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Dear Freshman Year Reading Director:

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As we begin a new decade full of possibility and opportunity, we
wonder: How have common reading programs benefited students, and LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography,
and Autobiography ..................................1
how can they develop to meet a changing student populace? While
answers may vary, one thing is increasingly made clear: the selection of
the “right” book by the “right” author about the “right” topic can make FICTION TO TALK ABOUT ............................32
all of the difference; so this year we present to you both classic books
with the strongest track records and exciting new books with the best INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE......................45
potential.
You’ll note that we have maintained the overall format of the catalog HISTORY AND SOCIETY................................52
but, in response to feedback, have added two new features: “Messages
from the Authors” and, by more popular request, “Messages from Your LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES ............................61
Colleagues”, where your fellow program directors share feedback on
authors and books, such as: GO GREEN ....................................................68
“I would HIGHLY recommend this book for use in a first-year seminar
or reading program. The response from our students and faculty was MONEY MATTERS ........................................75
incredibly positive, and Warren St. John’s presentation to our students
was outstanding.” (Georgia Institute of Technology on Outcasts United, INDEX ..........................................................77
pgs. 14&15)
“This text captured the interest of our entire academic community ORDER FORM ..............................................80
because Bill Strickland’s message of hope and potential crosses all
disciplines and academic levels. Our faculty actively engaged hundreds
of students in a variety of curricular and co-curricular activities based
on the themes expressed in this impressive text.” (Indiana University of Examination Copies
Pennsylvania on Make the Impossible Possible, pgs. 46&47)
Examination copies are available to college
“The book’s broad scope would make it ideal for an institution-wide professors, instructors, or administrators
freshman year reading program . . . Rebecca Skloot is a master of the seeking titles to review for adoption
written word.” (North Carolina Central University on The Immortal consideration. The exam copy prices are as
Life of Henrietta Lacks, pgs. 52&53) follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under
$20.00, and 50% off the retail price for all
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JOKER ONE Website: www.joker-one.com
A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, To view video of Donovan Campbell’s
presentation at the 2009 First-Year
Leadership, and Brotherhood Experience® conference in Orlando FL, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/y8spg2a
By Donovan Campbell
ight after graduating from Princeton University, Donovan

R Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and
deep sense of faith, decided to join the service, realizing
that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give Now in
back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to Paperback
lead. In this immediate, thrilling, and inspiring memoir,
Campbell recounts a timeless and transcendent tale of
brotherhood, courage, and sacrifice.
When Campbell’s platoon, Joker One, deployed to Ramadi in
the spring of 2004, they expected to build schools, train police,
and make friends with the citizens. But soon, hundreds of
hardcore insurgents launched simultaneous attacks on the
Marine forces in Ramadi.
Told by the man who led the unit of hard-pressed Marines,
Joker One is a gripping tale of a leadership, loyalty, faith, and
camaraderie throughout the best and worst of times.
“Campbell’s narrative humanized a war, and challenged me
to critically examine the ideas of leadership 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
“Donovan Campbell, first as a Marine and then as a writer,
shows us that the dominant emotion in war isn’t hatred or Random House | TR
anger or fear. It’s love. His story stands as a poignant 978-0-8129-7956-5 | 336pp.
tribute to his men—their courage, their dedication, their $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
skill, and their love for one another, even unto death. This is Author Available • e-Book
a deeply moving book.”
—Nathaniel Fick, The New York Times bestselling author of
One Bullet Away
Selected for Common Reading

Siena Heights University
About the Author

DONOVAN CAMPBELL graduated with honors from Princeton University and Harvard Business
School, finished first in his class at the Marines’ Basic Officer Course, and served three combat
deployments—two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon and a
Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq. He is now working for PepsiCo and living in Dallas, Texas,
with his wife and daughter. He is the author of Joker One.
Life Stories—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography 1

A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN Websites:
www.ajournalforjordan.com/ • www.ajournalforjordan.com/blog/
A Story of Love and Honor Videos:
http://tinyurl.com/ye88yp5
By Dana Canedy http://tinyurl.com/ydctpaw • http://tinyurl.com/yagkryf
A 2009 New York Times Editors’ Choice

“The cost of war is high, the greatest price paid by those left
forever behind.” —Dana Canedy
n 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write
I what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son
in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was
Now in
Paperback killed by a roadside bomb on October 14, 2006. His son,
Jordan, was seven months old. A Journal for Jordan is a
mother’s letter to her son about the father he lost before he
could even speak—including a fiercely honest account of her
search for answers about Charles’s death. It is also a father’s
advice and prayers for the son he will never know. Finally, this
is the story of Dana and Charles together—two seemingly
mismatched souls who loved each other deeply and lost each
other too soon.
A powerful selection for common reading programs, students
will find this to be an inspiring and resonant memoir, as well
as a compassionate introduction, a loving good-bye, a
reporter’s inquiry into her soldier’s life, and a heartrending
reminder of the human cost of the war in Iraq.
“A hauntingly beautiful account of a family fractured by
war.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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“Canedy’s memoir speaks to military families everywhere
978-0-307-39600-6 | 288pp.
. . . By openly and honestly revealing her side of their highly
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emotional story as well, by detailing the effects of his death
Audio Edition • Author Available • e-Book
on her and subsequent interactions with government brass
about burial and benefits, for example . . . she gives the
project a greater significance, making it especially relevant
for and meaningful to countless others in similar situations.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“This tragic story of love and war reminds all Americans
that we are fortunate to have people like Sgt. Charles King,
willing to die for our country. Dana Canedy bears witness to
the enduring power of love, to Sgt. King’s heroism and his
unfailing devotion to his family and his men.”
—Caroline Kennedy
About the Author

DANA CANEDY is a senior editor at the The New York Times, where she has been a journalist for
twelve years. In 2001, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for “How
Race Is Lived in America,” a series on race relations in the United States. Raised near Fort Knox, she
lives in New York City with her son, Jordan.
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A MIGHTY LONG WAY To view video of Carlotta Walls LaNier’s
presentation at the 2010
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central First-Year Experience® Conference
High School in Denver, CO, go to:
www.commonreads.com
By Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
hen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the

W stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September
25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted
to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock
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Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation
on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that
would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and
forever change the landscape of America. Complete with
compelling photographs of the time, A Mighty Long Way
shines a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history,
and shows that determination, fortitude, and the ability to
change the world are not exclusive to a few special people, but
are inherent within us all.
“Carlotta Walls LaNier’s A Mighty Long Way is a riveting
account of nine brave high school students and their
families in a quest for quality desegregated public
education. What happened in Little Rock in 1957 resulted in
America’s greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
Carlotta’s account of events inside and outside Little Rock
Central High School should be read and studied particularly
by those who now walk through doors of opportunity which
Carlotta and her schoolmates first opened over 50 years
ago. When I started her book, I couldn’t put it down. It is a
must-read.”
—James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, Dean of University of Arkansas One World | HC
Clinton School of Public Service 978-0-345-51100-3 | 304pp.
“Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the Little Rock $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
9 to cross the color lines, political barriers and cultural Author Available • e-Book
chasms that circumscribed her life. She, her family and
friends paid a heavy price that burdened them even as it Do not order paperback before 7/27/2010.
liberated all of us. Her memoir, which is really our memoir,
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provides a rare perspective on that history in the making.”
978-0-345-51101-0 | 336pp.
—Hank Klibanoff, Pulitzer Prize winning co-author of $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle,
and the Awakening of the Nation
About the Author

CARLOTTA WALLS LANIER attended Michigan State University and graduated from Colorado State
College—now the University of Northern Colorado, on whose board of trustees she sits. After working
for the YWCA, she founded her own real estate brokerage firm, LaNier and Company. A sought-after
lecturer, LaNier speaks across the country, and has received the Congressional Medal of Honor and two
honorary doctorate degrees. She is the mother of two children, Whitney and Brooke, and lives in
Englewood, Colorado, with her husband, Ira.

Author Spotlight: Firoozeh Dumas
Stephanie Rausser
FIROOZEH DUMAS was born in Abadan, Iran, and moved to California at the age of
seven. After a two-year stay, she and her family moved back to Iran and resided in
Ahvaz and Tehran. Two years later, Dumas returned to California, where she later
attended the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, Funny in Farsi, was a finalist
for both the PEN/USA Award in 2004 and the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and has been
adopted in junior high, high school, and college curricula throughout the nation. It has also been
selected for several college, university, and One Book, One Community common reading programs.
LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT Website: www.firoozehdumas.com

Adventures of a Global Citizen
By Firoozeh Dumas
n the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas

I recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in
Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian
heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both
tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her
well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums,
all told with insights into the universality of the human
condition. (Hint: It may have to do with brushing and
flossing daily).
Now in With dry wit and a bold spirit, Dumas puts her own unique
Paperback mark on the themes of family, community, and tradition. She
braves the uncommon palate of her French-born husband and
learns the nuances of having her book translated for Persian
audiences (the censors edit out all references to ham). And
along the way, she reconciles her beloved Iranian customs with
her Western ideals.
Moving and relevant, yet witty, Laughing Without an Accent
shows how our differences can unite us—and provides
indelible proof that Firoozeh Dumas is a humorist of the
highest order.
“There’s such warmth to Dumas’ writing that it invites the
reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along
with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and
Random House | TR Americans in general.”
978-0-345-49957-8 | 240pp. —Booklist
$14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 “These stories, like everything Firoozeh Dumas writes, are
Author Available • e-Book charming, highly amusing vignettes of family life. Dumas is
one of those rare people—a naturally gifted storyteller.”
—Alexander McCall Smith
“Humorous without being sentimental, [Dumas] speaks to
the American experience.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

University of Minnesota, Duluth
A Message from Firoozeh Dumas
Since 2003, over two dozen communities and schools have chosen my book, Funny in Farsi, for their
common read. I have had the pleasure to visit and talk with most of them and I have been deeply
honored and humbled to find that my book has been engaging and appealing to such a wide range
of readers, whether in a high school, college, library, or community center. But all of this has made
me pause and wonder: why my book?
Funny in Farsi is a collection of short, humorous stories about my growing up Iranian in America.
The book tells a story unique to my experience but, ultimately, the book is really about shared
humanity. When I set out to write the book, my one goal was, and remains, that every reader—
regardless of age, background, or color—come away from it with the idea that our commonalities
far outweigh our differences. I hope that this bit of knowledge encourages people to talk to one
another knowing that the commonalities are there; we just have to look for them. And that begins
with a conversation.
So many readers tell me that my family reminds them of their own family and that my values and
experiences, both positive and negative, resonate with them. I heard this at Gallaudet University
where many students are deaf; I heard this in rural Maine where many people had never met a
Middle Easterner; and I hear this at every school, library and community center where I speak.
It is within this context that people talk about my book across generations and across racial lines. I
see people united in conversation, not by American Idol, but by my family stories. My book becomes
their springboard to share ideas and engage in discussion about their lives as well as contemporary
issues. Even though my stories are about an Iranian family, they are really about being an outsider.
And who among us has not experienced being an outsider? If you’ve gone through the awkward
stages of puberty, entered college as an anxious freshman, or have undergone a life transition at any
age, you’ve been there.
So I invite you to give my book a read, and consider it for use in your common reading program.
Please know that both a Discussion and Teacher’s Guide are available, as is an audio edition of the
book. I truly look forward to the opportunity to come to your school, community or library
(please contact Steven Barclay at steven@barclayagency.com to schedule an appearance).
In these of all times, it gives me great satisfaction to know that one little book can create a little
more understanding and knowledge in the world—and perhaps also make us laugh as well.
In the meantime, keep reading!
FUNNY IN FARSI
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Firoozeh Dumas’s wonderfully engaging
family which moved from Iran to Southern California in the 1970s, arriving with no firsthand
knowledge of this country.
“What’s charming beyond the humor of this memoir is that it remains affectionate even in the
weakest, 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.
For complete listing, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yepymcf
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Author Spotlight: Tracy Kidder
TRACY KIDDER graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and
served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book
Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He lives in
Massachusetts and Maine.
Website: www.tracykidder.com/
STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS To view video of Tracy Kidder’s presentation at
the 2009 First-Year Experience® conference in
By Tracy Kidder Orlando, FL, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yaud5t6
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

racy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the
T college common reading program classic, Mountains
Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as
the “master of the nonfiction narrative.” In this new book,
Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Deo
NEW
arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life.
Having survived a civil war and genocide, and plagued by
horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport with 200 dollars, no
knowledge of English, and no contacts. He ekes out a
precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central
Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in
bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will
change his life, eventually pointing him in the direction of
Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to
healing. With Strength in What Remains, Kidder breaks new
ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels back
with Deo over a turbulent life in search of meaning and
forgiveness.
“That 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his
finest work—indeed, one of the truly stunning books I’ve
read this year—is proof that the secret to memorable
Random House | HC nonfiction is so often the writer’s readiness to be surprised.
978-1-4000-6621-6 | 304pp. Deo’s experience can feel like this era’s version of the Ellis
$26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 Island migration. Deo is propelled, so often, by pure will,
and his victories . . . summon a feeling of restored
Do not order paperback before 5/4/2010. confidence in human nature and American opportunity.
Random House | TR Then we plunge into hell. Having only glimpses of Deo’s
978-0-8129-7761-5 | 304pp. past, we suddenly get a full-blown portrait. Kidder’s
$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 rendering of what Deo endured and survived just before he
boarded the plane for New York is one of the most powerful
Teacher’s Guide passages of modern nonfiction.”
—Ron Suskind, The New York Times Book Review
“Tracy Kidder's new book Strength in What Remains is . . .
narrative infused with a broad, universal appeal and
occasional touches of brilliance. He offers us fine prose,
complex characters, and realistic portrayals. Deo’s
resilience, his struggle to overcome adversity strikes a
chord in all of us. His story reaffirms our hope that one
person can make a difference . . . [T]his book is one not to
be missed.”
—Seattle Times
MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By Tracy Kidder
An ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable Book

A Popular College Common Reading Selection*
n medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to
I cure infectious diseases and bring the lifesaving tools of
modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy
Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make
a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-
eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth,
social systems, and disease.
Pulitzer 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.
Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti,
Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices
through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real
nation is humanity”—a philosophy that is embodied in the
small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. At the
heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and
on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb,
“Beyond mountains there are mountains”: as you solve one
problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on
and try to solve that one too. Random House | TR
“Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, writes clearly and 978-0-8129-7301-3 | 336pp.
engagingly. . . . This book is being widely used in freshman $15.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
seminars at colleges across the United States, and it will Audio Edition • Author Available • e-Book
likely stir debates on such wide-ranging issues as the Teacher’s Guide
politics of health care, the role of government funding, and
ethics. Highly recommended.”
—Choice (American Library Association)
*Selected for Common Reading at over 100 Colleges

and Universities.
Go to http://tinyurl.com/yejrxpw to view the list of schools.

Author Spotlight: Azar Nafisi
AZAR NAFISI is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. She won a fellowship from
Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic
University, and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the
University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil and left Iran for America in 1997. She
has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and
The New Republic, and is the author of Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels.
THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT Website: www.azarnafisi.com

Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
By Azar Nafisi
zar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller,

A Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal
story of growing up in Iran, filled with memories of her life
Now in lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, and set
Paperback against the background of a country’s political revolution. A
girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of
the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for
freedom in a country beset by political upheaval—these and
other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a
gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the
world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place”
(Newsday).
Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the
Nafisi family, Things I’ve Been Silent About is also a powerful
historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of
change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978–79,
which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious
dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in
Parliament, even while her father—once mayor of Tehran—
was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her
mother presided over, where at first women came together to
gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of
things never spoken about, and which then evolved into
Random House | TR gatherings where men and women would meet to openly
978-0-8129-7390-7 | 368pp. discuss the unfolding revolution.
$16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
“Deeply felt . . . an affecting account of a family’s struggle.”
—The New York Times
“A gifted storyteller with a mastery of Western literature,
Nafisi knows how to use language both to settle scores and
to seduce.”
“An immensely rewarding and beautifully written act of
courage, by turns amusing, tender and obsessively
dogged.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
A Memoir in Books
By Azar Nafisi
very Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic

E Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar
Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female
students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic
morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran,
fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind
censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s
living room risked removing their veils, and immersed
themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered
seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to
read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They
were all former students whom she had taught at university.
Some came from conservative and religious families, others
were progressive and secular, and several had spent time in
jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed
to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to
open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels
they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and
disappointments. Their stories intertwined with the stories
they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square,
Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in
Tehran.
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revolution, when Nafisi first started teaching at the University $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In Author Available • e-Book • Teacher’s Guide
those frenetic days, the students took control of the university,
expelled faculty members, and purged the curriculum. When a
radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to
teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that
preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let
him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the
defense.
Azar Nafisi’s story offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq
war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the
inside, of the lives of women in revolutionary Iran. It is a work
of great passion, written with a startlingly original voice.

