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RandomHouse Common Reading Advisory Board

Elizabeth Bracher, Boston CollegeRebecca Campbell, Northern Arizona University

Tara Coleman, Kansas State UniversitySteven Girardot, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jennifer Latino, Campbell UniversityJeanne Leep, Edgewood College

Daphne Rankin, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityJared Tippets, Purdue University

KarenWeathermon,Washington State University

Believe it or not, this is our ninth First-Year & Common Reading catalog. While the contents have changed from year to year, thecover of our catalog has generally remained the same. It is thus with great excitement that we present to you our new cover. Withless clutter and more focus, this clean, eye-catching redesign comes to you courtesy of the Random House Common ReadingAdvisory Board.

Announced in last year’s catalog, the Common Reading Advisory Board was founded in 2010 to help guide our engagement withyou, the common-reading professional. Last autumn, we expanded the Board to include nine of your colleagues from large publicuniversities, midsized religious institutions, and small liberal arts colleges across the nation. While their backgrounds are diverse,what they each have in common is a dedication to shaping what the future of shared reading looks like on campuses, andoptimizing such experiences—especially as they pertain to first-year students.

We had the pleasure of hosting the Board for an intensive, three-day summit at our New York City headquarters in October,posting photos to Facebook and Tweeting throughout. (Kudos to our brave travelers who weathered Hurricane Sandy on theirtrip home)! The conversations and exchange were amazing, and the work done during the summit continues to shape ouroutreach to programs such as yours, as well as the selection and cultivation of books and authors we consider ideal for a sharedreading experience. Our Board members are listed below. Please feel free to connect with them directly or via our new emailaddress: [email protected]. They are delighted to share their insight and experiences, especially with thosegetting new projects off the ground.

Another idea to emerge from the summit may be found on page three of this catalog: the Post-Adoption Timeline. While thiscatalog is mainly focused on featuring books for you to consider for program adoption, this new, handy flowchart breaks downthe steps you’ll need to pursue after you’ve made that big decision. The chart is also posted at our blog: www.commonreads.com.

And speaking of digital, we continue to invite you to stay connected with us by linking to any one of our social media channels ordownloading our app (see bottom of facing page). We often give away free books through these outlets—that’s worth the price ofadmission (free) alone!

Speaking of books, I think you will find this year’s catalog has something for every program. Is your program considering fiction?If so, we have an interesting selection of novels for you to consider: embark on the classic hero’s journey set in an oddly familiaryet dystopian world in Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One (page 30); join the revealing and ethically provocative conversationaround the dinner table in Herman Koch’sThe Dinner (page 32); or challenge your sense of identity and notions of love when youexperience each day of your life in a different body—male or female, young or old, gay or straight—in David Levithan’sEvery Day (page 39).For those programs looking for a great nonfiction read, in addition to our classic program favorites, we are delighted to presentnew books such as: Susan Cain’s Quiet (page 48), a book that demands a new conversation about the power and importance of theintroverts among—and within—us; Charles Duhigg’sThe Power of Habit (page 72), which helps us to create and foster betterhabits for success, and to break bad ones that keep us from realizing our true potential (what better book could there be to give toa first-year student?); and Kristen Iversen’s Full Body Burden (page 54), a meticulously researched yet harrowing personal accountof a dirty—and deadly—little national secret that has students flipping the pages.

We invite you to dig in and find the right booksthat will speak to your students. Thank you forturning the page and for taking this journeywith us, nine years and counting.

Here’s to another great year together,

l. to r., back row:Michael Gentile (RH), Jared Tippets (Purdue University), Jeanne Leep (Edgewood College),Elizabeth Bracher (Boston College), Steven Girardot (Georgia Institute of Technology),

Tara Coleman (Kansas State University) KarenWeathermon (Washington State University)front row: Skip Dye (RH), Rebecca Campbell (Northern Arizona University),

Jennifer Latino (Campbell University), Daphne Rankin (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Photos from the 2012 First-Year Experience® Random House Author Luncheon

Dear Common Reading Director,

Peter Buffet, Life is What You Make It, (p. 42) •Darin Strauss, Half a Life, (p. 28) • Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, (p. 40)Blake Mycoskie, Start Something That Matters, (p. 90) • Sam Bracken,My Orange Duffel Bag, (p. 21)

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Life Stories—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography ......................................8

Fiction to Talk About ............................................................................................30

Inspiration and Guidance ....................................................................................42

History and Society ..............................................................................................46

Life & College Guides ..........................................................................................71

Go Green/Environmental Studies ......................................................................82

Social Action ..........................................................................................................86

Index........................................................................................................................92

Order Form ............................................................................................................95

CONTENTS

EXAMINATION COPIESExamination copies are available to instructors seeking titles to review for adoption consideration. Theexam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off the retailprice for all hardcovers and paperbacks priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to ten

per instructor per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

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WEARE PLEASED TO HELP YOUWITH THE FOLLOWING:

Selecting the right title is only the first step toward making your First-Year Reading

program a success; publisher support is also essential. The Random House,

Inc. Academic Marketing Department is here to ensure that your program runs

smoothly and successfully, and that your needs and requests are handled in a thorough

and efficient manner.

AUTHOR APPEARANCESWe’ll promptly channel your

author requests to the appropriate

speaker’s bureau or lecture agency

to ensure they are attended to quickly.

DISCUSSION GUIDESWe continue to develop and

make available discussion guides, which

may be used as tools by your discussion

leaders. Many of these free guides are

available in print, and all may be easily

downloaded from our website.

CUSTOMIZED COPIESWant to include a letter from

your dean or college president? Imprint

the cover with a specialized seal? Or

modify the book in some other way? We

will connect you to our Premium Sales

Department to process your request

(please note these orders

are not for resale).

ANCILLARYMATERIALSShould you need author

photos or additional content

and materials, we will research

the available options and assist

you as best as we can.

DESK COPIESDepending upon the method

of your order, you are entitled to one

complimentary copy of a book per

twenty student copies ordered. These

complimentary copies are often

allocated to group discussion leaders.

ORDERINGAlthough Random House, Inc.

does not sell directly to schools or

libraries, we will assist you in placing

your order, whether through your

bookstore, a local wholesaler, or our

in-house Premium Sales Department.

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BOOK IS SELECTED

Students will purchasetheir own copy of book

What is theestimated lengthof time between

order and delivery?Allow 3–4 weeksfor delivery.

University is purchasingbooks to gift to students(e.g., during Orientation)

Will you need acustom version?Wecan print customizededitions with yourcollege logo and/orletter from your

President.

Who should the institution contactto obtain a price quote?

Contact [email protected] or1.800.800.3246 for a price quote. Haveavailable the book title, ISBN, quantity,delivery date and “ship to” information.

Howmuch timedoes customizationtake?Normal delivery

time for customeditions is 6–8 weeksfrom order to delivery.

No customization

Author visit?Many of our authorsare represented bythe Random HouseSpeakers Bureau. Torequest an author,contact 212.572.2013

or [email protected] contacting theRH Speakers Bureau,please know youravailable budget,

desired date of visit,audience size andtype, program

description, and ifthere will be book

signing opportunities.

BOOK PURCHASE PROGRAMMING

Other programmingideas (see our

Best Practices andProgramming Ideas on

pages 4-5)What is the

estimated lengthof time between

order and delivery?Allow 2–4 weeksfor delivery.

How do studentsobtain the book?

Contact your campusbookstore/distributor

to order directly.

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Book Post-AdoptionT I M E L I N E

This timeline provides a helpful

outline of the steps that compose a

successful common reading program

Visit www.commonreads.com to access an online version of this timeline

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BEST PRACTICES ANDTips from the Random House

Relax, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Take advantage of the many resources available to learn about other reading

programs. A good starting point is a monograph published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience®

and Students in Transition, Common Reading Programs: Going Beyond the Book. In addition, there are a number of campuses

with well-established and successful reading programs, and the professionals who run these programs are usually very happy

to 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, you

will most likely want some type of campus selection committee. The committee should comprise members of a variety of

constituencies, including faculty, student services and academic affairs administrators, as well as students.

Think carefully about the scope, mission, learning outcomes, and assessment of your program. For example, will the

program be a first-year/new student reading program or a campus-wide (common) reading program? What will be the

purpose of the program (this may influence the type of books you will be considering)? How will you inform students about

the program and when will they be expected to read the book? Again, take advantage of the numerous resources available to

help answer these questions.

LAUNCHING A PROGRAM

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 can

be posted to your community page.

Get students prepared. Consider introducing the book during the spring or summer prior to the next academic year. For

example, if first-year students receive the book during Orientation, the Orientation Leaders and various speakers can

advertise the program and build a feeling of community around the reading of the text. Also, think about having students

turn in questions for the author as part of an assignment and have a moderator pose the questions to the author. This will

incentivize 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 consider

multimedia approaches—such as blogs, videos, or website. Students tend to share more on a personal level when they are not

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ENGAGING STUDENTS

Think 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 with

the book? To this point, consider page count. A good rule of thumb is the “300 Rule”: if possible, choose a book with 300

pages or less.

Does it feature a protagonist students can relate to? They 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 be

easier 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 availability

during the book selection process. Speaking fees and availability can vary considerably. You don’t want to go through all the

work 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 to

speak 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 to

contact about speaking fees and availability. Often, the book’s publisher will have this information.

Encourage as many faculty and students as possible to read the book in advance of the author visit. In addition to having more

enthusiastic readers on campus to help you spread the good word about the book and your program, folks who have already

read the book will have more interesting questions for the author, making for a more intelligent and productive discussion.

Assign a faculty member or administrator to host the author. While one of the benefits of an author visit is for students to

engage with the author, it is important to have a faculty member or administrator act as the dedicated host, someone who has

the authority 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 other

resources.

Consider having one large campus talk that is required of all students. This makes the best use of both your programming

time and the author’s time on campus. Many authors say that different departments and disciplines actually tend to have

questions that are more similar in nature than they are different. Even if that is not the case, a diversity of questions is a good

thing; it offers a richer conversation when different interests come together, and students learn more.

Mix up the formats of events. The most successful visits offer the author and participants a variety of events to keep things

fresh and engaging. Have the author speak at a podium for one event, do an on-stage sit-down Q&A at another, and participate

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. The moderator can address

basic factual questions upfront, to allow for a more in-depth exchange during the Q&A.The moderator can also be the person

who introduces the author.

Following a large campus-wide talk, arrange for smaller, more intimate discussions with faculty and students, in which the

author and participants can delve more deeply into topics mentioned in the campus-wide talk. All participants should have

attended 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 an environment

that makes the author comfortable, and one that allows them to put their best foot forward. Schedule breaks in between sessions

and offer some meals “off.” Arrange to have snacks, water, coffee, and meals available as appropriate. If the author is the key

attraction at a meal, make sure he or she has 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 of the

agency for travel, lodging, and “down time.” These are based on the agency’s standard contractual obligations designed to cover

a wide variety of celebrities, athletes, and other speakers. However, most agencies and authors understand that you have state

and university policies that may constrain what you can offer, and will work with you to meet your needs. Schedule ample time

for planning and negotiation. You should also verify with the author’s agent whether events or speaking engagements may be

videotaped or recorded. They often 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’s

book. In addition to brief messages to the author, annotations can call attention to the passages of the book students find

most compelling or personally resonant. Authors appreciate different perspectives on and reactions to their work, and they

can 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 a

combination of faculty, staff, and students to facilitate these discussions. Again, this is a good way for the first-year student to

feel 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 a

film related to your book? Are there plays, arts exhibits, or other speakers coming to campus that you could tie into? Perhaps

Student Activities can help as well? Reach out to faculty who teach courses relevant to your book selection, provide them with

review copies of the book, invite them to events, and ask them to embed the book in their syllabi and courses. Your book

selection committee will be a great resource in making these connections.

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How We Can HelpWe work with universities year-round in helping them fulfill their lecture needs. We bookauthors for college common reads, panel discussions, lecture series, writing festivals, and ahost of other university events. In addition, we help coordinate book signings for every event,from ordering direct through the signing itself.

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n Peter Buffett, Emmy Award–winning musician, philanthropist, and best-selling author ofLife Is What You Make It (page 42), was recently at UMASS Boston, Bellevue College,Washington, and the College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, performing his acclaimed“Concert & Conversation” event, which mixes music with an inspirational talk.

n Writer, artist, activist, and inspirational speaker Jerry McGill engages audiences with histriumphant story of courage and perseverance, and “rebellious optimism,” filled withcompassion and abundant humor. He has appeared at both high schools and universities todiscuss his memoir Dear Marcus: A Letter to the ManWho Shot Me (page 12) and is a featuredspeaker at the 2013 Random House FYE® luncheon. He holds a BA in English literature fromFordham University and an MFA in Education from Pacific University in Oregon.

n National Book Award Finalist forThe Tiger’s Wife (page 34),Orange Prize winner and theyoungest writer onThe New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list, Téa Obreht attended the University ofSouthern California and received her MFA from Cornell. She has spoken at GeorgetownUniversity and Villanova.

n John Prendergast, human rights activist and cofounder of the Anti-Genocide Group,TheEnough Project, and author ofThe Enough Moment (page 91) and Unlikely Brothers (page 27),has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Pitt, Eckerd, St. Johns, and the University of San Diego,where he regularly works with student groups and meets with students about human rightsissues. In fall 2010, John delivered a lecture at Vanderbilt University on how to confrontgenocide.

n Darin Strauss, National Book Award winner for his memoir,Half a Life (page 28), has visitedArkansas State University, Marquette University, and Virginia Commonwealth, among others,and was a featured luncheon speaker at the 2012 FYE® conference in San Antonio. The recipientof a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, Darin is a clinical associate professor in NewYork University’s creative writing program

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About the Author: Jim Abbott

JIM ABBOTT was a major league pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels and the New York Yankees,among other teams. Born in 1967, he was an All-American at Michigan; won a gold medal with the1988 Olympic baseball team; and threw a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium in 1993. He retired in 1999.Abbott has worked with the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, has been aguest pitching instructor for the Los Angeles Angels, and has appeared as a motivational speaker. Helives with his wife and two children in Anaheim.

Onan overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took themound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most

dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was thecrowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in theannals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big leagueace retraces his remarkable journey.

Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott as a boy dreamed of being agreat athlete. Raised in Flint, Michigan, by parents who saw in hiscondition not a disability but an extraordinary opportunity, Jimbecame a two-sport standout in high school, then a star pitcher forthe University of Michigan.

But his journey was only beginning.

As a nineteen-year-old, Jim beat the vaunted Cuban National Team.By twenty-one, he’d won the gold medal game at the 1988 Olympicsand—without spending a day in the minor leagues—cracked thestarting rotation of the California Angels. In 1991, he would finishthird in the voting for the Cy Young Award. Two years later, hewould don Yankee pinstripes and deliver a one-of-a-kind no-hitter.

It wouldn’t always be so good. After a season full of difficultlosses—some of them by football scores—Jim was released, cut offfrom the game he loved. Unable to say good-bye so soon, Jim triedto come back, pushing himself to the limit—and through one of theloneliest experiences an athlete can have.

But always, even then, there were children and their parents waitingfor him outside the clubhouse doors, many of them with disabilitieslike his, seeking consolation and advice. These obligations becameJim’s greatest honor.

In this honest and insightful memoir, Jim Abbott reveals theinsecurities of a life spent as the different one, how he habituallyhid his disability in his right front pocket, and why he chose anoccupation in which the uniform provided no front pockets. With ariveting pitch-by-pitch account of his no-hitter providing the idealframe for his story, this unique athlete offers readers anextraordinary and unforgettable memoir.

IMPERFECTAn Improbable LifeBy Jim Abbott and Tim Brown

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Excerpt from Imperfect

They were shy and beautiful, and they were loud and funny, and they were, like me, somehow imperfectly

built. And, like me, they had parents nearby, parents who willed themselves to believe that this accident of

circumstance or nature was not a life sentence, and that the spirits inside these tiny bodies were greater than the

sums of their hands and feet.

The letters began in spring training, a couple at a time. Soon, there were requests from kids to come to camp,

and we’d schedule 15 minutes a day. By the time we got to Anaheim, a couple letters would become dozens, and

during the season, hundreds. [Angels executive] Tim Mead and I answered every one, because I knew how far a

little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

The letters became lines of families at the doorways of clubhouses from Fenway to Comiskey to the

Kingdome, and tiny, quiet tears in dugouts from Arlington Stadium to the SkyDome to Anaheim.

So I would find my glove and go into the dugout, where another family was waiting with another story. The

parents would be appreciative, and their little boy would stare with wide, yearning eyes, and he would be missing

an arm, so one sleeve of his baseball jersey would flop all over, and it wouldn’t seem to bother him at all.

“Hey,” I’d say, “you play baseball?”

“Yeah.”

“Show me how you do your glove.”

And the little boy would hoist this massive glove head high, waiting for an imaginary throw, determination

spread across his face.

“What position do you play?”

“Pitcher, like you.”

“Aw, don’t be a pitcher,” I’d say. “Be a shortstop. They get to play every day. All right, now show me how you

hold the bat.”

The parents would laugh along. I know they wanted to know: How had I made it work? How could they? How

would their boy grow up to be whatever he wanted to be?

I would tell them about my parents. They’d made me feel special for what I was, and yet treated me like every

other kid. I would tell them about my frustration, and my parents’ words: “This is something to be lived up to.” I

would ask them to see that amazing things could happen. My parents had done that for me, and they could do the

same for their boy.

Some kids came with their own tales of achievement. They were playing baseball. They were playing hockey.

They were getting straight A’s, or learning to drive, or playing in the band. They wanted me to know they were

doing great, too.

There was a boy I met, maybe 14. His arm was about to be amputated. He wanted to come see me pitch, but

when he was healthy enough to visit the ballpark, I wasn’t healthy enough to pitch. I was on the disabled list. We

just missed each other. He was a good kid, and scared.

Tim Mead called on a Saturday morning. The boy had suffered a stroke. I drove to Anaheim and together we

went to the hospital. The boy, ashamed that I would see him hurt and vulnerable, began to cry. His mother began to

cry. I couldn’t help but cry. I sat on the bed and we talked about courage, about getting better, and about believing

in himself.

We left him in that room. Then, in silence, we drove back to Anaheim.

Tim left me at my car, climbed the stairs to his office, and pulled the door closed. Then he began to cry. There

were so many others out there like that boy. I was inspired. They pushed me back onto the field and into my own

battles. I was going to be just like them.

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Excerpt from Imperfect by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown. Published by Ballantine, a division of Random House Inc. ©2012 by JimAbbott. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

About the Author: Sarah Bakewell

SARAH BAKEWELL was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming afull-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. She livesin London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogues rare book collectionsfor the National Trust.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyNamed an Outstanding Academic Title by ChoiceMagazine

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how toadjust to losing a loved one—such questions arise in most

people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How doesone live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none morethan Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be thefirst truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorationsof his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before.

More than four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty andcharm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search ofcompanionship, wisdom, and entertainment—and in search ofthemselves. An award-winning and inventive biography, How toLive will engage and inspire students to discuss the most essentialquestions, such as: Just what is—and how does one live—a good life?

“This charming biography shuffles incidents fromMontaigne’s lifeand essays into twenty thematic chapters. . . . Bakewell clearlyrelishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne’swork, but she handles equally well both his philosophicalinfluences and the readers and interpreters who have guided thereception of the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Serious, engaging, and so infectiously in love with its subject thatI found myself racing to finish so I could start rereading the Essaysthemselves. . . . It is hard to imagine a better introduction—orreintroduction—to Montaigne than Bakewell’s book.”

—Lorin Stein, Harper’s Magazine

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, is a biography, but in theform of a delightful conversation across the centuries.”

—The New York Times

“So artful is Bakewell’s account of [Montaigne] that even skepticalreaders may well come to share her admiration.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinary . . . a miracle of complex, revelatory organization,for as Bakewell moves along she provides a brilliant demonstrationof the alchemy of historical viewpoint.” —Boston Globe

HOW TO LIVEOr A Life of Montaigne in One Questionand Twenty Attempts at an AnswerBy Sarah Bakewell

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Why IWroteHow to LiveWhy did I write about Montaigne? Mostly because I wanted to keep on reading him.

Ever since my early twenties, when I picked up his Essays by chance, wanting a good bookfor a long train journey, he has never really left me. My first response to his work on that trainwas one of astonishment. How could someone who wrote in the 1500s sound so familiar, soconversational, so like me? It was like having a friend or a traveling companion sittingopposite me as we whizzed through the landscape. For years after that, Montaigne was neverfar from my side. And I discovered that practically everything else I read had the power ofleading me back to him in some way—for Montaigne is the first truly modern author, thegreat hidden presence behind four hundred years of literature, and indeed behind much ofphilosophy, politics, and social theory over those centuries.

This is mainly for one simple reason: No one before Montaigne had written so honestlyand minutely about the inner world of a human being. He followed every twist and turn of hispsyche, believing that every individual is worth writing about at such length, for “each manbears the entire form of the human condition.” But he also paid plenty of attention to theworld outside. He was interested in everything; he traveled widely, held offices as magistrateand mayor, ran diplomatic missions for kings and princes, and tried his best to end thereligious civil wars that tore apart the France of his day. These experiences led him to a deepfascination with human variety and difference. We share our essential humanity, he knew, buteach of us has a radically different cultural, historical, and personal perspective, and that isjust as fundamental.

Human variety is the great paradox in his work; it’s also the great paradox facing us today.How can a plural, democratic society accommodate difference, and even extremism, withoutsacrificing its deepest principles? How can we resist violence without becoming violent? Howcan we defend ourselves yet remain open? Montaigne gave us no simple answers, but hecertainly taught us to ask the questions.

I set out to write about Montaigne’s life, but I ended up wanting to write about muchmore—and especially about the experience of reading itself, that is, the experience ofencountering a mind distant in time that opens itself to us, perhaps not entirely, but in part.What does it mean to pick up a book published in 1588 and recognize ourselves and our worldin it? How can we engage critically with such a book and understand it on its own terms whilealso making it our own? What can be learned from someone who died more than fourhundred years ago? Why is the past so strange and so familiar at the same time? To ask thesequestions is to investigate the very essence of what culture is—and it is why reading a book issuch an exciting thing to do.

Many people will ask these questions for the first time in their college years, and I envyyour students this; it will happen while they are with you. Others experience it earlier, andsome, later. Whenever it happens, it changes you. Afterward, the habit of questioning getsinto your soul—and then the whole world opens up.

Sarah Bakewell

About the Author: Jerry McGill

JERRY MCGILL is a writer, artist, activist, and inspirational speaker. He received a BA in English literaturefrom Fordham University in the Bronx and a master’s degree in education from Pacific University inOregon. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

When Jerry McGill was growing up in the housing projects on

the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980s, his future

seemed bright: Though times were tough for a family led by a

single mother, McGill was a charming, precocious teenager, already

excelling as an athlete and a dancer. But everything changed one

night when he was thirteen. Walking home from a New Year’s party

with a friend, McGill was shot in the back by an unknown assailant,

who was never caught. Soon after, he learned that he would be

wheelchair-bound for life.

Written as a letter to the man who shot him, whom he decides to

call Marcus, Dear Marcus is a reflection on McGill’s childhood, the

event that changed his life in an instant, the challenges of living

with a disability, and the importance of optimism, forgiveness, and

making the most of one’s gifts. In this direct and intimate attempt

to explain to his attacker the repercussions of his deeds—how one

man’s random decision radically altered the course of another’s

life—McGill takes the reader to the streets of New York City in the

1980s, to the hospital where he spent six months recovering, and on

his journey to make the most of his new life. He recounts the joys

he has experienced traveling the globe and mentoring disabled

children, the love and support he has received over the years, and

the strengths he has been able to find within himself that he may

never have discovered had his life turned out differently.

By turns brutally honest and funny, both full of rage and full of

heart, Dear Marcus is an inspiring book about the moments in life

that shape people—the ones that catch them by surprise, that

blindside them, but that present them with opportunities for

growth, reflection, compassion, and forgiveness. At some point—

to greater or lesser degrees—everyone will be in the wrong place at

the wrong time. The challenge, though, as Dear Marcus shows, is

not to wallow in despair or blame other people, but to rise up and

find strengths within.

“As I started reading Dear Marcus, I found I couldn’t put it down.This is a compelling marriage of remembrance and forgiveness,absolution and compassion, cynicism and understanding.”

—Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore

DEAR MARCUSA Letter to the ManWho Shot MeBy Jerry McGill

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Last year I retired from a profession that was probably the most challenging, the most frustrating,and in many ways the most rewarding profession that I’ve ever had. When I rolled my wheelchair out ofmy high school English classroom for the last time, I had to take a moment to recognize and honor allthat I had gained from the experience. My reasons for choosing not to return to the classroom arecomplex and varied, but one thing is without doubt: to watch a student read, process, and discuss awork of literature is a thing of beauty.

I recall so well my freshman class’s heartfelt reactions to the suffering of young Elie Wiesel as webecame immersed in the story of Night. Class discussions revolved around the cruelty of humankindand the necessity of hope, and their journals reflected just how engrossed they were in the journey.They experienced a similar reaction when the students (who were, like the school, about 92 percentCaucasian) dove into the life of Richard Wright and his shocking experience of growing up in the JimCrow South in Black Boy. During our conversations we explored topics such as the use of the “N word,”poverty, racism, religion, and, of course, the cruelty of humanity.

Those conversations fed me, and as we went on to read works by Maya Angelou, Frank McCourt,and Amy Tan, a small part of me couldn’t help but wonder: How would my students react toDearMarcus, my self-published memoir about being shot in the back when I was thirteen? I had sworn neverto bring up my book in class, believing it was best to maintain a “professional distance.” Despite mystudents’ constant prodding (“Are you married, Mr. McGill? Do you have kids? Were you in a caraccident?”), I always respectfully declined discussions about my personal life.

Then a funny thing happened. Students being students, many of them “googled” me and, lo andbehold, discovered that the life story of their mysterious teacher was right there for the entire world toread. Many found ways to purchase my memoir, and soon word about it spread.

Whether it was between classes, during lunch break, or in study hall, students would find me and,clutching their copy of my book, would then ask me questions about it. Their questions were soonfollowed by the inevitable demand that I autograph their copy. Not long after the first students read it, afellow teacher doing a unit on the African American experience in America asked if I would comespeak to two of her classes. When word got out that I had agreed to do it, the teacher had to move theevent to an auditorium because so many other students wanted to join the discussion.

At first I was apprehensive that disclosing so much about myself would be harmful to the student-teacher relationship, but much to my pleasure it had the opposite effect. Even students whom I knewclear well didn’t like me (I was a pretty demanding teacher and could be a harsh grader) came up to meafter the talk to tell me how moved or fascinated they were by my story. In the weeks that followed, Ihad an untold number of healthy conversations with students about my life and about their own, andabout the broader themes that my book touches on: poverty, class, faith, family, loyalty, trust, anddestiny—topics that we may not have had a chance to explore in such depth otherwise. For the firsttime, I began to think,Well maybe, just maybe, someday there could be a place for Dear Marcus on acurriculum. . . .

I am so pleased that Dear Marcus will now be available for a wider audience, and it is my sincerehope that educators will find it worthy of sharing with their students. Though it is my own story, itaddresses issues of race, class, disability, inner-city violence, the importance of education, therepercussions of our actions on other people’s lives, and, most of all, the importance of hope andperseverance—issues that are relevant and that warrant classroom discussion. Ultimately, I hope thatDear Marcus will help young people see the beauty in their own lives while reminding them that even ifthings don’t go the way that they expect, they are in control of their futures.

