOOM ......................................................49

SPEED OF DARK, THE ..........................................31

St. John, Warren ................................................23

Stafford, Jean ....................................................33

START HERE ........................................................68

Steil, Jennifer ....................................................51

Stengel, Richard ................................................40

Strauss, Darin ....................................................14

STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS ..............................4

Strickland, Bill ....................................................41

Strout, Elizabeth ................................................33

SUN STAND STILL................................................69

Suskind, Ron ......................................................23

SUZE ORMAN’S ACTION PLAN ............................66

Suzuki, Shunryu ................................................41

Swan, Robert ....................................................59

SWITCH ..............................................................54

Tabor, James M...................................................46

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas ......................................65

TEACHING HOPE ................................................36

THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT........................20

THINGS THAT NEED DOING, THE ..........................20

TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO, THE ..............31

Tisch, Jonathan ..................................................64

TRANSLATOR, THE ..............................................18

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE ....................................40

Tyson, Timothy B. ..............................................51

UNQUENCHABLE THIRST, AN ..............................19

Vonnegut, Kurt ..................................................33

Vujicic, Nick ........................................................38

WALK, THE..........................................................69

WATER BOOK, THE ..............................................59

Welch, Diana and Liz Welch................................23

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2011 ..........55

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? FOR TEENS, 2nd Ed. ......................................55

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? JOB-HUNTER’S WORKBOOK ..........................55

WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? ..................40

Whitbourne, Susan Krauss ................................41

Winn, Tracy ........................................................33

WOMAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, THE..............51

WORLD IS BIGGER NOW, THE ..............................19

WORLD VOLUNTEERS, 4th Edition ......................64

Yoshino, Kenji ....................................................51

YOUNG ACTIVIST’S GUIDE TO BUILDING A GREEN MOVEMENT AND CHANGING THE WORLD, THE ..........................................62

ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND ............................41

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