Ashland University
Ithaca College
Sweet Briar College (VA)

Author Spotlight: Sonia Nazario
SONIA NAZARIO has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most
recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled
some of this country’s most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration.
She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. Nazario is a graduate of
Williams College and has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University
of California, Berkeley.
ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Website: www.enriquesjourney.com
The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey

to Reunite with His Mother
By Sonia Nazario
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

A Popular Common Reading Selection*
hen Enrique was just five years old, his mother, Lourdes,
W 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. Journalist Sonia
Nazario’s expert reporting allows students to encounter each
setback alongside Enrique, and the result is as suspenseful and
harrowing as it is informative.
Enrique’s Journey is a 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.
“This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to
reshape American conversations about immigration.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A stirring and troubling book about a magnificent journey
. . . Joseph Campbell would recognize Enrique’s Journey. It’s
the stuff of myth . . . [but] Enrique’s Journey is true. . . . A
microcosm of the massive exodus pouring over the borders
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about family. It’s about home. . . . The border will continue to
trouble the dreams of anyone who is paying attention
. . . . Enrique’s Journey is among the best border books yet
written.”
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at more than 20 Colleges and “Gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told . . .
One Book, One City Programs. readers fed up with the ongoing turf wars between fact and
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to view the list of schools places this sometimes hard-to-believe story squarely in the
realm of nonfiction.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
A Message from Sonia Nazario
President Obama has vowed that in 2010, he will put immigration reform on the front burner.
That means that student interest in Enrique’s Journey, already made freshman read by 27 colleges and
universities, will no doubt increase in the year to come.
In the fall of 2009, I traveled to nearly 20 colleges and universities to talk with students about Enrique’s
Journey. These visits led to incredibly interesting and moving encounters with students who reveal differ-
ent responses to my book. Many non-Latino students tell me they had no real concept of the poverty that
pushes many migrants out of places like Honduras. They say they find the story of what Enrique and
other migrant children are willing to do to reach the U.S. not only moving, but instructive, forcing them
to re-evaluate the values they were raised with about immigrants. One African American student in
Chicago told me how her grandmother had moved from Mississippi to Illinois and left her children
behind, an experience common among African American women leaving the South. She said
the book gave her a deeper bond with people south of the border.
Often Mexican American students tell me they have a better understanding of the tensions
between Mexicans and Central Americans in the U.S.
The most moving responses, however, are from Latino students who say this is the first book
where they could see some glimmer of their own lives and experiences. They—or someone in
their family—made the journey to the U.S. on top of freight trains, or were separated from
parents in the process of coming to the U.S.
Immigrant students—whether from China, Russia, or Poland—told me
they lived with these separations as well.
What has been most promising is to see students’ clear desire to act to try to allevi-
ate the situation I describe in Enrique’s Journey. As one UNC—Greensboro student
put it so beautifully, when the U.S. decided to put a man on the moon, they said it
would take 10 years. It actually took just eight years. Some of the astronauts on
that moon mission were 18 years old when the commitment by the U.S. was first
made. “I’m 18,” he told me. “If we can put a man on the moon in less than 10 years, surely we can make
progress in helping to create jobs in Latin America in the next decade.”
The woman who administers the freshman read program at Northern Arizona University said Enrique’s
Journey appealed to her and worked for many reasons:
It appealed to both male and female students. The protagonist is close to the students’ age. The book, she
said, is a compelling read that broadens students’ awareness of cultures not their own. Simply, it is about
a hot current issue.
The administration and faculty liked that Enrique’s Journey addressed certain themes: survival, communi-
ty, education, family, diversity, racism, violence, drugs, redemption, foreign relations, politics, and the
immigration issue. They also liked that it touches on emotions some first year students might be dealing
with, such as loneliness, connection to family, and the temptation to succumb to
violence and drugs.
What I have enjoyed most about my discussions at these universities is that it has
taken a highly polarizing issue, an important issue, and forced students to see it
in a nuanced way. Because for me, even as we head into renewed and heated
debates about immigration, this is an issue with many shades of gray best
explored through research, reflection and, most importantly, conversation.

Author Spotlight: John Elder Robison
JOHN ELDER ROBISON lives with his wife and son in Amherst, Massachusetts.
His company, JE Robison Service, repairs and restores fine European automobiles.
LOOK ME IN THE EYE Websites: www.johnrobison.com • www.jerobison.blogspot.com

www.robisonservice.blogspot.com • @johnrobison on Twitter
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ver since he was a child, John Robison longed to connect

E with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his
odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid
eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and
stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label,
“social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother, who
conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings
pickling himself in sherry. It was no wonder he gravitated to
machines, which could, at least, be counted on.
Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of grow-
ing up with Asperger’s at a time when the diagnosis simply
didn’t exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes you inside the
head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as
“defective,” who could not avail himself of KISS’s endless sup-
ply of groupies (he toured with the band as tech support), and
who still has a peculiar aversion to using people’s given names
(he calls his wife, “Unit Two”). He also provides a fascinating
reverse angle on the younger brother he left at the mercy of
their nutty parents—the boy who would later change his name
to Augusten Burroughs and write the bestselling memoir,
Running with Scissors.
Ultimately, this is the story of Robison’s journey from his
world into ours, and of his new life as a husband, father, and
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sometimes alien, yet always deeply human.
Teacher’s Guide “There’s an endearing quality to Robison and his story that
transcends the “Scissors” connection . . . Look Me in the
Eye is often drolly funny and seldom angry or self-pitying.
Even when describing his fear that he’d grow up to be a
sociopathic killer, Robison brings a light touch to what
Defiance College could be construed as dark subject matter . . . Robison is
SUNY Potsdam also a natural storyteller and engaging conversationalist.”
—The Boston Globe
“Robison’s memoir is must reading for its unblinking (as
only an Aspergian can) glimpse into the life of a person who
had to wait decades for the medical community to catch up
with him.”
—Booklist
“Well-written and fascinating.”
—Library Journal
A Message from John Elder Robison
Thanks for considering Look Me in the Eye for your school reading program. I am truly
honored by all the schools that have taken up my story as a teaching tool. Seeing that, I
have worked hard to develop supporting materials to help teachers
integrate my writing into their programs.
The paperback edition of my book has been revised for younger read-
ers, and it includes a new postscript and reading group guide. Those
changes were a good start, but many teachers asked for more, and
we’ve responded . . . .
This fall we published a comprehensive Teacher’s
Guide, available for free download from the Random
House website: http://tinyurl.com/ydragzy. The guide was created by the
students and staff of Houston’s Monarch School, with a little help from
me. Monarch is a nationally recognized school for kids with neurological
differences, including Asperger’s. They’ve done a fine job, with chapter by
chapter discussion, sample questions, and more.
I have also developed a graduate course on my book and the Asperger
mind. This one-day credit course will help you understand Asperger’s,
and integrate the ideas expressed in Look Me in the Eye into middle and
high school curriculums. “The Asperger Mind” is offered through Elms
College in Chicopee, MA, and it will also be available online for fall 2010.
Finally, I am available to conduct workshops and talks in schools. I love
talking to young people, teachers, and parents. It’s important to show kids
that different is not always disabled, and it is possible to build
a good life in the face of adversity. You can view video from
my talks on my website, www.johnrobison.com. My events
are scheduled by The Lavin Agency.

Author Spotlight: Warren St. John
WARREN ST. JOHN is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of the
national bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.
OUTCASTS UNITED Website: www.outcastsunited.com/

An American Town, a Refugee Team, and To view video of author discussion with educators,
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One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference
By Warren St. John
utcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a

O remarkable woman coach, and a small southern town
turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement.
In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a
resettlement center for refugees and a modern-day Ellis Island
for scores of families from war zones in Liberia, Congo,
Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The town also became home to
Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who
founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston’s boys off
the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees—short
for refugees.
Now in Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the lives of the
Paperback Fugees, their families, and their charismatic coach, as they
struggle to build new lives in a fading town overwhelmed by
change. Theirs is a story about resilience in the face of
extraordinary hardship, the power of one person to make a
difference, and the daunting challenge of creating community
in a place where people seem to have so little in common.
“Not merely about soccer, St. John’s book teaches readers
about the social and economic difficulties of adapting to a
new culture and the challenges facing a town with a new
and disparate population. Despite their cultural and
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Teacher’s Guide
A “richly detailed, uplifting account of a young Jordanian
immigrant who created a soccer program in Georgia for
Selected for Common Reading young refugees from war-torn nations . . . educational and
enriching.”
Agnes Scott College
—Kirkus Reviews
Georgia Tech University
Johnson State College
McMurry University
Middle Tennessee State University
St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, VA
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A Message from Warren St. John
For the better part of a hundred years, Clarkston, Georgia—a community of 7,100 on one
square mile of land east of downtown Atlanta—was a mostly white town where little of
interest happened. In the early 1990’s, the town was designated as a resettlement center for
refugees from around the world, and refugees poured in from Southeast Asia, the Balkans,
Africa and the Middle East. In less than a decade, little Clarkston, Georgia transformed into
one of the most diverse communities in the country.
Outcasts United is the story of this town, told through the lens of a soccer team of refugee
boys called the Fugees, a team founded and coached by an American-educated, Jordanian-
born volunteer named Luma Mufleh. The team and its remarkable coach ultimately provide
the rest of us with powerful lessons about how to create community in places where everyone
is different.
The Fugees are a paradigm of the modern-day freshman class or student body. A group of
boys from an extraordinary range of backgrounds have come together in a new place and face
the challenge of forging alliances and creating a new community. But through lessons taught
by the coach and derived from their own experiences, the boys manage to identify common
goals that override their significant cultural differences.
A nuanced and realistic approach to discussing diversity. The drama of the Fugees’ soccer
season offers a way into a more complex and nuanced discussion about diversity that is not
doctrinaire or simplistic. The book does not gloss over the challenges posed by diverse
communities, but does offer positive, real-world examples in which people in Clarkston have
turned diversity into an asset.
Expands students’ horizons. Though set in Clarkston, Georgia, Outcasts United traces the
origins of the conflicts that caused the refugees of Clarkston to flee their homes in the first
place, in order to contextualize the refugee experience. Students learn about conflicts in
Liberia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Burundi and Congo, among others. In addition, students gain
valuable insights into the struggle of other young people to assimilate into a new culture.
The importance and rewards of service. The example of Coach Luma proves the adage that
one person can make a difference. With no formal training in social work and with little
outside support, she identified a profound local need and single-handedly took the initiative
to help meet it. In the process, she found herself with a new family that valued and
appreciated her for her efforts and kindness.
Strong female role model. Luma herself offers a powerful role-model for female students.
A lone female coach in a league of male coaches, she is determined—sometimes stubborn—
clever and, above all, passionate on behalf of her players and their families. And through
force-of-will she takes on local prejudices and political intransigence that works against
the refugees.
Having already been selected by several universities and communities within just the first year
of its publication, Outcasts United has already spoken to thousands of students. I hope to have
the opportunity to bring the book’s message to your school as well.

Author Spotlight: Ron Suskind
RON SUSKIND is a former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. In 1995, he won
the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for a two-part series about Cedric Jennings’ high
school years. He lives in Washington, D.C.
A HOPE IN THE UNSEEN

Website: www.ronsuskind.com
An American Odyssey from the Inner City
to the Ivy League
By Ron Suskind
A Popular Common Reading Selection*

t is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously
I determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of
Washington, D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the
dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out
of more than 1,350 boast an average of B or better. At Ballou,
Cedric has almost no friends. He eats lunch in a classroom
most days, plowing through the extra work he has asked for,
knowing that he’s really competing with kids from other,
harder schools. Cedric Jennings’ driving ambition—which is
fully supported by his forceful mother—is to attend a top-
flight college.
In September 1995, after years of near superhuman
dedication, he realizes that ambition when he begins as a
freshman at Brown University. In this updated edition, A Hope
in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two
years of high school, follows him through his difficult first
year at Brown, and now tells the story of his subsequent
successes in college and the working world.
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Excerpt
The next morning blooms into a radiant, cloudless day, as it ought to be. Freshmen arrive for
orientation, ferried by a grand procession of proud parents.
Barbara, tired from the drive, gets a late start and, before long, the day feels harried. It’s nearly noon
by the time they get to College Hill, a steep slope on top of which Brown sits like a cloud city above
the gritty ethnic enclaves, legendary Italian restaurants, and aging factories of Providence. “I wanted to
get this all done early. Now look,” she says, sitting in the van near the Brown student union as Cedric,
looking at a checklist in his orientation packet, slips out to go get his temporary student ID. “Don’t be
all day, Lavar,” she calls after him, all business, “I gotta get back home.”
Cedric has drawn a desirable dorm, Andrews Hall. It’s a three-story brick horseshoe on the quieter
Pembroke side of campus that was renovated over the summer and now boasts fresh carpeting and
new paint. From the Andrews parking lot, they unload the van swiftly, with Cedric helping on this end.
While Barbara glances tersely at other parents—mostly white, of course—unloading Lexuses and
Range Rovers and Volvo wagons, she notices that Cedric seems to be increasingly relaxed—smiling at
some of the other incoming freshmen and offering unsolicited greetings.
“These dorms are nice,” Barbara notes over her shoulder to Cedric, who is dragging a trunk full of
linens behind her across the second-floor hallway carpet. Remembering Cedric’s complaints about last
summer’s dorms, she adds, “And a lot nicer than MIT, ain’t it?”
“Lot nicer,” he says, almost shouting. “This place is nothing like MIT.”
A small paper square taped to the door of room 216 says “Cedric Lavar Jennings and Robert Burton.”
Cedric fumbles with the key and opens the heavy wooden door.
“Wow,” he says.
“Hmmm, very nice,” Barbara confirms.
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Praise for A Hope in the Unseen

“Ron Suskind takes us on an unforgettable, peculiarly American journey—a journey which exposes the fault
lines of race and class, and yet gives one reason for hope. This is a tale of fierce power—and one which
stayed with me long after finishing the book.”
—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River
“Suskind uses his reporter skills brilliantly, portraying Cedric’s outer and inner life and making an eloquent
though unstated plea for affirmative action. Essential reading that provides some small hope for our social
ills.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“The drama of the story is in the mediations Cedric learns to make between the inherited and the chosen,
yet ‘unseen’ parts of his life.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A beautiful book of a heroic American struggle.”
—David Halberstam in USA Today
“[An] extraordinary, formula-shattering book.”
“A story of sheer human grit that should be read by others as example and inspiration.”
—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“Absolutely gripping. A sort of suspense novel of the human psyche. . . . It’s beyond good, it’s really
extraordinary.”
—Walter Kirn, National Public Radio

STREET SHADOWS
A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
By Jerald Walker
erald Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and

J raised, along with his six brothers and sisters, by blind
parents of modest means but middle-class aspirations. A boy
of great promise, whose parents and teachers saw success in
his future, Jerald seemed destined to fulfill their hopes. But by
age fourteen, like so many of his friends, he found himself
drawn to the streets. By age 17, he was a school dropout, a
NEW drug addict, and a gangbanger. And then came the blast of
gunfire that changed everything: His drug-dealing friend,
Greg, was shot to death—less than an hour after Walker
scored drugs from him.
Here, told in alternating time frames, is the story of the
journey that Walker took to become the man he is today—a
husband, father, teacher, and writer. Masterfully told, marked
by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained
sadness, it is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug
life” and the wake-up call that led him to find himself again.
An eloquent account of how the past shadows but need not
determine the present, it is also a stirring portrait of two
Americas—one hopeless, the other inspirational—embodied
within one man.
“What a powerful read. From the very first sentence we
begin this incredible journey with this young man into
himself . . . and the world around him. We laugh, we
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—Nikki Giovanni
“Street Shadows is a powerful memoir narrated through
colorful and moving stories. The movement of the memoir
traces the narrator’s life through delinquency, drug use,
family tensions and family tragedies and adds real
emotional muscle to the voice.”
—James Alan McPherson, author of Elbow Room
About the Author

JERALD WALKER is an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State College. Married and the
father of two young sons, he lives in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in The Best
American Essays (2007 and 2009), Best African American Essays (2009 and 2010), the anthology
Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Missouri Review, The
Iowa Review, and Mother Jones, for which he profiled Chicago’s South Side.
Author Spotlight: Barack Obama
BARACK OBAMA is the President of the United States and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
for 2009.
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER

A Story of Race and Inheritance
By Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father is the best-selling book by President Barack
Obama. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son
of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a
workable meaning to his life as a black American.
“Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the
intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and
race.”
—The Washington Post Book World

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THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By Barack Obama
Echoing themes he sounded in his extraordinary keynote speech at the
2004 Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama, and
now President-elect, speaks in this book to Americans of all stripes who
are weary of U.S. politics today, and who long for something rooted in
the faith and decency of the American Dream.
“An upbeat view of the country’s potential and a political biography
that concentrates on the Senator’s core values.”
—Chicago Tribune

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The Long Journey Home from the Moon
By Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham
The flight of Apollo 11 made Buzz Aldrin one of the most famous people on our planet, yet
few people know the rest of this true American hero’s story. In Magnificent Desolation,
Aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person account of the lunar landing that came
within seconds of failure, but also opens up with remarkable candor about his more
personal trials—and eventual triumphs—back on Earth.
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March 2010
I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED
By Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
“I’m a simple village girl whose family had to move to the capital, and I have always obeyed
the orders of the men in my family. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything.
Today, I have decided to say no . . . ”
In 2008, Nujood Ali was only nine years old when her parents married her off to a man in
his thirties. At the age of ten years old she was the first child bride in Yemen to win a
divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. Written with childlike simplicity and a
penetrating honesty, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, an international bestselling memoir,
is at once shocking and inspiring, disturbing and redemptive.
Now in Paperback
ESCAPE FROM SADDAM
The Incredible True Story of One Man’s Journey to Freedom
By Lewis Alsamari
Born in Iraq but raised in England, 12-year-old Lewis Alsamari accompanied his father to
Iraq for what was supposed to be a one-month vacation. Six years later, Lewis was still
trapped in Iraq and, worse yet, had been conscripted to Saddam Hussein’s military. Risking
his life, he escaped across the desert to Jordan, where he saved for passage back to England.
However, his story did not end there. After reestablishing himself in England, he received
notice that the family he’d left behind in Iraq was being imprisoned, beaten, and tortured
for his desertion, and he had to embark on another dangerous journey to free them. Escape
from Saddam is a remarkable story of heroism sure to inform and inspire.
“A hair-raising and sensitively wrought tale of an Iraqi soldier. . . . A sharply delineated personal
account charged with great emotional power.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS Website: www.mayaangelou.com

By Maya Angelou
“Students [. . .] find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the midst of
troubled and sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit and strength a
wellspring of pride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book as writers themselves
and learned much about the memoir craft.”
—Constance Berman, Director of Professional Studies, Southern Vermont College
Selected for Common Reading at Berry College and Luther College.