Jerry McGill


About the Author: Bryan Mealer

BRYAN MEALER is the author of Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town and the NewYork Times bestseller The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he wrote with William Kamkwamba, inaddition to the children’s book of the same title. He’s also the author of All Things Must Fight to Live,which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Harper’s and theAssociated Press. His work has appeared in the anthology Best American Travel Writing and was chosen foran Overseas Press Club Award Citation. He and his family live in Austin, Texas.

The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida,

once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the

nation’s vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants.

Many of these were children who honed their skills along the field

rows and started one of the most legendary football programs in

America. Belle Glade’s high school team, the Glades Central

Raiders, has sent an extraordinary number of players to the

National Football League—27 since 1985, with five of those drafted

in the first round.

The industry that gave rise to the town and its team also spawned

the chronic poverty, teeming migrant ghettos, and violence that

cripples futures before they can ever begin.Muck City tells the story

of quarterback Mario Rowley, whose dream is to win a

championship for his deceased parents and quiet the ghosts that

haunt him; head coach Jessie Hester, the town’s first NFL star, who

returns home to “win kids, not championships”; and Jonteria

Willliams, who must build her dream of becoming a doctor in one

of the poorest high schools in the nation. For boys like Mario, being

a Raider is a one-shot window for escape and a college education.

Without football, Jonteria and the rest must make it on brains and

fortitude alone. For the coach, good intentions must battle a town’s

obsession to win above all else.

Beyond the Friday night lights, this book is an engrossing portrait

of a community mired in a shameful past and uncertain future, but

with the fierce will to survive, win, and escape to a better life.

“This is another version of Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights(1990), and since both are less about football than they are aboutfamily, community, and the horrific struggle to rise above poverty,each boasts a unique set of characters who are well worthknowing. A heartbreaking look at poverty in America, with somefootball on the side.” —Booklist (starred review)

MUCK CITYWinning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten TownBy Bryan Mealer

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Excerpt fromMuck City

The ManWho Came Home: The Rise and Fall of an Ordinary Star(A profile of Jessie Hester)

A study conducted by Sports Illustrated revealed that 78 percent of all NFL players areeither bankrupt, broke, or divorced two years after leaving the game. As we know, many ofthose same athletes suffer even greater calamities. Their broken lives have more or less cometo define professional football’s post-retirement: the arrests, lawsuits, and court hearings, andmore recently, the onslaught of concussion-related dementia, depression, and suicides.

The other side of this story is Jessie Hester. For most of his life, Hester had managed toavoid becoming a statistic, first by surviving a brutal childhood as a migrant worker in one ofthe poorest, most violent corners of America. Nicknamed “Jet,” his speed made him astandout wide receiver in high school and accelerated his escape. He was All American atFlorida State, then drafted in the first round by the LA Raiders in 1985. After a decade in theleague, Hester managed to avoid the post-retirement traps. He started a business in BelleGlade, and spent the next ten years engrossed in the puttering routines of raising a family.

All the while, Hester remained the town’s most beloved son, the man who first shone thelight on the talent-heavy region and opened the door for hundreds of other young athletes.Thirty players from Belle Glade had followed Hester into the NFL, a staggering number in ahigh school of only a thousand students. But out of all those who’d left and achieved wealthand fame—Santonio Holmes, Fred Taylor, Louis Oliver, to name a few—only Jet had comehome. In 2008, when he accepted the job to coach his old team, the Glades Central Raiders,his sainthood in the muck was complete.

Much of Hester’s job involved buffering the team against Belle Glade’s myriad negativeforces: the hopelessness and poverty, the gang violence that left two of his players shot, and theentitlement that had crippled the program after decades of success. In three seasons, hecoached the Raiders to a stellar 36-4 record and helped send twenty-six players to Division Icollege programs.

But days after losing their second back-to-back state championship game, Hester was fired.Despite his status as the town’s great survivor, the humble son whose allegiance had neverswayed, Jessie the Jet was dethroned and rendered a pariah. In a town where football was morethan “a religion,” but salvation itself, it seemed the only thing that mattered was winning.

Chasing Rabbits Makes Them Fast (and Other Myths about Glades Football)

While reportingMuck City, I’d often ask people in Belle Glade and Pahokee what madetheir kids so athletic. What made them so dominant at track? What explained the twelvefootball titles between the two schools, the hundreds of former players over the years whohave gone to Division I college programs, and the more than sixty who have reached the NFLsince the 1980s, including the Jets’ Santonio Holmes and Baltimore’s Anquan Boldin. Moreoften than not, I’d get the same frustrating answer:

“We get fast by chasing rabbits.”

Excerpted fromMuck City by Bryan Mealer Copyright © 2012 by Bryan Mealer. Excerpted by permission of Crown Archetype, adivision of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission inwriting from the publisher.


Websites: www.JohnRobison.com • www.JERobison.blogspot.comwww.facebook.com/JohnElderRobison • www.twitter.com/JohnRobison/John-Robison

To view the author’s talk at the 2009 First-Year Experience® Conference, go to: tiny.cc/2k6kkw

Also by John Elder Robison

BE DIFFERENTMy Adventures with Asperger’s andMy Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and TeachersBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-88482-4 | 304pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also available: Audio: 978-0-307-88131-1 | $32.00/$37.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-88483-1 | $9.99/NCRDiscipline: PsychologyThemes: Discovering Differences • Identity

LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life with Asperger’sAccording to author John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye is about

“growing up with Asperger’s syndrome—a high-functioning form ofautism—overcoming my limitations, and ultimately becoming a successful adult.”

“John Robison’s book is an immensely affecting account of a life lived accordingto his gifts rather than his limitations. His story provides ample evidence for mybelief that individuals on the autistic spectrum are just as capable of rich andproductive lives as anyone else.”

—Daniel Tammet, author of Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of anAutistic Savant

Selected for Common Reading at Defiance College; Moncalm Community College; SUNY Potsdam; and others.

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RAISING CUBBYA Father and Son’s Adventures with Asperger’s, Trains,Tractors, and High Explosives

John Elder Robison has openly and humorously engaged readers about hisAsperger’s syndrome in his previous books (Look Me in the Eye, Be Different).

In this memoir, he writes about parenting as an adult with Asperger’s—and comingto the realization that his son, Cubby, also has Asperger’s, as Robinson’s pastexperiences of rebellion against authority and resistance to school are acted outonce again by Cubby. Together, father and son learn to navigate the world aroundthem, despite how inscrutable it can seem to them at times. This is a uniqueperspective on Asperger’s syndrome across generations and within families.

Do not order before 3/12/2013.Crown | HC | 978-0-307-88484-8 | 384pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00Also available: Audio: 978-0-307-88135-9 | $40.00/$46.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-88486-2 | $12.99/NCRDiscipline: PsychologyThemes: Discovering Differences • Identity

Spotlight on: John Elder RobisonJOHN ELDER ROBISON is the author of two previous books, Look Me in the Eye and Be Different, andhe lectures widely on autism and neurological differences. An adjunct professor at Elms College, he alsoserves on committees and review boards for the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and AutismSpeaks. A machinery enthusiast and avid photographer, John lives in Amherst with his family, animals,and machines.


The Loch Ness Monster isn’t real. Dinosaurs are extinct. And no, kids can’t fly. That’s the sort ofthing we all got from our parents. Every time we heard something fun and imaginative, it seemed likeMom or Dad was there to pop our balloon.

What if that didn’t happen? What if Dad agreed with every childhood fantasy and offered to gohunt Nessie in a boat, with a harpoon? That’s exactly what I decided to do when I got a shot atparenthood with a six-pound tyke I named Cubby. When my little boy began asking questions, I keptmy mind open to the possibilities and seized every fun and interesting opportunity that came our way.We hunted dinosaurs, talked to penguins, and drove freight trains and tugboats all over New England. Itold him stories about nuclear horses, pine demons, and dragons. We even went cruising in ChairmanMao’s Mercedes-Benz limousine.

As I showed Cubby time and again, things are not always as they seem. That moving speck in thesky . . . it might be an airplane. But it could also be a bird. It might even be a giant flying lizard, far, faraway. Cubby and I talked about the world as it was, and as we imagined it. My son learned to questionwhat he saw and what people told him. He became his own person—an independent thinker—at a veryearly age.

Cubby and I both have Asperger’s syndrome—a form of autism. Some call autism a different way ofbeing, and the way I raised Cubby might be the ultimate embodiment of that. We think differently, weact differently, and we raise kids differently. The proof is in my new book, Raising Cubby, which tells thestory of how I went about being a dad. I’m willing to bet it’s very different from any other parentingmemoirs you’ve read.

Of course, the book tells Cubby’s story too. By the time he was seventeen my son had parlayed histhinking skills into what one scientist called “a post-doctoral understanding of the physics ofexplosives.” He dropped out of high school because the courses weren’t interesting, and enrolled incollege where he could study chemistry. A few months later, Cubby’s love of science led to a visit fromthe ATF after video of his experiments attracted unfavorable attention online. As they were carryingchemicals out of his lab, the Federal agent in charge turned to me and said, “Mister Robison, the U.S.government has no criminal interest in your son. We just want to clean this up and make it safe.Somewhere in the U.S., every year, we find a Boy Scout genius with a chemistry set, and this is youryear.”

If only it had ended there. Unfortunately, a publicity-hungry prosecutor saw a chance to make aname for herself, saving the community from a so-called terrorist, even though the only terrorist wasthe one she’d dreamt up in her mind. Before long, Cubby had been charged with multiple felonies andfaced up to sixty years in prison when, as far as I could see, his only “crimes” had been inquisitivenessand not thinking through how his actions might appear to others. The good news is that when Cubby’scase went to trial, the community rallied round him, and the courtroom overflowed with friends andsupporters. Their support buoyed us through five long days of trial, after which my son walked out ofthe courthouse with his head held high and a bright future ahead.

I hope Raising Cubby will inspire students to see that there are many paths to success, and thatoddball traits or interests might in fact lead to our best opportunities. I also hope it will inspirecommunities to embrace their misfits and understand how much they have to offer. For a very longtime, neither Cubby nor I ever quite fit in. We dealt with other people in odd ways, had interests thatverged on obsession, and we often didn’t have a clue how others perceived us. This is the story of howeach of us found his place in the world, how we came to see ourselves as different rather than defective,and of how we discovered that even those of us on the autism spectrum have something unique to offer.

John Elder Robison


About the Author: Laurie RubinBlind since birth, mezzo-soprano LAURIE RUBIN recently received high praise from New York Timeschief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini, who wrote she possesses “compelling artistry,”“communicative power,” and that her voice displays “earthy, rich and poignant qualities.” She is cofounderand associate artistic director of Ohana Arts, a performing arts school and festival in Hawaii.

Colors, Rubin notes, affect everyone through sound, smell,

taste, and a vast array of emotions and atmospheres. She

explains that although she has been blind since birth, she has

experienced color all her life.

In her memoir Do You Dream in Color?, Laurie Rubin looks back

on her life as an international opera singer who happens to be

blind. From her loneliness and isolation as a middle school student

to her experiences skiing, Rubin offers her young readers a life

story rich in detail and inspiration drawn from everyday

challenges. Beginning with her childhood in California, Rubin tells

the story of her life and the amazing experiences that led her to a

career as an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano.

Rubin describes her past as a “journey towards identity,” one she

hopes will resonate with young people struggling with two

fundamental questions: “Who am I?” and “Where do I fit in?”

Although most people aren’t blind, Rubin believes that many have

traits that make them something other than “normal.” These

differences, like blindness, may seem like barriers, but for the

strong and the persistent, dreams can overcome barriers, no matter

how large they may seem. This is what makes her story so unique

yet universal and so important for young people.

“Laurie Rubin shows that we need not be defined by what othersmay see as our limitations.With her remarkable approach to lifeand her extraordinary musical achievements, she is an inspiringexample to all who are finding their way.”

—Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music

DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR?Insights from a Girl Without SightBy Laurie Rubin

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At the beginning of my sophomore year at Oberlin College, I was asked to speak on a

student panel to a packed auditorium of incoming freshmen. When it was my turn to speak, I

knew from experience what the students wanted to hear. I was used to the questions: What is

it like to be blind? How do you match your clothes? How do you get from Point A to Point B?

Do you see just blackness?

But what about all the questions that people are afraid to ask, the ones that dig even

deeper? As a singer, I live for those moments when the music’s current electrifies the audience

and the performer, bonding us in a unique and personal way. That night I learned that just as

strong a bond can be formed merely by sharing my story!

I spoke about feeling like an outcast in high school, how none of the boys would think of

dating me, and how the girls avoided being friends with me. I spoke about my passion for

music, how I had water- and snow-skied as a child, and how, in general, I had lived a very

normal, rich, fulfilling life. I spoke about my time at Oberlin as being my first experience with

people who thought my blindness was something to celebrate.

The further I got into my stories and anecdotes, the more I felt the shy freshmen around

me coming out of their shells. We laughed uproariously together, and we connected through

the universal desire to be accepted. Most importantly, speaking to such a large audience of

students got that white elephant of my blindness out into the open and at the same time

allowed it to melt away magically like snow. Suddenly, I was Laurie Rubin the person, not the

blind person.

College is a time for self-discovery and self-expression, and my hope is that reading about

my experiences will help pave the way for those of you who are grappling with differences

people might be afraid of. Many of my closest friends in college were people I met after that

panel discussion who said they would have been afraid to approach a blind person before

hearing me speak. Though blindness is a low-incidence occurrence, the journey of finding

one’s self is universal.

It is so important to feel at home in your own skin.

I would be delighted to visit your school to share my story with you.

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I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCEDBy Nujood Ali with DelphineMinouiNujood Ali was nine when her parents married her to a man in his thirties. At ten, she was the

first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce, breaking with traditional practice. Written with

childlike simplicity and penetrating honesty, this international bestselling memoir is at once

shocking and inspiring, disturbing and redemptive.

“A powerful new autobiography. . . . It’s hard to imagine that there have been many youngerdivorcées—or braver ones—than a pint-size third grader named Nujood Ali.”

—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-58967-5 | 192pp. | $12.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-71256-1 | $10.00/$13.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-58968-2 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Gender Issues • Human Rights • Regional: Middle East

I KNOWWHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSByMaya Angelou“Students . . . find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the midst of troubledand sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit and strength a wellspring ofpride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book as writers themselves and learnedmuch 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; and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8002-8 | 304pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Ballantine | MM | 978-0-345-51440-0 | 304pp. | $6.99/$8.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-679-45173-0 | $23.00/$27.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-925-3 | $6.99/$6.99 Can.Themes: Black Colleges • Coming of Age • Gender Issues • Inclusiveness

MOM&ME &MOMByMaya AngelouWithMom &Me &Mom, Maya Angelou (one of the U.S.’s most celebrated poets and the

acclaimed author of I KnowWhy the Caged Bird Sings) presents her most personal story to

date: that of her relationship with her own mother. Offering a vivid portrait of Vivian Baxter

Johnson—nurse, real estate agent, card dealer, parent, and officer in the Merchant Marine—

Angelou presents the most intimate and emotional details of her own life, reaching beyond the

content of her previously published autobiographies to meditate on the causes and effects of

her separation from her mother.

Do not order before 4/2/2013.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6611-7 | 224pp. | $22.00/$26.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-80822-1 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64547-4 | $10.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity

THEN THEY CAME FOR MEA Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and SurvivalByMaziar BahariWith Aimee MolloyBahari left London for Iran in 2009 to cover the presidential elections. He was imprisoned for

three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, and repeatedly tortured by an interrogator who

remained a mystery to him. Bahari clung to memories of his pregnant wife, and drew

inspiration from his father and sister, who had also been tortured by the shah in the 1950s and

the Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s, respectively. Bahari’s account effectively balances political

reportage with personal narrative.

“Especially timely given recent events throughout the Middle East, this book is recommended foranyone wishing to better understand the workings of a police state.” —Kirkus Reviews

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6946-0 | 384pp. | $27.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-60419-8 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.Themes: Human Rights • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Regional: Middle East

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STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOUAMemoir of Parenting in Three GendersBy Jennifer Finney BoylanJennifer Finney Boylan, a professor at Colby College and author of She’s Not There: A Life in

Two Genders, has written a new memoir discussing her experience as first a father and then, as

she transitioned from being male to female, motherhood. She offers thoughtful meditations on

gender and how families are shaped, and includes her conversations on these subjects with

Richard Russo, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Augusten Burroughs, Susan Minot, and others.

To request a free pre-publication copy, e-mail [email protected] not order before 4/23/2013.Crown | HC | 978-0-7679-2176-3 | 304pp. | $24.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00Also available: e-Book: 978-0-307-95284-4 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Gender Studies • Identity

MY ORANGE DUFFEL BAGA Journey to Radical ChangeBy SamBrackenWith Echo GarrettDespite being abandoned at age fifteen and suffering unspeakable abuse, Sam Bracken

overcame the odds to change his life and earn a full-ride football scholarship to the Georgia

Institute of Technology. When he left for college, everything he owned fit in an orange duffel

bag. InMy Orange Duffel Bag, Sam tells his harrowing story of homelessness, poverty, and

abuse and how he was able to reinvent himself. He also shows students how they can turn their

lives around by sharing his rules for the road: everything he learned about radically changing

his life and how anyone can create positive, lasting change.

Selected for Common Reading at Louisburg College.

Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-98488-3 | 200pp. | $23.00/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50Also available: Audio: 978-0-449-01000-6 | $12.00/$14.00 Can.Themes: Inspiration • Leadership &Motivation • Perseverance/Personal Strength

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MY ROADMAPA Personal Guide to Balance, Power, and PurposeCrown Archetype | TR | 978-0-307-95586-9 | 144pp. | $9.99/$11.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

JOKER ONEAMarine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership,and BrotherhoodBy Donovan CampbellAfter graduating from Princeton University, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and

commitment, Campbell decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer

would allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. In this

inspiring 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 Joker One.”

—Rachel Duff Anderson, Director of First-Year Experience, Siena Heights University

Selected for Common Reading at Niagara University; Siena Heights University; and the T. Boone Pickens Leadership Institute.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7956-5 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-778-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMaking • Group Dynamics • Leadership &Motivation

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FIST STICK KNIFE GUNA Personal History of ViolenceBy Geoffrey CanadaLong 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 Lady Michelle

Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small, scared boy growing up in

the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes of the

block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife, and, finally, gun. Fist Stick Knife

Gun tells his story.

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4461-2 | 192pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: Coming of Age • Ethics • Perseverance/Personal StrengthRegional: NewYork/Urban Interest

Also available as as Graphic Novel Illustrated by Jamar NicholasBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4449-0 | 144pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

FUNNY IN FARSI: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in AmericaBy Firoozeh DumasWinner of the Spirit of America Award (National Council for the Social Studies) and other awards

Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Firoozeh Dumas’s wonderfully engaging

family, who moved from Iran to Southern California in the 1970s, arriving with no firsthand

knowledge 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 at work.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Selected for Common Reading at more than 20 colleges including: Gallaudet University; University ofWisconsin, Madison;and Florida International University (Miami). To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/7tpfrw.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6837-8 | 240pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-43099-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Discovering Differences • Global Citizenship • Identity

YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD: AMemoirBy Emma ForrestEmma Forrest (British American journalist and author of the novels Namedropper, Thin Skin,

and Cherries in the Snow) shares a captivating and honest account of her trials with depression,

mental illness, and self-harm; the slow process of recovery in partnership with her psychiatrist;

and the challenges of maintaining her health after the death of her dedicated doctor and an

unexpected breakup with the well-known actor who had promised her a future and a family.

Your Voice in My Head bravely documents the most intimate details of Forrest’s life.

Other Press | TR | 978-1-59051-540-2 | 224pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-59051-447-4 | $11.99/NCRThemes: Identity • Inspiration • Perseverance/Personal Strength

FATHERMOTHERGOD: My Journey Out of Christian ScienceBy Lucia GreenhouseLucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood. She lived with her mother,

father, sister, and brother in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis. Yet in this house you could not

be sick, because you were perfect. When it came to accidents and illnesses, Lucia’s parents

didn’t take her to the doctor’s office; instead, the Ewings made calls to a Christian Science

practitioner. In December 1985, when Lucia and her siblings—by then young adults—

discovered that their mother was sick, they came face-to-face with the reality that they had few,

if any, options to save her. Fathermothergod is an essential American coming-of-age story with

a heartbreaking glimpse into the practices of the Christian Science religion.

“A courageous and finely crafted portrait of a young woman struggling with her family, her faithand that awkward space between being a child and growing into adulthood.”

—TheMinneapolis Star Tribune

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LA PETITEAMemoir of ChildhoodByMichèle HalberstadtTranslated by Linda CoverdaleIsolated from her emotionally estranged parents and unable to relate to others, Halberstadt’s

grandfather was the center of her world. In La Petite (winner of the Ordre du Mérite and the

Légion d’Honneur—France’s two highest awards), this accomplished French journalist,

novelist, and film producer shares the story of her grief and eventual awakening following an

attempt at suicide triggered by his devastating death. Her story is both a resolute memoir and a

striking coming-of-age story.

Other Press | TR | 978-1-59051-531-0 | 128pp. | $14.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-59051-532-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Perseverance/Personal Strength

THE TRANSLATORAMemoirBy Daoud HariThe Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving story of how one person can

make a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the greatest atrocities of

our time, the genocide in Darfur. Having chosen language and storytelling as his weapons—

while others around him were taking up arms—Hari gives a true and necessary 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/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-6859-6 | $15.00/$17.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-737-2 | $9.99/$11.99 Can.Themes: Genocide • Human Rights • Perseverance/Personal Strength

UNBROKENAWorldWar II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionBy Laura HillenbrandAn ALA Notable Book for Adults (Nonfiction)Finalist, 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Non-fiction

Unbroken is author Laura Hillenbrand’s acclaimed biography of a World War II hero who

survived for more than two and half years in several brutal Japanese internment camps as a

prisoner of war.

“From the 1936 Olympics toWWII Japan’s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand’s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of herbestselling Seabiscuit. But it’s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just asloveable. . . . It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand’s narrative. . . .She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering,remorselessness, and redemption.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Selected for Common Reading at Avila University and Barton College.

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6416-8 | 496pp. | $27.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-1969-7 | $45.00/$53.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-60375-7 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.Themes: American History • Perseverance/Personal Strength

PRAIRIE SILENCE: AMemoirByMelanie HoffertLike so many others, Melanie Hoffert left the quiet country home of her childhood in the

hopes of trying out a more urban existence. When she returns to North Dakota, the silent

prairie that she once called home allows her to hear her own voice in the most unexpected of

ways, illuminating her differences and setting her on a journey of self-realization,

reconciliation, and acceptance. In this memoir, Hoffert reveals how places speak to and

transform people.

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-4473-5 | 248pp. | $24.95/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-4474-2 | $24.95/$28.95 Can.Themes: Discovering Differences • Identity

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FRESH OFF THE BOATAMemoirBy Eddie HuangBefore Eddie Huang opened a popular East Village restaurant and became one of the biggest

food personalities of his generation, he was the rebellious son of first-generation Taiwanese

immigrants. Struggling to find himself amid football, fights, parties, and drugs, and trial-and-

error careers as a comic, fashion designer, and lawyer, food was his anchor. In Fresh Off the

Boat, Huang shares the story of his self-realization and a powerful message about the

importance of finding one’s passion and becoming one’s true self.

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-679-64488-0 | 288pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-385-36365-5 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64489-7 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Immigration

DECODEDBy Jay-ZFor the millions who know him as the greatest rapper alive and an unparalleled cultural and

business icon, Decoded is the story of the legendary Jay-Z, told through lyrics, images, and a

powerful and surprising personal narrative. This is an intimate, first-person portrait of the life

and art of Jay-Z, organized around a “decoding” of his most famous and provocative lyrics.

“A riveting exploration of Jay-Z’s journey. . . . So thoroughly engrossing, it reads like a good pieceof cultural journalism.” —The Boston Globe

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8115-5 | 352pp. | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-959-8 | $14.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Black Colleges • Coming of Age • Identity

BLACK TITANA. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black AmericanMillionaireBy Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines

A. G. Gaston’s grandparents were slaves, yet he died one of the wealthiest black men in the

United States, worth over $130 million. His niece and grandniece, the award-winning

television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, have written the

first biography of Gaston, setting personal family history against the backdrop of American

social and economic history to illustrate the remarkable life of this man, whose business savvy

helped him rise above the crushing confines of racism.

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OneWorld | TR | 978-0-345-45348-8 | 336pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-51454-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: American History • Black Colleges • Leadership &Motivation • Perseverance

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACKMy Year in aWomen’s Prison: A MemoirBy Piper KermanA successful thirty-four-year-old executive with a loving family, Kerman was unexpectedly

sentenced to fifteen months in prison, for her involvement ten years earlier in an illegal drug

deal. Given her college degree, blonde hair, and blue eyes, Kerman was far from an average

inmate at the minimum security prison in Danbury, Connecticut. She offers a glimpse into

prison life, as she attempts to find ways to ease the boredom of long days, deal with daily

humiliations, and navigate the complex social structures guiding inmate relationships.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52339-4 | 352pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-385-53026-2 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMaking • Gender Issues • Group Dynamics • Identity • Social Justice

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MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINSThe Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a ManWhoWould Cure theWorldBy Tracy KidderAn ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable BookPulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of medical genius Paul Farmer and shows

how one person can effect global progress against seemingly impossible problems—TB, AIDS,

poverty—with creativity, knowledge, and determination.

“Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, writes clearly and engagingly. . . . This book is beingwidely used in freshman seminars at colleges across the United States, and it will likely stirdebates on such wide-ranging issues as the politics of health care, the role of governmentfunding, and ethics. Highly recommended.” —Choice (American Library Association)

Selected for Common Reading at more than 100 colleges including: Mount Holyoke College; University ofWashington; andVirginia Tech. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/gbqfrw.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7301-3 | 352pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-8041-2167-5 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-334-3 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Science & Society • Service • Social Justice

Also Available in Young Adult Edition: By Tracy Kidder and Michael FrenchDo not order before 4/9/2013.Delacorte Books for Young Readers | HC | 978-0-385-74318-1 | 288pp. | $16.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.50

STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINSBy Tracy KidderFinalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardIn Strength in What Remains, Kidder presents the story of one man’s inspiring American

journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power

of second chances.

Selected for Common Reading at more than 12 colleges including: Caldwell College; Stanford University; andWesternMichigan University. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/dgqfrw.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7761-5 | 304pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-8338-4 | $20.00/$23.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-851-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Genocide • Global Citizenship • Human Rights • Perseverance/Personal StrengthTransition

A MIGHTY LONGWAY: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High SchoolBy CarlottaWalls LaNier with Lisa Frazier PageForeword by Bill Clinton“CarlottaWalls LaNier’s AMighty LongWay is a riveting account of nine brave high school studentsand their families in a quest for quality desegregated public education.What happened in LittleRock in 1957 resulted in the U.S.’s greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Carlotta’s ac-count of events inside and outside Little Rock Central High School should be read and studiedparticularly by those who now walk through doors of opportunity which Carlotta and her school-mates 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

Selected for Common Reading at Defiance College; SUNY Potsdam; University of Illinois, Springfield; and others.OneWorld | TR | 978-0-345-51101-0 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-51724-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: American History • Black Colleges • Inclusiveness • Regional: Alabama/The South

ALL SOULS: A Family Story from SouthieByMichael PatrickMacDonaldWinner of the American Book Award; New England Literary Lights Award; Myers Outstanding Book Award

All Souls is activist and author Michael Patrick MacDonald’s gripping memoir about his life

growing up amid poverty and crime in the Old Colony housing projects in South Boston, a

predominantly white Irish Catholic neighborhood.