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Website: www.mayaangelou.com
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
By Maya Angelou
For a world of devoted readers, here is a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories
and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she
never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to
living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book
transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
“A slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom. . . . Overarching each brief chapter
is the vital energy of a woman taking life’s measure with every step.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Spellbinding . . . Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire. . . . Each [essay] delivers
a powerful message.”
—Rocky Mountain News
AMERICAN CHICA: Two Worlds, One Childhood

By Marie Arana
2001 National Book Award Finalist—Non-Fiction
Library Journal Best Books of 2001—Non-Fiction
A New York Times Nonfiction Notable Book
Written in the tradition of Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, this is an informative
and resonant portrait of a child coming to terms with her bicultural identity. Throughout,
Arana provides an unforgettable look at her two worlds: the diverse terrain of Peru, redolent
with ghosts of Incan history and mythology; and the vast prairie lands of Wyoming.
“The top rank of memoir. . . . Arana’s writing skills elevate the book to outright lyricism in
chapter after chapter.”
—The Denver Post
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TEARS OF THE DESERT: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
By Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis
Born to an affluent family, Halima Bashir was lucky enough to get an education. Returning
to Darfur as a doctor was supposed to be the beginning of a time of prosperity; then the
Janjaweed came. The Sudanese-backed militias raped and tortured the women of Halima’s
village, and when she spoke up against it, she was raped and tortured, herself. Having fled
the massacre of her family and friends, Halima can now tell her story and give students a
glimpse into the genocide and suffering that is often overlooked or unknown by so many.
One World | TR | 978-0-345-51046-4 | 352pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE TIES THAT BIND Website: www.berticeberry.com
A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption
By Bertice Berry
In this poignant, reflective memoir, Berry skillfully relays the evolution of relations between
the races, from slavery to Reconstruction, from the struggles of the Civil Rights movement
and the Black Power 1970s, and on to the present day. In doing so, she sheds light on a
picture of the past that not only liberates but also unites and evokes the need to forgive and
be forgiven.
“Berry continues to demonstrate an uncanny aptitude for weaving African American history into
entertaining, empowering stories both fictional and personal.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-2414-6 | 224pp. | $23.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00

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Website: www.alioncalledchristian.com
A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
By Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
In 2008, an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately
became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men
and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George
Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild. Originally published in 1971,
and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from
cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching
and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined to become one of
the great classics of animal literature.
Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3237-0 | 256pp. | $12.99/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Website:
I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir jenniferboylan.net
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
For Jennifer Boylan, the bestselling author of She’s Not There, creaking stairs, fleeting images
in the mirror, and the remote whisper of human voices were everyday events in the
Pennsylvania house in which she grew up in the 1970s. Looking back on the spirits who
invaded her family home, Boylan launches a full investigation with the help of a group of
earnest, if questionable, ghostbusters. She also examines the ways we find connections
between the people we once were and the people we become, and shows us how love,
forgiveness, and humor help us find peace—with our ghosts, with our loved ones, and with
the uncanny boundaries, real and imagined, between men and women.
SHE’S NOT THERE: A Life in Two Genders Website: jenniferboylan.net

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
She’s Not There is the unconventional memoir of a person who changes genders, a portrait
of a loving marriage that withstands a radical change, and a revealing look at society’s folly
in over-emphasizing the importance of fixed gender roles.
“Beautifully crafted, fearless, painfully honest, inspiring and extremely witty. Jennifer Finney
Boylan is an exquisite writer with a fascinating story and this combination has resulted in one of
the most remarkable, moving, and unforgettable memoirs in recent history.”
—Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors
GOD GREW TIRED OF US: A Memoir Website:

www.johndaufoundation.org
By John Bul Dau and Michael Sweeney
This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of
miracles. One of the uprooted youngsters known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, John Bul Dau,
was 12 years old when civil war ravaged his village and shattered its age-old society, a life of
herding and agriculture marked by dignity, respect, and the simple virtues of Dinka tribal
tradition. As tracer bullets split the night and mortar shells exploded around him, John fled
into the darkness—the first terrified moments of a journey that would lead him thousands
of miles into an exile that was to last many years.
God Grew Tired of Us is ultimately a searing account of hardship, famine, and war that
testifies to human resilience and kindness.
Selected for Common Reading at Cazenovia College, Otis College of Art and Design,
and Graceland College (IA).
National Geographic | TR 978-1-4262-0212-4 | 304pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE
A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
This evocative memoir of family and growing up in the tough, violent world of Baltimore
in the 1980s chronicles the relationship between the author and his father, a Vietnam vet
and Black Panther affiliate.
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.” —Walter Mosley
“A searing and soulful memoir.” —Michael Eric Dyson, Author of April 4, 1968
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52746-0 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
IRAN AWAKENING: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

By Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni
This is the moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi,
winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has
remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced
raising a family while pursuing her work.
“The safety and freedom of citizens in democracies is irretrievably bound with the safety and
freedom of people like Shirin Ebadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievements of
mankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her
country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim
societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible.”
—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7528-4 | 256pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING Website: www.hopeedelman.com
By Hope Edelman
In autumn 2000, Hope Edelman, the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, was a
woman adrift, questioning her marriage, her profession, and her place in the world.
Confused and worried about how to handle the existence of her three-year-old daughter’s
curiously disruptive imaginary friend, Edelman and her husband decided to take her to
Maya healers in Belize, hoping that a shaman might help them banish Dodo—and, as they
came to understand, all he represented—from their lives. This deeply affecting memoir of a
family’s emotional journey explores what Edelman and her husband went looking for in
Belize, and what they ultimately discovered about the things that possess and destroy, or
that can heal us all.
Ballantine Books | HC | 978-0-345-50650-4 | 352pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
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RESILIENCE: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities
By Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards is no stranger to adversity—from coping with her teenage son’s death
and her husband’s infidelity, to her own breast cancer. While on the campaign trail,
Elizabeth met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives,
and in Resilience, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an
unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s
biggest challenges. This concise, powerful, and heartfelt book is ideal for generating
discussion and providing inspiration.

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THE MAN WHO LIVES WITH WOLVES
By Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
In exhilarating prose, Shaun Ellis, a man who spent years living in the wild as a member of
a wolf pack, takes us from his upbringing in the wilds of Norfolk, England, to his survival
training with British Army Special Forces to the Nez Percé Indian lands in Idaho, where he
first ran with a wolf pack for nearly two years. Offering an extraordinary look into the lives
of wolves, Ellis shares how he ate raw kill—and little else; washed rarely; learned to bury his
face into the carcasses of prey; communicated with the pack by his howls and body
language, which over time became seemingly identical to theirs; and much more.
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I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE Ideal for Women’s Website:
Studies Programs www.vday.org/vgirls
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
By Eve Ensler
This daring, provocative, and insightful book delivers fictional monologues and stories
inspired by girls around the globe. Among the girls Ensler creates are an anorexic blogging
as she eats less and less; a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; and a Masai girl from
Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation. Through rants, poetry, questions, and
facts, we come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: their resiliency, their
wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. This is a celebration of the
authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak
up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.
Villard Books | HC | 978-1-4000-6104-4 | 176pp. | $20.00/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
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BEG, BORROW, STEAL Ideal for MFA in Writing Website: michaelgreenberg.org
Programs
A Writer’s Life
By Michael Greenberg
In Beg, Borrow, Steal, Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry, vivid memoir of his life as
a writer of little means trying to practice his craft and simply stay alive. He finds himself
doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a
women’s department store; writing about golf, a game he has never played; and botching his
debut as a waiter in a posh restaurant. Hilarious and bittersweet, Greenberg’s stories invite
us into a world where the familial, the literary, the tragic, and the mundane not only speak
to one another, but deeply enjoy the exchange.
Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51341-5 | 232pp. | $19.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO

A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
By Roya Hakakian
This memoir of a young Iranian American poet and journalist is the story of one deeply
intelligent young girl’s attempt to find an authentic voice of her own during a time of
familial and national upheaval.
“Poet and documentary filmmaker Hakakian presents a lyrically poignant account of her
coming-of-age years in revolution-beset Iran. . . . Reflecting on growing up both Jewish and
female in an increasingly restrictive environment, she is able to offer a unique perspective on the
search for spiritual sustenance in a rapidly constricting society. It is both a joy and a privilege to
bear witness to one young girl’s remarkable emotional and artistic metamorphosis within a
stunningly repressive culture.” —Booklist
Selected for Common Reading at Indiana University–Kokomo and SUNY Potsdam.
THE TRANSLATOR Website: http://tinyurl.com/cg8m6m
A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
By Daoud Hari
The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person
can make a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories
of our time. Because he chose language and storytelling as his weapons—while others
around him were taking up arms—Hari has given us a true and necessary portrait of a
deeply troubled region of our world.
Selected for Common Reading at Colorado Mountain College and Mars Hill College.

Audio Edition • Author Available • e-Book • Teacher’s Guide
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LOST BOY
By Brent W. Jeffs and Maia Szalavitz
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls
can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In
this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the
terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and the harsh
exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect.
LITTLE HEATHENS Website: www.little-heathens.com

Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa
Farm During the Great Depression
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Iowa Reader Literary Award for Nonfiction
One of the 10 Best Books of the Year, The New York Times Book Review
Little Heathens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a “hearty-handshake Methodist”
family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered
pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s
memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times
seem like “quite a romp.”
“Not only trustworthy and useful, but also polished by real, rare happiness. It is a very good
book, indeed. In fact, it’s averyveryverygoodbook.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, The New York Times Book Review
Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38424-6 | 304pp. | $12.00/$14.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
EDUCATION OF A WANDERING MAN Website: www.louislamour.com

By Louis L’Amour
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a
hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in
Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-
town America, here is Louis L’Amour’s memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—
from books, from wondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped
him as a storyteller and as a man. With this book, L’Amour proves to even the most
skeptical reader that success stories can come out of all of life’s experiences.
Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-05703-4 | 240pp. | $25.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
Bantam | MM | 978-0-553-28652-6 | 272pp. | $5.99/$7.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: My Story Website: www.langlang.com
By Lang Lang and David Ritz
Born in China to parents whose musical careers were interrupted by the Cultural
Revolution, Lang Lang has emerged as one of the greatest pianists of our time. Yet despite
his fame, few in the West know of the heart-wrenching journey from his early childhood as
a prodigy in an industrial city in northern China to his difficult years in Beijing to his
success today. This is his inspiring story—and one that will give students an appreciation
for the courage and sacrifice it takes to achieve greatness.
HEAVY METAL ISLAM Website:

heavymetalislam.net
Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
By Mark LeVine
In Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle
East through interviews with musicians and fans. The result is a revealing tour of
contemporary Islamic culture through the evolving music scene and the fusion of two
cultures in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
“Using music as a prism to observe social relations, he expertly describes the political upheaval
and social confusion in the Middle East that Westerners ignore or seldom understand. This
examination of the changing and evolving cultures in a key global region is highly
recommended.” —Library Journal
Now in Paperback
THE ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
By Somaly Mam
Introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof Website: www.somaly.org
As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. This book is the true
story of a Cambodian heroine.
In the vein of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone, Somaly Mam’s
life is an unforgettable and inspiring story of triumph over unthinkable adversity, and puts
a face and voice to a human-rights disaster of global proportions: the sprawling sex trade
industry of Southeast Asia. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost
Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life, tells the story of her awakening as an
activist, and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that
steal the lives of young girls.
Selected for Common Reading at West Texas A&M University.
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52622-7 | 224pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00

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SIX MONTHS IN SUDAN Website: www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/
A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village
By James Maskalyk
In 2006, James Maskalyk, a young, single ER physician, gave up a successful practice at one
of Toronto’s finest hospitals to join Doctors Without Borders. After months of waiting, he
received his assignment: a small village called Abyei, sandwiched in between two military
compounds on the border of northern and southern Sudan. A memoir of volunteerism that
recalls Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, Six Months in Sudan is written with
humanity, conviction, and piercing insight. Here, Maskalyk chronicles the unthinkable cost
of war for one community, and one man’s courageous effort to bring about lasting change.
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52651-7 | 336pp. | $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50
May 2010
THE OTHER WES MOORE: The Story of One Name and Two Fates
By Wes Moore
Afterword by Tavis Smiley
Two boys named Wes Moore were born in the same neighborhood of the same American city
only a year apart. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and
a top young business leader—the other is serving a life sentence in prison. Through an
unlikely friendship, the two Wes’s discovered all of the similarities in their stories, and also
the dramatic points of inflection—involving incidents of sudden violence, luck, uninformed
choices, and powerful mentors—where their stories fatefully diverged. Here is their dramatic
twinned story, set against the larger story of the persistent challenges—and new possibilities
—facing young men in America.
Do not order before 5/4/2010.
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52819-1 | 240pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
March 2010
JENNIEMAE & JAMES: A Memoir in Black and White
By Brooke Newman
In this moving memoir, Brooke Newman, the daughter of white mathematical genius, James
Newman, and a friend of Albert Einstein, tells the story of his improbable friendship with
their housekeeper, an illiterate, uneducated African American woman from rural Alabama
named Jenniemae Harrington. The author elegantly weaves together the stories of two very
distinct and different individuals, each of whom had a significant impact on her upbringing.
She brings their relationship, the time during the 1940s and 1950s, and the city of
Washington, D.C., to life, and the result is an inspiring memoir about friendship and love
across the race barrier.
Harmony | HC | 978-0-307-46299-2 | 320pp.| $24.00 $29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00
Now in Paperback
Website:
HIGH: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler www.brianodea.com/
By Brian O’Dea
Winner of the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Writing
Brian O’Dea turned to using and selling drugs as a teen and soon was operating a $100
million business. Eventually, he quit the trade and drugs and began working with recovering
addicts, but was arrested after authorities caught up with him and sentenced him to 10 years
in jail. In High, O’Dea candidly recounts his incredible experiences, from smuggling cocaine
in Bogota to the bureaucracy of the prison system, in a story of intrigue, and ultimately,
redemption. O’Dea speaks regularly to university students about his life as part of a
Consequences of Choice lecture.
Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51310-1 | 358pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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GERTRUDA’S OATH: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
By Ram Oren
Michael Stolowitzky is available for campus visits
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years
old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his
business affairs, traveled to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda
Bablinska, a Catholic nanny devoted to the family. When Michael’s mother suffered a stroke,
Gertruda promised the dying woman that she would make her way to Palestine and raise
Michael as her own son. Written with the invaluable assistance of Michael, now 72 and living
in New York City, Gertruda’s Oath re-creates Michael and Gertruda’s amazing journey.
Doubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-385-52718-7 | 320pp. | $24.95/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
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THE EAVES OF HEAVEN: A Life in Three Wars Website: www.andrewxpham.com
By Andrew X. Pham
A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
From Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the
Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize,
here is a son’s memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.
“Searing . . . vivid and harrowing . . . Here is war and life through the eyes of a Vietnamese
everyman.”
—Seattle Times
HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez
Best Books for a Transformative New Year, NPR
Hunger of Memory is the fascinating autobiography of a Mexican American student who
pays the price for social assimilation and academic success with painful alienation from his
past, his parents, and his culture.
“His story is extraordinarily sensitive and compassionate, yet disarmingly objective, a genuine
act of human and religious faith. Few have presented with such skill the indestructible intimacy
of family love and its resilience under the stress of change. This book provides new understand-
ing of the dynamism of language in establishing a person’s private and public identity.”
—Prof. Walter J. Ong, St. Louis University
“Superb autobiographical essay . . . Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of
change: its costs, its loneliness, but also its triumph.”
Dial Press | TR | 978-0-553-38251-8 | 224pp. | $14.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Bantam | MM | 978-0-553-27293-2 | 208pp. | $6.99/$9.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE LAST RESORT: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
By Douglas Rogers
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through
that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future
planned for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the U.S.
But when Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, launched his violent program to reclaim
white-owned land and Rogers’ parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed.
Evoking elements of The Tender Bar and Absurdistan, here is an inspiring, coming-of-age
tale about home, love, hope, responsibility, and redemption, as well as a deeply moving
story about how to survive a corrupt Third World dictatorship with a little innovation,
humor, and bribery.
New
EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
By Lisa Sanders
Here, Dr. Lisa Sanders presents an unflinching look inside diagnosis, revealing the
combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who
are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, she portrays
the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges
of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, and the near calamity
of diagnostic errors.
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WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE: A Memoir
By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
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
poises 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.
“Skateboards is a brave, honest and elegant book. It felt like the story was being whispered in
my ear. I haven’t read a memoir in quite a while that has so skillfully made sense of an American
childhood.” —Colum McCann
The Dial Press | HC | 978-0-385-34068-7 | 304pp. | $22.00/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00
Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | 978-0-385-34069-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
WILDFLOWER: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa

By Mark Seal
Veteran journalist Mark Seal takes us deep into Africa to tell the story of Joan Root, a
renowned Kenyan-born ecological activist who was brutally and mysteriously murdered in
her sleep. A biography featuring something for everyone—adventure, wilderness, love,
passion, deception and corruption—this work introduces students to a remarkable real-life
heroine.
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6736-7 | 256pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
Website: www.louisesteinman.com
THE SOUVENIR To view video of Louise Steinman’s presentation
A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War at the 2009 First-Year Experience® conference
By Louise Steinman in Orlando, FL, go to: http://tinyurl.com/ycla2jp
After her parents’ deaths, Louise Steinman discovered nearly 500 letters her father had
written to her mother during his service in the Pacific War and a Japanese flag mysteriously
inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Setting out to determine the identity of Shimizu, Steinman set
off to Japan and the Philippines, and returned to the age of her father’s innocence, where
she learned of the tender and expressive man she’d never known. Together, Steinman’s
stories and her father’s letters create an evocative testament to the ways in which war
changes one generation and shapes another.
“. . . an intimate and powerful story of the effects of war.”
—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers
Selected for Common Reading at Lane Community College and Penn State University.
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-556-43701-4 | 224pp. | $15.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Author Available
CARTWHEELS IN A SARI Website: www.jayantitamm.com

A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
By Jayanti Tamm
In this colorful, eye-opening memoir, Jayanti Tamm offers an unforgettable glimpse into the
hidden world of growing up “cult” in mainstream America. Through Jayanti’s fascinating
story—the first book to chronicle Sri Chinmoy—she unmasks a leader who convinces
thousands of disciples to follow him, scores of nations to dedicate monuments to him, and
throngs of celebrities (Sting, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela) to extol him. With
tenderness, insight, and humor, Jayanti explores the triumphs and trauma of her life as an
insider who longs to be an outsider, her hard-won decision to finally break free, and the
unique challenges she confronts as she builds a new life.

THE POET OF BAGHDAD Website: www.jotatchell.com

A True Story of Love and Defiance
By Jo Tatchell
Shortlisted for The Costa Biography Award 2006
Long-listed for The Samuel Johnson Prize 2007
Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and who is
a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s, The Poet of Baghdad is the gripping story of a family and its
fateful encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin family before
the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s persecution and daring flight, and the
suspense-filled account of his family’s rebellion against Saddam’s regime, The Poet of
Baghdad is an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a culture
devastated by political repression and war.
“Jo Tatchell’s moving narrative, from Nabeel’s mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and
the courage of a loving, close-knit family oppressed by tyranny and war. Behind the deadly
statistics and political rhetoric, voices such as his inspire us to pity and pride.”
—The Times (London)
Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2697-3 | 368pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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AMERICAN WIDOW Website: www.alissatorres.com

By Alissa Torres
Illustrated by Sungyoon Choi
On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the
North Tower of the World Trade Center. The next morning, he said goodbye to his 71⁄2-
months-pregnant wife, Alissa, and headed out the door. In an instant, Alissa’s world was
thrown into chaos.
Beautifully and thoughtfully illustrated, American Widow is the affecting account of one
woman’s journey through shock, pain, birth, and rebirth in the aftermath of a great tragedy.
Author Available
LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE Website:

The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram www.randomhouse.com/crown/thuytram
By Dang Thuy Tram
Translated by Andrew X. Pham
“Last night, I dreamed that Peace was established . . . ”
—Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnam, June 4, 1968
Written from 1968–1970, this diary of a young, idealistic Vietnamese female doctor
describes the horrors of war and her devotion to family, country, and the Communist party.
Her last entry was made the day before she died protecting her hospital.
“Urgent, simple prose that pierces the heart.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Audio Edition • e-Book • Teacher’s Guide • Translator Available
HANDS OF MY FATHER
A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
By Myron Uhlberg
“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come
and go like the wind?”
Such were the kinds of questions posed to Myron Uhlberg, the hearing son of deaf parents
as he helped his father decipher, and understand, the elusive nature of sound. This
challenge, among many others, shaped Uhlberg’s atypical childhood during the remarkably
eventful period spanning the Depression, World War II, and the early fifties. His is a story
that illuminates similarities and differences within one’s closest community: a family.
Spotlight: New Orleans
NINE LIVES Now in
Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans Paperback
By Dan Baum
In the tradition of great works of literary nonfiction like Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil comes a critically praised and bestselling exploration of one of
America’s most haunted and fiercely loved places—New Orleans—told through the
interwoven stories of nine unforgettable characters.
“Dan Baum tests the power of a very haunting place to bring these beautifully
crafted narratives into a coherent whole—and New Orleans comes through with
soulful aplomb. Nine Lives is a masterful portrait of a fragile American outpost
between two terrible storms.”
—Jed Horne, author of Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death
of a Great American City Website:
www.danbaum.com
BREACH OF FAITH
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
By Jed Horne
Journalist Jed Horne, a French Quarter resident, was an up-close witness to the chaos
and horror of Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on his two decades in the Big Easy, Horne
steps back and locates the roots of the disaster in the culture of New Orleans; in the
politics of this troubled city; and in the national politics of homeland security,
poverty, and race relations. He addresses the government’s lackluster response to the
crisis, the polarizing debate over whether to rebuild the city, and the initial
reconstruction efforts.
“[A] splendid mix of reporting and commentary. . . . Horne, with a sure grasp of
local politics and culture, provides a [clear] sense of why things fell apart so
completely in New Orleans.” Website:
www.jedhorne.com
SONG FOR MY FATHERS Website:

April 2010
www.otherpress.com/songformyfathers
By Tom Sancton
Tulane Reading Project 2006
Former Time Paris Bureau Chief and bestselling author Tom Sancton returns to the
New Orleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life. Here is the
story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and
ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
The narrative unfolds against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans in the 1950s and
‘60s. Written several years before Katrina crashed into New Orleans and changed its
face forever, Song for My Fathers seems all the more moving in the wake of that
cataclysm.
Other Press | TR | 978-1-59051-376-7 | 304pp. | $13.95/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book

Author Spotlight: Thomas Mullen
THOMAS MULLEN is the author of The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers and The
Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of the Year by USA Today
and Best Book of the Year by Chicago Tribune, and won the James Fenimore Cooper
Prize for excellence in historical fiction. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and son.
THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH Website: www.thomasmullen.net

To view video of Thomas Mullen’s presentation at the
A Novel 2010 First-Year Experience® Conference in Denver, CO
go to: www.commonreads.com
By Thomas Mullen
et against the backdrop of one of the most virulent

S epidemics that America ever experienced—the 1918 flu
epidemic—Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel is a
tale of morality in a time of upheaval, and a powerful
meditation for our own time.
Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a
small mill town called Commonwealth, conceived as a haven
for workers weary of exploitation. For Philip Worthy, the
adopted son of the town’s founder, it is a haven in another
sense—as the first place in his life he’s had a loving family to
call his own.
And yet, the ideals that define this outpost are being threatened
from all sides. A world war is raging, and with the fear of spies
rampant, the loyalty of all Americans is coming under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, another shadow has fallen across the region in the
form of a deadly illness striking down vast swaths of
surrounding communities.
Inspired by a little-known historical footnote regarding towns
that quarantined themselves during the 1918 epidemic, The
Last Town on Earth is a remarkably moving and accomplished
debut that stimulates discussion and debate.
Random House | TR “Thomas Mullen’s book, The Last Town on Earth, inspired
978-0-8129-7592-5 | 432pp. our students to think about choices and consequences. Mr.
$15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Mullen is not only an extraordinarily gifted writer, he is also
Author Available • e-Book • Teacher’s Guide an engaging speaker, wonderful listener, and an inspiration
for students of all ages.”
—Sarolta Anna Takács Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Selected for Common Reading Honors Program Professor of History Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
Bowling Green State University
Murray State University “Not only is Tom Mullen’s The Last Town on Earth a com-
Rutgers University School of Arts and pelling read, it was an outstanding choice for our Honors
Sciences Honors Program College Freshman Fall Welcome. Our students were drawn
Western Michigan University Honors to the interlocking themes of morality, compassion for one’s
Program fellow man, the meaning of community, and the all-consum-
Whitman College ing ethical dilemma the citizens of Commonwealth were
forced to address. This wonderful novel was the centerpiece
A Tale For Three Counties, Batavia, NY of an entire week of programming designed to engage our
Together We Read, Stanwood and Camano students in reflective thinking and lively debate.”
Island, WA –Nicholas Andreadis M.D., Dean, Lee Honors College,
Western Michigan University
A Message from Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
University Libraries
Department of Library Teaching and Learning
January 6, 2010
To: Random House

From: BGSU Common Reading Experience Committee
Re: Endorsement of Thomas Mullen
The Last Town on Earth is one of those books our students continue to talk
about and reference. Though set in an era long ago, one can’t help but think
about the timeliness of this haunting piece of historical fiction because of
the H1N1 situation we find ourselves in currently. Mullen’s characters are
plentiful and carefully crafted which enabled our students to more easily
engage with the book and identify with the moral dilemmas faced by the
characters. Mullen’s interactions with students during his campus visit gave
them the opportunity to delve even deeper—not only into the characters
and plot but into the writing process. He was patient and accessible—
students responded well to Mullen which resulted in one of the best author
visits we have had in the ten years we have had the program!
Also by Thomas Mullen

New
THE MANY DEATHS OF THE FIREFLY BROTHERS
A Novel
From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes an evocative new novel which details
the Depression-era adventures and exploits of two celebrity bank robbers known as The Firefly
Brothers by the press, the authorities, and those who worship their acts as brazen, heroic
counterpunches thrown at a broken system. It’s an imaginative and mythical saga that raises
serious questions about justice, fate, and mortality.
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HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER Website: www.jamieford.com
AND SWEET
By Jamie Ford
n 1986, Henry Lee, a Chinese American widower, comes

I upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the
gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for
decades, but now a new owner has made an incredible
discovery: the belongings of Japanese families left behind
when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps
during World War II. As Henry looks on, memories take him
back to the 1940s. At the height of the war, Henry meets Keiko
Now in
Paperback Okabe, a young Japanese American student, at the exclusive
Rainier Elementary. They forge a friendship—and an innocent
love—that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their
Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family are evacuated
to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the
hope that the war will end and that their promise to each
other will be kept. Decades later, Henry tries to make sense of
the past and confront the choices he made.
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in
American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an
extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In
Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable
portrait of a couple whose story teaches us of the power of
forgiveness and the human heart.
“A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful
episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the
Ballantine | TR
present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices.”
978-0-345-50534-7 | 320pp.
$15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 —Kirkus Reviews
Audio Edition • Author Available • e-Book “Ford expertly nails the sweet innocence of first love, the
Teacher’s Guide cruelty of racism, the blindness of patriotism, the
astonishing unknowns between parents and their children,
and the sadness and satisfaction at the end of a life well
lived. The result is a vivid picture of a confusing and critical
time in American history.”
—Library Journal

Schenectady Reads
About the Author

JAMIE FORD is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of
Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s
Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.
FICTION TO TALK ABOUT
THE LAW OF DREAMS
A Novel
By Peter Behrens
Driven from the only home he has known during Ireland’s Great Hunger of 1847, Fergus
O’Brien makes the harrowing journey from County Clare to America, traveling with bold
girls, pearl boys, navies, and highwaymen. Along the way, Fergus meets his three passionate
loves—Phoebe, Luke, and Molly—vivid, unforgettable characters, fresh and willful.
Based on Peter Behrens’s own family history, The Law of Dreams is lyrical, emotional, and
thoroughly extraordinary—a searing tale of ardent struggle and ultimate perseverance.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7800-1 | 416pp. | $13.95/NCR. | Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book
THE SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER

A Novel
By Merlinda Bobis
The magical and the humble collide in this extraordinary novel from the award-winning
author of Banana Heart Summer. When a mute ten-year-old boy in Manila whisks an
American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting to the safety of the hut he shares with his
mother, their lives are transformed as the wounded guest’s presence sparks long-buried
memories—and reignites in them the power of love.
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FAHRENHEIT 451 Website: www.raybradbury.com

By Ray Bradbury
Winner of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Internationally acclaimed, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s landmark novel of a future
society where books are outlawed and only one man awakens to the evils of censorship.
“Frightening in its implications . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears
many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.”
Selected for Common Reading at Illinois Central College, Randolf-Macon College, and Xavier University.
Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-41001-6 | 192pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-34296-6 | 208pp. | $6.99/$8.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Audio Edition • Teacher’s Guide
THE GUARDIANS
A Novel
By Ana Castillo
From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving
new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a
teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage
nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the
priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina
fears the worst.
“Castillo writes fiction and poetry of earthy sensuality, wry social commentary, and lyrical
spiritualism that confront the cruel injustices accorded women and Mexicans in America, legal
and otherwise. . . . In this tightly coiled and powerful tale. . . . At once shatteringly realistic and
dramatically mystical, Castillo’s incandescent novel of suffering and love traces life’s movement
toward the light even in the bleakest of places.”
—Booklist (starred review)

BROTHERS Website: www.dachen.org

A Novel
By Da Chen
Bestselling memoirist Da Chen delivers a sprawling, dynamic family saga, complete with
assassinations, love affairs, narrowly missed opportunities, and the ineluctable fulfillment of
destiny.
“From Shaolin to the sugarloaf mountains of Gwangdong to Tiananmen Square and the
skyscrapers of New York: an epic novel that neatly distills modern Chinese history. Da Chen’s
elegantly written novel ends on the promise of redemption . . . ”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Audio Edition • Author Available
THE POWER OF ONE Website: www.brycecourtenay.com

A Novel
By Bryce Courtenay
In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid
take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by
humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams—which
are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic
journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the
power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.
“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and
magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”
Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-41005-4 | 544pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
Author Available
A MEANINGFUL LIFE
By L.J. Davis
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Just out of college, Lowell Lake heads to New York to make it big as a writer. Instead, he’s
hired as a technical editor, a job at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his
marriage. Then Lowell sinks every penny he has into a beautiful crumbling mansion in a
crime-ridden section of Brooklyn. He quits his job, moves in, and devotes himself to
demolition and construction. He is determined to dig up the lost history of his house, and
restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that has gone wrong with
his life, even commit murder to do it.
NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17300-8 | 232pp. | $14.95/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NIKI
The Story of a Dog
By Tibor Déry
Translated by Edward Hyams
Introduction by George Szirtes
The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous
Hungary that is just beginning to recover from the nightmare of World War II. Mr. Ancsa
has no time for a little mongrel, pregnant with her first litter. But Niki knows better, and
before long she is part of the Ancsa household. And when Mr. Ancsa is swept up in a
political crackdown—disappearing without a trace for five years—it is a terrifying time
during which Mrs. Ancsa and Niki have only each other.
The story of Niki, an ordinary dog, and the Ancsas, is an extraordinarily touching, utterly
unsentimental, parable about caring, kindness, and the endurance of love.
NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17318-3 | 144pp. | $14.95/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NIKOLSKI
A Novel
By Nicolas Dickner
Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
This is a sweet and quirky story of three characters who break free from their families in
order to live authentically. It follows Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator as each leave
their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up
in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of self-discovery, each compelled to deal with the
mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. Filled with
humor, charm, and marvelous storytelling, this novel links cartography, garbage-obsessed
archeologists, pirates past and present, a mysterious book with no cover, and a broken
compass whose needle obstinately points to the miniscule Aleutian village of Nikolski.
Trumpeter | TR | 978-1-590-30714-4 | 304pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
Now in Paperback
EVERY MAN DIES ALONE
By Hans Fallada
Translated by Michael Hofmann
This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic bestselling writer who saw his life
crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story. It presents a richly
detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping, deeply-stirring saga
of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the
front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich,
they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on
their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in.
Melville House | HC | 978-1-933-63363-3 | 544pp. | $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.75
Melville House | TR | 978-1-935-55404-2 | 544pp. | $18.95/$23.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book
BOMBINGHAM
By Anthony Grooms
From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama,
Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by its personal
chaos. As young African American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence in
Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil rights movement meant nothing more than
being sent into a battlefield of another kind.
Selected for Common Reading at Marquette University, Alabama A&M University, and SUNY Oswego.
One World/Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-45293-1 | 320pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available
SLOW HOMECOMING
By Peter Handke
Introduction by Benjamin Kunkel
A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery, Slow Homecoming begins in America, where
the author introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose
himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: On his way to Europe he moves in
ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The book’s second part
identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own
struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage. The culmination is
a deeply moving account of a new father—not so much Sorger or the author as a kind of
Everyman—and his love for his growing daughter.
NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17307-7 | 296pp. | $15.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00

INTO THE FOREST Website: www.jeanhegland.com

By Jean Hegland
Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense of their world when their
near-future society collapses. Hegland’s exploration of the sisters’ relationship as they go
deeper into the forest 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 encourage
rereading. . . . a truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George
Orwell’s 1984 and Russell Hoban’s Ridley Walker.”
—Publishers Weekly
Selected for Common Reading at Santa Rosa Junior College and Bowling Green State University.

ONE FOOT WRONG

By Sofie Laguna
Imprisoned in a house by her reclusive, religious parents, Hester Wakefield has never spoken
to another child, nor seen the outside world. Her one possession is an illustrated children’s
Bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic, real-life
connections. One day she takes a brave Alice in Wonderland-trip into the forbidden outside,
and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine changes her life.
This harrowing tale challenges the boundaries of right and wrong, sanity and madness, love
and justice. Hester’s distinctive voice and her way of seeing the world illuminate every page
and make this novel an enlightening and, ultimately, uplifting and transformative experience.
Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51316-3 | 208pp. | $12.95/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book
Now in Paperback
THE LAST DAY: A Novel
By James Landis
Armed with a rifle and his deeply held faith, a young U.S. Army sniper freshly returned from
the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire travels across ideological borders and earns an
appreciation for his enemy’s culture and for what connects us all as human beings. Upon
returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus, visiting and contemplating his own life
with fresh eyes, and a willing heart.
This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion,
war, and poetry in a way that is wholly original, unforgettable, will resonate with skeptics
and believers, and will be shared and discussed between friends and among families.
Steerforth | TR | 978-1-586-42165-6 | 304pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
New
THE BLUE NOTEBOOK: A Novel
By James A. Levine, M.D.
This fictional story written by Mayo Clinic doctor James A. Levine takes readers into the life
of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by
her father when she was nine. As Batuk navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—
a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for
customers to pay for sex—she manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts
and stories in a diary where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances.
All of the U.S. proceeds from this novel will be donated to the International and National
Centers for Missing and Exploited Children (www.icmec.org).
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52871-9 | 224pp. | $23.00/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50
ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY Website: www.adammansbach.com
A Novel
By Adam Mansbach
From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the
twenty-first century—an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture,
and American identity.
“ . . . [A] revelation, a wise and funny riff on hip hop and the racial divide that has always
plagued America. I found that [Angry White Black Boy] could get a class talking, at the deepest
level, about the hardest issues, with a common language of youth culture. Mansbach’s writing is
masterful, his references are erudite but accessible, and his vision is unflinching.”
—Rick Ayers, Berkeley High School, co-author, Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher’s
Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives
Currently taught in courses at over thirty colleges and universities nationwide
Now in Paperback
THE END OF THE JEWS Website: www.adammansbach.com
A Novel
By Adam Mansbach
From the author of Angry Black White Boy, this is an ambitious and affecting family drama
elevated by Mansbach’s imaginative storytelling techniques and deep empathy for his
characters.
Boldly reworking the story of Jewish assimilation around the tale of a family of fierce
individuals, this is the story of anyone willing to fight for love, art, and a place in the world.
LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS Website:

www.susancarolmccarthy.com/index.htm
By Susan Carol McCarthy
Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands is a novel that tackles race politics
in the pre-Civil Rights South unlike any other book in recent memory.
“Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, McCarthy’s debut novel is an engrossing story of one
girl’s coming of age during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.”
—Library Journal
Selected for Common Reading at numerous high schools, colleges and communities.
For a complete list, go to www.tinyurl.com/yc356bg.
Bantam | TR 978-0-553-38103-0 | 288pp. | $13.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

TRUE FIRES Website:

A Novel www.susancarolmccarthy.com/index.htm
By Susan Carol McCarthy
Inspired by true events in Central, Florida, 1954, this is the moving story of a family exiled
from school and community by discriminatory segregation laws. A gripping read, True Fires
plumbs the depths of small-town prejudices and politics and exposes one of the grimmest
faces of injustice. This book is excellent for discussions of American history, segregation,
and civil rights.
“In McCarthy’s insightful, fervent second novel . . . flawless dialogue, warm characters and
compassionate wit service a moving story about the powers of love and justice.”