Selected for Common Reading at Dean College; Northeastern University; Tufts University; and others.Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-7213-4 | 296pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-7198-4 | $14.95/$16.95 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Regional: Boston

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INTO THE FIRE: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the AfghanWarBy DakotaMeyer and BingWestIn September of 2009, in the midst of the Afghan War, a group

of Afghan soldiers and U.S. Marine advisers were besieged by hundreds of Taliban fighters. They

were cornered, with all but a single road blocked. Here, Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer—

recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor—recounts how he defied orders and battled his

way down the exposed road not once but five times to rescue his fellow soldiers and save his

company. Into the Fire is a story of extraordinary courage, loyalty, determination, and strength.

Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9340-0 | 256pp. | $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-01209-3 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64544-3 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: American History • Inspiration • Leadership/Motivation

THE OTHERWES MOORE: One Name, Two FatesByWesMooreWinner of the Black Caucus of the ALA Literary Award for NonfictionA Booklist Top 10 Black History Nonfiction Book

Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up

fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on

street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up

to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the

other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this

fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52820-7 | 272pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also available: Audio: 978-0-307-87713-0 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-969-7 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.

Selected for Common Reading at more than 30 colleges including: Florida State University; Gustavus Adolphus College; andUniversity of Akron. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/s112nw.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Leadership &Motivation • Perseverance/Personal StrengthRegional: Baltimore/ The Northeast • Service

Also available in Young Adult Edition: DISCOVERINGWESMOOREDelacorte Books for Young Readers | HC | 978-0-385-74167-5 | 176pp. | $15.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.00

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: AMemoir in Books By Azar NafisiThis is the moving story of how Nafisi and her students managed to escape

the harsh constraints 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, onthe refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art’s affirmative andsubversive faith in the voice of the individual.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Selected for Common Reading at Ashland University; CaseWestern Reserve University; Ithaca College; Mount Holyoke College;Sweet Briar College (VA); and others.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7106-4 | 384pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-079-3 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Gender Issues • Human Rights • Regional: Middle East

ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odysseyto Reunite with His MotherBy Sonia NazarioWhen 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 siblings

struggled without their mother, until he finally made his way from the rough streets of

Tegucigalpa through Mexico and across the dangerous Texan border.

Enrique’s Journey is an award-winning and timely account of one anguished family’s experience

with an issue of international scope and urgency—illegal immigration—but it is also a timeless,

mythic story of a dangerous journey undertaken to make a broken family whole.

Selected for Common Reading at more than 100 colleges including: Texas A&M University; University of North Carolina,Charlotte; and University ofWisconsin, Madison. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/5212nw.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7178-1 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Spanish Language Edition: Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7580-2 | 352pp. | $17.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-602-3 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Immigration • Social Justice

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THE AUDACITY OF HOPEThoughts 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; NewYork Institute of Technology; and others.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-23770-5 | 384pp. | $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Spanish Language Edition: Vintage | TR | 978-0-307-38711-0 | 400pp. | $17.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-6641-7 | $19.99/$22.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-38209-2 | $7.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMaking • Group Dynamics • Service

DREAMS FROM MY FATHERA Story of Race and InheritanceBy Barack ObamaDreams from My Father is a memoir by President Barack Obama, first published in July 1995

when he was preparing to launch his political career.

“Provocative. . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds,and thus belonging to neither.” —The New York Times Book Review

Selected for Common Reading at Augustana College; Boston College; California State University–Eastbay; Elmhurst College;LaGuardia Community College; Quinnipiac University; Southern Methodist University; University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University ofWashington; Xavier University of Louisiana; and others.

Broadway | TR | 978-1-4000-8277-3 | 464pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Spanish Language Edition: Vintage | TR | 978-0-307-47387-5 | 432pp. | $17.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-2100-3 | $25.95/$35.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-39412-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Inclusiveness

UNLIKELY BROTHERSOur Story of Adventure, Loss, and RedemptionBy John Prendergast andMichael MattocksAn unlikely bond developed between Prendergast,

an activist, and Mattocks, who met through the Big Brother program. As Prendergast

increasingly devotes his efforts to seeking justice in Africa, and Mattocks falls into a life

marked by drug dealing and street violence, the two cross paths intermittently. Their evolving

relationship is documented in both their voices here.

“Despite their contrasting perspectives, Prendergast and Mattocks illustrate that when it comesto the human condition, attitudes trump platitudes and actions outweigh promises.” —Booklist

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-46485-9 | 272pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-46486-6 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Service

JOSEPH ANTONAMemoirBy Salman RushdieOn Valentine’s Day 1989, Salman Rushdie received notice that a fatwa (an order of death) had

been declared against him by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran for having written The Satanic

Verses, a novel accused of insulting Islam. When instructed by police to choose an alias, he

settled on a hybrid of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. In this candid account, the author

shares the incredible details of his life under this new identity, describing how he and his family

lived with the perpetual threat of murder.

Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9278-6 | 656pp. | $30.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $15.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-80781-1 | $60.00/$68.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64388-3 | $14.99/NCRThemes: Identity • Human Rights • Inspiration

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WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE: AMemoirBy Saïd SayrafiezadehWinner of theWhiting Award for Nonfiction

With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from

having survived a bizarre childhood in the Socialist Worker’s Party, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

positions himself perfectly between farce and tragedy. His story is one of a struggle to make

sense of oneself in the world and to find a place within a fractured family left behind by history.

Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-34069-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-440-33839-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Human Rights • Identity • Social Justice

OUTCASTS UNITEDAn American Town, A Refugee Team, andOneWoman’s Quest to Make a DifferenceByWarren St. JohnOutcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach, and a small

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 50 colleges including: Georgia Institute of Technology; Springfield College; andUniversity of Florida. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/barfrw.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52204-5 | 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-6617-2 | $29.95/$34.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-385-52959-4 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Discovering Differences • Group Dynamics • Immigration

Also Available in Young Adult Edition:Delacorte Books for Young Readers | HC | 978-0-385-74194-1 | 240pp. | $16.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.50

A CENTURY OF WISDOMLessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer,theWorld’s Oldest Living Holocaust SurvivorBy Caroline StoessingerForeword by Václav HavelAt 107 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the

world’s oldest concert pianist. Despite her years of imprisonment in the Theresienstadt

concentration camp and the murders of her mother, husband, and friends at the hands of the

Nazis, Herz-Sommer wasted no time on bitterness and instead lives every day as though it is a

gift. A Century of Wisdom is the remarkable and inspiring story of one woman’s lifelong

determination—in the face of some of the worst evils known to humankind—to bring good to

the world, which has helped her to persevere and live a long and vital life.

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9281-6 | 256pp. | $23.00/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-96767-1 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64401-9 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Human Rights • Identity • Perseverance/Personal Strength

HALF A LIFEAMemoirBy Darin StraussWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography)

“Darin Strauss has spent a good part of his adult life reliving, regretting and reflecting on a single,split-second incident. Half a Life is a starkly honest account of that fateful moment and his lifethereafter . . . penetrating, thought-provoking.” —TheWashington Post

Selected for summer reading at Joliet Township High School (Joliet, IL).

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8253-4 | 224pp. | $13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-98860-7 | $12.00/$13.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64382-1 | $9.99/$11.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Ethics/DecisionMaking • Identity

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GRAND CENTRAL WINTERStories from the StreetBy Lee StringerForeword by Kurt VonnegutAn inspiring book of essays, Grand Central Winter vividly describes the author Lee Stringer’s

experiences of being homeless and drug-addicted in New York in the 1980s.

“Stringer possesses a sharp eye for the street and the rich, sagacious talent of a storyteller.”—Publishers Weekly

Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-58322-918-7 | 256pp. | $14.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60980-225-7 | $14.95/$16.95 Can.Themes: Identity • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Social Justice

A HOPE IN THE UNSEENAn American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy LeagueBy Ron SuskindThis is the story of Cedric Jennings, an African American teenager who is ferociously

determined to study his way out of the inner city and capture a piece of the American Dream.

Author Ron Suskind follows Jennings from his early years in high school through his first year at

Brown University. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Cedric Jennings’s

postgraduate professional career.

Selected for Common Reading at more than 20 colleges including: Babson College; Marquette University; and University ofTexas at San Antonio. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/nerfrw.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-0126-0 | 400pp. | $15.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-76308-2 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Black Colleges • Identity • Inclusiveness

VIETNAMERICAA Family’s JourneyBy GB TranA TimeMagazine Top Ten Graphic Memoir of All TimeA School Library Journal “Best Adult Book 4 Teens”Named Best Graphic Novel by Library Journal

In this graphic novel, a second-generation Vietnamese immigrant travels to Vietnam to unearth

the history of his family’s trials during the VietnamWar, and their harrowing escape to the U.S.

“This will be called theMaus for the VietnamWar, and for good reason. Similar premise: cluelessAmerican-born son of immigrants confronts the legacy of family pain predating his birth. Similaroutcome: a kick-in-the-gut graphic novel. . . . Engaging, challenging, and disturbing, Tran’s familymemoir belongs in all public and academic libraries.” —Library Journal, starred review

Selected for Common Reading at Davidson College.

Villard Books | HC | 978-0-345-50872-0 | 288pp. | $30.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Immigration

THE BOYS FROM LITTLE MEXICOA Season Chasing the American DreamBy SteveWilsonThe Boys from Little Mexico, written by journalist Steve Wilson, is about the fight for the future

of the next generation—and a hard, true look at boys dismissed as gangbangers and told to “go

home” by lily-white sideline crowds. Oregon’s only all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from

Woodburn High has made the playoffs for nineteen straight years—but they’ve never won a

championship. As they prepare to make it twenty, one thing will become clear: Los Perros play

the beautiful game with heart, pride, and their lives on the line. The wins and losses they notch

along the way spin a striking tale about what it takes to capture the American dream.

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0152-3 | 240pp. | $16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-9550-8 | $21.95/$24.95 Can.Themes: Identity • Immigration • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Social Justice

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About the Author: Ernest ClineERNEST CLINE is a spoken-word artist, screenwriter, and unrepentant geek best known for creatingthe cult film Fanboys. Ready Player One is his first novel.

Winner of the ALA Alex AwardA School Library Journal “Best Adult Book 4 Teens”

Atonce wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia,

Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious,

and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part

virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages

battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade

Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings

by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling

virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place

where one can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand

planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to

discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this

virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked

playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of

fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable

power—to whoever can unlock them.

“An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest.Cline’s imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has asmash-hit vibe.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Ernie Cline emerged from a Back to the Future DeLorean to thethunderous applause of over four thousand freshmen at UMassAmherst’s Convocation this year. His address to the Class of 2016was an entertaining combination of self-depreciating humor andpersonal reflection. Ready Player One, the chosen common readbook for this year’s new students at UMass Amherst, dealt with theallure of the virtual world of video games and its benefits but alsothe irreplaceable authenticity of human exchanges in reality. Lateron, hundreds of freshmen engaged in common read discussions ofthis book in small groups with university faculty, discussingeverything from the dystopian future to eco-sustainability. ReadyPlayer One is more than a paperback adventure story; it unites thepast and present under an overarching concern about technology’splace in our future.”

—Jeanne Horrigan, Director of New Students Orientation,University of Massachusetts Amherst

READY PLAYER ONEA NovelBy Ernest Cline

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Selected for Common Reading:Kansas State University; University of MassachusettsAmherst; and One Book One Middletown (Connecticut)

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The reception my novel Ready Player One has received has been, quite simply, beyond any debutauthor’s wildest dreams. Much to my amazement, the book spent several weeks on the New York Timesbestseller list, showed up on several Best of 2011 lists, and is even in development as a big-budget moviewith Warner Bros.

But the facet of Ready Player One’s success I’ve found the most surprising—and gratifying—is howmuch younger readers love the book. More precisely, they seem to be enjoying it not just as a big dumbadventure story. They’re actually thinking about the chewier issues I was thinking about as I wrote it.

You see, Ready Player One is in part a love letter to the books, video games, movies, TV shows, andmusic of my childhood. Although I knew these artifacts would resonate with readers of my generation,I was never sure how younger readers (with no memory of the Big Hair Decade) would respond tothem, or if they would respond to them at all.

But since last August, I’ve found dozens of wonderful messages in my inbox from teenage readerswho tell me Ready Player One is their new favorite book. I’ve been equally thrilled to hear that ReadyPlayer One was a 2012 Alex Award winner, and that it was been selected as the common read for the2012 freshman class at the University of Massachusetts.

For some of the teenage readers I’ve heard from, the eighties pop culture in the book seems to worka lot like the references to ancient mythology in an Indiana Jones movie—you don’t have to be familiarwith them to enjoy the quest. But better still, many of them read the book with a Web browser open,looking up the references as they go. And it seems that for every teen who gets excited about the Atari2600 or sticks Ladyhawke in her Netflix queue as a result, there’s another who comes across my lovingreferences to authors like Kurt Vonnegut or Philip K. Dick and gets inspired to pick up a classic and,you know, actually read it.

I have a confession to make here: while I never thought it would actually happen, I did alwayssecretly hope that teenage readers would get Ready Player One. I wrote it as the kind of classic good-vs-evil, underdog-triumphs-over-all adventure story that I loved reading as a teen. And—also in emulationof my favorite books—I tried to make it touch on some more serious themes too. In short, I tried towrite the kind of book I wish I’d been assigned back when I was wearing pegged acid-washed jeans—abook that picks you up and grabs you with spaceships or wizards, with great action or an amazing lovestory, but sneakily manages to leave you with something more meaningful to chew on as well.

Ready Player One takes place in a near future where all-too-plausible social horrors like poverty,disease, and energy crises have run rampant, and I think—or hope—there’s something thought-provoking about seeing our futures portrayed that way. Its hero is a loner who’s pretty much given upon the ugliness he sees in the real world and taken refuge in a virtual one—but by the end of the book,he learns that escapism isn’t the panacea he thinks it is, which is a lesson I figured out the hard waygrowing up. And at the very center of the story is the role technology plays in our modern lives andhow it shapes modern identity. I think that subject in particular really resonates with readers who, inthe course of growing up themselves, are finding their own identities increasingly defined by the virtualworlds of Facebook, Twitter, and the Web.

If I had a time-traveling DeLorean, the first thing I’d do with it is head back to 1986 Ohio and givea copy of Ready Player One to my own teenage self, because the truth is, I really wrote it for him. Sadly,the flux capacitor on my DeLorean isn’t operational, so the closest I can come to fulfilling that dream isasking you to consider the book for your incoming freshman’s FYE.

Ernest Cline

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About the Author:Herman KochHERMAN KOCH is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. The Dinner, hissixth novel, has been published in 25 countries, and was the winner of the Publieksprijs Prize in 2009.He currently lives in Amsterdam.

Since its initial publication in Holland in 2009, Herman Koch’s

psychologically astute and philosophically challenging The

Dinner has become a much-discussed international best-seller.

Two couples meet for dinner at a high-end restaurant in

Amsterdam to address a tragic event: a terrible crime has been

committed, and it seems the two fifteen-year-old sons of the two

couples are implicated. A police investigation is under way, and the

comfortable, insulated worlds of the families are coming apart at

the seams. Over the course of the meal, and the novel, civility and

friendship disintegrate, as the parents make clear what they are

willing to do to protect their children from the consequences of

their actions.

This controversial tale of families struggling to make the hardest

decision of their lives exposes philosophical and social hypocrisies

in which we are all, to a degree, complicit. The popularity of the

book speaks to the universal nature of the ethical dilemmas it

examines: How far would you go to protect a loved one, even if he

or she has committed an unspeakably horrible act?

The Dinner is currently one of the most popular books among

teenagers in Holland, perhaps because they can relate to the ethical

dilemmas that result from the senseless crime committed by a

member of their own peer group. The book is also relevant to

adolescent readers in that it explores the dark side of connectivity,

including YouTube and texting, as well as the generation gap

between young people and their parents.

The book ultimately forces the reader to confront his or her own

deeply held convictions and moral values.

“This chilling novel starts out as a witty look at contemporarymanners . . . before turning into a take-no-prisoners psychologicalthriller. . . . With dark humor, Koch dramatizes the lengths to whichpeople will go to preserve a comfortable way of life . . . this is acunningly crafted thriller that will never allow you to look at aserviette in the same way again.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

THE DINNERA NovelBy Herman Koch

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I looked at my wife. In my thoughts I egged her on, to deliver my brother the coup

de grâce. He had set it up, and she could knock it in, as they say. It was just too ghastly,

the way he tried to inject his own party platform into a normal discussion about

people and the differences between them. Improvement . . . a word, nothing more:

crap dished up for the constituency. “I’m not talking about improvement, Serge,”

Claire said. “I’m talking about the way we—Dutch people, white people, Europeans—

look at other cultures. The things we’re afraid of. If a group of dark-skinned men was

coming toward you down the sidewalk, wouldn’t you feel a stronger urge to cross the

street if they were wearing baseball caps, rather than neat clothing? Like yours and

mine? Or like diplomats? Or office clerks?”

“I never cross the street. I believe we should approach every one as equals. You

mentioned the things we’re afraid of. I agree with you about that. If we would just stop

being afraid, then we could go on to cultivate more understanding for each other.”

“Serge, I’m not some debating partner you need to wow with hollow terms like

improvement and understanding. I’m your sister-in-law, your brother’s wife. It’s just

the four of us here now. As friends. As family.”


Copyright © 2012 by Herman Koch. From the book The Dinner published by Hogarth, an imprint of the CrownPublishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

About the Author: Téa ObrehtTÉA OBREHT was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United Statessince the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and TheGuardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best AmericanNonrequired Reading. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best Americanfiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obrehtlives in New York.

THE TIGER’S WIFEA NovelBy Téa Obreht

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Winner of the Orange Prize for FictionFinalist for the National Book AwardA New York Times Notable Book (“10 Best”)A Library Journal Best Book (Top Ten)A School Library Journal ”Best Adult Book 4 Teens”An ALA Notable Book for Adults (Fiction)

Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love,Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best

American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel thatwill establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of hergeneration. In a Balkan country mending from war, NataliaStefanovi, a young doctor, is offering medical care to the children inan orphanage when she is informed of her grandfather’s suddendeath. She is distraught, given that she had a particularly closerelationship with her grandfather, and the circumstancessurrounding his death are shrouded in mystery and uncertainty.She crosses the border to visit the place he died, and begins to thinkback on the tales he often told her of the village he grew up in.Some of these tales are of his encounters over the years with “thedeathless man,” who never seems to age. But most extraordinary ofall is the story her grandfather never told her—how, after beingbombed by the Germans in 1941, the zoo of a nearby city wasdestroyed, and its resident tiger escaped, eventually befriending adeaf-mute woman trapped in an abusive marriage. This narrative,evolving and weaving its way across the novel, is the legend of thetiger’s wife.

The Tiger’s Wife is a meditation on family, history, and how familiesbear the weight of myth, memory, and trauma across generations.

“Ms. Obreht creates an indelible sense of place, a world, like theBalkans, haunted by its past and struggling to sort out its future,its imagination shaped by stories handed down generation togeneration; its people torn between ancient beliefs and theimperatives of what should be a more rational present. In doing so,Ms. Obreht has not only made a precocious debut, but she has alsowritten a richly textured and searing novel.”

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Disciplines: History; Literature

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In August, Téa Obreht was honored as this year’s Marino Family International Writers’

Academic Workshop author at Georgetown University. The Marino Family International

Writers’ Academic Workshop has been taking place at Georgetown since 1995 and has

featured authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood, Dinaw Mengestu

(a Georgetown alumnus), and Orhan Pamuk. The Workshop serves as students’ introduction

to the academic life at Georgetown and is an integral part of the freshman experience. It

affirms Georgetown’s commitment to the highest academic standards and adds a significant

international cultural dimension to the academic formation of Georgetown students.

Obreht’s talk with the Class of 2016 during New Student Orientation included thoughts

about her writing process. Though her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife officially took her three

years to write, she said, she realized that she had been writing the book her entire life. She

discussed how her own stories, drawn from her childhood in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious

household and from the many places she had lived, impacted her writing. Through her

writing process, she came to understand that a narrative arc occurs in life as well as in writing,

and that everything is connected, even if the connections aren’t immediately apparent.

Her lecture was followed by a lively question and answer session with the students, who

were interested in learning more about everything from the meaning of the symbols in the

book, to the origin of the mythological characters, to how the story relates to Obreht’s own

experiences. Many of the questions focused on the actual mechanics of writing The Tiger’s

Wife: How do you separate your fiction from your own life? Why do even minor characters

have such detailed histories? How do you write such a neutral novel about an area so rife with

political and ethnic tensions? Obreht’s candid responses provided valuable insights to the class

of young scholars, which surely included a few aspiring novelists.

After the lecture, the students broke into small discussion groups led by faculty mentors to

comment on and debate the novel’s premises, challenge one another’s interpretations, and

discuss their questions. To the pleasure of a handful of lucky students and faculty members,

Obreht attended a few of the discussion sections to meet the students and answer a few more

questions. Students and mentors alike were thrilled with the selection of The Tiger’s Wife and

Obreht’s presentation.

Jennifer Smith, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University


About the Author:Delores PhillipsDELORES PHILLIPS was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. Shegraduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and works as a nurse at astate psychiatric hospital. Her work has appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She haslived in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1964.

Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae just wants to go to school. But in

1950s rural Georgia, being black and poor makes that next to

impossible. As it turns out, the racism and poverty that surrounds

Tangy Mae are the least of her obstacles. First and foremost is her

brutal mother, Rozelle, who commands complete obedience and

loyalty from her ten children, and gains it through physical

violence, verbal abuse, and emotional manipulation. Tangy Mae,

the fifth and darkest-skinned of her siblings (Rozelle is extremely

light-skinned), bears the brunt of her cruelty. Rozelle denies

secondary education to all of her children, and instead forces them

to work an array of jobs. She pushes her two eldest daughters into

prostitution at the local whorehouse, one of the only businesses in

the town where no one is turned away because of race. Tangy Mae

is terrified, because she’s next in line.

“Evil’s regenerative powers and one girl’s fierce resistance. . . . Abook that deserves a wide audience.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains andvictims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racialtension and family violence.” —TheWashington Post Book World

“[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension notoften characteristic of a first novel.” —Library Journal (starred)

“Phillips writes with a no-nonsense elegance. . . . As a vision ofAfrican-American life, The Darkest Child is one of the harshestnovels to arrive in many years. . . . [Phillips] buttresses those harshepisodes with a depth of characterization worthy of Chekhov,pitch-perfect dialogue, and a profound knowledge of thesegregated South in the ’50s.” —The New Leader

THE DARKEST CHILDA NovelBy Delores Phillips

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I’m very proud to publish The Darkest Child and am confident that, in addition to

being a stirring narrative read, this book will inspire and provoke student discussions

around topics such as race, gender, class, and our nation’s complicated history. Delores

Phillips handles the charged issue of entrenched racism with a deft hand. Not only

does she brilliantly highlight racism originating with whites—the “standard” narrative

of race relations—she also writes stirringly about the complicated relationships within

the black community, and the elements therein that proved just as destructive to the

advancement of the next generation, sometimes more than the more highly visible

outrages like segregation. We found this novel in the “slush pile” of unagented

submissions in 2002, and it upsets me to think that this important novel might never

have found its way into the world. Stories like Tangy Mae’s are vital to a full

understanding of our spotty racial history, as well as the cultural and systemic legacy

that lingers even today. I sincerely hope you will consider adopting this book as a

vital, nuanced contribution to your curriculum.

Bronwen Hruska, Publisher of Soho Press


WORLDWAR Z: An Oral History of the ZombieWarByMax BrooksAt long last, here is the gripping, fictional history of the Zombie War, which came unthinkably

close to eradicating humanity. Author Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the

acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across

the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once

teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the

planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-

face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time.World War Z is the

imaginative, astonishing result.

“Probably the most topical and literate scare since OrsonWelles’ War of theWorlds radiobroadcast.” —Dallas Morning News

Selected for Common Reading at Florida Southern College; St. Edward’s University; and University of Houston–Victoria.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34661-2 | 352pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-6640-0 | $14.99/$17.99 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-35193-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Ethics

OPEN CITY: A NovelBy Teju ColeWinner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

A New York Times notable book that has also appeared on over twenty best-of-the-year lists,

Open City follows Julius, a young Nigerian doctor, as he meanders through Manhattan,

encountering people from all walks of life, while meditating on his own profoundly personal

relationships. The rich diaspora populating New York City is filtered through the unique

perspective of this unforgettable character.

Random Houses | TR | 978-0-8129-8009-7 | 272pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-60449-5 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Coming of Age • Discovering Differences • Identity

HOMER & LANGLEY: A NovelBy E. L. DoctorowHomer & Langley is a brilliantly conceived, mesmerizing rendering of the lives of New York’s

fabled Collyer brothers. One blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged by mustard gas in

the Great War, they live as recluses in their once grand mansion and are fraught with Odyssean

peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

“A beautiful and haunting novel. . . . [Homer & Langley is] one of literature’s most unlikelypicaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe

Selected for Common Reading at Cornell University.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7563-5 | 224pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-3416-4 | $32.00/$39.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-897-3 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • American History • Identity

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET: A NovelBy Jamie FordWinner of the Literature Award—Fiction, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)

“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 duringWorldWar II, andthe depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.”

—Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, butcautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices.”

—Kirkus Reviews

Selected for Common Reading at more than 25 colleges including: University of Montana-Western; Gustavus AdolphusUniversity; and Villanova University. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/21rfrw.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-50534-7 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-8283-7 | $39.95/$45.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-345-51250-5 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Coming of Age • Discovering Differences • Regional: Seattle/Northwest

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INTO THE FOREST: A NovelBy Jean HeglandSet in the near future, Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense of their

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 and alive

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 of GeorgeOrwell’s 1984 and Russell Hoban’s RidleyWalker.” —Publishers Weekly

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

Dial Press | TR | 978-0-553-37961-7 | 256pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-553-75361-5 | $10.95/$13.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-57356-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Coming of Age • Gender Issues • Perseverance/Personal Strength

EVERY DAYBy David LevithanEvery morning, A wakes in a different person’s body, a different person’s life. There’s never any

warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established

guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend,

Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because

finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

David Levithan, an award-winning author, has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has

written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin to comprehend the

complexities of life and love in A’s world, as A and Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly

love someone who is destined to change every day.

Knopf Books for Young Readers | HC | 978-0-307-93188-7 | 336pp. | $17.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-01520-9 | $37.00/$44.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-97563-8 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Coming of Age • Identity • Morality

I AM FORBIDDEN: A NovelBy AnoukMarkovitsWinner of the 2012 Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature (Honor Book)

In her English-language debut, novelist Anouk Markovits presents an emotionally charged tale

about a Satmar Hasidic Jewish family that spans four generations and crosses the globe. I Am

Forbidden is the tale of two sisters joined by love but separated by their distinct beliefs. The

adopted Mila’s religious faith grows while her sister Atara’s faith in books and education leads

her on a different path. Powerful and remarkably balanced, I Am Forbidden is a story of those

who choose to move on and those who choose to remain.

Hogarth | TR | 978-0-307-98474-6 | 336pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-01052-5 | $17.50/$20.50 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-98475-3 | $12.99/NCRThemes: Fiction • Discovering Differences • Gender Issues • Identity

A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA: A NovelBy AnthonyMarra,Winner of the 2012Whiting AwardIn a nearly abandoned hospital in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa, her neighbor Akhmed, who

rescues her after her father’s disappearance, and Sonja, the doctor tending to her, ruminate on

their pasts and confront the tragedy and hope that mark them and their war-ravaged land.