April 2010
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL: A Novel
By Yann Martel
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Life of Pi, a popular common reading
selection, Yann Martel’s newest book is a mesmerizing and brilliant exploration of the
limitations of language in understanding and describing the horrors of the Holocaust. At
the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys—a novelist and a
taxidermist—who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have
survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring questions
about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity. Like Life of Pi, it will
elicit endless discussion among students and is destined to become a storytelling classic.
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-1-4000-6926-2 | 224pp. | $23.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $11.50
New
Website:
THE TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO: A Novel www.sarahmccoy.com
By Sarah McCoy
In the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Annie John comes a novel about the
struggle to break free from the people who have raised us, and the difficulties of leaving
behind one’s homeland for places unknown. Both joyous and heartbreaking, it is the story
of a young girl discovering her power and finding the strength to decide what sort of
woman she’ll become.
“In the voice of her lovably defiant adolescent narrator, Sarah McCoy tells a story of magic,
myth, and mystery amid political and cultural unrest . . . A delightful debut. . . . ”
—Sheri Reynolds, author of A Gracious Plenty
Shaye Areheart Books | HC | 978-0-307-46007-3 | 224pp. | $19.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
Now in Paperback
AMERICAN RUST: A Novel Website: www.philippmeyer.net
By Philipp Meyer
A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide, Isaac English longs
for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied
by his temperamental best friend, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that
changes their lives forever.
Set in an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, here is a novel of the lost
American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—
that arise from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family,
responsibility, and inertia, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned
homes.
THE SPEED OF DARK: A Novel Website: www.elizabethmoon.com

By Elizabeth Moon
Winner, 2004 Nebula Award
The Speed of Dark is an exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is
offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. Now Lou must
decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the
world . . . and the very essence of who he is. The Speed of Dark is a fascinating work of
fiction ideal for discussions about choice and its consequences.
Selected for Common Reading at Clemson University, Ohio State University and SUNY Oswego.
Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-44754-8 | 368pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-48139-9 | 384pp. | $6.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
New
THE PATIENCE STONE
By Atiq Rahimi
Translated by Polly Mclean
Introduction by Khaled Hosseini
“For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. Until now. With The
Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman—and, one
could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions . . . it is a rich read, part
allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It
is without doubt an important and courageous book.” —from the introduction by Khaled
Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51344-6 | 154pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.50
e-Book
MY JIM: A Novel Website: www.nancygrawles.net

By Nancy Rawles
ALEX Award Winner (American Library Association)
A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American
literature, Huckleberry Finn’s Jim.
Written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the
incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons
of love she learned in bondage. To help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs
to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. A
nuanced critique and reinvention of Twain’s great American novel, My Jim stands on its
own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable
endurance of love.
“In a spare, naturalistic style that’s reminiscent of oral history . . . Rawles covers territory Twain
did not: Jim’s early life in captivity, his seemingly endless struggle for freedom, his love for his
wife and children, his impossible anguish upon separation.”
Selected for Seattle Reads One Book, One Community 2009.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

By Erich Maria Remarque
This is the classic anti-war novel about young German soldiers during World War I.
Twenty-year old Paul Baumer’s world of work, duty, culture, and progress is shattered with
the first bombardment in the trenches, and he vows to fight against the principle of hate
that pits young men of the same generation against each other. Few other books have ever
achieved such dramatic acclaim or enduring success.
Selected for Common Reading at St. Louis Community College.

Ballantine | MM | 978-0-449-21394-0 | 304pp. | $6.99/$9.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: A Novel

By Arundhati Roy
Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997, The God of Small Things was Arundhati
Roy’s stunning debut. Set in 1969, Rahel and Estha are twins born of a wealthy Indian
family. The story shifts between two times: the present, where Rahel visits her mute brother,
and the past, one day in December that tore the family apart. As vivid as it is powerful,
Roy’s novel is reminiscent of Faulkner, Rushdie, and Márquez—a sure-fire contemporary
classic that should be added to every student’s reading library.
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By Salman Rushdie
A new edition of Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie’s fifth and best-known
novel, which is as relevant as ever: the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men
after their plane explodes in a hijacking over the English Channel.
“A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles,
and jokes. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.”
—The Times (London)
Author Available
DREAMERS OF THE DAY Website: www.marydoriarussell.net

A Novel
By Mary Doria Russell
A schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to
take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just
as the Peace Conference convenes, she finds herself in the company of Winston Churchill
and other dignitaries who have come to decide upon the fate of the Arab world—a fate that
still resonates today. An engrossing piece of historical fiction, this book will both entice
students and educate them about the lasting effects of political decisions.
“A remarkably vivid account of a woman’s accidental witness to history.”
—Kirkus Reviews
A THREAD OF GRACE Website: www.marydoriarussell.net

A Novel
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Mary Doria Russell tells the little-
known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews
during the war’s final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of
Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel about ordinary people taking heroic risks in the face
of a powerful evil.
THE SPARROW Website: www.marydoriarussell.net

A Novel
“If you have to send a group of people to a newly discovered planet to contact a totally
unknown species, whom would you choose? How about four Jesuit priests, a young
astronomer, a physician, her engineer husband, and a child prostitute-turned-computer-expert?
That’s who Mary Doria Russell sends in her new novel, The Sparrow. This motley combination of
agnostics, true believers, and misfits becomes the first to explore the Alpha Centuri world of
Rakhat with both enlightening and disastrous results. . . . Vivid and engaging . . . ”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Selected for Common Reading at Knox College.

SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH Named most important Arabic novel
By Tayeb Salih of the 20th century by the Arab
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies Literary Academy in Damascus
Introduction by Laila Lalami
After years of study in Europe, this novel’s young narrator returns to his village along the
Nile in the Sudan. There, he discovers Mustafa, an enigmatic stranger who tells him about
his own years in London, and of the series of deadly relationships with European women
that led him back to his native land. Then Mustafa suddenly disappears, leaving the young
man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled, violent no-man’s-land
between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, from which
no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17302-2 | 184pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
Now in Paperback
SHANGHAI GIRLS: A Novel Website: www.lisasee.com
By Lisa See
A fascinating new novel from author Lisa See about two sisters, two cultures, and the
struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old.
“A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.” —Booklist
“See is masterly in her powerful depictions of the prejudice and harsh treatment the sisters
encounter as they try to assimilate into the strange new world of Los Angeles. Possibly the best
book yet from the author of Peony in Love; highly recommended.”
—Library Journal
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN Website: www.lisasee.com

A Novel
By Lisa See
A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined
her existence. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era
of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and
deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves
into one of the most profound human relationships: friendship. A moving exploration of
the power of memory, the dangers of oppression, and the redemptive powers of language.
Now in Paperback
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND Website:
www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/guernsey
POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A Library Journal Best Book of 2008
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of
the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the
island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its
name.
“[A] marvelous debut. . . . Reminiscent of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road, this is a
warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining celebration of the power of the written word.”
—Library Journal
“Charming. . . . [Heroine] Juliet finds in the letters not just inspiration for her next work, but also
for her life—as readers will.” —Publishers Weekly
Selected for Read Across Rhode Island 2010 and SaratogaReads! 2009–2010.
Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | 978-0-385-34100-4 | 304pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD
By Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Niko Henrichon
Winner, IGN Award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2006
Inspired by true events, this provocative graphic novel offers a startlingly original look at
life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War. It is the fictionalized account of the true
story of four lions that escaped from the Baghdad Zoo after an American bombing in 2003.
In documenting the plight of the lions—lost and confused, hungry but finally free—this
heartbreaking window into the nature of life during wartime raises questions about the true
meaning of liberation—can it be given or is it earned only through self-determination and
sacrifice? And in the end, is it truly better to die free than to live life in captivity?
Vertigo | TR | 978-1-401-20315-3 | 136pp. | $12.99/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE For more books by Kurt Vonnegut,

A Novel go to: http://tinyurl.com/yalov8r
By Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous
fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey
of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
“Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a
thundering moral statement.”
—Boston Globe
Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33384-9 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Dell Books | MM | 978-0-440-18029-6 | 224pp. | $7.99/$9.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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SWEEPING UP GLASS
By Carolyn Wall
Someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain, and Olivia, who owns a strip of
mountain, starts to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her
mother’s madness; her daughter’s flight to California; and most of all, her town’s fear, for
Olivia has real and dangerous enemies. Now this proud, lonely woman is ready to ignite a
conflict that will embroil an entire community—and change her life—in this tough and
tender novel of love, race, justice, and the power of family.
“The fresh voice of that clear-eyed narrator reminded me of Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird. I literally could not put it down.”
—Boston Globe
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MANDELA’S WAY
Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
By Richard Stengel
Preface by Nelson Mandela
e long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela is

W the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He
liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and
helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never
been done before.
Now Time magazine editor Rick Stengel, who collaborated
with Mandela on his bestselling autobiography and became a March 2010
cherished friend, distills Mandela’s wisdom into 15 vital life
lessons. Woven into these lessons are remarkable stories—of
Mandela’s childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early
days as a freedom fighter, of the 27-year imprisonment that
could not break him, and of his new and fulfilling marriage at
the age of eighty.
This profoundly inspiring book spurs us to look within
ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and
contemplate the legacy we’ll leave behind.
The 15 Lessons
1. Courage Is Not the 9. Know When to Say No
Absence of Fear 10. Know Your Enemy
2. Be Measured 11. It’s Always Both
3. Lead from the Front 12. Love Makes the
4. Look the Part Difference Do not order before 3/30/2010.
5. Lead from the Back 13. It’s a Long Game Crown | HC
978-0-307-46068-4 | 256pp.
6. See the Good in Others 14. Quitting Is Leading Too
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7. Keep Your Rivals Close 15. Find Your Own Garden Audio Edition • e-Book
8. Have a Core Principle
“Rick Stengel’s wise and moving book captures the Nelson

Mandela I have been privileged to know. . . . I was inspired
anew, and I know others will be too.”
—President Bill Clinton About the Author
“This delightfully inspiring book is a philosophical guide to RICHARD STENGEL is the editor of
how we can aspire to achieve Mandela’s grace and how we Time magazine. Stengel collaborated
can draw upon his greatness as a model for the with Nelson Mandela on Mandela’s best-
comportment of our lives each day.” selling 1993 autobiography, Long Walk to
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Freedom, and later served as coproducer
“Through anecdotes both heartwarming and heartbreaking, of the 1996 Oscar-nominated documen-
this uplifting, inspiring volume makes Mandela’s hard-won tary Mandela. He is also the author of
wisdom accessible to anyone who wants to play a part in January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a
making the world a better place.” South African Town. He is married to
—Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea Mary Pfaff, and they have two sons.
Inspiration and Guidance 45

Author Spotlight: Bill Strickland
BILL STRICKLAND is the President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation
and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (MCG), and Bidwell Training Center
(BTC). He is nationally recognized as a visionary leader who authentically delivers
educational and cultural opportunities to students and adults within an organizational
culture that fosters innovation, creativity, responsibility and integrity. Throughout Strickland’s
distinguished career, he has been honored with numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to
the arts and the community, including the coveted MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” award. The past
several decades have been dedicated to maintaining successful relationships with prominent national
foundations and political leaders who share his passion and vision for a healthier future.
MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE Website: www.Bill-Strickland.com

One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to
Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
By Bill Strickland with Vince Rause
ccording to MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” award winner

A Bill Strickland, a successful life is not something you
simply pursue, it is something that you create, moment by
moment. Over the past 30 years, Bill Strickland has been
transforming the lives of thousands of people through the
creation of Manchester Bidwell, a jobs training center and
community arts program. Working with corporations,
community leaders, and schools, he and his staff strive to give
Now in disadvantaged kids and adults the opportunities and tools they
Paperback need to envision and build better, brighter futures.
Strickland believes that every one of us has the potential for
remarkable achievement. Every one of us can accomplish the
impossible in our lives if given the right inspiration and
motivation to do so. Through lessons from his own life
experiences, and those of countless others who have overcome
their circumstances and turned their lives around, Make the
Impossible Possible shows how all of us can build on our
passions and strengths, dream bigger and set the bar higher,
achieve meaningful success, and help mentor and inspire the
lives of others.
“Straddling between both autobiographical and inspirational
Broadway Business | TR genre, the most exquisite beauty of this book is in its
978-0-385-52055-3 | 240pp. straightforward and heartfelt approach. There are so many
$14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 imminently quotable lines you can draw from cover to
cover. This is the kind of book you’d want to read over and
over again, with a marker in hand to annotate it as you read,
or with a pen and paper on the side to take down notes. Or
even both. For as you share in the struggles and successes
of Bill Strickland, Make The Impossible Possible is an
inexhaustible wellspring of real-life inspiration.”
Selected for Common Reading —Sacramento Book Review
Indiana University of Pennsylvania “Bill Strickland’s story resonates beautifully with our mission
Winthrop University as educators.”
—Dr. Anthony J. DiGiorgio, President, Winthrop University
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INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE
May 2010
THE ONE-WEEK JOB PROJECT Website: www.oneweekjob.com
One Man, One Year, 52 Jobs
By Sean Aiken
Like many others in his generation, Sean Aiken graduated from college and asked himself,
“What should I do with my life?” Thus he started the One-Week Job project where he
transformed his uncertainty about his future and traveled around the world working 52 jobs
in 52 weeks. All 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.
Villard Books | TR | 978-0-345-50803-4 | 320pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
By Mitch Albom
Website: www.mitchalbom.com
A National Bestseller and Top Adoption Title
After 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, among other colleges.

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RECLAIMING VIRTUE
How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Website:
www.johnbradshaw.com
Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason
By John Bradshaw
John Bradshaw brings together a lifetime of experience and teaching to redefine virtue—how
we learn it and live it—for our troubled times. Backed by ancient Greek philosophers and his
lifelong study of human development to the most recent discoveries of neuroscience,
Bradshaw shows that each of us has, what he calls, an inborn moral intelligence.
Author Available
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? Website:

www.pobronson.com
The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
By Po Bronson
“What should I do with my life?” Author 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 we can answer this question for ourselves. With
humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson probes the depths of people who learned how to hear
the whisper and overcame fear and confusion to find larger truths about their lives. This
book includes nine new stories not included in the hardcover edition.
“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the book will
support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk without force-feeding them pat solutions.”
Selected for Common Reading at Rutgers College and Sam Houston State University.

Ballantine | MM | 978-0-345-48592-2 | 464pp. | $7.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
April 2010
LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT Website: www.peterbuffett.com
Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
By Peter Buffett
Most people probably think that having billionaire investor Warren Buffett as a father
makes life far from average. But, as his son Peter Buffett explains, an individual’s success has
more to do with building personal character than simply using a family platform to get
ahead. In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett, a musician, composer and philanthropist, shares
the important lessons learned from his parents, an upbringing that focused on instilling
honorable values as individuals in a community and what we are able to give back.
Harmony | HC | 224pp. | 978-0-307-46471-2 | $23.99/$27.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00
April 2010
IF IT TAKES A VILLAGE, BUILD ONE Website: www.angelrockproject.com
By Malaak Compton-Rock
“Service is the rent we pay for living” says preeminent children’s advocate Marian Wright
Edelman and this is the motto by which Malaak Compton-Rock lives her life. From a
childhood grounded in the importance of giving back to her work in public relations at
UNICEF to becoming a full-time mother and humanitarian, Malaak’s life has fully
embodied this sentiment. In this book, she offers an uplifting chronicle of her “journey for
change” and shows readers how and why they should embark on their own.
“Malaak has taken her own life experiences with service, community and family and penned an
important how-to for taking action and giving back. I’ve been fortunate to know her and to work
with her, witnessing first-hand her dedication to helping others. If It Takes a Village, Build One is
an empowering must-read for all of us working to make our communities, our country and our
world a better place.”
—Congresswoman Maxine Waters
THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY Website:

www.freedomwritersfoundation.org
How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing
to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
By The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
An uplifting true account of an idealistic 23-year-old teacher assigned to a room of
‘unreachable, at-risk’ students, The Freedom Writers Diary details a life-changing journey
through ignorance and misunderstanding, and includes powerful excerpts from the
students’ own diaries. This book is not only inspiring; it offers timely social commentary
as well.
Selected for Common Reading at Western New England College and Bloomsburg University.
Main Street Books | TR | 978-0-385-49422-9 | 304pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Audio Edition • Author Available
THE WAY TO GOD

By Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi became famous as the leader of the Indian independence movement, but
he called himself, “a man of God disguised as a politician.” The Way to God demonstrates his
enduring significance as a spiritual leader whose ideas offer insight and solace to seekers of
every practice and persuasion. Collecting many of his most significant writings, the book
explores the deep religious roots of Gandhi’s worldly accomplishments and reveals—in his
own words—his intellectual, moral, and spiritual approaches to the divine.
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-55643-784-7 | 104pp. | $12.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

ROADTRIP NATION: A Guide to Discovering Your Path In Life

By Nathan Gebhard, Mike Marriner and Joanne Gordon
In this engaging career guide, two recent college graduates travel the U.S. in an RV, in search
of something other than a standard career path. From learning how to make cold calls to
formulating stimulating interview questions, Roadtrip Nation gives readers practical advice
on finding the vocations that work for them. This book, which includes interviews with 140
people who offer their own candid career stories, is ideal for students as they embark on
their studies and prepare for their future occupations.
Author Available
DO HARD THINGS
A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations Website: www.therebelution.com
By Alex Harris and Brett Harris
In August 2005 Alex and Brett Harris started what is now the most popular Christian teen
blog on the Internet. They describe the Rebelution as “a teenage rebellion against the low
expectations of an ungodly culture.” Written by teens for teens, this is the handbook for
teens who are rebelling against pervasive low expectations and reaching for their God-given
potential. Filled with examples from the Bible, the authors’ personal experiences, and
contemporary youth culture, this book will positively empower your teen.
Multnomah Books | HC | 978-1-60142-112-8 | 256pp. | $17.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.00
Also by Alex Harris and Brett Harris

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Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are
Multnomah Books | TR | 978-1-60142-270-5 | 256pp. | $12.99/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
PROMISES I MADE MY MOTHER

By Sam Haskell and David Rensin
Foreword by Ray Romano
When Sam Haskell was young, his mother instilled in him the values of character, faith, and
honor by setting an example and asking him to promise to live his life according to her
lessons. In this inspiring memoir full of touching stories and amusing anecdotes, Haskell
reveals how he kept his pledge to his mother to live a decent life—even in Hollywood,
where he handled the hottest stars and packaged the highest-rated shows at the William
Morris Agency—by refusing to become the cliché of an amoral agent. Haskell has achieved
success through self-respect, and from his story we learn how we, too, can maintain our
dignity when faced with life’s challenges.
CHARACTER IS DESTINY
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult
Should Remember
By John McCain with Mark Salter
In Character Is Destiny, John McCain and Mark Salter tell the stories of celebrated historical
figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit.
McCain illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds,
righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity, and sacrifice for a cause greater than
self-interest.
Selected for Common Reading at DeSales College.
Now in Paperback
RESILIENCE
Faith, Focus, Triumph
By Alonzo Mourning with Dan Wetzel
Whether petitioning himself into foster care as an 11-year-old, tirelessly studying his way
onto the dean’s list at Georgetown University, making it as an all-star center in the NBA, or
returning to peak form after organ-transplant surgery, Alonzo Mourning has shown
enormous inner strength. His faith, determination, and courage are what have driven and
sustained him throughout his extraordinary life.
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THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE Website: www.thelifeyoucansave.com

Acting Now to End World Poverty
By Peter Singer
In The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter Singer makes the irrefutable argument that
giving will make a huge difference in the lives of others, without diminishing the quality of
our own. This book is an urgent call to action and a hopeful primer on the power of
compassion, when mixed with rigorous investigation and careful reasoning, to lift others
out of despair.
e-Book
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STANDING TALL
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
By C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker
“As much as I love basketball . . . it has always been a vehicle for me to instill values and self-
respect in the girls I coach . . . I am the last stop before the young women I coach take their
place in society, and it is a responsibility I take seriously. My goal is to give them the confidence
to dream big and the skills to overcome any challenges they face, whether it’s under the basket
or in the boardroom.” —C. Vivian Stringer
With nothing more than true grit, hard work, and a dream, this coalminer’s daughter
became one of the winningest and most beloved coaches in basketball, and has shown
countless young women that the impossible is possible. This is her extraordinary life story.
New
YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS
Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles
By Bruce Wilkinson
The bestselling author of The Prayer of Jabez starts with the dramatic premise that everyone
is in need of a miracle, and that God is ready to meet those needs supernaturally through
ordinary people who are willing to learn the “protocol of heaven.” In the straightforward,
story-driven, highly motivating style for which he is known, Wilkinson describes how
anyone can be a ‘Delivery Guy’ from heaven in such universally significant arenas of life as
finances, practical help, relationships, purpose, and spiritual growth. Readers will master
seven simple tools of service, and come to say confidently, “I want to deliver a supernatural
gift from God to someone in need today—and I expect to!”
Multnomah Books | HC | 978-1-60142-182-1 | 240pp. | $22.99/$27.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50

Author Spotlight: Rebecca Skloot
REBECCA SKLOOT teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis.
She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova
ScienceNOW, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine;
O,The Oprah Magazine; Discover; Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Website: Rebeccaskloot.com
By Rebecca Skloot
er name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as

H HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who
worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—
NEW
taken without her knowledge—became one of the most
important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells
grown in culture, they were vital for developing the polio
vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of
the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro
fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought
and sold by the billions, with devastating consequences for
her family.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey,
from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the
1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells,
from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—
a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—
to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta’s children, unable to
afford health insurance, wrestle with feelings of pride, fear,
and betrayal.
“This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told.”
—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
A Barnes & Noble Discover “What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks really about?
Great New Writers Pick Science, African American culture and religion, intellectual
property of human tissues, Southern history, medical ethics,
civil rights, the overselling of medical advances? . . . The
Crown | HC
book’s broad scope would make it ideal for an institution-
978-1-4000-5217-2 | 384pp.
wide freshman year reading program.”
$26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
—David J. Kroll, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences,
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North Carolina Central University
“Skloot’s book is wonderful—deeply felt, gracefully written,
sharply reported.”
—Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
“An incredibly readable and smart text that should be a part
of countless university discussions . . . Ethically fascinating
and completely engaging—I couldn’t recommend it more.”
—Deborah Blum, Helen Firstbrook Franklin professor of
journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“A stunning illustration of how race, gender and disease
intersect to produce a unique form of social vulnerability, this
is a poignant, necessary and brilliant book.”
—Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Columbia University
A Message from Rebecca Skloot
I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them as a teenager sitting in a freshman biology
class. I knew only fragments of her story, but those fragments inspired me to start asking questions—
about science and mortality, bioethics, and how I’d feel if my own cells were used in research. I didn’t
yet know that her cells had launched a multibillion dollar industry while her children lived 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 the
sciences, medicine, African American studies, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism, and
creative writing. I’ve spoken about HeLa at schools around the country, where students are transfixed
by the story. I tell them that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown on a scale they would weigh
more than 100 Empire State Buildings, and that HeLa has been fused with mouse cells to create
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—and
students’ reactions are powerful.
During Q&As, the first question is usually, “Wasn’t it illegal to take her cells and use them in research
without asking?” The answer is no—not in 1951, and not in 2010. Today, most Americans have their
tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And since the late sixties, when
testing newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each baby born in the United States has
had blood taken, and those samples are often stored and used by scientists. This means that the
majority of college students in this country have tissues of their own being used in research, and
neither they nor their parents likely realize it.
As a college professor, I always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields that stu-
dents will study throughout their careers, and that allow them to explore the real-world consequences
of 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.
During the spring 2010 semester, I will be speaking about my book at more than sixty schools
nationwide. As a regular guest speaker who’s also worked as a correspondent for radio and television, I
understand the importance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been called “moving and
engaging of both the heart and mind.” You can visit the schedule page of my website at
RebeccaSkloot.com to see if I’ll be speaking at your school this spring, and you can contact me through
the site. I look forward to visiting even more schools as part of their Freshman Experience Programs.
As a college biology major, I couldn’t have imagined that Henrietta’s story would lead me to become a
writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. There’s no telling what effect this story
could have on students. I can’t wait to find out.
Courtesy of Gopal Murti
Courtesy of Gopal Murti

Courtesy of Tom Deerinck
© Omar Quintero
HeLa cells take on a different appearance depending on the type of microscope and dye used to see them.
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HISTORY AND SOCIETY
THE MERCURY 13
The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
By Martha Ackmann
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret
testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same
battery of tests as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the
boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women,
The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable
hope in the face of adversity.
Selected for Common Reading at Eastern Kentucky University and University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, among
other colleges.

ISLAM: A Short History

By Karen Armstrong
In this compact volume, Armstrong offers a thoughtful and engaging history of Islam, cur-
rently the world’s fastest-growing faith. Islam is an informative and provocative exploration
of a history, a religion, and a culture which will inspire and inform discussions of current
and historical events. Includes a new Epilogue by the author and a new pronunciation guide.
“A valuable corrective to the hostile caricatures of Islam that circulate in the English-speaking
world. . . . Engaging and provocative.”
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6618-3 | 272pp. | $14.95/$21.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Paperback April 2010

HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR Website: www.rezaaslan.com
Confronting Religious Fundamentalism
By Reza Aslan
At a time when religion and politics increasingly share the same vocabulary and function in
the same sphere, award-winning writer Reza Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of
our world of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie
behind the cosmic impulse.
“In this provocative and engaging book, Reza Aslan shows why he is one of America’s leading
analysts of the confusing and frightening forces that confront us. It is Aslan’s great gift to see
things clearly, and to say them clearly, and in this important new work he offers us a way
forward.”
—Jon Meacham, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the
White House
NO GOD BUT GOD Website: www.rezaaslan.com

The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
By Reza Aslan
“Beginning with an exploration of the religious climate in the years before the Prophet’s
Revelation, Aslan traces the story of Islam from the Prophet’s life and the so-called golden age of
the first four caliphs all the way through European colonization and subsequent independence.
Aslan sees religion as a story, and he tells it that way, bringing each successive century to life
with the kind of vivid details and like-you-were-there, present-tense narration that makes popular
history popular. . . . this is an excellent overview that doubles as an impassioned call to reform.”
—Booklist
Random House | TR | 0-8129-7189-2 | 336pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
HISTORY AND SOCIETY
NOBODIES
Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
By John Bowe
In Nobodies, John Bowe travels from the agricultural quagmires of Florida to the factories
and brothels of Saipan, filing a first-hand report on the working conditions that our
government and our corporations depend on but are trying their best to ignore. Bowe
delivers a sobering look at the moral costs of the cheap goods—from orange juice to cut-
rate fashions—to which our economy has grown so accustomed.
This is rich and vibrant reporting—not a polemic but a presentation of things as they are
on the underside of American commerce.
Now in Paperback
SWAY: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Website:
www.swaybook.com
By Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral
economics, and organizational behavior, this engaging book reveals dynamic forces that
influence every aspect of our personal and business lives, including loss aversion (our
tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to
reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the “chameleon effect” (our
tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us). A riveting look
at the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change
the way readers think about the way they think, and provoke fascinating discussions.
Broadway Business | TR | 978-0-385-53060-6 | 224pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ECOTOPIA Website: www.ernestcallenbach.com

By Ernest Callenbach
In the tradition of Huxley, Orwell, and Verne, Callenbach’s controversial and thought-
provoking novel describes a future in which the West Coast states have seceded to form
Ecotopia, their own environmentally-sound nation.
“Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive, positive vision of an ecologically sustainable world.
Essential reading for all who care about the earth’s future.”
—Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point
Selected for Common Reading at Muskingum College.

Now in Paperback
FACTORY GIRLS
From Village to City in a Changing China
By Leslie T. Chang
Former Wall Street Journal Beijing correspondent Leslie Chang investigates the lives of
female Chinese migrant workers—an enormous and growing population upon whom
much of the world’s economic growth depends. A book of global significance that provides
new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural
villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as
immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.
“Chang’s deeply affecting book tells the story of the invisible foot soldiers who made China’s
stirring rise possible.”

HISTORY AND SOCIETY
New
SONIC BOOM: Globalization at Mach Speed Website: www.greggeasterbrook.com
By Gregg Easterbrook
With a terrific sense of humor, pitch-perfect reporting, and clear, elegant prose, Gregg
Easterbrook explains why economic recovery is on the horizon, but why the next phase of
global change will also be problematic. First, he contends that the world is about to become
far more globally linked. Second, the next wave of global change will be primarily positive:
Economic prosperity, knowledge and freedom will increase more in the next 50 years than
in all of human history to this point. But before you celebrate, Easterbrook warns that the
next phase of global change is going to drive us crazy. Most things will be good for most
people—but nothing will seem certain for anyone.
THE PROGRESS PARADOX Website: www.greggeasterbrook.com

How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
By Gregg Easterbrook
Author Gregg Easterbrook details how the rise of technology in the Western world has led
to vast social improvements on nearly every front, from extending life spans to spreading
literacy and wealth. However, concurrent with these trends is the widespread belief that,
according to research and anecdotal evidence, most people feel less ‘happy’ and content
than in previous generations. The reasons behind this technology-spawned paradox, and a
useful method for resolving it, are explored in this timely and nuanced book.
Now in Paperback
FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: An Epic Adventure in Local Living Website:
By Doug Fine www.dougfine.com
Did you know 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? Did you know almost all components of a
solar-powered water pump are made in Japan or Denmark? Did you know it takes 16,000
gallons of jet fuel to fly an organic banana from Honduras to Silver City, New Mexico?
Neither did Doug Fine. Farewell, My Subaru is the hilarious and inspirational account of a
Long Island suburbanite’s attempt to go green—extreme green—in the middle of nowhere
New Mexico.
Selected for Common Reading at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Villard | TR | 978-0-8129-7789-9 | 224pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE INNOCENT MAN Website: www.jgrisham.com

By John Grisham
In 1982, a 21-year-old waitress in Ada, Oklahoma named Debra Sue Carter was raped and
murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were
never clear, they suspected former local baseball star, Ron Williamson, and his friend,
Dennis Fritz, whom they wound up charging with capital murder.
With the prosecution’s case built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches
and convicts, Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence, and Williamson was sent to
death row.
This book is a disturbing account of the very real flaws in the criminal justice system and a
must-read for those interested in law, justice, and bureaucracy.
Selected for Common Reading at Greensboro College.
Dell | MM | 978-0-440-24383-0 | 448pp. | $7.99/$11.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Audio Edition
HISTORY AND SOCIETY
THE SHAME OF THE NATION
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
By Jonathan Kozol
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually
everywhere, he has found that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15
years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of
Education. In The Shame of the Nation, Kozol makes a powerful and persuasive argument
that America needs to finally face the ongoing problems with its urban schools. Filled with
the passionate voices of children and their teachers, and some of the most revered and
trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand
reporting.
“Segregation is back, and only a writer of Jonathon Kozol’s wisdom and passion can assess its
terrible price, one child at a time. It isn’t easy, but before we can craft a solution, we have to feel
the shame.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Now in Paperback
THE HARDBALL HANDBOOK: How to Win at Life
By Chris Matthews
With his more than 40 years of experience observing people and politicians in our nation’s
capital—ten of those years on Hardball, five nights a week—Chris Matthews has learned
from the pros what it takes to be a success. Now, Matthews shows readers what we can learn
from the world’s most accomplished people and, more important, how we can emulate their
best habits to improve our own lives. Written in the assertive, good-natured style that is
Matthews’s trademark, he focuses on four areas—friendship, rivalry, reputation, and
success—and shows how we can cull the best traits of others and use them ourselves.
Author Available
INHERITING THE HOLY LAND

An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East
By Jennifer Miller
Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of
history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her
groundbreaking perspective on the conflict is presented through interviews with young
Israelis and Palestinians and conversations with some of the most influential officials
involved in the Middle East, including Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, James Baker, Benjamin
Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Ehud Barak, and Mahmoud Abbas. This book will open eyes,
open hearts, and open minds.
Selected for Common Reading at Dartmouth College.

THE BOTANY OF DESIRE Website: www.michaelpollan.com

A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
By Michael Pollan
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.”
“[Pollan] has a wide-ranging intellect, an eager grasp of evolutionary biology and a subversive
streak that helps him to root out some wonderfully counterintuitive points. His prose both
shimmers and snaps, and he has a knack for finding perfect quotes in the oddest places. . . .
Best of all, Pollan really loves plants.” —The New York Times Book Review
Selected for Common Reading at Assumption College and Bellevue Community College.


HISTORY AND SOCIETY
Now in Paperback
THE DAY THE EARTH CAVED IN: An American Mining Tragedy
By Joan Quigley
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when 12-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the
earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania, here is an unprecedented
and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire. Drawing on interviews with key
participants and exclusive new research, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the
granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers readers into the dramatic world of the
underground blaze, and paints unforgettable portraits of Centralia and its residents. Like
Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action, The Day the Earth Caved In is a seminal investigation of
individual rights, corporate privilege, and governmental indifference to the powerless.
New
BORDER CROSSER: One Gringo’s Illicit Passage from Mexico into America
By Johnny Rico
After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in Blood
Makes the Grass Grow Green, Johnny Rico now dares to embed himself on both sides of
America’s most dangerous domestic conflict—the war for and against illegal immigration—
in an exhilarating new exercise in immersion journalism. As a “typically spoiled American”
who doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish, he attempts to cross the Mexican border into the
United States illegally. Eager to tell the story from all sides, Rico also travels treacherously
with the Border Patrol, meets extreme immigrant advocates who publish maps for illegals,
visits a modern-day “underground railroad” in Texas, and hunts for miscreants with angry
vigilantes.
Now in Paperback
AMERICAN BUFFALO To read author’s essay about why his book engages
In Search of a Lost Icon students, go to: http://tinyurl.com/ydf9wks
By Steven Rinella
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo in the Alaskan
wilderness. Despite the great odds, Rinella managed to kill one and raft the meat back to
civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. American
Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt—as well as the story of the many ways in which
the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Both a captivating narrative and a book of
environmental and historical significance, this fascinating examination of an animal that
has haunted the American imagination tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it
does about the creature who best embodies the American ethos.
Paperback March 2010

NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT Website: lucindaroy.net
The Tragedy at Virginia Tech
By Lucinda Roy
No Right to Remain Silent offers a unique, inside perspective on the Virginia Tech tragedy
that raises urgent questions about the safety of our undergraduate institutions and the
responsibility of higher education. By reading about the laws, policies, behavior, and
security protocols that need to be addressed, students will be more knowledgeable about
matters that so directly and vastly impact their lives on campus.
Harmony | TR | 978-0-307-58770-1 | 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
HISTORY AND SOCIETY
Now in Paperback
HEIRLOOM
Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
By Tim Stark
Heirloom is not just a success story of a government consultant turned organic farmer; Tim
Stark brings rich detail and rueful humor full of passionate affection for the land and
people to his wonderful book. And his stories of the triumphs (fleeting and infrequent) and
tribulations (constant and numerous) of the farming life are ironically entertaining and
instructive.
In a time which, more than ever, we are concerned about what we eat and where it comes
from, and about the support of local, sustainable, human-scale agriculture, this book could
not be more pertinent—to our diets and to our American identity.
Paperback May 2010

THE BLACK SWAN
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A black swan is a highly improbable event that is unpredictable, carries a massive impact,
and later appears more predictable than it was. For Taleb, black swans underlie almost
everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
Why do we not acknowledge these black swans until after they occur? According to Taleb,
humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We
concentrate on things we already know and repeatedly fail to consider what we don’t know.
We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities; too vulnerable to the impulse to
simplify, narrate, and categorize; and not open enough to rewarding those brave enough to
imagine the “impossible.”
Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010

BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME Soon to be a Feature Film

A True Story
By Timothy B. Tyson
Winner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007
A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Public Library Book to Remember
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of
conscience. 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 Sign My 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—Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin at Richland, University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and
Science, and Villanova University.