“Remarkable and breathtaking, Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is aspellbinding elegy for an overlooked land engulfed by an oft-forgotten war. Set in the all-too-realChechen conflict, Marra conjures fragile and heartfelt characters whose fates interrogate the veryunderpinnings of love and sacrifice.” —Adam Johnson, author of The OrphanMaster’s Son

To request a free pre-publication copy, e-mail [email protected] | HC | 978-0-7704-3640-7 | 400pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00Also available: Audio: 978-0-385-36356-3 | $22.50/$26.50 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-7704-3641-4 | $12.99/NCRThemes: Fiction • Human Rights • Identity • Perseverance/Personal StrengthRegional: Russia/Chechnya

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LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN: A NovelBy ColumMcCannWinner of the National Book Award for FictionIn 1970s New York, against the backdrop of Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the Twin

Towers, disparate characters seek solace and redemption.

“In McCann’s wise and elegiac novel of origins and consequences, each of his finely drawn,unexpectedly connected characters balances above an abyss, evincing great courage with everystep.” —Booklist (starred)

Selected for Common Reading at Boston College and NewYork University.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7399-0 | 400pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-873-7 | $9.99/NCRThemes: Fiction • American History • Immigration

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 in

the 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 one girl’scoming-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.” —TheWashington Post

Selected for Common Reading at more than 30 schools and colleges including: Michigan Technological University; FinlandiaUniversity; and Michigan State University. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/28rfrw.

Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38103-0 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-41819-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Inclusiveness • Regional: The American South • Social Justice

THE SPEED OF DARK: A NovelBy ElizabethMoonLou is a high-functioning autistic adult

who has made a good life for himself and is,

he thinks, content. But a new manager at the pharmaceutical firm for which he works decides to

put pressure on the unit that employs autistic persons. Lou is urged to undergo an experimental

treatment that might “cure” the autism he doesn't think needs curing, or risk losing his job—

and certainly the accommodations the company has put in place for its autistic employees.

“Every once in a while, you come across a book that is both an important literary achievementand a completely and utterly absorbing reading experience—a book with provocative ideas andan equally compelling story. Such a book is The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon. . . . In LouArrendale, Moon has created an unforgettable character. . . . ” —Florida Sun-Sentinel

Selected for Common Reading at Clemson University; Ohio State University; and SUNY Oswego.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-44754-8 | 384pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-48139-9 | 384pp. | $7.99/$9.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-47220-5 | $7.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Identity • Science & Society

THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH: A NovelBy ThomasMullenSet against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced—

the 1918 influenza pandemic—Thomas Mullen’s powerful first novel is a tale of morality in a

time of upheaval. A chance encounter and the shots that are fired as a result have deafening

reverberations throughout the town of Commonwealth, escalating until every human value—

love, patriotism, community, family, friendship—not to mention the town’s very survival, is

imperiled.

Selected for Common Reading at more than 12 colleges including: Bowling Green State University; University of Arizona; andUniversity of South Carolina. To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/xdsfrw.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7592-5 | 432pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-564-4 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Ethics/DecisionMaking • Group Dynamics • Science & Society

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WONDERBy R. J. PalacioA New York Times bestseller,Wonder is narrated by August Pullman, who has a severe facial

deformity. About to start fifth grade, he longs to fit in. The point of view gradually expands to

include the perspectives of those around him, in this exploration of the meanings of empathy

and community.

“Few first novels pack more of a punch: it’s a rare story with the power to open eyes—and hearts—to what it’s like to be singled out for a difference you can’t control, when all you want is to bejust another face in the crowd.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Knopf Books for Young Readers | HC | 978-0-375-86902-0 | 320pp. | $15.99/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-375-89988-1 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Bullying • Coming of Age • Discovering Differences • Family

THE WATCHA NovelBy Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaTensions reach a boiling point when an Afghan woman sets foot on an American military base

in Kandahar, Afghanistan, demanding the return of the body of her deceased brother for

burial. A poignant retelling of the tragic Greek myth of Antigone, Indian-born author Roy-

Bhattacharya’s The Watch is a haunting look at the Afghan War and a contemporary meditation

on war, humanity, tragedy, and the differences that continue to divide us. This is a masterful

study of conflict—both personal and political—that awakens sympathy and reaches out for the

reader’s deepest consideration.

Hogarth | TR | 978-0-307-95591-3 | 336pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-01176-8 | $20.00/NCR • e-Book: 978-0-307-95590-6 | $12.99/NCRThemes: Fiction • American History • Conflict Studies • Discovering Differences

THE TIN HORSEA NovelBy Janice SteinbergElaine Greenstein’s twin sister disappeared from her neighborhood in Boyle Heights,

California, on the eve of World War II in 1939, when she was only eighteen years old. She was

never found. Decades later, as Elaine packs her belongings to make the move from her

childhood home to a retirement community, she finds a clue to her sister’s whereabouts,

triggering memories of her own childhood and the heart-wrenching experiences of her Jewish

immigrant family.

Random House | HC | 978-0-679-64374-6 | 352pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-385-35947-4 | $45.00/$52.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-345-54028-7 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Fiction • Identity • Immigration

THE AGE OF MIRACLESA NovelBy Karen ThompsonWalker“[A] gripping debut . . . Thompson’s Julia is the perfect narrator. . . . While the apocalypse loomslarge—has in fact already arrived—the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal andhorrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what todo. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible,as if the problems we’ve been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what mightactually bring our end.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8294-7 | 304pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-97069-5 | $35.00/NCR • e-Book: 978-0-679-64438-5 | $11.99/NCRThemes: Fiction • Coming of Age • Family

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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIEAn Old Man, A YoungMan, and Life’s Greatest LessonByMitch AlbomAfter learning of his former professor’s terminal illness, Mitch Albom flew to Brandeis

University, reunited with his old friend, and returned every Tuesday thereafter to visit with

him. Morrie Schwartz turned these visits into one final “class:” a lesson in how to live. This

book 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: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-1112-7 | $19.95/$25.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-41409-0 | $10.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Ethics/DecisionMaking • Identity

WHAT SHOULD I DOWITH MY LIFE?The True Story of PeopleWho Answered the Ultimate QuestionBy Po Bronson“What should I do with my life?” Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he

decided to write this book—an inspiring exploration of how people successfully transform

their lives, and a template for how anyone can answer this question for themselves. Filled with

humor, empathy, and insight, this edition contains nine new stories not included in the

hardcover edition.

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: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-048-9 | $7.99/$8.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMaking • Identity • Life Skills

LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE ITFind Your Own Path to FulfillmentBy Peter BuffettBuffet makes a case for valuing effort in itself over the end result, and thus embracing a true

work ethic, rather than a wealth ethic. He suggests that personal fulfillment, rather than the

accumulation of material goods, make for a successful career—something he learned from his

father, Warren Buffet.

“Peter Buffett has given us a wise and inspiring book that should be required reading for everyyoung person seeking to find his or her place in the world, and for every family hoping to give itsdaughters and sons the best possible start in life.” —Bill Clinton

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46472-9 | 272pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-73574-4 | $14.00/$17.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-46473-6 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Identity • Leadership &Motivation

FOLLOWING THE PATHThe Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and JoyBy Joan ChittisterEveryone wants to find happiness and enjoy meaningful, purpose-driven lives. Amid the hustle

and bustle of modern times, however, the path to achieving this is not always clear. In Following

the Path, internationally known lecturer and author of The Gift of Years Joan Chittister provides

inspirational tips that reveal a new way to find passion, purpose, and joy. With an examination

of spiritual calling, change, and fulfillment, this motivational spiritual guide will assist anyone

in finding their path toward a life of purpose, and becoming their truest, best self.

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF TALENT: 52 Tips for Improving Your SkillsBy Daniel CoyleThe best-selling author of The Talent Code returns with a collection

of smart, simple, field-tested tips for developing talent and improving skills. Inspired by his visit

to Moscow’s Spartak Tennis Club, The Little Book of Talent provides sound advice for

maximizing potential and making the most of time—and one’s talents and abilities.

“The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parentin the delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook . . . for nurturingexcellence.” —Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit

Bantam | HC | 978-0-345-53025-7 | 160pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-53669-3 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.Themes: Life Skills • Perseverance/Personal Strength

THE LEDGE: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and SurvivalBy JimDavidson and Kevin VaughanOn a summer day in 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and

Mike Price stood together at the top of Mount Rainier, celebrating their arrival at its summit. But

upon their descent, a snow bank collapsed, causing the men to plunge eighty feet into a glacial

crevasse. Mike Price did not survive. Despite severe wounds, Davidson found the strength and

the courage to climb an almost vertical ice wall and overcome his surroundings to avoid certain

death. Told with the help of award-winning journalist Kevin Vaughan, this nationally bestselling

adventure tale is a truly inspiring story of strength and survival.

Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-52320-4 | 304pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-52321-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Inspiration • Perseverance/Personal Strength

BOBBY’S BOOKBy Emily Haas DavidsonAs a gang leader, drug dealer, and addict, Bobby Powers lost everything of value in his life:

family, friends, and his own identity. After a moment of clarity about the dire state he was in, he

set out on a path toward rehabilitation, recovery—and forgiveness. In Bobby’s Book, he shares—

in his own words—his long and difficult journey of reformation, including his transformation

into a nationally respected drug addiction counselor. His story, told with the help of Emily

Davidson and accompanied by pictures from renowned photographer Bruce Davidson, is one of

true hope and inspiration.

Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-448-0 | 176pp. | $21.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60980-449-7 | $21.00/$21.00 Can.Themes: Inspiration • Transition

RUNNINGWITH THE KENYANSPassion, Adventure, and the Secretsof the Fastest People on EarthBy Adharanand FinnAfter years of watching Kenyan runners win the world’s biggest races, from the Olympics to the

major international marathons, Runner’s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover

what it was that made them so fast. Packing up his family (and his running shoes), he moved

from rural England to the small town of Iten, in Kenya, home to hundreds of the country’s best

runners. Once there he laced up his shoes and set out on the dirt tracks, running side by side

with Olympic champions, young hopefuls, and barefoot schoolchildren.

“Equal parts cultural examination, cult-of-running treatise, and poignant memoir, Running with theKenyans thrives on a variety of levels. Like the skilled distance runner he is, Finn paces this bookmarvelously and then saves the best for the final kick. This book packs all the pleasure andsatisfaction—and none of the ancillary pain—of a long training run.”—L. JonWertheim, senior editor, Sports Illustrated, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Scorecasting

Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-52879-7 | 288pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00Do not order paperback before 4/9/2013.Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-52880-3 | 304pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-98973-4 | $20.00/NCR • e-Book: 978-0-345-53352-4 | $13.99/NCRThemes: Inspiration • Perseverance/Personal Strength

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THE FREEDOMWRITERS DIARYHow a Teacher and 150 Teens UsedWriting toChange Themselves and theWorld Around ThemBy The FreedomWritersWith Erin GruwellStraight from the front line of urban America, this is Erin Gruwell’s inspiring story of one

fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. The “FreedomWriters” movement

was born in 1994 from her simple notion: inspire young, underprivileged students to pick up

pens instead of guns. Since then the FreedomWriters Foundation has evolved into a renowned

charitable organization led by Gruwell, with the unwavering support of the original Freedom

Writers.

Selected for Common Reading at Austin Peay State University; Bloomsburg University; Indiana University Northwest; andWestern New England College.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-385-49422-9 | 336pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: Leadership &Motivation • Life Skills • Social JusticeIndiana University Northwest’s Reading Guide is available. Go to: tiny.cc/3ixbrw

Also Available by The FreedomWriters and Erin Gruwell

TEACHING HOPEStories from the FreedomWriter Teachers and Erin GruwellForeword by Anna QuindlenBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3172-4 | 384pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-58921-7 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

CHASING PERFECTTheWill toWin in Basketball and LifeBy Bob HurleyIn Chasing Perfect, St. Anthony High School’s head coach Bob Hurley shares championship

strategies he’s developed over forty seasons, helping his team win twenty-six state titles and

four consensus championships despite the odds against them. The narrative focuses on each of

St. Anthony’s seven undefeated seasons, with sketch profiles of the most memorable players

and plays. Hurley also offers empowering insights to help coaches and players elevate their

games, while empowering all students to walk a more purposeful path.

Do not order before 3/19/2013.Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-98687-0 | 336pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: e-Book | 978-0-307-98688-7 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Inspiration • Perseverance/Personal Strength

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICHLiving Each Day as If It Were Your LastBy Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.As medical director of the famed Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Lee Lipsenthal

helped thousands of patients struggling with disease to overcome their fears of pain and death

and to embrace a more joyful way of living. In his own life, happily married and the proud

father of two remarkable children, Lee was similarly committed to living his life fully and

gratefully each day.

The power of those beliefs was tested in July 2009, when Lee was diagnosed with esophageal

cancer. As Lee and his wife, Kathy, navigated his diagnosis, illness, and treatment, he

discovered that he did not fear death, and that even as he was facing his own mortality, he felt

more fully alive than ever before. In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie, told with

humor and heart, and deeply inspiring, Enjoy Every Sandwich distills everything Lee learned

about how to find meaning, purpose, and peace in life.

Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-95515-9 | 224pp. | $22.00/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-96990-3 | $27.50/$31.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-95516-6 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMaking • Life Skills

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THE BUDDHAWALKS INTO A BAR . . .A Guide to Life for a New GenerationBy Lodro RinzlerYoung meditation teacher and practitioner Lodro Rinzler presents an enjoyable, informative,

and entertaining introduction to Buddhism for a new generation. Using everyday language and

examples to which readers can truly relate, he tenders guidance for anyone seeking spiritual

awakening. The Buddha Walks Into a Bar offers wisdom without condescension, and

instruction with humor and understanding. While young readers will gravitate toward Rinzler’s

relatable, contemporary voice, anyone can benefit from this smart, approachable handbook.

Shambhala | TR | 978-1-59030-937-7 | 208pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: Inspiration • Transition

MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLEOneMan’s Crusade to Inspire Others toDream Bigger and Achieve the ExtraordinaryBy Bill StricklandWith Vince RauseMacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner Bill Strickland has spent the past thirty years

transforming the lives of thousands of people through Manchester Bidwell, the jobs training

center 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 adults

the 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 and strengths,

dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success, and inspire the lives 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 New Haven;University of Southern Indiana; Voorhees College;Winthrop University; and others.

Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-52055-3 | 240pp. | $14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-4163-6 | $29.95/$36.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-385-52424-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Leadership &Motivation • Service • Social Justice

LIFE WITHOUT LIMITSInspiration for a Ridiculously Good LifeBy Nick VujicicLife Without Limits is an inspiring book by an extraordinary man. Born without arms or legs,

Nick Vujicic overcame his disability to live not just an independent, but a rich, fulfilling life,

becoming a model for anyone seeking true happiness. Now an internationally successful

motivational speaker, his central message is that the most important goal is to find one’s life’s

purpose, despite whatever difficulties or seemingly impossible odds stand in the way.

Doubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-307-58973-6 | 256pp. | $19.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-74917-8 | $17.50/$19.50 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-58975-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Peer Group Skills • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Service

Also by Nick Vujicic

LIMITLESSDevotions for a Ridiculously Good LifeDo not order before 4/13/2013.WaterBrook Press | HC | 978-0-307-73091-6 | 176pp. | $14.99/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $7.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-73092-3 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.

UNSTOPPABLEThe Incredible Power of Faith in ActionWaterBrook Press | HC | 978-0-307-73088-6 | 256pp. | $19.99/$23.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-449-01279-6 | $30.00/$35.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-73090-9 | $9.99/$9.99 Can.

Website: www.Bill-Strickland.comTo view the author’s talk at the 2010 First-YearExperience® Conference, go to: tiny.cc/2li4qwy

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Website: www.LodroRinzler.com

About the Author: Katherine BooKATHERINE BOO is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and a former reporter and editor for TheWashington Post. She is the winner of a MacArthur “genius” award, a National Magazine Award forFeature Writing, and the Pulitzer Prize. She has divided her time between the U.S. and India for 10 years.This is her first book.

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award; Finalist, 2012 National Book CriticsCircle Award; Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New YorkTimes, TheWashington Post, among others; and an ALA Notable Book for 2012

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years ofuncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change andinequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotelsnear the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper,Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective andenterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” inthe recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a womanof formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty,has identified an alternate route to the middle class: politicalcorruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first femalecollege graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, afifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closerto the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shockingtragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressedtensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turnbrutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatestglobal truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. Andso, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connectshuman beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behindthe Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of thetwenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of peopleimpossible to forget.

“I couldn’t put Behind the Beautiful Forevers down even when Iwanted to—when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantlyand understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Herbook, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai’s internationalairport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economicinequality I’ve ever read.” —Barbara Ehrenreich

“There is a lot to like about this book: the prodigious research that itis built on, distilled so expertly that we hardly notice howmuch weare being taught; the graceful and vivid prose that never callsattention to itself; and above all, the true and moving renderings ofthe people of the Mumbai slum called Annawadi. Garbage pickersand petty thieves, victims of gruesome injustice—Ms. Boo draws usinto their lives, and they do not let us go. This is a superb book.”

—Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains andStrength in What Remains

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERSLife, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityBy Katherine Boo

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Author Video:www.BehindTheBeautifulForevers.com/videoww

Selected for Common Reading:Michigan State University; Northeastern University;Skidmore College; and University of Delaware

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As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate into a worldwhere economic instability and social inequality are increasing and geographic boundariesmatter less and less. Unfortunately, globalization and social inequality remain two of the mostover-theorized, under-reported issues of our age. My book is an intimate investigative accountof how this volatile new reality affects the young people of an Indian slum called Annawadi.Like young people elsewhere, the Annawadians are trying to figure out their place in a worldwhere temp jobs are becoming the norm, adaptability is everything, and bewildering change isthe one abiding constant.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers took me three hard years to report, and one thought thatsustained me was that I had a unique opportunity to show American readers that the distancebetween themselves and, say, a teenaged boy in Mumbai who finds an entrepreneurial niche inother people’s garbage, is not nearly as great as they might think. In the two decades I’ve spentwriting about poverty and how people get out of it, I’ve come to believe, viscerally, that thereare deep connections among individuals that transcend specificities of geography, culture,religion, or class. The problem is that, in a time of high walls and security gates, it’s gettingharder for people of means to grasp the struggles of less privileged people.

Behind one such high wall, near the increasingly glamorous Mumbai airport, a sensitivegirl is studying Othello in a makeshift hut by a vast sewage lake and dreading an arrangedmarriage that might send her to a rural village. A convention-defying disabled woman islonging to be acknowledged as a valid human being. A smart teenaged boy named Mirchi isresisting the garbage-recycling work that is his family trade. Instead he dreams of being awaiter at a fancy hotel, sticking toothpicks into cubes of cheese. “Watch me,” he snaps at hismother one day. “I’ll have a bathroom as big as this hut!” Over the course of time, as Mirchiand the other residents of the slum apply their imaginations to overcoming corruption andinjustice and making better lives for themselves, the broader contours of the market-global ageare gradually revealed.

Although I’m elated when readers join me in thinking about how to build a fairer worldfor people, I don’t consider didactic lectures an effective way to engage people—particularlyyoung people—in questions about fairness and justice. Nor do I think young people wantmawkishly sentimental or sensationalized nonfiction. Stereotypes put them off, and theyknow when they’re being manipulated. What they want, in my experience, is good, concreteinformation from which they can work out what they think for themselves.

With a combination of extensive observation and documents-based reporting, I try to pullthe reader in close to the lives and dilemmas of the poor while unfolding a story that ispowerful and honest enough to keep readers turning the pages. By the last page, I’d like tobelieve that some young readers will also find themselves wrestling with essential questions ofour time: about how opportunity is distributed across the world; about what an individualshould be willing to give up to get ahead; about the interconnections between, say, the collapseof investment banks in Manhattan and the price Mumbai waste-pickers receive for theirempty plastic water bottles; about whether it is possible to be good and moral in a society thatis not good and moral; and about the ultimate value of a human life.

Katherine Boo

47History and Society

About the Author: Susan CainSUSAN CAIN is a writer whose articles on introversion and shyness have appeared in the New YorkTimes; The Atlantic; on Time.com; and on PsychologyToday.com. Her 2012 TED talk has been viewed morethan three million times. Cain graduated with honors from Princeton University and Harvard Law School.For Cain’s TED talk, go to: tiny.cc/qpi4qw.

An ALA Notable Book for 2012Named a “Best Book of 2012”by Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal

At least one-third of the people we encounter are introverts.They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to

partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; whofavor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Althoughthey are often labeled “quiet,” it is to introverts we owe many of thegreat contributions to society—from Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to theinvention of the personal computer.

Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled withindelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically weundervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. SusanCain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal over the twentiethcentury and explores its far-reaching effects—how it influenceseverything from how parishioners worship to who excels atHarvard Business School. And she draws on cutting-edge researchon the biology and psychology of temperament to reveal howintroverts can modulate their personalities according tocircumstance, how to empower an introverted child, and howcompanies can harness the natural talents of introverts. Thisextraordinary book has the power to permanently change how wesee introverts, and, equally important, how they see themselves.

“Cain’s intelligence, respect for research, and vibrant prose putQuiet in an elite class with the best books fromMalcolm Gladwell,Daniel Pink, and other masters of psychological non-fiction.”

—Teresa Amabile, Professor, Harvard Business School

“Susan Cain’s Quiet is superb. Based on meticulous research, it is acompelling reflection on how the Extrovert Ideal shapes our livesand why this is deeply unsettling. It will open up a new anddifferent conversation on how the personal is political.”—Brian R. Little, Ph.D., Distinguished Scholar, Department of Social and

Developmental Psychology, Cambridge University

“The talk Susan Cain gave at our school was the best that I haveheard in my fifteen years as Dean of two leading business schools.She also drew a record number of attendees. I have used Quiet inall the classes I teach, and one year, in my graduation remarks aswell. It is also frequently referenced by nearly all the members ofour administrative team.”

—Mark Zupan, Dean of Simon Graduate School of Businessat the University of Rochester

QUIETThe Power of Introverts in a WorldThat Can’t Stop TalkingBy Susan Cain

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-35215-6 | 368pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also available:Audio: 978-0-7393-4124-7 | $40.00/$46.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-307-45220-7 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.


Website: www.ThePowerOfIntroverts.comAuthor Video: tiny.cc/qpi4qw

ADOPTION NOTES:

Themes: Communication; Discovering Differences;Inclusion; Success

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Disciplines: Business; College Success Studies;Education; Psychology & Counseling; Sociology


Selected for Common Reading:CaseWestern Reserve University


I first thought about the powers and challenges of introversion some twenty-six years ago, when Ibegan my freshman year at Princeton University.

From the minute I set foot on campus, I saw that college could be an extraordinary place forintroverts and extroverts alike. A place where you were expected to spend your time reading andwriting. A place where it was cool to talk about ideas. A place where you could create your own brandof social life. If you were an introvert, you could find friends with common interests and enjoy theircompany one-on-one or in small groups; if you were an extrovert, the social possibilities were endless,just the way extroverts like them.

I was an introvert, and I thrived.

Not that it was always easy. At Princeton, as on many campuses, many social and academicstructures seemed designed for extroverts. I wondered why the cafeteria was arranged so that the largecircular tables, where the most gregarious students sat, were located near the sunny windows, while thebooths for quieter chats were off in the shadowy margins of the room. I wondered whether any of myclassmates longed to munch on a sandwich behind a newspaper as I did, instead of being expected toparticipate in a social free-for-all three times a day. I learned to participate in Princeton’s excellentseminars, but privately I preferred lectures where you could soak up knowledge and think your ownthoughts instead of having to perform them out loud.

Today, after interviewing hundreds of current and former college students, I know I wasn’t the onlyone who felt this way. Not by a long shot.

Did you know that one-third to one-half of the population is introverted? That’s one out of everytwo or three students on campus. But most schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are organizedwith extroverts in mind—even though many of the achievements that have propelled society, from thetheory of evolution to The Cat in the Hat, came from people who were quiet, cerebral, and sensitive.Even in less obviously introverted occupations, like finance, politics, and activism, some of the greatestleaps forward were made by introverts: Eleanor Roosevelt. Al Gore. Warren Buffett. Gandhi.

This is no coincidence. There are specific physiological and psychological advantages to being anintrovert and I’ll share them with your students through the lens of my book, Quiet. I’ll tell yourstudents how we can all learn from the introverts among us, including how to be more creative, thinkmore carefully, love more gently, and organize our schools and workplaces more productively. Quietalso challenges contemporary myths of human nature, including the belief that creativity isfundamentally collaborative, and our preference for charismatic leaders.

But Quiet offers insights and advice for extroverts too, and it gives all students the license totalk about a social dynamic they’ve been living and breathing but have never given voice to.Introversion/extroversion is as fundamental a difference between people as gender, yet until now we’ve

lacked the vocabulary—and the culturalpermission—to talk about it. I’ve never presentedthe ideas in Quiet without getting people buzzingabout whether they and their friends areintroverts or extroverts, and what that means fortheir relationships, career choices, and life paths.Quiet is sure to spark animated discussions acrosscampus, from the psychology and social-scienceclassroom to the dorm room and dining hall.

I look forward to continuing these discussionsaround campuses nationwide, as part of yourFreshman Experience Programs. Please contactme through my blog, ThePowerofIntroverts.com,to discuss opportunities.

Susan Cain


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About the Author: Rajeev GoyalRAJEEV GOYAL, a graduate of Brown University and the New York University School of Law, is a lawyer,activist, rural-development worker, and former Peace Corp volunteer. Since 2008, he has served as thenational coordinator for the Push for Peace Corps Campaign. He leads environmental and sustainableagriculture initiatives in eastern Nepal through www.LearningGrounds.org.

In 2001, Peace Corps volunteer Rajeev Goyal was sent to Namje, aremote village in the eastern hills of Nepal. Brimming withidealism, he expected to find people living in conditions of miseryand suffering; instead, he discovered a village full of happy,compassionate people. After organizing the villagers to build awater-pumping system in the midst of the dangerous Maoist warthat had gripped the country, Goyal learned how complex ruraldevelopment truly is. He also witnessed how the seemingly lowliestvillager can hold profound power to influence not only his or herown village, but also the highest rungs of government.

Years after this experience, Goyal applied the lessons he learned inNamje to his work on Capitol Hill. Approaching Congress as if itwere a Nepalese caste system, Goyal led a grassroots campaign todouble the size of the Peace Corps. His unique approach toadvocacy included strategically positioning himself outside themen’s room of the Capitol building, waiting for lawmakers to walkout. As a result of his determined bird-dogging, Goyal managed tomake allies of more than a hundred members of Congress and inthe process, he ruffled the feathers of some of the most powerfulfigures in Washington. But due to his efforts, the Peace Corps wasgranted a $60 million increase in funding, the largest dollar-amount increase in the organization’s history.

On this path to victory Goyal endured a number of missteps alongthe way, and, as he reveals, his idealism at times faded into fear,anger, and frustration. In this honest and inspirational account ofhis life as an activist, Goyal offers daring ideas for how the PeaceCorps and other organizations can be even more relevant to ourrapidly changing world. He urges environmentalists, educators,farmers, artists, and designers to come together and contributetheir talents. Filled with history, international politics, personalanecdotes, and colorful characters, The Springs of Namje is a uniqueand inspiring book about the power of small change.

“The Springs of Namje tells many stories, including, very movingly,how to try and effect real change inWashington D.C.—it’s aboutidealism and savvy, and it shows how they can mix powerfully.”

—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

THE SPRINGS OF NAMJEA Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepalto the Halls of CongressBy Rajeev Goyal

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0175-2 | 232pp.$24.95/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also available:e-Book: 978-0-8070-0176-9 | $24.95/$28.95 Can.


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I almost didn’t write this book. I didn’t want to write another hero story about someoneprivileged from the first world saving people in the third world, and I worried that the very actof writing a book about my experiences in Nepal would contribute to the idea I so desperatelywanted to refute: that rural villages lack the agency, political savvy, and resources to shapetheir own futures.