HISTORY AND SOCIETY
EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE

How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
By David Sloan Wilson
2007 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine (American Library Association)
“Evolution for Everyone is a remarkable contribution. No other author has managed to combine
mastery of the subject with such a clear and interesting explanation of what it all means for
human self-understanding. Aimed at the general reader, yet peppered with ideas original enough
to engage scholars, it is truly a book for our time.”
—Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Human Nature
COVERING
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
By Kenji Yoshino
Winner, 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award
Winner, 2006 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award
In Covering, one of the country’s most brilliant young legal scholars fashions a new
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 our authentic
selves is a harm from which the law should sometimes protect us. More profoundly, he
claims that law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common
culture of authenticity. A moving memoir and a penetrating analysis of today’s cultural
mores, Yoshino’s lucid prose is accessible and thought-provoking.
“Yoshino argues convincingly in this book that covering is going to become more and more a
civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation’s courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic
America.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Selected for Common Reading at Pomona College, Yale University, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Author Available
THE LUCIFER EFFECT Websites: www.zimbardo.com

www.prisonexperiment.org
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
By Philip Zimbardo
Winner, the William James Book Award of the Society for General Psychology (Division 1 of the American
Psychological Association)
In The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo—creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment —tells
the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was
randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison
environment. Within a week, the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were
transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
Illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo
enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate
malfeasance to organized genocide to the abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib. He presents an
engrossing study of how situational forces and group dynamics can make monsters out of
decent men and women.
Selected for Common Reading at University of Maine.

Two Essential Books for New College Students
LECTURE NOTES
April 2010
A Professor’s Inside Guide to College Success
By Philip Freeman, Ph.D.
“College is hard, but the rules for college success are simple. The trick
is, even though they are simple in theory, they are often very difficult in
practice. But here’s my college professor’s guarantee: If you consistently
and conscientiously follow these rules, you will ace your courses,
impress your friends and family, and have prospective employers or
graduate schools begging you to walk through their doors.” So begins
Philip Mitchell Freeman’s Lecture Notes, a practical primer from a
veteran college professor and respected historian for every incoming
college student on how to successfully transition from high school to
the halls of academe.
Professor Freeman outlines the benefits for students in developing
appropriate mentoring relationships with teachers, explains how they
may foster these crucial relationships and get the best from their
professors, and demystifies faculty hierarchy by revealing who makes a
good choice, who is a waste of time, and why. In addition,
straightforward, no-nonsense study strategies, including how to read a
book, when to start a paper, and why it is smart for students to show
up for class round out this little gem of a book.
Ten Speed Press | TR |978-1-5800-8754-4 | 160pp.
$14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
COLLEGE RULES!
How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
By Sherrie Nist-Olejnik and Jodi Patrick Holschuh
This completely revised guide to college success educates students in
the basic college survival skills that professors don’t teach, such as how
to study, take tests, balance school and social life, and more. This fun-
spirited crash course in the rules of college provides tools to equip
students for a lifetime of learning, and includes three completely new
chapters on research papers, theories of learning, and Q&As, as well as
helpful sidebars featuring study tips, information for nontraditional
students, and more.
Iowa State University will be using College Rules! for an upcoming
Academic Skills Seminar course in the Fall and Spring Semesters.
Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8838-1 | 320pp.
$14.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Author Available
Life and College Guides 61

Author Spotlight: Chip Heath and Dan Heath
CHIP HEATH is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University. DAN HEATH, a former
researcher at Harvard Business School, is now a Senior Fellow at Duke
University's CASE Center, which supports social entrepreneurs.
Websites: www.heathbrothers.com • www.madetostick.com • www.madetostick.com/blog
SWITCH
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
This compelling narrative about the difficulty in 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
NEW stories of people and organizations successfully creating significant
change, from the graduate who transformed the diets and nutrition of
poor families in rural Vietnam—using what the authors call finding
Bright Spots—to breaking bigger goals down into more manageable
steps—what the authors call Small Steps.
Broadway Business | HC | 978-0-385-52875-7 | 320pp.
$26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00
Audio Edition • Authors Available • e-Book
MADE TO STICK
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Updated, with a new chapter
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve
the chances of worthy ideas? Here, accomplished business educators
Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions, in a book
that will transform the way we communicate ideas. As the Heaths
reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick, they also explain ways to make
ideas stickier.
Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas, and tells us
how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick—even
offering advice for educators on how to make their lessons stick with
students.
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6428-1 | 336pp.
$26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
Audio Edition • Authors Available • e-Book • Teacher’s Guide
LIFE AND COLLEGE GUIDES
THE IDENTITY CODE Ideal for First-Year
The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose Orientation
and Place in the World
By Larry Ackerman
In this passionate and provocative book, Larry Ackerman shows students how to discover
their true purpose in life by better understanding their own identities. Ackerman’s solution
takes the form of eight penetrating questions, which allow students to carefully consider
their own personalities, beliefs, and goals. The questions are accompanied by engaging
stories and concrete exercises to guide students in their introspection.
Selected for Common Reading at Manchester College.

Now in Paperback
ASK FOR IT To read the authors’ essay about
How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation what teachers and students can
to Get What They Really Want learn from their book, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/y8a9odt
By Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Drawing from the stories of real women, the authors present an innovative approach to
negotiation that explains how women can identify important goals, and takes them step-by-
step through the entire planning and preparation process, while offering strategic advice on
the negotiation stage—with tips on managing emotions, confidence-building techniques,
and the implementation of an effective collaborative style.
New
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2010
A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
By Richard N. Bolles
Streamlined this year to help those struggling in these difficult economic times acquire the
job-search tools they need faster and more efficiently, this perennial bestseller is not only
about finding a job in hard times; it is about finding your passion. By exploring dozens of
important questions, career guru Richard N. Bolles leads job-hunters to find meaningful
work. In the words of Fortune magazine: “What Color Is Your Parachute? remains the gold
standard of career guides.”
Ten Speed Press | TR | 978-1-5800-8987-6 | 336pp. | $18.99/$23.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Author Available
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? FOR TEENS

Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future
By Carol Christen, with Richard N. Bolles, and Jean M. Blomquist
Written for young adults, with simpler, more direct language, the teen Parachute teaches
high school and college students to zero in on their favorite skills and then to apply that
knowledge to finding their perfect college major or job. A significant addition to the
Parachute Library, this book will provide guidance and inspiration to a whole new
generation of job seekers.
Author Available
Also Available
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? WORKBOOK, REVISED EDITION

New
THE OVERNIGHT RESUMÉ, 3RD EDITION
The Fastest Way to Your Next Job
By Donald Asher
A step-by-step approach to resumé writing for all career stages and most educational
backgrounds that shows job seekers how to develop and craft a focused, successful resumé
in one sitting.
Author Available
HOW TO GET ANY JOB, 2ND EDITION

Career Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30 (or How to Avoid Living in
Your Parents’ Basement)
By Donald Asher
Donald Asher, America’s career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of
passion and preparation. In this book, he counsels college job seekers on the essential steps
for aligning personal career goals with available job opportunities and explains how to
translate a major into a job that places an emphasis on achieving balanced life goals over
career advancement.
Author Available
April 2010
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job
By Emily Bennington and Skip Lineberg
Filled with good wisdom, this is a savvy handbook for ambitious new graduates and first-
time employees who want to market themselves as top performers and get on their
employers’ fast track, with advice on initial skills, tasks, and milestones in the first year on
the job.
THE JOB-HUNTER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE

How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When “There Are No Jobs”
Never has his advice been more sought than during these brutal economic times. Bolles has
responded by writing a completely new book: The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide, designed
particularly for people who are job-hunting—or who are trying to figure out what to do
with their life.
Author Available
THE WORKING LIFE

The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
By Joanne B. Ciulla
In The Working Life, scholar and ethics professor Joanne Ciulla examines what “work” has
come to mean in the new “Information Age”; how it has come to take a new, and all-
encompassing, providence over the average American’s life; and what factors have
transformed the relationship between the company and the employee from one of mutual
loyalty and trust to one of insecurity, transience, and deceit. The Working Life is an
informative and thought-provoking book for this country’s future workforce.
SHOWING UP FOR LIFE
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
By Bill Gates, Sr. and Mary Ann Mackin
Foreword by Bill Gates
Through a wide-ranging arpeggio of stories and anecdotes, lessons and insights, inveterate
do-gooder Bill Gates, Sr.—lawyer, activist, husband, father, philanthropist—conveys the
values and principles he’s learned in life, has instilled in his children, and which he now
practices on a world stage as the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN . . .
Talking to People with Confidence on Any Social or Business Occasion
By Florence Isaacs
The art of conversation is a necessary skill for navigating life’s social and business occasions,
and with practice, anyone can develop the ability to easily talk to people. A smart, useful
tool that helps you assess all situations and approach people with confidence, here is a
complete guide to conversation in a variety of circumstances. It teaches the basics, plus
offers helpful rules that work anywhere and with anyone. Also covered are can’t-fail
conversation openers and strategies for expanding conversation and getting to know casual
social or business contacts better. Filled with examples, ideas, and practical advice, What Do
You Say When . . . helps you master one of life’s most essential skills.
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IMPROV WISDOM
Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up
By Patricia Ryan Madson
Improv Wisdom shows how to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life
challenges—whether it’s dealing with a demanding boss, a tired child, or one of life’s
unceasing surprises. Patricia Madson distills 30 years of experience into 13 simple strategies,
including “Say Yes,” “Start Anywhere,” “Face the Facts,” and “Make Mistakes, Please,” helping
readers to loosen up, think on their feet, and take on everything life has to offer with skill,
chutzpah, and a sense of humor.
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CRACKING CREATIVITY
The Secrets of Creative Genuis
By Michael Michalko
In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael
Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you.
To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history’s greatest
thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques
into the modern home and workplace.
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THINKERTOYS
A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
By Michael Michalko
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking book, creativity expert Michael
Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help students think like geniuses, and
approach problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises,
students will learn how to create original ideas that will improve their academic, personal,
and business lives. Michalko’s techniques show how we may look at the same information as
everyone else and see something different. With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and
puzzles, Thinkertoys will open students’ minds to a world of innovative solutions to
everyday and not-so-everyday problems
“Designed to change the way you think.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Shows you how to expand your imagination.”
—Newsweek
SUCCESS
Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People
Edited by Jena Pincott
Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all
fields—including business, politics, entertainment, and the arts.
The high achievers quoted in the book share one crucial belief: Success is possible as long as
there’s passion. Students who know where they want to be—but do not how to get there—
will find an ideal guide in Success.
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GUIDE TO COLLEGE MAJORS, 2010 EDITION
By Princeton Review
Choosing an undergraduate major is a difficult decision that impacts a student’s college
years and future career path. Guide to College Majors is fully revised and updated to include
the most current information possible on more than 350 of the most popular majors.
Every profile of a major includes:
• An overview of the major
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• Tips on the best high school prep work
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• Fun facts and interesting trivia
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PAYING FOR COLLEGE WITHOUT GOING BROKE, 2010 EDITION
By Princeton Review
This is a thoroughly revised and updated edition that reflects the current economic
uncertainties to take the stress, confusion, and guess-work out of applying for financial aid.
It also shows students and parents how to improve their chances of receiving aid by
planning ahead and calculating their aid eligibility before applying to college. Includes the
latest financial aid forms and lists of annual changes in tax laws.
DARE TO PREPARE
How to Win Before You Begin
By Ronald M. Shapiro and Gregory Jordan
Ron Shapiro will teach your students how to get long-term results in our short-term world
using eight disciplines of preparation, including: understanding objectives, utilizing
precedents to help understand circumstances and obstacles, knowing alternatives, and
setting strategy after goals are assembled. This is a perfect book for teaching students the
organizational and other life skills necessary to succeed in college and in life.
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WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE

By Princeton Review
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR HISTORY OR POLITICAL SCIENCE DEGREE

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Author Spotlight: John Francis, Ph.D.
JOHN FRANCIS, PH.D. is the Founder and Director of Planetwalk, a nonprofit
environmental education organization. He travels around the world speaking on
pilgrimage and change, and on Planetlines, an environmental studies curriculum based
on the walking pilgrimage, which he is developing for K-12 schools and universities.
PLANETWALKER Website: www.planetwalk.org

22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
By John Francis, Ph.D.
2007 Gold Winner—Nautlilus Book Awards in the categories of

Ecology/Environment and Independent Press
hen the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore
W blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and
helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and
personal stand—he stopped using all forms of motorized
Now in transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would
Paperback span two decades and two continents, the young man took a
vow of silence that endured for 17 years. It began as a silent
environmental protest, but as a young African American man,
walking across the country in the early 1970s, his idea of “the
environment” expanded beyond concern about pollution and
loss of habitat to include how we humans treat each other and
how we can better communicate and work together to benefit
the earth.
Through his silence and walking, Francis learned to listen, and
along the way earned college and graduate degrees in science
and environmental studies. The United Nations appointed
him goodwill ambassador to the world’s grassroots
communities, and the U.S. government recruited him to help
address the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Was he crazy? How did he live and earn all those degrees
National Geographic | TR without talking? An amazing human-interest story with a vital
978-1-4262-0405-0 | 288pp. message, Planetwalker is also a deeply personal and engaging
$16.95/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 coming-of-age odyssey—the positive experiences, the
e-Book challenging times, the characters encountered, and the
learning gained along the way.

Marian University, WI
Tarleton State University
University of South Carolina Upstate
Excerpt
On January 17, 1971, I witnessed a crude oil spill of nearly a half-million gallons in the waters near the
Golden Gate Bridge. The oil spill was my first experience with a major environmental insult. As I drove
my car over the Golden Gate I felt some responsibility for the mess washing up onto the shore. It was
nearly a year afterwards, still feeling this responsibility, that I gave up the use of motorized vehicles and
started walking.
My community took note. Then to end the almost constant bickering and arguments with my friends as
to the question of whether one person walking could make a difference, I stopped speaking and spent
a day in silence. My life altered. As that day of silence stretched out before me, I realized I had begun a
pilgrimage, an outer and inner journey, walking and sailing around-the-world, as part of my education
dedicated to raise environmental consciousness, and promote earth stewardship and world peace.
*****
Leaving my Northern California home in 1983, I walked in silence across the United States. During my
silent walk I studied the environment formally in institutions of higher learning and informally on the
trails, roads, and highways that stretched throughout the villages, towns, and cities across America.
When I started learning about the environment, it was the pollution of an oil spill that prompted me to
action. Later I learned there were other issues besides pollution that demanded attention, like
overpopulation, and the loss of species and habitat. People talked and organizations worked on issues
of conservation, restoration, preserving wilderness and now climate change. Yet, as important as those
issues are, listening from my silence, environment for me became more. In this scenario people are
part of the environment, not just caretakers, and we are at the core of our environmental troubles.
Environment then, is also about human and civil rights, economic equity, gender equality, and from the
standpoint of a pilgrim on the road, environment is about how we treat each other when we meet each
other.
*****
How I came to be on this journey, as well as the meaning of pilgrimage for me, and society, is the
subject of this book. Of course, we are all pilgrims of one kind or another and I hope that my story will
help you begin, complete, or enhance your own pilgrimage. I use the pages from my daily journals to
look back. This is how it begins.
Excerpted from PlanetWalker by John Francis Copyright © 2008 by John Francis. Excerpted by permission of National Geographic Society. All rights
reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Praise for Planetwalker

“It’s a remarkably insightful, poetic, and inspiring story, one that’s sure to make readers think more carefully
about their own styles of living.”
—Booklist
“Planetwalker is an inspiring story that will make teens think and may help them to realize that global
change is possible through individual action.”
—School Library Journal
“First John Francis stopped riding in cars. Then he stopped talking. More than three decades, two
continent-spanning hikes, and countless trail miles later, he’s still following his remarkable path of protest—
only now he’s not alone.”
—Backpacker Magazine
“Francis took himself all across America, across the world, and back. And he took himself to a place where
one man could truly and remarkably make a mighty difference.”
—American Way Magazine
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Author Spotlight: Daniel Goleman
DANIEL GOLEMAN is the author of the international bestsellers, Emotional
Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence, and the co-
author of the acclaimed business bestseller Primal Leadership. He was a science
reporter for The New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and
received the American Psychological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his media writing.
Ecological Intelligence was profiled as one of Time magazine’s “10 Ideas Changing the World Right
Now.” Read the story at: www.tinyurl.com/ad69hr
ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
By Daniel Goleman
cological Intelligence draws on cutting-edge research to
E reveal why “green is a mirage,” illuminates inconsistencies
in our response to the ecological crisis, and introduces new
technologies that reveal with “radical transparency” the eco-
impact of products we buy, with the potential to drive
consumers to make smarter decisions and companies to
reform their business practices.
Ecological Intelligence has been selected for Virginia Tech’s
Common Book Project for the 2009–10 academic year.
“Drawing on his capacious intelligence, Daniel Goleman
dissects the issues involved in the attainment of long-term
sustainability and details promising and intriguing solutions.
Once again, he has written an essential book.”
—Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and
Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
“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
Broadway Business | HC community service options for students and faculty.”
978-0-385-52782-8 | 288pp. —Ron Daniel, associate provost for undergraduate education,
$26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 Virginia Tech
Author Available • e-Book “Students, faculty, and staff at MIT found Daniel Goleman's
lecture highly thought-provoking and stimulating. His
Do not order paperback before 3/30/2010. message was simultaneously vexing and daunting as well
Broadway Business | TR as hopeful and optimistic. . . . It was a fascinating and
978-0-385-52783-5 | 304pp. illuminating talk which has lead to ongoing conversation
$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 and discussion here at MIT.”
Author Available • e-Book —Tracy Purinton, Associate Director, MIT Leadership Center