But in March of 2011, when I started writing The Springs of Namje, I realized that mybook was a celebration of this extraordinary little village in Nepal, Namje, which was at leastindirectly responsible for the Peace Corps gaining a $60 million increase in funding in 2010(the largest in the agency’s fifty-year history). The story was about the incredible villagers, andespecially a carpenter with a ninth-grade education, who, despite a Maoist war ravaging thecountryside, built a pumping system that solved a decades-old water crisis. There were noengineers in the village and no one had built such a system in the entire eastern region of thecountry. I realized my own story as a naive Peace Corps volunteer was an anti-hero story, onewrought with painful lessons about rural development and village politics. I also found myselfwriting a foil to books like Three Cups of Tea, which, at least in my view, depict ruraldevelopment in overly simplistic, top-down terms. This is why I wrote candidly about my ownexperience building schools and how sometimes good intentions do not necessarily translateinto positive results.

As Dambisa Moyo has pointed out in Dead Aid, an honest discussion about the purposeand efficacy of international aid is lacking. Fifty years after its founding, does the Peace Corpsstill matter? What kinds of aid programs should governments, foundations, and NGOs besupporting? I examine these questions in Part III of The Springs of Namje, which is moreprescriptive. I contend that communities need novel bottom-up demonstrations of sustainabledevelopment bringing together agriculturalists, artists, environmentalists, designers, policymakers, and educators. I write about how the multifaceted problems I discovered in Namje,namely degradation of natural habitats and loss of agricultural land, can only be solvedthrough integrated approaches.

I’ve told the inspiring story of the Namje water project probably more than two or threehundred times, usually in front of live audiences, to raise more than $350,000 for villageprojects. But writing it out made me see that the unadulterated passion and idealism Idiscovered in the Peace Corps was something the world needs far more of. What this bookwill communicate to students is the idea that one person can make a huge difference and thatthe world is a lot more moldable than we commonly think. Over and over again, whether itwas in the hills of Namje or the halls of Washington, I was reminded of something I once readin the I’Ching: “The mountain rests on the earth.”

With The Springs of Namje, I wanted to tell young people that this incredible opportunityto join the Peace Corps is still out there. However, I wrote in detail about a hard-nosedcampaign I led in Washington to make the point that service learning programs we take forgranted like Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Teach for America, and Fulbright are greatly underthreat and that they can disappear at any moment if there is no grassroots constituency tokeep them alive and thriving.

Rajeev Goyal


About the Authors: Stéphane Hessel and Edgar Morin

STÉPHANE HESSEl was a member of the French Resistance during World War II, a concentration camp survivor, adiplomat, and editor of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His book Indignez-vous! has sold 3,500,000 copies.

EDGAR MoRIN is a renowned French philosopher and sociologist who fought in the French Resistance.

Ashort, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture

of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the

humanist values of the Enlightenment: equality, liberty,

freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a

return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty,

and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors

argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to

hope,” leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise

brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an

ignorance of history. For the authors, twentieth-century

fascism was no mere abstraction—it was a brutal system

brought on by a similar malaise, a system they fought

against.

The Path to Hope is written by two esteemed French

thinkers—94-year-old Stéphane Hessel and 90-year-old

Edgar Morin, following on the heels of Hessel’s

Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage!). Both books have

become bestsellers in France and throughout Europe. Both

have also become foundational documents underpinning the

worldwide protest movement, of which Occupy Wall Street is

the American subset.

tHE PAtH to HoPEBy Stéphane Hessel and Edgar MorinTranslated by Antony Shugaar

Other Press | HC | 978-1-59051-560-0 | 112pp.$8.00/$10.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $4.00

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ADoPTIon noTES:

themes: Global Citizenship; Human Rights;Leadership & Motivation


Disciplines: Philosophy; Political Science

AMessage from Jeff Madrick, senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute

and author of Age of Greed

I do not necessarily believe in pluralism for its own sake. It always makes sense for

students to understand opposing viewpoints, of course. But reading the many opposing views

on key intellectual issues is not always an adequate path to knowledge. Should young students

be required to read the works in support of creationism, for example, to understand the pros

and cons of evolutionary theory? Or all the efforts to undermine global warming theories? At

some point, one has to separate the theories that move beyond superstition, that are grounded

in adequate deductive thought, and that are based on available empirical knowledge from

those that do not and are not.

The social sciences clothe themselves in the virtues of being grounded in deductive

thought and empirical knowledge, of course, and that is the problem. How can students

broaden their perspectives constructively? Economics in most academic institutions has

become especially uniform, if also well-disguised in scientific methodology, and has failed in

so many ways that a search for broader views about economic life and how it affects social life,

aspirations, true freedom, and for many outright survival, is necessary for college students.

The Path to Hope is one of those educated and passionate alternatives to prevailing

economic thought, and one of such sweep and urgency that I believe it is extremely useful for

students to read it. I would recommend a glance at my own foreword to the book by the

eminent ninety-somethings whose experience of modern society began with the French

Resistance during World War II.

In essence, Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin are calling for a new communitarianism.

They are also saying traditional economics has failed. How do they justify the claim? As I

write in the foreword, they implicitly say just look around you: extreme poverty and

inequality, ever more power to the wealthy, advanced economies brought down by dubious

financial speculation, and all the tensions that poor economic performance conjure up,

including rising ethnic bigotry. Isn’t such bigotry also behind the euro crisis? Look at the slurs

that the Greeks have been subjected to.

It won’t take long to read Path to Hope, but it will inspire us all. It will open vistas for

young people too entrenched in the narrow and often self-serving conventional wisdom of

today’s media and the shallow values of much of today’s popular entertainment. Above all, it

should lead to more reading—of history, political philosophy, good fiction, and, let us hope,

unorthodox social scientists like Hessel and Morin.

Jeff Madrick


About the Author: kristen IversenKRISTEN IVERSEN grew up in Arvada, Colorado and received a Ph.D. in English from the University ofDenver. She is Director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Memphis and alsoEditor-in-Chief of The Pinch, an award-winning literary journal. She is also the author of Molly Brown:Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award for Biography and the Barbara Sudler Awardfor Nonfiction. Iversen has two sons and currently lives in Memphis.

An ALA notable Book for 2012named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best nonfiction Books of 2012named one of The Atlantic’s Best Books about Justice in 2012

F ull Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction abouta young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado

town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant oncedesignated “the most contaminated site in America.” It’s the story ofgrowing up in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at oncestartlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.

It’s also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both familyand government. Her father’s hidden liquor bottles, the strangecancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what theymade at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it.But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions. And as thismemoir unfolds, it also reveals itself as a brilliant work ofinvestigative journalism—a shocking account of the government’ssustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactivewaste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents’ vain attempts toseek justice in court.

“Full Body Burden is a page-turner, a beautifully lucid intertwining ofmemoir and careful research.Who knew that the way that Americawaged the ColdWar would produce such severe domestic casualties:the corruption of our own government and the radioactive poison-ing of somany of our own citizens? Full Body Burden is a courageouslife work.” —Hank Lazer, Professor of English, University of Alabama

“Full Body Burden reads like a mystery thriller.Yet its stark realitymakes it all the more frightening because of secrets within andoutside the home: alcoholism, nuclear fallout, mysterious illnesses.Iversen’s nimble prose and smart structure creates a powerfulmemoir. This is a must read for journalism, creative writing, andecocritical students.” —Amelia María de la Luz Montes,

Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Dazzles with its literary versatility and astounds with its revelationsabout the nexus of greed, fear, and indifference that created, andcontinue to create, a culture of silence surrounding Rocky Flats.Painstakingly researched for over ten years— but arguably alifetime in the making—Full Body Burden subverts expectations ofgenre by combining elements of memoir, journalism, physics,environmentalism, history, social activism, and politics—all artfullyfused in Iversen’s fluid and beautiful prose.With potential appeal toso many varied disciplines, this book is an ideal text for FreshmanYear Experience or one book Programs. Readers are sure to beinformed, outraged, moved.”

—Joshua McKinney, Professor of English, CSU Sacramento

FuLL BoDY BuRDEnGrowing up in the nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsBy Kristen Iversen

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ADoPTIon noTES:

themes: Coming of Age; Environment;Regional: Colorado; Science & Society

Campus visits:


Disciplines: Environmental Studies; Sociology

Selected for Common Reading:Fort Lewis College; Virginia Commonwealth University



I grew up in Arvada, Colorado, just a few miles from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons

plant, which secretly produced more than seventy thousand plutonium triggers for bombs. Of

course, I didn’t know about plutonium then. I didn’t know that a single microgram—a dot on

the head of a pin, a flea in a cathedral—is considered a potentially lethal dose. Our house was

next to a lake, with a backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. My siblings and I played in the

backyard, swam in the lake, and rode our horses in the fields around the plant. No one knew

the land had been seriously contaminated, and none of us understood what was happening at

the factory down the road. Cold War secrecy was the rule.

For decades, Rocky Flats had been releasing toxic and radioactive elements into the air,

water, and soil, but it had been covered up. The government, Dow Chemical, and later

Rockwell International, one of the nation’s largest industrial corporations, assured Coloradans

that Rocky Flats was safe, despite constant leaks and fires. There were strange childhood

cancers and livestock deformities in my neighborhood, and we all wondered if it was related to

what went on at the plant. But no one talked openly about Rocky Flats.

In 1995, when I was a single parent with two young sons, working my way through

graduate school, I went to work at Rocky Flats. Many of the kids I grew up with had ended up

working there because the pay and benefits were so good. I needed the job, and I was keen to

learn what actually happened at the plant.

The weekly reports that I typed as part of my job described problems with toxic and

radioactive waste storage, leaking drums, fires, and other environmental problems. I learned

strange acronyms like MUF, meaning “material unaccounted for,,” a bland way of saying that

thousands of pounds of plutonium had been lost. I became familiar with the history and

problems of the plant, including some of the details of the 1989 FBI raid after which

plutonium operations ceased, and I felt stunned by what I had not known all those years—

and what the public did not know. The day I learned that I was literally working next to

14.2 metric tons of plutonium—much of it unsafely stored—was the day I knew I had to

quit, and that someday I would write a book about Rocky Flats.

More than ten years of research went into the writing of Full Body Burden. I read

hundreds of pages of documentation; conducted extensive interviews; pored over newspaper

articles, photographs, and previously classified information; and reconnected with many of

the people I grew up with. Some of the people I interviewed suffered from illnesses that were

likely the result of exposure to toxic substances; several have died within the last year or two.

And yet, with a half-life of 24,000 years, plutonium on and near the Rocky Flats site will

persist long after we—and our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, and the

many generations beyond—are gone.

Kristen Iversen

About the Author:Wojciech JagielskiWoJCIECH JAGIElSKI has been a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independentdaily, where he specializes in Africa, Central Asia, the Trans-Caucasus, and the Caucasus. Jagielski is therecipient of the Dariusz Fikus Award and the Letterature dal Fronte Award (Italy) for his book Towers ofStone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which Seven Stories published in English in 2009. In 2010, Jagielskidecided to devote himself full-time to writing books. He is arguably Poland’s best known contemporarynonfiction writer.

Shortlisted for the nike Prize

On an average night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands of

children head for the city centers to avoid capture by the

Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). They find refuge on the floors of aid

agencies or in the streets. In recent years, the civil society was

almost completely destroyed by the LRA, itself made up almost

entirely of kidnapped children. Piecing together what has been

broken is proving to be a nearly impossible task.

Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish

landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their

wounded world. In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski shows his

readers the horror of children who have been abducted from their

homes and forced to kill their own family members; children who,

even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their own

acts of murder on their young shoulders. Jagielski portrays Uganda

through their eyes as well as his own.

Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jagielski

digs himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerges with a

compassionate, incisive, painful, magisterial account of a world that

is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war. The original

Polish edition of The Night Wanderers is shortlisted for the Nike

Prize, considered to be the most prestigious literary award in

Poland.

“Wojciech Jagielski’s Night Wanderers in not only a bitter story

about a forgotten civil war in Uganda, but it is also a literary

masterpiece, a reportage in every sense of the word.”

—Wiadomosci24 (Poland)

tHE niGHt wAnDERERSuganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance ArmyByWojciech JagielskiTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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themes: Human Rights; Regional: Uganda;Social Justice


Disciplines: History; Peace Studies; Political Science


My book started with my long fascination with Uganda, one that led me to visit that

country on several occasions and to think a lot about its recent history. The reign of Idi Amin

and then the bloody civil wars destroying the country afterwards became, in my mind, the

symbol of the “Heart of Darkness” of our time, where one can observe, or maybe even

understand, the essence of evil that under certain circumstances becomes a part of human

nature.

Initially, my idea was to tell the story of the child soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a

macabre rebel group commanded by Joseph Kony, a person who, by his own description, was

possessed by ghosts. I always perceived him more as a leader of some gloomy religious sect

than a guerilla leader. My last two research journeys, dedicated exclusively to interviewing

child soldiers, made me realize how hard it is to communicate with them. All the more

difficult, then, to attempt to understand their life experiences.

Night Wanderers tells a story about Uganda and how its ghosts are interfering in the lives

of people, about children forced to play adults, and adults seeing children as their worst threat,

as monsters bringing death and pain. It tells a story about the limits of our understanding

when it comes to learning about a world far different from the one we know.

As adults who are still fairly young—who are relatively free of the heavy experiences of

past decades, who don’t yet know the measure of evil or the depths of human tragedy, who

enter a world of extreme ideologies, in many cases ones that may seem totally alien—my hope

is that this book can help students to understand the ways in which this foreign-seeming

world is only apparently remote. I hope the book will help them understand many different

kinds of occurrences, including ones for which 9/11 was a warning sign. Maybe by seeing

children as murderers as well as victims students will be more willing to reflect on the

complexity of human nature. I wanted to show the dangers of easy categorization, of

condemning certain people as criminals, and also how difficult the path to becoming human

again can be for such people.

Finally, Night Wanderers is my search for hope and humanity for all participants in the

drama that is Africa today. I want the book to serve as a warning against indifference toward

evil in the world, especially the evil that takes place out of our sight. The evil might be closer

than we think.

Wojciech Jagielski


JoNATHAN KoZol is the National Book Award–winning author of Savage Inequalities, Death at anEarly Age, The Shame of the Nation, and Amazing Grace. He has been working with children in inner-cityschools for nearly fifty years.

FiRE in tHE ASHEStwenty-Five Years Among the PoorestChildren in America


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F ire in the Ashes is the culmination of the decades that teacher andauthor Jonathan Kozol (Amazing Grace, Savage Inequalities) has

spent studying and interacting with a group of low-income children,who have come of age in one of the poorest communities in thenation, and who are now well on their way to adulthood. Some ofthem have not been able to overcome the incredibly high odds stackedagainst them; others have managed to achieve victories and successesthat offer a glimmer of hope not only for these individuals, but alsofor our society as a whole.

“An engaging look at the broader social implications of ignoringpoverty as well as a very personal look at individuals struggling toovercome it.” —Booklist (starred)

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oRDinARY RESuRRECtionSChildren in the Years of HopeBroadway | TR | 978-0-7704-3567-7 | 416pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00e-Book: 978-0-307-81588-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Coming of AgePerseverance/Personal StrengthSocial Justice

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Over the past five years, I’ve returned to the New York neighborhood in which I met the children whomI first described in Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and other books I published in the 1990s. Theneighborhood is called Mott Haven. It’s the poorest section in all of the South Bronx, which is the poorestCongressional district in America.

I wanted to answer the questions many readers ask: What happened to these children? How many wereunable to prevail against the obstacles they faced? How many have survived? And, among the ones who didsurvive, what were the ingredients of character—and what were the opportunities provided by theirschools—that made it possible for them to win some glorious and unexpected victories?

Not surprisingly, easy access to good books—and, more to the point, a plentitude of books to satisfy thecuriosities and stir the latent interests of the very wide variety of children that I met—turned out to bedecisive. And this, of course, is where libraries come in.

In my new book, Fire in the Ashes, I catch up with all those kids, many of whom I came to know whenthey were only six or eight years old. They talked to me about the struggles they went through, which wereoften hardest in their adolescent years. Most are in their twenties now. As they look back on their formativeyears, they speak repeatedly of books that first awakened their appetite for reading—by which I mean realbooks, books that children read for pleasure, as opposed to the mind-dulling textbooks and those dreadfulpit-pat phonics books, “aligned,” as the experts compulsively remind us, with state examinations. Most of thekids found those books immaculately boring.

No matter their level of education, the most successful of these children had, I think, much better tastethan those adults who set the rigid standards that have been imposed upon our public schools (and with themost severity, upon our inner-city schools)—standards that require emotionless and robotic modes oflearning but don’t open children’s minds to our culture’s treasures.

These kids instinctively rebelled against the narrow test-prep regimen that, even before No Child LeftBehind, had started crowding out a love of learning for its own sake. Few of them did well on state-imposedexams, but many read voraciously, and became proficient writers as a consequence; the books they loved,however, weren’t the ones mandated by the number crunchers who were caught up in the labyrinth of thetesting mania.

This is my answer: No matter what the economic ups and downs may be at any given moment, publicschool libraries in destitute communities need not just sufficient but extravagant funding. If there’s a singlething our state and federal governments could do to stir up a love of learning in our poorest children, itwould be to take a good big chunk of the massive sum of money that’s now being wasted on the testingindustry and use it, instead, to flood our students’ lives with the joys and mysteries of authentic culture—and not only Western culture but, in the case of, for instance, Hispanic children, their culture, too.

“Well, of course,” the bureaucrats will say (they’ve said this of me many times before), “Jonathan’s adreamer. He thinks that poor kids ought to get what the sons of presidents and daughters of importantbusiness leaders get when they go to private schools like Andover and Exeter. He thinks that inner-city kidsdeserve that kind of money. He thinks they’ll dig into those books and be excited by the opportunity to readthem.”

It’s true. That’s exactly what I feel. I don’t think this nation plans to give that kind of opportunity tomore than a handful of the children of poor people at any time in the near future. It would take a sweepingchange of attitude about potential, and too easily unobserved precocity, among the children who are viewedtoday as outcasts of American society. It’s just a dream, and I frankly doubt that I will see it realized in mylifetime. Still, I like to fantasize that someday we will turn that dream into reality.

Jonathan Kozol


This article, condensed from the original article, is reproduced, with permission from School Library Journal © Copyright 2012 LibraryJournals LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. The entire article can be found at: tiny.cc/bt7kkw

About the Author: Erik larsonERIK lARSoN is the bestselling author of Isaac’s Storm, Thunderstruck, and The Devil in the White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, which won the 2004 Edgar Award in theBest Fact Crime category and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is a former writer forThe Wall Street Journal and Timemagazine. Larson has taught nonfiction writing at San Francisco State,the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon. He lives in Seattle.

A New York Times notable Book

In 1933 William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professorfrom Chicago, was chosen by Roosevelt to be the U.S.’s first

ambassador to Nazi Germany. At first he and his family areentranced by the “New Germany,” and Dodd’s daughter Martha hasseveral affairs, including with the first chief of the Gestapo, RudolfDiels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, her fathertelegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Departmentback home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, thepress is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin tocirculate. The Dodds’ experience of excitement and romancemorphs into horror when a climactic spasm of violence and murderreveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.

Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, In the Garden ofBeasts lends a stunning, eyewitness view of events as they unfold inreal time, revealing what it was like for those living there, withoutthe perspective of history neatly delineating their judgments. Theresult is a compelling tale that explores why the world did notrecognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe,were awash in blood and terror.

“larson captivated our community when he came here to speakabout his book, the creative process, and how to weave history andfiction into one brilliant and bone-chilling masterpiece. Heanswered the many questions our students had about his work,and provided them with valuable and insightful information intothe writing process.” —Sanford J. Ungar, President, Goucher College

“by far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic history. . . .Powerful, poignant . . . a transportingly true story.”

—The New York Times

“larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witnessto Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of thishistorical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller . . .a fresh picture of these terrible events.”

—The New York Times Book Review

in tHE GARDEn oF BEAStSLove, terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s BerlinBy Erik Larson

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Also by Erik Larson

tHE DEviL in tHE wHitE CitYMurder, Magic, andMadness at the Fair that Changed AmericaFinalist, National Book AwardsVintage | TR | 978-0-375-72560-9 | 464pp. | $15.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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ADoPTIon noTES:

themes: Ethics; Genocide;Perseverance/Personal Strength

Campus visits:


Disciplines: History; Literature


Excerpt from In the Garden of beasts

Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselvessuddenly transported from their snug home in Chicago to the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. Theyremained there for four and a half years, but it is their first year that is the subject of the storyto follow, for it coincided with Hitler’s ascent from chancellor to absolute tyrant, wheneverything hung in the balance and nothing was certain. That first year formed a kind ofprologue in which all the themes of the greater epic of war and murder soon to come were laiddown.

I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witnessedfirsthand the gathering dark of Hitler’s rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, andsmell, and how did diplomats and other visitors interpret the events occurring around them?Hindsight tells us that during that fragile time the course of history could so easily havechanged. Why, then, did no one change it? Why did it take so long to recognize the realdanger posed by Hitler and his regime?

Like most people, I acquired my initial sense of the era from books and photographs thatleft me with the impression that the world of then had no color, only gradients of gray andblack. My two main protagonists, however, encountered the flesh-and-blood reality, while alsomanaging the routine obligations of daily life. Every morning they moved through a city hungwith immense banners of red, white, and black; they sat at the same outdoor cafés as did thelean, black-suited members of Hitler’s SS, and now and then they caught sight of Hitlerhimself, a smallish man in a large, open Mercedes. But they also walked each day past homeswith balconies lush with red geraniums; they shopped in the city’s vast department stores, heldtea parties, and breathed deep the spring fragrances of the Tiergarten, Berlin’s main park.They knew Goebbels and Göring as social acquaintances with whom they dined, danced, andjoked—until, as their first year reached its end, an event occurred that proved to be one of themost significant in revealing the true character of Hitler and that laid the keystone for thedecade to come. For both father and daughter it changed everything.

This is a work of nonfiction. As always, any material between quotation marks comesfrom a letter, diary, memoir, or other historical document. I made no effort in these pages towrite another grand history of the age. My objective was more intimate: to reveal that pastworld through the experience and perceptions of my two primary subjects, father anddaughter, who upon arrival in Berlin embarked on a journey of discovery, transformation,and, ultimately, deepest heartbreak.

There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler’s List variety, but there are glimmersof heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace. Always there is nuance, albeitsometimes of a disturbing nature. That’s the trouble with nonfiction. One has to put asidewhat we all know—now—to be true, and try instead to accompany my two innocents throughthe world as they experienced it.

These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monstersdeclared their true nature.


Excerpted from In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, copyright © 2011 by Erik Larson. Originally published in hardcover by CrownPublishers in 2011 and subsequently in trade paperback by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a divisionof Random House, Inc., in 2012. All rights reserved.

About the Author: Eboo PatelEboo PATEl is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and the author of Acts of Faith. Hewas a member of President Obama’s inaugural faith council and is a regular contributor to theWashington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and public radio.

In the years following the attacks of 9/11, suspicion and animositytoward American Muslims has increased rather than subsided.Alarmist, hateful rhetoric once relegated to the fringes of politicaldiscourse has now become frighteningly mainstream, with punditsand politicians routinely invoking the specter of Islam as amenacing, deeply anti-American force. In this timely new book,author, activist, and presidential adviser Eboo Patel says thisprejudice is not just a problem for Muslims, but also a challenge tothe very idea of America.

Sacred Ground shows us that Americans from George Washingtonto Martin Luther King, Jr. have been “interfaith leaders,” and itillustrates how the forces of pluralism in the U.S. have time andagain defeated the forces of prejudice. Now a new generation needsto rise up and confront the anti-Muslim prejudice of our era. Tothis end, Patel offers a primer in the art and science of interfaithwork, bringing to life the growing body of research on how faithcan be a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, andsharing stories from the frontlines of interfaith activism. Pluralism,Patel boldly argues, is at the heart of the American project. It is aresponsibility all must share, and Patel’s visionary book will inspireAmericans of all faiths to make this country a place where diversetraditions can thrive side by side.

SACRED GRounDPluralism, Prejudice, and the Promiseof AmericaBy Eboo Patel

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ACtS oF FAitHthe Story of an American Muslim, the Strugglefor the Soul of a GenerationActs of Faith is a remarkable account of growing

up Muslim in America and coming to believe in

religious pluralism, from one of the most

prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo

Patel’s story is a hopeful and moving testament to

the power and passion of young people—and of

the world-changing potential of an interfaith

youth movement.

Selected for Common Reading at Amarillo College; Capital University; Colgate University; FranklinCollege; Loras College, Dubuque Iowa; Luther College; Marywood College; Saint Louis University;University of Saint Francis; and others.

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0622-1 | 192pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-0631-3 | $15.00/$16.25 Can.Themes: Discovering Differences • Inclusiveness • Youth Activism

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ADoPTIon noTES:

themes: Discovering Differences; Inclusiveness;Youth Activism

Campus visits:


Disciplines: Religion; Sociology


College changed me, and it made me want to change the world—especially regarding

diversity. I entered as a freshman embarrassed by my brown skin, my strange name, and my

mother’s food. I exited with a vision of a nation where people from diverse backgrounds live in

equal dignity and mutual loyalty.

Sacred Ground is my Muslim eyes on the American project. The book highlights a

dimension of America’s diversity that receives far too little attention: faith.

America is the most religiously diverse nation in human history and the most religiously

devout nation in the West at a time of global religious conflict. We see far too many examples

of faith as a barrier of division or a bomb of destruction. Sacred Ground tells a different

story—faith as a source of inspiration and a bridge of cooperation. I weave together narratives

of historical giants like George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. with stories of

contemporary figures like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, highlighting how their courageous

actions in times of religious crisis makes them interfaith heroes. Throughout the book are

tales of college students and recent graduates—the next George Washingtons and Martin

Luther Kings—who are building bridges of cooperation on their campuses and in their

communities.

At a time when anti-Mormon, anti-Muslim, anti-gay, and anti-atheist messages are at a

fever pitch, the message of Sacred Ground could not be more clear or urgent: Interfaith

cooperation is an inspiring story throughout American history. We need a new generation of

interfaith leaders to write the next chapter. College campuses are ideal ecologies to nurture

this interfaith leadership; college students are ideal people to be these leaders.

This is a book aimed at college students and campus communities. I visit about twenty-

five campuses a year, giving keynotes on interfaith leadership, and helping campuses design

high-quality interfaith programs through partnerships with my nonprofit, Interfaith Youth

Core (www.ifyc.org). I’ve spoken everywhere from Yale and Stanford to Luther College and

Loyola University. I love them all because of how they change young people, and how those

young people go on to change the world.

Eboo Patel


About the Author: Raj PatelRAJ PATEl, a fellow at Food First, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. Hehas worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, and he’s also been tear-gassed on four continentsprotesting them. He is the author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and RedefineDemocracy.

Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most

widely praised food books of recent years.

It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in

the world than ever before, while there are also more people who

are overweight.

To find out how things got to this point and what can be done

about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the

global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of

California to India’s wrecked paddy fields and Africa’s bankrupt

coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy

beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of

South Korea.

What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by

supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and the real

reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.

Yet he also found great cause for hope—in international resistance

movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and

joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel

explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of

the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and

consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

“For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or

understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of

the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is

indispensable.”

—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and

The Botany of Desire

“A blistering indictment of the policies of multinational

agribusiness conglomerates and charges that their drive for profit

at any cost has left the developing world starving while wealthy

countries like the United States are experiencing epidemic obesity

rates and related health problems.” —Newsweek

StuFFED AnD StARvEDthe Hidden Battle for the world Food SystemBy Raj Patel

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ADoPTIon noTES:

themes: Environment; Science & Society

Campus visits:


Disciplines: Business; Food Studies; Political Science

website: www.RajPatel.org

Author video: tiny.cc/8nharw

Now inPaperback

Selected for Common Reading:Skagit Valley College


Why did I write Stuffed and Starved?

As first-year students just entering college, my friends and I were fired up by the big

questions—questions of inequity, questions of basic fairness. Why do some people have so

much, while others have so little? Why do some people go hungry, while others are obese? Is

there really not enough food to feed the world?

Trying to answer those questions has been driving my research, and my life, ever since.

And finding real workable solutions seems more crucial now than ever. Globally, nearly a

billion people are going hungry, while two billion are overweight.

When I was growing up, my parents said “eat up—there are children starving in Africa.”

So what do you think parents in Africa tell their children? “Eat up—there are children

starving in India.” African parents have it right. India, the place where we imagine all the jobs

have gone to people with Ph.D.s in computer science, is also a country with more hungry

people than the entire continent of Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and more people

with type 2 diabetes than anywhere in the world.

Back here in the U.S., we are the most overweight country on earth, facing our own food-

related problems. One in three kids born today will develop diabetes—and one in every two

kids of color will. Yet fifty million Americans don’t have enough to eat, and we had our own

wave of farmer suicides in the 1980s.

Trying to make sense out of these incongruities has taken me around the world—from the

giant supermarkets of California to wrecked paddy fields in India and bankrupt coffee farms

in Africa—and to some of the biggest issues of our day: the effects of climate change on food

stability, a worldwide diabetes epidemic, dramatic new Chinese food policies, and something

all governments fear: the return of the “food riot.”

Food—its availability, cost, quality, and quantity—is one of the biggest issues we face

today. And though the stories and the statistics may be bleak, as I researched further I also

found great cause for hope. People are working to create a more equitable food economy.

There are things to be done, and people are doing them.

We can take real, profound steps to regain control over the global food system. We can go

beyond small acts of ethical consumerism. Together, we can create a more democratic,

sustainable, and joyful food system.

I believe I have found some real answers to those early undergraduate questions, answers

that go beyond the tired rhetoric of the news cycle, that have opened me up to worlds of

science, letters, ideas, and action. If readers can take a fraction of the inspiration from Stuffed

and Starved that I found in fields from Iowa to India, we’ll be well on our way to ending both

hunger and obesity, forever.

Raj Patel


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.

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 the reader on an extraordinary journey,from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s tostark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; fromHenrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land ofwooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to EastBaltimore today, where Henrietta’s children, unable to afford healthinsurance, 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 Lackswas an excellent summerreading selection. over 2,100 first-year students as well as facultymembers, research professionals, and university staff took part inover 80 discussion groups during VCU’sWelcomeWeek. 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, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Instruction,Virginia Commonwealth University

tHE iMMoRtAL LiFE oFHEnRiEttA LACKSBy Rebecca Skloot


website: www.RebeccaSkloot.com

Author video: tiny.cc/2jxbrw

named bymore than 60 critics as one of the best books of the year

winner of the national Academy of Sciences, national Academy of Engineering,and institute of Medicine’s Communication Award for Best Book

winner ofwellcome trust Book Prize

winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for nonfiction

winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’sYoung Adult Science Book Award

Selected for Common Reading at more than125 colleges including: University of Arkansas;University of California–Santa Barbara; SpelmanCollege; and Virginia Commonwealth University.To view the complete list, go to tiny.cc/fusfrw.

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themes: Ethics/Decision Making; Human Rights;Science & Society; Social Justice

Visit the author’sWebsite atwww.RebeccaSkloot.comfor the latest book-related special features, teaching guide,

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Disciplines: African American; History; Journalism;Medical Ethics; Science

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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.

Rebecca Skloot

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FREEDoM: Stories Celebrating the universal Declaration of Human RightsBy Amnesty International USA

In honor of its fiftieth anniversary, Amnesty International,

the notable and noble human rights organization, has brought together several internationally

acclaimed writers, asking them to contribute stories inspired by the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights. Empathetic and thought-provoking, but never didactic, Paulo Coehlo, Nadine

Gordimer, Yann Martel, Joyce Carol Oates, and many more present ruminations and

meditations on struggles for freedom and equality, and efforts against repression and injustice,

encouraging an understanding of the victories that have been won and how much more still

needs to be done to ensure that the basic rights of all are respected and protected.

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-58883-8 | 432pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-58884-5 | $10.99/NCRThemes: Ethics • Human Rights • Social Justice

FRAtERnitYBy Diane Brady

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend John Brooks searched for

African American students to recruit to the College of the Holy Cross. Among the amazing

young men he recruited, coached, mentored, and taught were a future Supreme Court justice, a

future Pulitzer Prize winner, and a young man who would go on to become one of the

country’s most successful attorneys. In this account of the college years of five of these men,

Fraternity serves as a testament to the power of education and mentorship, confirming the

difference that even a single person can make.

“Diane Brady’s book brilliantly shows how the attention and concern of one man changed not

only the course of these individual lives but the course of history. This book is a template of how

we should all think about both our societal responsibility and the gift of mentorship.”

—Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52474-2 | 256pp. | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-71219-6 | $17.50/$20.50 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-385-52962-4 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.Themes: black Colleges• Inclusiveness • Inspiration

iSAAC’S ARMY: A Story of Courage and Survival in nazi-occupied PolandByMatthewBrzezinski

Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Award

In this narrative nonfiction account, Brzezinski tells the story of a small but courageous group

of young Jews who formed one of the most daring underground resistance armies of WWII.

From their early efforts in 1939 to the underground exodus to Palestine in 1946, their fight

against the Gestapo and heroic efforts to protect their people are documented here, including

their role in the worst battles of the Uprising and the most successful human-smuggling

operations. Isaac’s Army is the story of these brave underground soldiers—a fierce reminder of

their sacrifices, victories, and defeats.

Random House | HC | 978-0-553-80727-1 | 496pp. | $30.00/$35.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64530-6 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.Themes: Human Rights • Inspiration • Perseverance/Personal Strength

i Don't wiSH noBoDY to HAvE A LiFE LiKE MinEtales of Kids in Adult LockupBy David Chura

Winner of the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency

David Chura taught high school in a New York county penitentiary for ten years—five days a

week, seven hours a day. In these pages, he gives a face to a population regularly demonized

and reduced to statistics by the mainstream media. Through language marked by both the grit

of the street and the expansiveness of poetry, the stories of these young people break down the

divisions we so easily erect between us and them, the keepers and the kept—and call into

question the increasing practice of sentencing juveniles as adults.

“Riveting. . . . An indictment of the system.” —Sam Roberts, The New York Times

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0123-3 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-0065-6 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Perseverance/Personal Strength • Social Justice

Website: www.AmnestyUSA.org

Author Video: tiny.cc/vgj4qw

Website: www.IsaacsArmyBook.com

Blog:www.KidsInTheSystem.wordpress.com

HISToRYANDSoCIETY


LoGAvinA StREEt: Life and Death in a Sarajevo neighborhoodBy Barbara Demick

In this “beautifully rendered portrait” (Mark Danner, New York Review of Books), Barbara

Demick records what she saw and heard on one street as a modern city was held under siege.

The neighbors of Logavina Street—Muslim, Serb, and Croat—tried to keep their society intact

as their country was torn apart by ethnic warfare.

“Brilliantly captures the sense of civilian Sarajevo heroism—its pluck, irony, stoicism. . . . Focusing

on one Sarajevo street, Demick is able to evoke the reality of life in the city with accuracy and

nuance.” —David Rieff, Philadelphia Inquirer

“A first-rate reporter. [Demick] has spared us the soggy history of old Balkan hates and geopolitical

claptrap. . . . If you can read only one book about Bosnia, this should be the one.”

—Mary McGrory,Washington Post columnistSpiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8276-3 | 272pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64412-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Human Rights • Regional: balkans

notHinG to EnvY: ordinary Lives in north KoreaBy Barbara Demick

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction; Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

American journalist Barbara Demick interviewed six North Koreans who attempted to build

careers, relationships, and lives in North Korea, only to defect when they realized the extent of

the government’s deception and abuse of its own citizens. Never before has such a penetrating

view of contemporary North Korea been published. 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 evocatively

portrays courageous individuals and a tyrannized state within a saga of unfathomable suffering

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: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-385-52961-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Discovering Differences • Human Rights • Regional: North Korea/Asia

GAtHER At tHE tABLE: the Healing Journeyof a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave tradeBy Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Leslie Morgan

In Gather at the Table, an African American woman and a white man come together to reflect

on their journey to confront the painful past, reconcile, and heal. Presenting a candid look at

two major issues that still haunt the U.S. today—slavery and racism—the story of the

communion of Sharon Morgan (genealogist and pioneering African American multicultural

marketing professional) and Thomas DeWolf (author of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family

Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History) is a timely lesson in

unity, justice, reconciliation, and healing.

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-1441-7 | 240pp. | $25.95/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-1442-4 | $25.95/$30.00 Can.Themes: American History • Communication • Social Justice

EiGHtY DAYS: nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’sHistory-Making Race Around theworldByMatthewGoodman

Matthew Goodman (author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers,

Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York and Jewish

Food: The World at Table) shares the little-known story of two young American women sent

around the world in 1889 in a competitive race to beat Jules Verne’s fictional eighty-day global

voyage. Representing The World and The Cosmopolitan, respectively, Bly and Bisland find

themselves alone on an incredible journey around a world transformed by new means of

communication and transportation.

Do not order before 2/26/2013.Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-52726-4 | 480pp. | $28.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-385-35971-9 | $25.00/$29.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-345-52728-8 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: American History • Inspiration

Website: www.NothingToEnvy.com

Website: www.GatherAtTheTable.net

Website:www.MatthewGoodmanBooks.com

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tHE FALL oF tHE HouSE oF DiXiEthe Civil war and the Social Revolution that transformed the SouthBy Bruce Levine

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine, Professor of History at the University

of Illinois, tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and

social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented

and defended.

“This book limns the relationship between slavery and the rise and fall of the Confederacy more

clearly and starkly than any other study. General readers and seasoned scholars alike will find

new information and insights in this eye-opening account.”

—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6703-9 | 464pp. | $30.00/$35.00 Can. | Exam Copy $15.00Also available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64535-1 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.Themes: American History • Regional: American South

tHE BooK oF HAPPinESS: AFRiCABy Joseph Peter

Shot over the course of seventy days during the African leg of the FIFAWorld Cup Trophy

Tour, Joseph Peter’s inspired collection of 150,000 portraits of beautiful, joyous, and spirited

African citizens from fifty nations was first presented as an exclusive gift to Nelson Mandela

and other heroes. Here, for the first time, these photographs are available to all in a collectible

trade paperback edition. The Book of Happiness is a celebration and a tribute to a continent and

its people.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-1-4000-6961-3 | 128pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64540-5 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.Themes: Global Citizenship • Inspiration • Regional: Africa

BLooD DonE SiGn MY nAME: A true StoryBy Timothy B. Tyson

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Religion; Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardA NewYork Public Library Book 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’s

struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction is a complex rendering of a true story in

which violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to powerful effect.

“Blood Done SignMy Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations

on 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 ofWisconsin at Richland; University ofWisconsin’s College of Letters and Science; Villanova University;and others.

Broadway | TR | 978-1-4000-8311-4 | 368pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-1-4159-0441-1 | $19.95/$25.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-41993-4 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Inclusiveness • Social Justice

CovERinGthe Hidden Assault on our Civil RightsBy Kenji Yoshino

Winner of the Myers Outstanding Book Award;Winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critics’Choice Award

In Covering, one of the country’s most brilliant young legal scholars fashions a new paradigm of

civil rights. Drawing on his experiences as a gay Japanese American, Yale law professor Kenji

Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of authentic selves is a harm from

which the law should sometimes protect people. More profoundly, he also claims that law will

be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of authenticity.

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: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-172-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Discovering Differences • Identity • Inclusiveness • Social Justice

Website: www.KenjiYoshino.com

Website: www.JosephPeter.com

Author Interview:tiny.cc/9qj4qw

Now in Paperback

71Life and College Guides

10 tHinGS EMPLoYERS wAnt You toLEARn in CoLLEGEREviSEDthe Skills You need to SucceedBy Bill Coplin

Students learn a lot of things in college, but there’s one thing thetextbooks won’t teach them: how to acquire marketable job skillsbefore graduation. Award-winning college professor and studentadviser Bill Coplin has been developing skill-based liberal artscurricula for more than thirty years and has helped thousands ofstudents get great jobs. Here, he offers the essential skills studentsneed to survive and succeed in today’s job market, based on hisextensive interviews with employers, recruiters, human resourcespecialists, and employed college grads. Coplin teaches studentshow to develop real-world skills and talents, including:

MAJoR in SuCCESS5tH EDitionMake College Easier,Fire up Your Dreams, and Get a Great JobBy Patrick CombsForeword by Jack Canfield

With so much at stake during college, students need smart andinspiring advice to help them excel. Now in its fifth edition,Majorin Success reaches out to undecided freshmen and sophomores insearch of a major that suits their interests and career ambitions;shows near-graduation students how to bolster their résumé andace the interview to land their first real job; and presents innovativestrategies for tackling the six biggest fears that hold students back.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-865-7 | 208pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The book’s practical approach will help students to develop apersonalized plan for boosting these and other critical skills duringtheir college years and to get the most out of their professional lives.

“Clear, concise, and complete. The ultimate playbook for collegestudents.” —Pierre Mornell, author, Hiring Smart

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-145-9 | 304pp. | $14.99/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also available: e-Book: 978-0-307-76849-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

· work Ethic· Physical Performance· Speaking· writing

· teamwork· influencing People· Research· number Crunching

· Critical thinking· Problem Solving

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themes: Identity; Life Skills

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themes: Life Skills; Peer Group Dynamics

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website:www.BillCoplin.org/blog

website:www.PatrickCombs.com

Disciplines: Student Success & Readiness

Disciplines: Student Success & Readiness

About the Author: Charles DuhiggCHARlES DUHIGG is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. A graduate of Yale College andHarvard Business School, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

In The Power of Habit, behaviorist Charles Duhigg takes us to the

forefront of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist

and how they can be changed. With intelligence and an ability to

distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives,

Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature

and its potential for transformation.

Along the way students will learn why some people and companies

struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to

remake themselves overnight. At its core, The Power of Habit

contains an intriguing argument: The key to exercising regularly,

losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more

productive, building revolutionary companies and social

movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits

work. As Charles Duhigg shows, habits aren’t destiny, and by

harnessing this new science, students can change their habits and

transform businesses, communities, and lives.

“The Power of Habit is a fascinating read, and Duhigg deftly pulls

off exactly what one would expect of a polymath Times reporter: he

effortlessly brings us from scene to scene, from finding to finding,

from discipline to discipline, transforming a potentially dry subject

into a series of peppy narratives—a very readable take on a subject

that should matter to everyone.” —Newsweek Daily Beast

“A fascinating exploration of our pathologically habitual society—

we smoke, we incessantly check our blackberrys, we chronically

choose bad partners, we always (or never) make our beds. Duhigg

digs into why we are this way, and how we can change, both as

individuals and institutionally.” —The Daily

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website: www.CharlesDuhigg.com

Author video: tiny.cc/3mhbrw

tHE PowER oF HABitwhywe Dowhat we Do in Life and BusinessBy Charles Duhigg

Selected for Common Reading:Babson College

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College saved my life. Or, more accurately, the good and bad habits I learned there saved my life.

And since then, nothing has been the same.

In 1993, I left Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Yale. Here is what I did not know at the time: that sheetsshould be washed more than once a semester; that if you stand in the rain for 40 minutes, a shower might be awise idea; that when a professor says you need to read the book, you need to read the book; that I woulddevelop the best—and worst—habits of my life, and they would shape every major decision over my next twodecades.

At my freshman assembly, however, I had no idea that all of that was to come. The provost gave theassembled class three pieces of advice: if you are feeling tired, sleep. If you aren’t hungry, don’t eat. And if youare homesick, have a small piece of chocolate and remember that everyone else—no matter how confident theyseem—feels the same way.

It was great advice. It was—though I didn’t know it at the time—a tutorial in how to create habits bychoosing cues (I’m exhausted), routines (go to bed!), and rewards (ahhhh!).

And I, of course, ignored it all. Six months later, delirious with exhaustion and 10 pounds heavier, I wason the phone to my mother explaining that a transfer to the University of New Mexico—or maybe a year livingin my old room—was a good idea.

Luckily, my parents ignored me. And the school slowly, painfully, taught me how to be an adult. Mostimportantly, my professors and administrators showed me how to shape my urges and passions, and eventuallyto become a reporter at the New York Times and an author.

Each lesson in The Power of Habit is embedded in a narrative—the story of how Tony Dungy led theIndianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl, how Starbucks teaches willpower habits, how Martin Luther King ralliedMontgomery to the bus boycott—that seeks to help readers, including undergraduates, experience this sameprocess of self-discovery.

There are a few chapters that, I think, would particularly appeal to college students:

How to create willpower habits. For decades, we’ve suspected that willpower is like a muscle. But how iswillpower strengthened? By making it into a habit. Starbucks, for instance, developed a training program toencourage willpower habits by identifying inflection points when self-discipline is likely to fail.

How people—and groups—create habits that change lives. A century ago, almost no Americans brushedtheir teeth. Then a canny advertising executive added a slight irritant to a toothpaste recipe, and Pepsodentlaunched a national habit. A 26-year-old clergyman named Martin Luther King, Jr. chose to nurture a busboycott in Montgomery, Alabama, by targeting the city’s social habits—and the contemporary civil rightsmovement was born.

The importance of service to others, and investing in a community. As one Dartmouth psychologist toldme, “change occurs among other people. It seems real when we can see it in others peoples’ eyes.” The Power ofHabit explains why the friends we choose, the organizations we join, and the contributions we make to ourcommunities matter. Through stories about the Olympian Michael Phelps and the Outkast song Hey Ya!, itexplores how communities shape our habits, and we, in turn, shape out communities.

organizational habits, and administrators, professors, and communities. Organizations—like individuals—develop habits that guide how work gets (or doesn’t get) done. The Power of Habit explores why some habits,known as keystone habits, matter more than others and how they shape cultures within universities andcompanies.

I wish I had been exposed to these insights as a freshman. I would be honored if my book helps introduceyour students to these ideas.

To read the full text of this essay, go to: tiny.cc/s2fomw.

Charles Duhigg


About the Authors: Reid Hoffman and ben Casnocha

REID HoFFMAN is a world-renowned entrepreneur and investor. He is cofounder andexecutive chairman of LinkedIn, the biggest professional network in the world with 100+ millionmembers. Previously he was executive vice president and on the founding board of directors ofPayPal. He is also a partner at Greylock, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He is an earlyinvestor in over 100 technology companies, including Facebook and Zynga.

bEN CASNoCHA is an award-winning entrepreneur and author. He has written for Newsweek andappeared on CNN, the CBS Early Show, and Fox News. BusinessWeek named him one of “America’s bestyoung entrepreneurs.” He has spoken to more than ten thousand students and businesspeople incountries around the world.

Arevolutionary new guide to thriving in today’s fractured world

of work, The Start-Up of You provides strategies that will help

individuals survive, thrive, and achieve the boldest professional

ambitions and to take control of their future. Readers will learn

how to:

• Adapt career plans as they change, the people around them change, and industrieschange.

• Develop a competitive advantage to win the best jobs and opportunities.

• Strengthen their professional network by building powerful alliances andmaintaining a diverse mix of relationships.

• Find the unique breakout opportunities that massively accelerate career growth.

• take proactive risks to becomemore resilient to industry tsunamis.

• tap their network for information and intelligence that help readers make smarterdecisions.

“The Start-Up of You has resonated with me to such an extent thatin addition to submitting a book request to my bookstore for myfall Career/life Planning courses, I have touted this book to myfellow faculty members. I absolutely loved reading the book andview it as one of the most ‘on-the-mark’ and engaging narrativeson how to best prepare/present oneself during a job/career/lifesearch process. This book also served as my impetus to bring aproject called Road Trip Nation Indie Trip to fruition. I truly believe(after 31 years of college teaching) that The Start-Up of You offersstudents of all college levels a realistic and straightforward lifehandbook that can also be read and re-read at each ‘pivot’ point inone’s career path.”

—Lavinia P. Zanassi, Faculty, Counseling Department, Skyline College

“In times of change and uncertainty . . . adaptability createsstability. It is insights like this that make The Start-Up of You such acompelling new way to approach your life. Hoffman and Casnochahave distilled the essence of entrepreneurship into a potion forpersonal success, regardless of your career plans.”

—John Etchemendy, Provost, Stanford University

tHE StARt-uP oF YouAdapt to the Future, invest in Yourself, andtransform Your CareerBy Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

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website: www.theStartupofYou.com

Author video: tiny.cc/qxharw

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themes: Leadership & Motivation; Life Skills; Transition

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Discipline: Human/Career Development

AMessage from the Authors

College graduates are joining the workforce at a difficult time. Technology and

globalization are changing traditional career paths and undoing age-old assumptions about

the world of work. Some reports suggest that more than half of recent college graduates are

unemployed or underemployed. As New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in a

column about The Start-Up of You, “This ain’t your parents’ job market anymore.”

How will you prepare your new students to acquire the skills, establish the mindset, and

build the network that will help them succeed once they enter the real world?

Old premises that guided past generations have given way to new realities, and with new

realities come new rules. We wrote The Start-Up of You to show young people how they can

build a life and career in this global, competitive economy. To do so, we look to Silicon Valley

and entrepreneurship for answers. Not because everyone can or should start a company. But

because the uncertainty, competition, and constant reinvention that characterize the start-up

process in Silicon Valley are the same forces everyone now faces when fashioning a career.

Entrepreneurs are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build networks. They take risks.

These are the same strategies every young person today needs to know to get ahead in his or

her career.

Your students, whether they aspire to be doctors, lawyers, teachers, or engineers, are at the

same time always at the helm of at least one start-up: their career.

Network-building is one of the key entrepreneurial strategies we discuss in the book. Life’s

a team sport, and just as entrepreneurs build teams to grow their company, all students needs

to learn how to build a team of allies to help them in their career. There’s no better time to

start investing in your network than when you’re in school, surrounded by future colleagues

and collaborators.

The Start-Up of You is not a workbook. Rather, it’s a practical, narrative manifesto on a

new way of approaching the world. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker, called it a

“profound book about self-determination and self-realization.” Nor is The Start-Up of You a

job-hunting bible. Your students are probably not looking for full-time jobs, but they should

absolutely be thinking about how they can start investing in themselves and establishing their

professional competitive advantage.

Today, every student needs to become the entrepreneur of his or her own life. This is the

playbook that shows them how.

Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha


CHIP HEATH is a professor of organizational behavior inthe Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.DAN HEATH, a former researcher at Harvard BusinessSchool, is now a Senior Fellow at Duke University’sCASE Center, which supports social entrepreneurs.

DECiSivEHow to Make Better Choices in Life andwork

Research in psychology has revealed that our decision-making suffers fromconsistent problems: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that

supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn’tfix the problem. The question is: How can we do better? In Decisive, Chip andDan Heath (bestselling authors ofMade to Stick and Switch) reveal the four majorprinciples that can be employed in order to make better, more informed, and morerational decisions in both the professional and personal realms.To request a free pre-publication copy, e-mail [email protected]

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website:www.HeathBrothers.com

SwitCHHow to Change thingswhen Change is HardThis compelling narrative about the difficulty of bringing about genuine, lasting change in

ourselves and in others—especially when one has few resources and no title or authority—is a

riveting read that will change lives. Combining psychology, sociology, management, and case

studies from a host of different fields, the authors tell countless stories of people and

organizations that have successfully created significant change. They succeed, against the odds,

by following a common ‘pattern’ of change, one that often starts by finding and studying their

“bright spots”—the early signs of success that can give hope to a change effort.

Crown Business | HC | 978-0-385-52875-7 | 320pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00Spanish Language Edition: Vintage | TR | 978-0-307-74235-3 | $15.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-7393-7696-6 | $35.00/$40.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-59016-9 | $14.99/NCRThemes: Group Dynamics • life Skills • Social Justice

MADE to StiCKwhy Some ideas Survive and others DieWhy do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy

ideas? Chip and Dan Heath tackle these vexing questions head-on. In this indispensable guide,

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—draw their 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 how everyone can make their own

messages stick.

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Also available by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Spotlight on: Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Pre-Publication Copy AvailablePublishesMarch 2013

Excerpt fromDecisive

If you study the kinds of decisions people make, and the outcomes of those decisions,

you’ll find that humanity does not have a particularly impressive track record.

Career choices, for instance, are often abandoned or regretted. An American Bar

Association survey found that 44% of lawyers would recommend that a young person not

pursue a career in law. A study of 20,000 executive searches found that 40 percent of senior-

level hires “are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months.” More than half of teachers quit their

jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was

almost two times more likely to drop out as a student.

Business decisions are frequently flawed. One study of corporate mergers and

acquisitions—some of the highest-stakes decisions executives make—showed that 83 percent

failed to create any value for shareholders. When another research team asked 2,207

executives to evaluate decisions in their organizations, 60% of executives reported that bad

decisions were about as frequent as good ones.

On the personal front, we’re not much better. People don’t save enough for retirement, and

when they do save, they consistently erode their own stock portfolios by buying high and

selling low. Young people start relationships with people who are bad for them. Middle-aged

people let work interfere with their family lives. The elderly wonder why they didn’t take more

time to smell the roses when they were younger.

Why do we have such a hard time making good choices? In recent years, many fascinating

books and articles have addressed this question, exploring the problems with our decision-

making. The biases. The irrationality. When it comes to making decisions, it’s clear, our brains

are flawed instruments. But less attention has been paid to another compelling question:

Given that we’re wired to act foolishly sometimes, how can we do better?

Sometimes we are given the advice to trust our guts when we make important decisions.

Unfortunately, our guts are full of questionable advice. Consider the Ultimate Red Velvet

Cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory, a truly delicious dessert, and one that clocks in at

1540 calories, which is the equivalent of three McDonald’s double cheeseburgers plus a pack

of Skittles. This is something that you are supposed to eat after you are finished with your

real meal.

The Ultimate Red Velvet cheesecake is exactly the kind of thing that our guts get excited

about. Yet no one would mistake this guidance for wisdom. Certainly no one has ever

thoughtfully plotted out a meal plan and concluded, I gotta add more cheesecake.


Excerpted from Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Copyright © 2013 by Chip Heath. Excerpted by permission of CrownBusiness, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted withoutpermission in writing from the publisher.

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tHE onE-wEEK JoB PRoJECtoneMan, one Year, Fifty-two JobsBy Sean Aiken

Like 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, whereby he

transformed 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 and empowering,

witty and wise, The One-Week Job Project is a book that will give students the courage to follow

their passions.

Selected for Common Reading at The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Villard Books | TR | 978-0-345-50803-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-51691-6 | $13.99/NCRThemes: Identity • leadership &Motivation • life Skills • Peer Group Skills

wHAt CoLoR iS YouR PARACHutE? 2013 EDitionA Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-ChangersBy Richard N. Bolles

The latest edition of the most popular career guide in the world continues to offer immediately

useful advice, unique ways to find the right job, and practical insights. The book is updated

annually, to ensure that it always speaks to the current job market and job seeker.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-147-3 | 368pp. | $18.99/$21.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60774-148-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: life Skills • Transition

CLiCKthe Forces Behind Howwe Fully Engage with People,work, and Everythingwe DoBy Ori Brafman and RomBrafman

The Brafman brothers have written a thorough and lively exploration of the psychological

processes underpinning why people “click” with other people, or certain projects or activities,

drawing on current psychological and sociological research to highlight the mental and social

processes that are occurring during such peak experiences. They delineate why people click in

certain situations and with certain people, identify five “accelerators” that increase the

likelihood of experiencing these kinds of connections in one’s work and relationships, and

explain how these productive and happy moments can be consciously encouraged. Click is a

fascinating exploration of how people connect with the world around them.

Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-52906-8 | 224pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can.| Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-73509-6 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-71584-5 | $9.99/$11.99 Can.Themes: leadership &Motivation • life Skills • Peer Group Skills

SwAYthe irresistible Pull of irrational BehaviorBy Ori Brafman and RomBrafman

Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman,

present a thought-provoking overview of the irrational behaviors and poor decision-making

that characterize so many of our actions. They balance anecdotes about typical financial,

professional, and personal decisions with relevant research in the fields of social psychology,

behavioral economics, and organizational behavior. The dynamic forces that influence every

aspect of our lives are revealed, as are strategies to avoid succumbing to these psychological

traps.

“A provocative new book about the psychological forces that lead us to disregard facts or logic

and behave in surprisingly irrational ways.” —New York Times

Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-53060-6 | 224pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-385-52677-7 | $9.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/Decision-Making • life Skills • Peer Group Skills

Website: www.OneWeekJob.com

Website:www.JobHuntersBible.com

Author Interview: tiny.cc/i3j4qwAuthor Video: tiny.cc/95j4qw

www.CommonReads.com

Website: www.OriBrafman.com


SuCCEEDinGwHEn You’RE SuPPoSED to FAiLthe 6 Enduring Principles of High AchievementBy RomBrafman

Popular and academic psychology has long dictated that those who face arduous life

circumstances—a difficult childhood, sudden job loss, poverty—will succumb to those forces

that hinder them. But as Brafman points out, a third of all people beset by trying situations

actually overcome them, to succeed and thrive in their chosen life paths. He draws on

groundbreaking neurological and psychological research to highlight the key innate factors

that support overcoming adversity—and how everyone, in all circumstances and walks of life,

can locate these traits within themselves, and make the most of them in their own lives.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-88769-6 | 208pp. | $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-94101-5 | $15.00/$17.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-88770-2 | $9.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: leadership &Motivation • life Skills • Perseverance/Personal Strength

tHE inviSiBLE GoRiLLAHow our intuitions Deceive usBy Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of

psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific

findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do.

Most individuals tend to think they see themselves and the world around them accurately, but

in fact, they are missing a lot.

Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on

attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into

trouble.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-45966-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-73575-1 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-307-45967-1 | $10.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Identity • life Skills • Peer Group Skills

GEttinG tHE BESt out oF CoLLEGERevised and updatedinsider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent GradBy Peter Feaver, SueWasiolek, and Anne Crossman

Going beyond basic study skills, this updated edition of Getting the Best Out of College explains

everything freshman orientation might overlook, including topics such as how to develop

rewarding relationships with professors, choose a major that will support long-term goals, use

lesser-known campus resources to one’s advantage, manage relationships back home, and more.

New chapters address contemporary issues such as how to transfer to international colleges and

universities; if and when it’s a good idea to delay, transfer, or drop out of college; and how to

make the most of a “gap year.”

“Witty, wise, and down-to-earth. . . . A wonderful resource for students and their parents.”

—Elizabeth Kiss, President of Agnes Scott College

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-144-2 | 304pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-78880-1 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: life Skills • Peer Group Skills

GooD PRoSEthe Art of nonfiction: Lessons from a Lifetime ofwriting and EditingBy Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

What is good prose? And how is it written? Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist Tracy

Kidder and distinguished editor and cultural critic Richard Todd tackle these questions

together, offering tips, stories, and valuable lessons from their more than four decades of work

together as writer and editor at the Atlantic Monthly. Combining practical advice and

discussion of mechanics and technique with engaging personal stories and examples of great

nonfiction, Good Prose is a must-read for anyone interested in reading or writing nonfiction.

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6975-0 | 224pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-60472-3 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Communication • life Skills

Website: www.TheInvisibleGorilla.com

Website:TracyKidder.com

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

This updated, expanded edition of a perennially popular guide offers students a crash course in

how to succeed in college. It shares essential lessons, including how to study effectively, handle

stress, manage course loads, prepare for and take tests, interact effectively with professors, and

balance academics and social life.

Selected for Common Reading at TennesseeWesleyan College.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-001-8 | 352pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60774-017-9 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: life Skills • Peer Group Skills • Transition

tHE tooLS: transform Your Problemsinto Courage, Confidence, and CreativityBy Phil Stutz and BarryMichels

Dissatisfied with the traditional therapy that left their patients waiting long, indefinite periods of

time for the change they needed, psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz

joined forces to develop a more evolved therapy that would create positive, effective change

more quickly. Using four steps that allow one to tap into the unconscious and turn problems

into transformative tools, the duo (called an “open secret” by The New Yorker) explain how to

feel better now—and for the long-term. The Tools is a breakthrough in self-improvement and

empowerment.

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-679-64444-6 | 288pp. | $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50

Do not order paperback before 4/23/2013.Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8304-3 | 288pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-98768-6 | $35.00/$41.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-64445-3 | $12.99/NCRThemes: Inspiration • leadership/Motivation • life Skills

tHE HiDDEn BRAinHow our unconscious Minds Elect Presidents,Control Markets, wagewars, and Save our LivesBy Shankar Vedantam

Called “[an] entertaining romp through covert influences on human behavior” by The New York

Times Book Review, The Hidden Brain by NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam

explains the effects of unconscious biases in everyday life, how culture influences the workplace,

how teams come together and why they fail, and how professionals can use the hidden brain to

communicate more effectively.

“In The Hidden Brain, one of America’s best science journalists describes how our unconscious

minds influence everything from criminal trials to charitable giving, from suicide bombers to

presidential elections. The Hidden Brain is a smart and engaging exploration of the science behind

the headlines—and of the little man behind the screen. Don’t miss it.”

—Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52522-0 | 288pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-71561-6 | $20.00/$24.95 Can. • e-Book: 978-1-58836-939-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: DecisionMaking • Human behavior • life Skills

How to BE A PERSonthe Stranger’s Guide to College, Sex, intoxicants, tacos, and Life itselfBy LindyWest, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement, and The Staff of the Stranger

The wise—and hilarious—staff of alternative Seattle newspaper The Stranger have created what

very well may be the most honest, informative, and entertaining college orientation to have ever

appeared on paper. Offering a panoply of useful tips, advice, and information not to be found

anywhere else, How to Be a Person presents fun, sage advice on matters of education, entertain-

ment, manners, personal hygiene, sex, love, and relationships. For anyone about to enter the

strange, uncharted waters of college, this book is a lifesaver, a guide that truly covers it all.

Sasquatch Books | TR | 978-1-57061-778-2 | 272pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-57061-835-2 | $16.95/$19.95 Can.Themes: life Skills • Peer Group Skills • Transition

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Website: www.HiddenBrain.orgAuthor Interview: tiny.cc/ur73qw

Website: www.TheToolsBook.comAuthor Video: tiny.cc/9rhbrw

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ALL woRK, no PAYFinding an internship, Building Your Résumé,Making Connections, and Gaining Job ExperienceBy Lauren BergerTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-168-8 | 208pp.$12.99/$14.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

tHE JoB-HuntER’S SuRvivAL GuiDEBy Richard N. BollesTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-026-2 | 112pp.$9.99/$12.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

wHAt CoLoR iS YouR PARACHutE?JoB-HuntER'S woRKBooK,Fourth EditionBy Richard N. Bolles

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-497-9 | 80pp.$12.99/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

tHE CAREER GuiDE FoR CREAtivE AnDunConvEntionAL PEoPLEBy Carol EikleberryTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-841-1 | 240pp.$14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

tHE CAREER CounSELoR’S HAnDBooKSecond EditionBy Howard Figler and Richard N. BollesTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-870-1 | 320pp.$19.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

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CRACKinG tHE HiDDEn JoB MARKEtHow to Find opportunity in Any EconomyA groundbreaking career guide that gives job-seekers of all ages and at every levelof experience (or inexperience) the tools for crafting an effective job-searchstrategy, regardless of the state of their chosen industry or the economy in general.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-494-9 | 208pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58008-639-4 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: life Skills • Transition

LECtuRE notESA Professor’s inside Guide to College SuccessBy Philip Freeman, Ph.D.Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-754-4 | 160pp.$14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

tHE nEw JoB SECuRitY, REviSEDthe 5 Best Strategies for taking Control of Your CareerBy Pam LassiterTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-377-5 | 224pp.$14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

tHEWALL STREET JOURNAL GuiDEto BuiLDinG YouR CAREERBy Jennifer MerrittCrown Business |TR | 978-0-307-71956-0 | 208pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

GEnERAtion EARnthe Young Professional’s Guide to Spending,investing, and Giving BackBy Kimberly PalmerTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-236-5 | 240pp.$14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

RÉSuMÉ 101A Student and Recent Grad Guide to Crafting Résumésand Cover Letters that Land JobsBy Quentin J. Schultze

Foreword by Richard N. BollesTen Speed Press | TR | 978-1-60774-194-7 | 144pp.$12.99/$14.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: life Skills • Transition

Donald Asher is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker specializing

in professional development and higher education. He is a featured speaker

on university and corporate campuses around the country, with more than one

hundred engagements per year. He is the author of eleven books, including:

How to GEt AnY JoBSecond EditionLife Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone under 30(or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents’ Basement)Combines the most innovative thinking on post-college career launch with strategic guidelines foraligning life goals with job opportunities.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-947-0 | 240pp.$15.99/$19.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-79768-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: life Skills • Transition

Books by Donald Asher

tHE ovERniGHt RÉSuMÉ3rd Editionthe Fastestway to Your next JobA step-by-step approach to résumé writing for allcareer stages and most educational backgroundsthat shows job-seekers how to develop and craft afocused, successful résumé in one sitting.

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BLuE REvoLutionunmaking America’s water CrisisBy Cynthia Barnett

Award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett trumpets a resounding call for the necessity of a

national water ethic to not only stop, but also reverse, America’s growing water crisis. Recalling

the positive effects of the green movement, Blue Revolution demonstrates how a similar “blue”

movement can help to increase awareness of the growing problem of water conservation and

promote regular, active efforts to preserve our most important natural resource. Citing

examples from the United States and abroad, Barnett shows how individuals, businesses, and

governments have already begun working together to reduce the wasteful consumption of

water that is at the root of this crisis.

“Barnett takes us back to the origins of our water [with] the same vividness and compassion as

Michael Pollan.” —Los Angeles Times

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0328-2 | 296pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-0318-3 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.Themes: Environment • Global Citizenship • Science & Society

ouRwAY outFirst Principles for a Post-apocalyptic worldByMarq De Villiers

Pessimism and an apocalyptic sense of doom are common currents in the culture today, as the

news is increasingly full of alarming stories about global warming, energy shortages, and

overpopulation. Here, all of these seemingly disparate problems are cohesively examined as

many aspects of a single, greater crisis of sustainability—and the many solutions that are

available to us already are highlighted.

McClelland & Stewart | TR | 978-0-7710-2649-2 | 416pp. | $21.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-55199-358-4 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Science & Society • Social Justice

toMS RivERA Story of Science and SalvationBy Dan Fagin

In 1971, a trucker tossed drums of industrial waste onto the land of a New Jersey chicken farm.

When an alarming number of childhood cancer cases cropped up in the town of Toms River,

the inhabitants united in a quest to expose the connection between toxic waste and illness—a

battle that culminated in the government’s stunning confirmation of the very real link between

pollution and cancer. Prize-winning environmental writer and professor Dan Fagin combines

careful, evidence-based research and reportage with engaging, empathetic storytelling.

Do not order before 3/19/2013.Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-80653-3 | 560pp. | $28.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-385-36031-9 | $24.00/$28.00 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-345-53861-1 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Science & Society

FAREwELL, MY SuBARuAn Epic Adventure in Local LivingBy Doug Fine

It takes more water to sustain a vegetable crop in New Mexico for a year than it would to

sustain a Bangladeshi village of 500. All components of a solar-powered water pump are made

in Japan or Denmark. It takes 16,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly an organic banana from Honduras

to Silver City, New Mexico. Doug Fine didn’t know any of these facts, and when he learned

them, he decided to live a more eco-conscious life. Farewell, My Subaru is the hilarious and

inspirational account of a Long Island suburbanite’s attempt to go green—extreme green—in

rural New Mexico.

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: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-345-50460-9 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Ethics/DecisionMaking • Global Citizenship

Website: www.DougFine.com

Website: www.DanFagin.com

Website: www.CynthiaBarnett.net/book.html

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tHE EnD oF CountRYDispatches from the Frack ZoneBy SeamusMcGraw

The land in a remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania happens to contain one of the

richest known natural gas deposits in the world—the Marcellus Shale—worth more than one

trillion dollars. A native of the region, award-winning American journalist Seamus McGraw

shares a riveting account of the intense battle that ensues between the corporate developers

who want to get their hands on this commodity, and a group of local crusaders who are

determined to fight “the end of country” and get what they deserve, without sacrificing their

homes or compromising their way of life.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8064-6 | 256pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-60431-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Group Dynamics • Social Justice

PLAnEtwALKER22 Years ofwalking. 17 Years of Silence.By John Francis, Ph.D.

GoldWinner of the 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 Francis

began a remarkable, solitary pilgrimage that would change his life irrevocably. An amazing

human-interest story with a vital message about saving our environment, Planetwalker is also

an engaging coming-of-age odyssey, full of the positive experiences, the challenging times, the

characters encountered, and the learning gained along the way.

Selected for Common Reading at Graceland University and University at South Carolina Upstate.

National Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0405-0 | 288pp. | $16.95/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-4262-0340-4 | $16.95/$20.00 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • Environment • leadership &Motivation

tHE RAGGED EDGE oF SiLEnCEFinding Peace in a noisyworldBy John Francis, Ph.D.

By the author of Planetwalker, The Ragged Edge of Silence takes us to another level of

appreciating, through silence, the beauty of the planet and our place in it. John Francis’s real

and compelling prose forms a tapestry of questions and answers woven from interviews,

stories, personal experience, science, and the power of silence through history, including

practices from Native American, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures. Through their time-honored

traditions and his own experience of communicating silently for seventeen years, Francis’s

practical exercises lay the groundwork for the reader to build constructive silence into everyday

life, to learn more about oneself, to set goals and accomplish dreams, to build strong

relationships, and to appreciate and be a steward of the Earth. With its amazing human interest

element and first-person expertise, this book is energizing and universally instructive.

National Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0723-5 | 272pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-4262-0738-9 | $26.00/$26.00 Can.Themes: Environment • leadership &Motivation • life Skills

ECoLoGiCAL intELLiGEnCEthe Hidden impacts ofwhatwe BuyBy Daniel Goleman

“The theme of ecological awareness and environmental sustainability emerged as we considered

a variety of books. The selection committee felt that such a theme would offer many options for

engagement and use of the book across all colleges and disciplines. It could connect with new

university efforts in the area of heightened environmental awareness and action and provide

opportunities to facilitate community service options for students and faculty.”

—Ron Daniel, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Virginia Tech

Selected for Common Reading at Virginia Tech.

Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-52783-5 | 288pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-385-53040-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Ethics/DecisionMaking • Science & Society

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Website: www.SeamusMcGraw.com

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Website: www.DanielGoleman.info


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tHE MAnwHo PLAntED tREESLost Groves, Champion trees, and an urgent Plan to Save the PlanetBy Jim Robbins

New York Times reporter and freelance journalist Jim Robbins explains the importance of trees,

including how they may help save the planet. At the heart of this timely and evocative

nonfiction work is the incredible story of David Milarch, a Michigan nurseryman who

embarked on a mission to locate “champion” trees, reproduce them, and spread their offspring

around the world following a near-death experience. The Man Who Planted Trees is both a

testament to one man’s successful efforts to save one of our most important natural resources

and a resounding call to others to act.

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-1-4000-6906-4 | 240pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-58836-999-4 | $12.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Inspiration • Service

FinDinG HiGHER GRounD: Adaptation in the Age ofwarmingBy Amy Seidl

While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon

footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face

climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the

uniquely positive—yet realistic—position that humans and animals can adapt and persist

despite these changes. Drawing on an emerging body of scientific research, Seidl brings us

stories of adaptation from the natural world and from human communities.

“Here’s the playbook for the years ahead: loving but savvy, with open eyes and with open heart,

Amy Seidl talks us through the possibilities we have on the planet we’ve created. A landmark

book.” —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-8499-1 | 216pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-8599-8 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.Themes: Environment • Science & Society

PLEntY: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile DietBy Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon

Plenty relates the remarkable, amusing, and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who

make a yearlong attempt to eat only foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of

their apartment. This food-focused experiment offers a way to think about globalization,

monoculture, the oil economy, environmental collapse, and community, as the authors reveal a

meaningful way to relate to the very essence of human survival: the food we eat.

“A funny, warm, and seductive account of how wemight live better—better for this earth, better

for the community, better for our bellies!” —Bill McKibben

Selected for Common Reading at College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University.

Clarkson Potter | TR | 978-0-307-34733-6 | 272pp. | $13.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-39478-1 | $9.99/NCRThemes: Environment • Science & Society • Social Justice

tHE YounG ACtiviSt’S GuiDE to BuiLDinG A GREEn MovEMEntAnD CHAnGinG tHE woRLDBy Sharon J. Smith

Foreword by Julia Butterfly Hill

In The Young Activist’s Guide to Building a Green Movement and Changing the World, author

and activist Sharon J. Smith shares proven strategies and lessons learned from the winners of

Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Awards, America’s top honor for young green leaders.

Here are all the tools environmental organizers need—from planning a campaign and

recruiting supporters to raising money and attracting media attention. The Guide also has tips

on how students can boost the sustainability of their college campuses, with contributions by

Earth Day Network, and tips on how to launch a career in the environmental movement.

Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-58008-561-8 | 224pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-60774-016-2 | $11.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Environment • Global Citizenship • leadership &Motivation

Website: www.AlisaSmith.ca

Website:www.AmySeidl.com

Website:www.Jim-Robbins.net

Website: tiny.cc/bal4qw

GREEn town, u.S.A.the Handbook for America’s Sustainable FutureBy Daniel Wallach

In 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, was struck by a tornado, and lost 95 percent of its infrastructure.

The people of Greensburg, with the guidance of Daniel Wallach, rebuilt their community as the

first Green Town in the U.S. This book explains how any town can incorporate renewable

energy, green construction, local food suppliers, and other sustainable approaches to become a

green community, too.

Do not order before 6/25/2013.Hatherleigh Press | TR | 978-1-57826-312-7 | 240pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-1-57826-481-0 | $9.99/$11.99 Can.Themes: Environment • leadership &Motivation

HARvESt tHE winDAmerica’s Journey to Jobs, Energy independence,and Climate StabilityBy PhilipWarburg

In Harvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings us the people behind the green economy-powered

resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the United States. This corner of

Kansas is the first stop on an odyssey that introduces readers to farmers, factory workers,

biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs—all players in a transformative industry that is taking

hold across the U.S. and around the globe.

Harvest the Wind serves as an earthly antidote to the more abstract treatises on global warming

and green energy. By showing how practical solutions are being implemented at the local level,

Warburg offers an inspirational look at how everyone can pursue a saner and more sustainable

energy future.

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-807-00107-3 | 256pp. | $27.95/$33.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8070-0108-0 | $27.95/$33.00 Can.Themes: Environment • Science & Society


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GREEn voLuntEERS, 8tH EDitiontheworld Guide to voluntarywork in natureConservationBy Fabio AusendaUniverse | TR | 978-88-89060-19-3 | 256pp.$16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: Environment • Social Justice

Go GREEn, LivE RiCH50 Simpleways to Save the Earth(and Get Rich trying)By David Bachwith Hillary RosnerBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2973-8 | 192pp.$14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available:Audio: 978-0-7393-6852-7 | $21.00/$23.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-7679-3024-6 | $13.99/NCRThemes: Environment • leadership &Motivation • Social Justice

ED BEGLEY, JR.’S GuiDE toSuStAinABLE LivinGLearning to Conserve Resources andManage an Eco-Conscious LifeBy Ed Begley, Jr.Clarkson Potter | TR | 978-0-307-40514-2 | 352pp.$22.50/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.25Themes: Environment • Global Citizenshiplife Skills

Also Available:

FuLL BoDY BuRDEnGrowing up in the nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsBy Kristen Iversen

For full book description see page 54.Crown | HC | 978-0-307-95563-0 | 416pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Do not order paperback before 6/4/2013.Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-95565-4 | 416pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Also available:Audio: 978-0-449-00966-6 | $45.00/$52.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-307-95564-7 | $12.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Coming of Age • EnvironmentRegional: Colorado • Science & Society

tHE wAtER BooKA users Guide to understanding, Protecting, andPreserving Earth’s Most Precious ResourceBy Elizabeth Pacheco and June EdingPreface by Alexandra Cousteau

Hatherleigh Press | TR | 978-1-57826-345-5 | 192pp.$11.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Themes: Ethics/DecisionMakingGlobal Citizenship

Website: www.PhilipWarburg.com

Publishes June 2013

About the Author:Donovan CampbellDoNoVAN CAMPbEll is a Fortune 500 executive and the best-selling author of Joker One: A MarinePlatoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood. He graduated from Princeton University andHarvard Business School, finished first in his class at the Marines’ Basic Officer Course, and served threecombat deployments. He was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon and a Bronze Star for Valor for histime in Iraq. After his combat tours he returned to Dallas, where he is now Senior Vice President ofIntegraColor, a leading commercial printing company. His lecture appearances include HarvardBusiness School, the Air Force Academy, PepsiCo, and the Barbara Bush Celebration of Reading.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Joker One,Donovan Campbell, comes a unique book on character and

leadership, inspired by the author’s training and experience in theUnited States Marine Corps.

America suffers from a leadership crisis. In business, politics, andpopular culture, our leaders are consistently disappointing theirconstituents with immoral, unethical, or corrupt behavior. But wedo have one national institution with a strong, clear leadershipmodel that commands widespread respect and admiration. Thisinstitution is the United States military.

In The Leader’s Code, Donovan Campbell reveals how the trainingmodel of the U.S. Marine Corps can serve as a foundation for greatleadership in business and beyond. Focusing on character as themost important quality in a leader, he identifies its six keyattributes—humility, excellence, kindness, discipline, courage, andwisdom. Using military-inspired training techniques and storiesfrom his own experience in the Corps, Campbell outlines howreaders can develop these six qualities and utilize them to becomegreat leaders. The Leader’s Code shows that success on both anindividual and national level depends on the integrity of our futureleaders in their pursuit of noble missions.

tHE LEADER’S CoDEMission, Character, Service, and Getting the Job DoneBy Donovan Campbell

To request a free pre-publication copy, [email protected]

Do not order before 4/9/2013.Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9293-9 | 256pp.$27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50



Also by Donovan Campbell

JoKER onEAMarine Platoon’s Story of Courage,Leadership, and BrotherhoodBy Donovan Campbell

For full description, see page 21.

Selected for Common Reading at Niagara University;Siena Heights University; and The T. Boone PickensLeadership Institute.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7956-5 | 336pp.$16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available:e-Book: 978-1-58836-778-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Ethics/DecisionMakingGroup Dynamics • leadership &Motivation

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©WheelerSparks

Disciplines: Business; Leadership Studies;Military Studies

to view the author’s talk at the 2009First-Year Experience® Conference,

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Website: www.Joker-One.com


To Redeem leadership, Teach Virtue

In 2009, I spent most of my time flying around America, visiting various geographies as a mid-levelexecutive with a Fortune 500 company. Just one year beforehand, I had been flying around a very differentcountry, Afghanistan, visiting various geographies as a mid-level officer supporting the Special Forces. Asdifferent as America and Afghanistan were, I noticed an even more profound difference when I came home.It wasn’t a difference between Americans and Afghans; rather, it was a difference between Americans andAmericans.

Watching junior military leaders make decisions overseas and watching senior business and politicalleaders make decisions back at home was like watching two different cultures in action. Overseas, I sawtwenty-two-year-old squad leaders volunteer to walk point through bomb-laden streets in order to exposethemselves to danger in advance of their teams. I watched nineteen-year-old team leaders shield their menwith their own bodies, taking severe wounds so that their teams wouldn’t have to. Twenty-two-year-oldlieutenants ran through fire while everyone else took cover, checking on their men to make certain theywere safe. Back at home, I watched a different group of business and political leaders behave verydifferently—attempting to pin responsibility for failure on others, blaming circumstances for their mishaps,and trying all the while to extract as much personal gain as possible.

I wondered, “Why the difference?” And then it hit me. The two groups had two very different views ofleadership. The latter group, by and large, seemed to view leadership as a top-down extractive exercise inwhich a leader’s role was to take as much as possible from the organization and their team. The soldiers, bycontrast, viewed leadership as a bottom-up service exercise in which a leader’s role was to give as much aspossible to their teams and their common mission.

From the moment that the soldiers entered basic training—usually at eighteen years old—they had beentaught a servant-leadership framework grounded in clear, specific virtues that all members of theirorganization were expected to uphold. They were taught that real leadership means putting their teams andtheir shared mission first and their own personal welfare dead last. They were told that character underpinscompetence and that character is like anything else in life: it doesn’t just happen. If you want to be good at it,then you have to work at it. This basic training in virtue and service produced young leaders overseas whobehaved markedly differently than their much older counterparts back home.

For most servicewomen and men, this profound character and leadership development begins at thesame life stage in which their peers are entering their freshman year of college. Thus, teachers,administrators, program coordinators, and everyone else involved in this seminal college experience havethe same tremendous opportunity to effect lifetime character and leadership development in their youngcharges as do their military counterparts. Though the circumstances are different, the outcome can be thesame—young people instilled with the desire to become their best moral selves, to make an impact byserving others and bringing out the best in them.

For this outcome to happen, though, academic leaders must focus on instilling specific virtues, and aspecific leadership model, rather than on vague concepts of character and leadership writ large. Most peoplebelieve that good character is a good thing—the problem is that the underpinnings of good character arerarely defined, and the ways in which to pursue it are rarely spelled out. Moreover, most young people arenot given clear leadership frameworks that they can put into action in their own life. The Leader’s Code canhelp bridge this gap, for it defines the servant-leadership model in depth, lays out the virtues underpinningit, and provides clear ways in which to develop both virtue and leadership.

In an age where economic calamity has hit the entire world, where leaders seem to have failed on a globalscale, and where many people believe that life will be worse for the next generation than it was for them,colleges have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to instill hope, purpose, and meaning in the lives of theiryoung charges. They can do so by teaching anxious students that their worth as individuals does not dependon what they do, what they earn, or who they know. Rather, it depends on who they become, and who theybecome is entirely under their control if they will pursue virtue with discipline and intentionality. I amexcited to see the impact that universities make in the lives of the next generation of leaders. If possible, Ihope that The Leader’s Code can help in its own small way.

Donovan Campbell

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About the Author: Anita Hill

ANITA HIll is a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University, where she teachescourses on Race and the Law and Gender Equality. After receiving her JD from Yale Law School in 1980, sheworked as the attorney-advisor to Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1991, shetestified at the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. She gained national exposure whenher allegations of sexual harassment were made public. She is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, inwhich she wrote about her experience as a witness in the Thomas hearings. Hill has written widely onissues of race and gender in publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, CriticalRace Feminism, and others. She has appeared on Today, 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation.

From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomasin the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago, comes

Anita Hill’s first book since the best-selling Speaking Truth to Power.

On the twentieth anniversary of the historic Clarence Thomasconfirmation hearings, where she spoke out so courageously aboutworkplace sexual harassment, Anita Hill turns her attention to thetopic of home. As our country reels from the subprime mortgagemeltdown and the resulting devastation of so many families, somany communities, and even cities, Hill takes us inside the “crisis ofhome” we are confronting. Along the way she exposes its deep rootsin race and gender inequities that continue to haunt the country andimperil every American’s ability to achieve the American Dream.Reaching back to the story of her slave ancestors, as well asnarrating the stories of individuals who are now caught in thecrossfire of the current housing collapse, she invites us into homesacross the U.S., from her grandparent’s homestead in Arkansas toBaltimore’s toughest neighborhoods. Hill bridges the experiences ofwomen and men struggling to make homes in our country and theworld of high finance and mortgage lending. In this period ofrecovery and its aftermath, what is at stake is the inclusivedemocracy the Constitution promises. The achievement of thatideal, Hill argues, depends on each American’s ability to secure aplace that provides access to every opportunity our country has tooffer. Building on the great strides of the women’s rights and civilrights struggles, Hill presents concrete proposals, which encouragereaders to broaden their thinking about home and to reimagineequality for America’s future.

“In a book that is rigorous and heartfelt, sharply analytical anddeeply moving, Anita Hill examines the idea of what ‘home’meansto Americans. bringing to bear her formidable skills as a scholar ofAmerican law, history, and culture, Hill has produced a personalnarrative that reaches across color and class to explore how ourfamily homes and our national home are inextricably linked to howwe understand achievement, opportunity, and equality.”

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor,Harvard University

REiMAGininG EQuALitYStories of Gender, Race, and Finding HomeBy Anita Hill

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-1443-1 | 224pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00


website: www.facebook.com/ProfAnitaHill

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It’s hard to believe that almost two decades have passed since the dramatic Clarence

Thomas Senate confirmation hearing that had such an impact on so many in our nation,

including perhaps some of you. I’ve been very proud of the era of heightened awareness and

concern about sexual harassment that followed that frankly grueling experience. I have had

the privilege of meeting exceptional women and men in nearly every state in the country who

seek nothing more than to end behavior, like sexual harassment, that keeps women from

reaching their full potential. Some real good did emerge. And I wrote an autobiographical

book that some of you may remember, Speaking Truth to Power, back in 1997.

For me the positive developments of the recent past are just the beginning. Starting from

the premise that a fair and just society is in everyone’s best interest, I have spent a great deal of

time studying, researching, and lecturing about how important it is that we strive for full

equality in our nation, no matter how difficult an achievement it may seem. I’ve been working

on my new book, Reimagining Equality, which reflects my ideas about how we can begin to

realize equality for women, for blacks, and, particularly, for black women. In it I look back at

my ancestors, and forward, based on my experiences and discoveries since the hearing. I hope

you will enjoy the stories and ideas presented here.

I wanted to publish this new book on the twentieth anniversary of the hearing—when

there will be a fresh round of media and other attention—not only to shine a bright light on

the accomplishments of the past twenty years, but also to examine the issues that continue to

trouble me and many of you. It’s my hope that this book will help a new generation to better

understand and meet the challenges of remaking our society into one that might actually

reach the goal of liberty and justice for all. Thank you for your support of my work, past and

present, and all best wishes for a successful year.

Anita Hill

Social Action

LivinG AnD DYinG in BRiCK CitYAn E.R. Doctor Returns HomeBy Sampson Davis

With Lisa Frazier Page

Working as an emergency room physician in an impoverished section of his hometown of

Newark, New Jersey, Sampson bears witness to the growing health care crisis plaguing inner-

city communities. Weaving a personal narrative that gives a voice to those most devastated by

this medical crisis, Sampson offers a critical overview of urban health care, and issues a call to

heal U.S. communities.

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-1-4000-6994-1 | 256pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-60518-8 | $12.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Social Justice • Ethics/DecisionMaking • leadership &Motivation

HEARtS on FiREStories of today’s visionaries igniting idealism into ActionBy Jill W. Iscol with PeterW. Cookson, Jr.

Foreword by Bill Clinton

Philanthropist and activist Jill Iscol and educational sociologist and author Peter W. Cookson

introduce some of the most trailblazing visionaries and activists of today—people using their

wishful thinking to inspire productive, effective action. Presenting the inspiring stories of

young leaders working to open and improve schools and healthcare centers, tackle poverty, and

eliminate violence, Hearts on Fire is an empowering and practical guide that shows how

everyone can turn their ideas into powerful, valuable activism for a more meaningful life and a

better world.

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8430-9 | 176pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-8129-9390-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.Themes: Inspiration • leadership/Motivation • Youth Activism

GRACE AnD GRitMy Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and BeyondBy Lilly Ledbetter with Lanier Scott Isom

Many are familiar with Lilly Ledbetter, the woman behind the historic Ledbetter vs. Goodyear

discrimination case and President Barack Obama’s Fair Pay Restoration Act. But here, for the

first time, this civil rights crusader and American icon shares her complete story: her

impoverished childhood, the bias and sexual harassment she experienced as an employee at

Goodyear, and her long, determined fight for what is right: fairness and equal rights for all.

Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-88794-8 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-307-88793-1 | $12.99/$15.99 Can.Themes: Gender Issues • Human Rights • Social Justice

StARt SoMEtHinG tHAt MAttERSBy BlakeMycoskie

TOMS Shoes melds profit-making with social

action; for every pair of shoes purchased, the

company donates a pair to a child. Although he had

no prior fashion or retail experience, Mycoskie’s business is profitable, even while giving shoes

away. He shares his innovative approach to business, and the business of doing good.

“The TOMS story has already inspired many, and Start Something that Matters supplements that

inspiration with wisdom and practical experience that will help to catalyze the next generation

of social entrepreneurs. This is exactly the book that my students and I have been waiting for!”

—Jim Schorr, Professor of Social Enterprise, Vanderbilt University

Selected for Common Reading at Missouri State University and Philadelphia University.

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8144-5 | 224pp. | $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00Also Available: Audio: 978-0-307-96715-2 | $17.50/$19.50 Can. • e-Book: 978-0-679-60352-8 | $9.99/$12.99 Can.Themes: Global Citizenship • leadership &Motivation • Service


Website:www.LillyLedbetter.com

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DAMnED nAtionSGreed, Guns, Armies, and AidBy Samantha Nutt, M.D.

Award-winning humanitarian and best-selling author Samantha Nutt recalls her experiences

providing care for more than a decade in some of the most violence-ridden, war-torn parts of

the world. The portrait presented in the best-selling and critically acclaimed Damned Nations

sounds a call for reform in actions and thinking to help bring about a more respectful,

peaceful, and compassionate worldview. An authority on the effects of war on civilians, Nutt

pairs moving personal narrative and thoughtful research with powerful, indefatigable

argument to tell us what needs to change—and how to change it.

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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, which brought awareness to the

genocide in Sudan, human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor and

philanthropist Don Cheadle present The Enough Moment, an empowering look at how people’s

movements and inspired policies can stop genocide, child soldier recruitment, and rape as a

war weapon in Africa. Prendergast and Cheadle shed light on this burgeoning mass movement

against human rights crimes, showing how it involves citizen activism, social networking,

compassion, celebrities, and globalization.

“An important, valuable toolkit that will inspire many.” —Kirkus Reviews

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tHE tHiRDwAvEA volunteer StoryBy Alison Thompson

With Meimei Fox

Thompson left her life in New York behind when the tsunami struck southern Asia in 2004. In

Sri Lanka, she cared for the injured and helped rebuild schools. She offers an insider’s account

of what it is like to be present in the wake of a disaster, and explains how any individual can

and should respond when others are in need.

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Foreword by Mayor Cory A. Booker

This 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 action will

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“Tisch documents a shift from volunteerism to active citizenship, less about alleviating

symptoms 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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10 THINGS EMPLOYERSWANT YOU TO LEARN IN COLLEGE, REVISED:The Skills You Need to Succeed..................................................................................71

Abbott, Jim and Tim Brown...............................................................................................8

ACTS OF FAITH: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for theSoul of a Generation..................................................................................................62

AGE OF MIRACLES, THE: A Novel ......................................................................................41

Aiken, Sean ....................................................................................................................78

Albom, Mitch ..................................................................................................................42

Ali, Nujood ......................................................................................................................20

ALL SOULS: A Family Story from Southie ........................................................................25

ALLWORK, NO PAY: Finding an Internship, Building Your Resume,Making Connections, and Gaining Job Experience ....................................................81

AMAZING GRACE: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation ..........................58

Amnesty International USA ............................................................................................68

Angelou, Maya................................................................................................................20

Asher, Donald..................................................................................................................81

AUDACITY OF HOPE, THE: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream ........................27

Ausenda, Fabio ..............................................................................................................85

Bach, David ....................................................................................................................85

Bahari, Maziar ................................................................................................................20

Bakewell, Sarah ..............................................................................................................10

Barnett, Cynthia..............................................................................................................82

BE DIFFERENT: My Adventures with Asperger’s and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians,Misfits, Families, and Teachers ..................................................................................16

Begley, Ed Jr. ...................................................................................................................85

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity ........46

Berger, Lauren ................................................................................................................81

BLACK TITAN: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire ....................24

BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME: A True Story ......................................................................70

BLUE REVOLUTION: Unmaking America’sWater Crisis......................................................82

BOBBY’S BOOK ................................................................................................................43

Bolles, Richard N. ......................................................................................................78, 81

Boo, Katherine ................................................................................................................46

BOOK OF HAPPINESS: AFRICA ..........................................................................................70

Boylan, Jennifer Finney ..................................................................................................21

BOYS FROM LITTLE MEXICO, THE: A Season Chasing the American Dream ......................29

Bracken, Sam..................................................................................................................21

Brady, Diane....................................................................................................................68

Brafman, Ori and Rom Brafman ......................................................................................78

Brafman, Rom ................................................................................................................79

Bronson, Po ....................................................................................................................42

Brooks, Max ....................................................................................................................38

Brzezinski, Matthew ......................................................................................................68

BUDDHAWALKS INTO A BAR: A Guide to Life for a New Generation ................................45

Buffett, Peter ..................................................................................................................42

Cain, Susan ....................................................................................................................48

Campbell, Donovan ..................................................................................................21, 86

Canada, Geoffrey ............................................................................................................22

CAREER COUNSELOR’S HANDBOOK, 2ND EDITION ............................................................81

CAREER GUIDE FOR CREATIVE AND UNCONVENTIONAL PEOPLE, THE ................................81

CENTURY OFWISDOM, A: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer,theWorld’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor ............................................................28

Chabris, Christopher and Daniel Simons..........................................................................79

CHASING PERFECT: TheWill toWin in Basketball and Life................................................44

Chittister, Joan Sister ......................................................................................................42

Chura, David ..................................................................................................................68

CITIZEN YOU: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing theWorld ....................................91

CLICK: The Forces Behind HowWe Fully Engage with People,Work,and EverythingWe Do ..............................................................................................78

Cline, Ernest ....................................................................................................................30

Cole, Teju ........................................................................................................................38

COLLEGE RULES! 3RD EDITION: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College ..............80

Combs, Patrick ................................................................................................................71

CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENON, A: A Novel ......................................................39

Coplin, Bill ......................................................................................................................71

COVERING: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights ..........................................................70

Coyle, Daniel ..................................................................................................................43

CRACKING THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET: How to Find Opportunity in Any Economy ............81

DAMNED NATIONS: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid............................................................91

DARKEST CHILD: A Novel ................................................................................................36

Davidson, Emily ..............................................................................................................43

Davidson, Jim and Kevin Vaughan ..................................................................................43

Davis, Sampson ..............................................................................................................90

De Villiers, Marq ..............................................................................................................82

DEAR MARCUS: A Letter to the ManWho Shot Me ..........................................................12

DECISIVE: How to Make Better Choices in Life andWork..................................................75

DECODED ........................................................................................................................24

Demick, Barbara ............................................................................................................69

DEVIL IN THEWHITE CITY, THE: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fairthat Changed America ..............................................................................................60

Dewolf, Thomas Norman and Sharon Leslie Morgan ......................................................69

DINNER, THE: A Novel ......................................................................................................32

DISCOVERINGWES MOORE ..............................................................................................26

DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR?: Insights from a GirlWithout Sight ........................................18

Doctorow, E. L. ................................................................................................................38

DREAMS FROMMY FATHER: A Story of Race and Inheritance ..........................................27

Duhigg, Charles ..............................................................................................................72

Dumas, Firoozeh ............................................................................................................22

ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: The Hidden Impacts ofWhatWe Buy ..................................83

ED BEGLEY JR.’S GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE LIVING: Learning to Conserve Resourcesand Manage an Eco-Conscious Life............................................................................85

EIGHTY DAYS: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making RaceAround theWorld......................................................................................................69

Eikleberry, Carol ..............................................................................................................81

END OF COUNTRY, THE: Dispatches from the Frack Zone ..................................................83

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH: Living Each Day as If ItWere Your Last ....................................44

ENOUGHMOMENT, THE: Fighting to End Africa’sWorst Human Rights Crimes ................91

ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunitewith His Mother ........................................................................................................26

EVERY DAY ......................................................................................................................39

Fagin, Dan ......................................................................................................................82

FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DIXIE: The CivilWar and the Social Revolutionthat Transformed the South ......................................................................................70

FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: An Epic Adventure in Local Living ............................................82

FATHERMOTHERGOD: My Journey Out of Christian Science..............................................22

Feaver, Peter, et. al. ........................................................................................................79

Figler, Howard and Richard. N. Bolles..............................................................................81

FINDING HIGHER GROUND: Adaptation in the Age ofWarming ......................................84

Fine, Doug ......................................................................................................................82

Finn, Adharanand ..........................................................................................................43

FIRE IN THE ASHES: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America ..............58

FIST STICK KNIFE GUN: A Personal History of Violence ....................................................22

FIST STICK KNIFE GUN: A Personal History of Violence, Graphic Novel Edition..................22

FOLLOWING THE PATH: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Joy ......................42

Ford, Jamie ....................................................................................................................38

Forrest, Emma ................................................................................................................22

Fox, Thomas J. ................................................................................................................85

Francis, John, Ph.D. .........................................................................................................83

FRATERNITY ....................................................................................................................68

FREEDOMWRITERS DIARY: How a Teacher and 150 Teens UsedWriting to ChangeThemselves and theWorld Around Them ..................................................................44

FreedomWriters with Erin Gruwell, The ..........................................................................44

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Iversen, Kristen ........................................................................................................54, 85

Jagielski,Wojciech ..........................................................................................................56

Jay-Z ..............................................................................................................................24

Jenkins, Carol and Elizabeth Gardner Hines ....................................................................24

JOB HUNTERS SURVIVAL GUIDE, THE ..............................................................................81

JOKER ONE: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood ......21, 86

JOSEPH ANTON: A Memoir ..............................................................................................27

Kerman, Piper ................................................................................................................24

Kidder, Tracy....................................................................................................................25

Kidder, Tracy and Richard Todd........................................................................................79

Koch, Herman ................................................................................................................32

Kozol, Jonathan ..............................................................................................................58

LA AUDACIA DE LA ESPERANZA ......................................................................................27

LA PETITE: A Memior of Childhood ..................................................................................23

LaNier, CarlottaWalls ......................................................................................................25

Larson, Erik ....................................................................................................................60

Lassiter, Pam ..................................................................................................................81

LAST TOWN ON EARTH, THE: A Novel ..............................................................................40

LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS: A Novel....................................................................40

LEADER’S CODE, THE: Mission, Character, Service, and Getting the Job Done ..................86

LECTURE NOTES: A Professor’s Inside Guide to College Success ........................................81

Ledbetter, Lilly ................................................................................................................90

LEDGE, THE: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival ........................................43

LET THE GREATWORLD SPIN: A Novel ..............................................................................40

Levine, Bruce ..................................................................................................................70

Levithan, David ..............................................................................................................39

LIFE ISWHAT YOU MAKE IT: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment ........................................42

LIFEWITHOUT LIMITS: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life........................................45

LIMITLESS: Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life ..........................................................45

Lipsenthal, Lee, M.D. ......................................................................................................44

LITTLE BOOK OF TALENT, THE: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills........................................43

LIVING AND DYING IN BRICK CITY: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home ....................................90

LOGAVINA STREET: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood ......................................69

LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life with Asperger’s..................................................................16

LOS SUENOS DE MI PADRE: Una historia de raza y herencia ............................................27

MacDonald, Michael Patrick............................................................................................25

MADE TO STICK:Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die................................................75

MAJOR IN SUCCESS: Make College Easier, Fire up Your Dreams, and Get a Great Job ........71

MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to DreamBigger and Achieve the Extraordinary ......................................................................45

MANWHO PLANTED TREES, THE: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and anUrgent Plan to Save the Planet..................................................................................84

Markovits, Anouk ............................................................................................................39

Marra, Anthony ..............................................................................................................39

McCann, Colum ..............................................................................................................40

McCarthy, Susan Carol ....................................................................................................40

McGill, Jerry ....................................................................................................................12

McGraw, Seamus ............................................................................................................83

Mealer, Bryan..................................................................................................................14

Merritt, Jennifer..............................................................................................................81

Meyer, Dakota and BingWest..........................................................................................26

MIGHTY LONGWAY, A: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School..............25

MOM &ME &MOM ........................................................................................................20

Moon, Elizabeth..............................................................................................................40

Moore,Wes ....................................................................................................................26

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer,a ManWhoWould Cure theWorld ............................................................................25

MUCK CITY:Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town ........................................14

Mullen, Thomas ..............................................................................................................40

MY ORANGE DUFFEL BAG: A Journey to Radical Change ..................................................21

FREEDOM: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ....................68

Freeman, Philip Mitchell, Ph.D. ......................................................................................81

FRESH OFF THE BOAT: A Memoir ......................................................................................24

FULL BODY BURDEN: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats....................54, 85

FUNNY IN FARSI: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America ........................................22

GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and aSon of the Slave Trade ..............................................................................................69

GENERATION EARN: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing,and Giving Back ........................................................................................................81

GETTING THE BEST OUT OF COLLEGE: Insider Advice for Success from a Professor,a Dean, and a Recent Grad ........................................................................................79

GO GREEN, LIVE RICH: 50 SimpleWays to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying..................85

Goleman, Daniel ............................................................................................................83

GOOD PROSE: The Art of Nonfiction ................................................................................79

Goodman, Matthew........................................................................................................69

Goyal, Rajeev ..................................................................................................................50

GRACE AND GRIT: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond ............90

GRAND CENTRALWINTER: Stories from the Street ..........................................................29

GREEN TOWN USA: The Handbook for America’s Sustainable Future................................85

GREENVOLUNTEERS 8TH EDITION: TheWorld Guide to VoluntaryWork in NatureConservation ............................................................................................................85

Greenhouse, Lucia ..........................................................................................................22

Halberstadt, Michèle ......................................................................................................23

HALF A LIFE: A Memoir....................................................................................................28

Hari, Daoud ....................................................................................................................23

HARVEST THEWIND: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence,and Climate Stability ................................................................................................85

HEARTS ON FIRE: Stories of Today’s Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Action ..................90

Heath, Chip and Dan Heath ............................................................................................75

Hegland, Jean ................................................................................................................39

Hessel, Stéphane and Edgar Morin..................................................................................52

HIDDEN BRAIN, THE: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents,Control Markets,WageWars, and Save Our Lives ......................................................80

Hill, Anita........................................................................................................................88

Hillenbrand, Laura ..........................................................................................................23

Hoffert, Melanie..............................................................................................................23

Hoffman, Reid and Ben Casnocha ..................................................................................74

HOMER & LANGLEY: A Novel............................................................................................38

HOPE IN THE UNSEEN, A: An American Odyssey from the Inner Cityto the Ivy League ......................................................................................................29

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET: A Novel ..................................................38

HOWTO BE A PERSON: The Stranger’s Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants,Tacos, and Life Itself ..................................................................................................80

HOWTO GET ANY JOB: Career Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30(or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents’Basement) ..................................................81

HOWTO LIVE: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attemptsat an Answer ............................................................................................................10

Huang, Eddie ..................................................................................................................24

Hurley, Bob ....................................................................................................................44

I AM FORBIDDEN: A Novel ..............................................................................................39

I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED ............................................................................20

I DON’TWISH NOBODY TO HAVE A LIFE LIKE MINE: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup..............68

I KNOWWHY CAGED BIRD SINGS ....................................................................................20

IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE......................................................................66

IMPERFECT: An Improbable Life ........................................................................................8

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin ........60

INTO THE FIRE: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in theAfghanWar ..............................................................................................................26

INTO THE FOREST: A Novel ..............................................................................................39

INVISIBLE GORILLA, THE: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us ................................................79

ISAAC’S ARMY: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland ......................68

Iscol, Jill ..........................................................................................................................90

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MY ROADMAP: A Personal Guide to Balance, Power, and Purpose ..................................21

Mycoskie, Blake ..............................................................................................................90

Nafisi, Azar......................................................................................................................26

Nazario, Sonia ................................................................................................................26

NEW JOB SECURITY, THE, REVISED EDITION: The 5 Best Strategies forTaking Control of Your Career ....................................................................................81

NIGHTWANDERERS, THE: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army ..................56

Nist-Olejnik, Sherrie, Ph.D. and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. ..........................................80

NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea............................................................69

Nutt, Samantha, M.D. ....................................................................................................91

Obama, Barack................................................................................................................27

Obreht, Téa......................................................................................................................34

ONE-WEEK JOB PROJECT, THE: One Man, One Year, 52 Jobs..............................................78

OPEN CITY: A Novel..........................................................................................................38

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: My Year in aWomen’s Prison ..............................................24

ORDINARY RESURRECTIONS: Children in the Years of Hope..............................................58

OTHERWES MOORE, THE: One Name, Two Fates ..............................................................26

OURWAY OUT: Principles for a Post-apocalypticWorld....................................................82

OUTCASTS UNITED: An American Town, a Refugee Team,and OneWoman’s Quest to Make a Difference ..........................................................28

OVERNIGHT RESUME, THE: The FastestWay to Your Next Job ..........................................81

Pacheco, Elizabeth and June Eding..................................................................................85

Palacio, R. J. ....................................................................................................................41

Palmer, Kimberly ............................................................................................................81

Patel, Eboo......................................................................................................................62

Patel, Raj ........................................................................................................................64

PATH TO HOPE, THE..........................................................................................................52

Peter, Joseph ..................................................................................................................70

Phillips, Delores ..............................................................................................................36

PLANETWALKER: 22 Years ofWalking. 17 Years of Silence. ..............................................83

PLENTY: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet ..................................................................84

POWER OF HABIT, THE:WhyWe DoWhatWe Do in Life and Business ..............................72

PRAIRIE SILENCE: A Memoir ............................................................................................23

Prendergast, John ..........................................................................................................91

Prendergast, John and Michael Mattocks........................................................................27

QUIET: The Power of Introverts in aWorld That Can’t Stop Talking ..................................48

RAGGED EDGE OF SILENCE: Finding Peace in a NoisyWorld..............................................83

RAISING CUBBY: A Father and Son’s Adventures with Asperger’s,Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives ........................................................................16

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books ............................................................26

READY PLAYER ONE: A Novel ..........................................................................................30

REIMAGINING EQUALITY: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home..............................88

RESUME 101: A Student and Recent-Grad Guide to Crafting Resumesand Cover Letters that Land Jobs ..............................................................................81

Rinzler, Lodro ..................................................................................................................45

Robbins, Jim ..................................................................................................................84

Robison, John Elder ........................................................................................................16

Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep ............................................................................................41

Rubin, Laurie ..................................................................................................................18

RUNNINGWITH THE KENYANS: Discovering the Secrets of the FastestPeople on Earth ........................................................................................................43

Rushdie, Salman ............................................................................................................27

SACRED GROUND: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America ..............................62

SAVAGE INEQUALITIES: Children in America’s Schools......................................................58

Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd ........................................................................................................28

Schultze, Quentin J. ........................................................................................................81

Seidl, Amy ......................................................................................................................84

Skloot, Rebecca ..............................................................................................................66

Smith, Alisa and J.B. MacKinnon ....................................................................................84

Smith, Sharon J. ..............................................................................................................84

SPEED OF DARK, THE: A Novel..........................................................................................40

SPRINGS OF NAMJE, THE: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepalto the Halls of Congress ............................................................................................50

St. John,Warren..............................................................................................................28

START SOMETHING THAT MATTERS ..................................................................................90

START-UP OF YOU, THE: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself,and TransformYour Career ........................................................................................74

Steinberg, Janice ............................................................................................................41

Stoessinger, Caroline ........................................................................................................8

Strauss, Darin....................................................................................................................8

STRENGTH INWHAT REMAINS ........................................................................................25

Strickland, Bill ................................................................................................................45

Stringer, Lee....................................................................................................................29

STUCK IN THE MIDDLEWITH YOU: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders ....................21

STUFFED & STARVED: The Hidden Battle for theWorld Food System ..............................64

Stutz, Phil and Barry Michels ..........................................................................................80

SUCCEEDINGWHENYOU’RE SUPPOSED TO FAIL: The 6 Enduring Principlesof High Achievement ................................................................................................79

Suskind, Ron ..................................................................................................................29

SWAY: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior ............................................................78

SWITCH: How to Change ThingsWhen Change Is Hard ....................................................75

TEACHING HOPE: Stories from the FreedomWriter Teachers and Erin Gruwell ................44

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival ....................20

THIRDWAVE, THE: A Volunteer Story ..............................................................................91

Thompson, Alison ..........................................................................................................91

THUNDERSTRUCK ..........................................................................................................60

TIGER’SWIFE, THE: A Novel ............................................................................................34

TIN HORSE, THE: A Novel ................................................................................................41

Tisch, Jonathan ..............................................................................................................91

TOMS RIVER: A Story of Science and Salvation ................................................................82

TOOLS, THE: TransformYour Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity..............80

Tran, GB ............................................................................................................................9

TRANSLATOR, THE: A Memoir ..........................................................................................23

TRAVESIA DE ENRIQUE, LA ..............................................................................................26

TUESDAYSWITH MORRIE: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson ............42

Tyson, Timothy B. ............................................................................................................70

UNBROKEN: AWorldWar II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption......................23

UNLIKELY BROTHERS: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption ............................27

UNSTOPPABLE: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action ..................................................45

Vedantam, Shankar ........................................................................................................80

VIETNAMERICA: A Family’s Journey ................................................................................29

Vujicic, Nick ....................................................................................................................45

Walker, Karen Thompson ................................................................................................41

WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO BUILDING YOUR CAREER, THE ......................................81

Warburg, Philip ..............................................................................................................85

WATCH, THE: A Novel ......................................................................................................41

WATER BOOK, THE: A Users Guide to Understanding, Protecting, andPreserving Earth’s Most Precious Resource ................................................................85

West, Lindy, et. al. ..........................................................................................................80

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2013: A Practical Manual for Job-Huntersand Career-Changers ................................................................................................78

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?: Job-Hunter’sWorkbook, 4th Edition ......................81

WHAT SHOULD I DOWITH MY LIFE?: The True Story of PeopleWho Answeredthe Ultimate Question ..............................................................................................42

WHEN SKATEBOARDSWILL BE FREE: A Memoir ..............................................................28

Wilson, Steve ..................................................................................................................29

WONDER ........................................................................................................................41

WORLDWAR Z: An Oral History of the ZombieWar..........................................................38

Yoshino, Kenji..................................................................................................................70

YOUNG ACTIVIST’S GUIDE TO BUILDING A GREEN MOVEMENT ANDCHANGING THEWORLD, THE ....................................................................................84

YOURVOICE IN MY HEAD: A Memoir ................................................................................22

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