Virginia Tech
Colleges visited include Dominican University, MIT, Virginia Tech, and Harvard.
Upcoming: London School of Economics, University of the Pacific, Brown University, Yale, City University
of New York.
A Message from Virginia Tech
First Year Experiences

Office of the University Provost
103 Hillcrest Hall (0914)
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
540/231-3341 Fax: 540/231-4891
E-mail: malewisl@vt.edu www.provost.vt.edu
January 2010
To Whom It May Concern,
I write to provide information on the selection of Ecological Intelligence by Daniel
Goleman as Virginia Tech’s “Common Book” for the 2009–2010 academic year. Many
faculty members integrated content from the book into their classes—especially
those in which mostly freshman students were registered. The selection and use of
Ecological Intelligence was congruent with Virginia Tech’s commitment to
sustainability issues and practices. We were pleased that the nature of the book
afforded faculty members the opportunity to choose to include parts of the book for
more intensive review and analysis by the students.
In October of 2009, Dr. Goleman made a one-day visit to Virginia Tech. During that
time he spoke to several groups including students. He engaged in lively discussions
with the students and many reported that they appreciated the opportunity to learn
from someone who had dedicated so much time and intellect to this important topic.
Currently, Ecological Intelligence is one of several books on the general topic of
sustainability under consideration for selection as the 2010–2011 academic year
“Common Book”.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Lewis

Director of First Year Experiences
Virginia Tech
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V I R G I N I A P O LY T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E A N D S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y
An equal opportunity, affirmative action institution
A Message from Daniel Goleman

In my talks on college campuses around the country I’ve found that students find the vision outlined in Ecological Intelligence
both sobering and empowering. I draw on data from a wide range of disciplines—ecology, industrial design, economics and
business, neuroeconomics and beyond—to portray the lifelong challenges young people will face in reversing the slow-
motion catastrophe driven by our everyday habits and purchases. The emerging force of Web 2.0, and new information
systems, are key to the hopeful solutions I envision. I’ve immensely enjoyed my interactions with students and find myself
energized by their enthusiasm for positive solutions to the ecological challenges we face. I look forward to many more such
encounters.
In fact if a college or university adopts Ecological Intelligence as an all-school read, I will try to visit the campus to speak there
pro bono (if I can readily fit the trip into my travel schedule). If not, I would be happy to do a webinar with Q&A for the
students there.
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GO GREEN
Now in Paperback
Website: www.bluezones.com
THE BLUE ZONES
Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest
By Dan Buettner
In this expanded edition of the bestseller, longevity expert Dan Buettner draws on his
research from extraordinarily long-lived communities—Blue Zones—around the globe to
highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices that will add years to
readers’ lives. This edition includes coverage of a new Blue Zone.
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ECOTOPIA Website: www.ernestcallenbach.com

By Ernest Callenbach
Published in 1975, Ecotopia is a seminal dystopian novel by Ernest Callenbach. The society
described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the
counterculture, and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter.
“Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive, positive vision of an ecologically sustainable world.
Essential reading for all who care about the earth’s future.”
—Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point
YOU CAN SAVE THE EARTH

7 Reasons Why & 7 Simple Ways—A Philosophy For The Future
Edited by Hatherleigh Press
You Can Save the Earth is the perfect book to pick up for your common reading program as
today’s students will be the next guardians of the planet. While many books on sustainabili-
ty and climate change focus only on disasters and what has gone wrong, You Can Save the
Earth provides a roadmap for students with real-life, simple solutions to many of our global
problems, and emphasizes steps that can be taken on an individual basis or local level to
promote environmental awareness and conservation.
Hatherleigh Press | HC | 978-1-57826-280-9 | 144pp. | $12.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $6.50
MINDFULLY GREEN
A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
By Stephanie Kaza
There has been a flood of attention given to the small actions we can take to live in a more
environmentally friendly way—from reducing water use to conserving electricity.
In this unique book, Stephanie Kaza, professor of Environmental Studies at the University
of Vermont, tells us how to affect real environmental change in the world. Influenced by her
background in Buddhism, she offers a simply applied philosophy for engaging in
environmental action in real, practical, and scientifically-based ways. Students will find new
methods for evaluating their own relationship to the environment, think more deeply about
their impact on the natural world, engage in environmental change, and make living green a
personal practice.
Shambhala | TR | 978-1-59030-583-6 | 144pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
GO GREEN
May 2010
THE NEW GOOD LIFE
Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
By John Robbins
In The New Good Life, John Robbins, the bestselling author of Diet for a New America
(which later became a PBS series), and the founder of Earth Save International, offers
counterintuitive high-joy, low-cost solutions to life’s challenges: ideas for saving money
around our homes, on our plates, in our entertainment, and through our good physical and
mental health. Informed by his colorful financial story and sparked by our national “end of
excess,” The New Good Life is both a passionately-argued manifesto for finding meaning
beyond money and value beyond status, and a practical blueprint for living well on less.
THE GREEN BOOK Website:

The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet www.readthegreenbook.com/
One Simple Step at a Time
By Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
“It’s exciting to have a book like this where you can flip through and go see what you can
do, what you can do instead of what you should have done. . . . ” —Cameron Diaz
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen provide
hundreds of everyday environmental solutions, pinpointing the tiniest adjustments that
have the biggest impact upon the health of our great green globe. With celebrity
contributions from: Justin Timberlake, Tiki Barber, Tyra Banks, Owen Wilson, Dale
Earnhardt, Jr., Ellen DeGeneres, Will Ferrell, and many others. Perfect for younger readers.
March 2010 Website: www.shiftyourhabit.com

SHIFT YOUR HABIT
Easy Ways to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Save the Planet
By Elizabeth Rogers
By bestselling author Elizabeth Rogers, an environmental consultant and entrepreneur, this
book will help to empower students with the knowledge and skills needed for making a
positive impact on their world.
“Elizabeth Rogers brought a new face to the environmental movement with The Green Book,
and now she’s doing it again with Shift Your Habit. Her unique understanding of both green
issues and popular culture enables her to make sustainability sustainable—for real people, with
real lives.”
—Steve Glenn, CEO of Living Homes
Author Available
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GO GREEN
PLENTY
Website: www.100milediet.org/
Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
By Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
The remarkable, amusing, and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-
long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
Using this food-focused experiment as a way to think about globalization, monoculture, the
oil economy, environmental collapse, and community, 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 we might live better—better for this earth, better
for the community, better for our bellies!”
—Bill McKibben
Selected for Common Reading at Colorado Mountain College.
One Book, One Community Choice in Alliance, OH.
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New
ANTARCTICA 2041 Go to www.education.2041.com/
for information about a curriculum
My Quest to Save the Earth’s Last Wilderness developed around this book.
By Robert Swan with Gil Reavill
In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not
high in his mind. But upon his return, the earth’s perilous state became personal: Robert’s
ice-blue eyes were singed a pale gray, a result of being exposed to the sun’s rays passing
unfiltered through the depleted ozone layer. At this moment, his commitment to preserving
the environment was born, and in Antarctica 2041 Swan details his journey to awareness,
and provides the information and tools readers need to reverse the harm done to the planet
thus far, and secure its future for generations to come.
Also of Interest
GO GREEN, LIVE RICH
50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying
By David Bach and Hillary Rosner
LIVING LIKE ED
A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
By Ed Begley, Jr.
Clarkson Potter | TR | 978-0-307-39643-3 | 240pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book
READY, SET, GREEN

Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living
By Graham Hill and Meaghan O’Neill
Villard | TR | 978-0-345-50308-4 | 240pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Now in Paperback
SIX DEGREES
Our Future on a Hotter Planet
By Mark Lynas
National Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0385-5 | 336pp. | $16.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
SUZE ORMAN’S ACTION PLAN Website: www.suzeorman.com
By Suze Orman
Fully revised and updated for 2010 and beyond, Suze Orman’s bestselling
financial action plan provides up-to-date information on new legislation that
could affect how individuals will achieve their financial goals. Includes: an
explanation of new FICO practices, and a new strategy for dealing with credit March 2010
card debt; guidance on how to live within one’s means, and strategies to keep
individuals on the path to achieving his or her goals in this new age of financial
honesty. Plus an all-new chapter on kids and money—how to give children a
solid financial education, no matter their age.
Audio Edition
Also by Suze Orman

WOMEN & MONEY
A groundbreaking new study by the best-selling author Suze Orman probes the
complex relationship between women and money, addressing the impact of
psychological practices and financial behavior on women’s finances, and
offering practical solutions to create a fundamental change in how women
handle their money.
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-51931-1 | 272pp. | $24.95/$30.00 Can |. Exam Copy: $12.50
For more books by Suze Orman, visit http://tinyurl.com/yemdtdq
FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEY Website: www.finishrich.com

By David Bach
In Fight For Your Money, David Bach, financial guru and consumer advocate,
has written the ultimate guide to making smarter financial decisions and
protecting yourself from companies that want to separate you from your hard-
earned income.
Starting with an A to Z list of items for which you are paying too much—your
cell phone, cable bill, cars, credit cards, insurance, airfare, hotels and many
more—Bach shows how you are being taken. Then the “Fight for Your Money
Toolkit” shows you how to fight back, with sample letters, call scripts, and real-
life stories of ordinary people who have fought back and won.
Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-2984-4 | 448pp. | $26.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.00
Also by David Bach

THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE
In The Automatic Millionaire, popular financial writer David Bach champions
automated transactions and a slow, gradual approach to wealth accumulation.
Bach suggests making use of automated payroll deductions for pre-tax
retirement funds—hence the book’s title—and accelerated mortgage payments
as ways to ensure a wealthy retirement, even for those without extraordinary
incomes.
For millions of Americans discouraged by the economy, and for the 97 million
Americans who haven’t yet saved a dollar for their future, The Automatic
Millionaire will be a life-changing book.
For more books by David Bach, visit http://tinyurl.com/ya5g6c4
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MONEY MATTERS
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO STARTING YOUR

FINANCIAL LIFE
By Karen Blumenthal
For anyone on his or her financial own, or about to be—students still in school or recent
graduates about to start a job—this is a valuable guide to starting on the right path for life-
long, responsible money management and financial freedom.
THE SMART COOKIES’ GUIDE TO Website: www.smartcookies.com

MAKING MORE DOUGH
How Five Young Women Got Smart, Formed a Money Group, and Took Control of
Their Finances
By The Smart Cookies and Jennifer Barrett
In this fresh, accessible guide, five dynamic young women describe how they formed a
money club with the intent of developing strategies for getting out of debt and improving
their individual financial situation, sharing their proven recipe for success with their
personal stories, easy-to-follow steps, and strategies for meeting any goal, from eliminating
debt to becoming a smart spender.
Delacorte Press | HC | 978-0-385-34244-5 | 256pp. | $24.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.00
Also available:
IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS . . .
Questions About Your Money and Your Life
By Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell
Villard | HC | 978-0-345-50495-1 | 144pp. | $12.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $6.50
STAY RICH FOR LIFE

How to Have More Money Today, More Money for Retirement,
and More Money for your Loved Ones
By Ed Slott
Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-51442-4 | 288pp. | $25.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
STAY RICH FOR LIFE WORKBOOK

By Ed Slott
Author Available
Author/Title Index
Ackerman, Laurence ..................................63 Ciulla, Joanne B. ........................................64 Handke, Peter..............................................37
Ackmann, Martha ........................................54 Coates, Ta-Nehisi ........................................23 HANDS OF MY FATHER ................................30
Aiken, Sean ................................................48 COLLEGE RULES! ......................................61 HARDBALL HANDBOOK, THE........................57
Albom, Mitch ..............................................48 Compton-Rock,Malaak ................................49 Hari, Daoud ................................................25
Aldrin, Buzz ................................................20 Courtenay, Bryce ........................................36 Harris, Alex and Brett Harris ........................50
Ali, Nujood ..................................................20 COVERING ..................................................60 Haskell, Sam ..............................................50
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ..........41 CRACKING CREATIVITY ................................65 Heath, Chip and Dan Heath ........................62
Alsamari, Lewis ..........................................20 DARE TO PREPARE ......................................67 HEAVY METAL ISLAM ..................................26
AMERICAN BUFFALO....................................58 Dau, John Bul..............................................22 Hegland, Jean ............................................38
AMERICAN CHICA ........................................21 Davis, L.J. ..................................................36 HEIRLOOM ..................................................59
AMERICAN RUST ........................................40 DAY THE EARTH CAVED IN, THE ..................58 HIGH............................................................27
AMERICAN WIDOW ......................................30 Dery, Tibor ..................................................36 Hill, Graham ................................................74
Angelou, Maya ......................................20, 21 Dickner, Nicolas ..........................................37 HOPE IN THE UNSEEN, A..............................16
ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY ..........................39 DO HARD THINGS ........................................50 Horne, Jed ..................................................31
ANTARCTICA 2041 ......................................74 DREAMERS OF THE DAY ..............................42 HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER
Arana, Marie................................................21 DREAMS FROM MY FATHER ........................19 AND SWEET............................................34
Armstrong, Karen ........................................54 Dumas, Firoozeh........................................4, 5 HOW TO GET ANY JOB ................................64
Asher, Donald ..............................................64 Easterbrook, Gregg......................................56 HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR ......................54
ASK FOR IT..................................................63 EAVES OF HEAVEN, THE ..............................28 HUNGER OF MEMORY..................................28
Aslan, Reza ................................................54 Ebadi, Shirin ................................................23 I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE ..................24
AAUDACITY OF HOPE, THE ..........................19 ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE ........................70 I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED ........20
AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE, THE ....................75 ECOTOPIA..............................................55, 72 I KNOW WHY CAGED BIRD SINGS ................20
Babcock, Linda............................................63 Edelman, Hope ............................................23 IDENTITY CODE, THE ..................................63
Bach, David ................................................75 EDUCATION OF A WANDERING MAN ............25 IF IT TAKES A VILLAGE, BUILD ONE ..............49
Bashir, Halima ............................................21 Edwards, Elizabeth ......................................23 IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS ................76
Baum, Dan ..................................................31 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY ............................64 I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU........................22
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL..................................40 Ellis, Shaun ................................................24 IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA ..................52
BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE, THE ........................23 END OF THE JEWS, THE ..............................39 IMPROV WISDOM ........................................65
BEG, BORROW, STEAL ................................24 ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY ..................................10 INHERITING THE HOLY LAND........................57
Begley, Ed Jr. ..............................................74 Ensler, Eve ..................................................24 INNOCENT MAN, THE ..................................56
Behrens, Peter ............................................35 ESCAPE FROM SADDAM..............................20 INTO THE FOREST ......................................38
Bennington, Emily........................................64 EVERY MAN DIES ALONE ............................37 IRAN AWAKENING ........................................23
Berry, Bertice ..............................................21 EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY ..................28 Isaacs, Florence ..........................................65
BLACK SWAN, THE ......................................59 EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE ........................60 ISLAM ........................................................54
BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME ....................59 FACTORY GIRLS ..........................................55 Jeffs, Brent W. ............................................25
BLUE NOTEBOOK, THE ................................38 FAHRENHEIT 451 ........................................35 JENNIEMAE & JAMES..................................27
BLUE ZONES, THE........................................72 Fallada, Hans ..............................................37 JOB HUNTERS SURVIVAL GUIDE ..................64
Blumenthal, Karen ......................................76 FAREWELL, MY SUBARU ..............................56 JOKER ONE ..................................................1
Bobis, Merlinda ..........................................35 FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEY ............................75 JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, A ............................2
Bolles, Richard N. ................................63, 64 Fine, Doug ..................................................56 JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO ..............24
BOMBINGHAM ............................................37 Flach, Andrew ............................................72 JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES ..............26
BORDER CROSSER ......................................58 Ford, Jamie ................................................34 Kalish, Mildred Armstrong ..........................25
BOTANY OF DESIRE, THE ............................57 Francis, John ..............................................68 Kaza, Stephanie ..........................................72
Bourke, Anthony ..........................................22 FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY ..........................49 Kidder, Tracy..............................................6, 7
Bowe, John ................................................55 Freeman, Philip Mitchell ..............................61 Kozol, Jonathan ..........................................57
Boylan, Jennifer Finney ..............................22 FUNNY IN FARSI ............................................5 Laguna, Sofie ..............................................38
Bradbury, Ray..............................................35 Gandhi, Mahatma ........................................49 L’Amour, Louis ............................................25
Bradshaw, John ..........................................48 Gates, Bill Sr. and Mary Ann Mackin ............65 Landis, James ............................................38
Brafman, Ori................................................55 Gebhard, Nathan ........................................50 Lang Lang ..................................................26
BREACH OF FAITH ......................................31 GERTRUDA’S OATH ......................................27 Lanier, Carlotta Walls ....................................3
Bronson, Po ................................................48 GO GREEN, LIVE RICH ..................................74 LAST DAY, THE ............................................38
BROTHERS ..................................................36 GOD GREW TIRED OF US ............................22 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE ............30
Buettner, Dan ..............................................72 GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE ......................41 LAST RESORT, THE ......................................28
Buffett, Peter ..............................................49 Goleman, Daniel ..........................................70 LAST TOWN ON EARTH, THE........................32
Callenbach, Ernest ................................55, 72 GREEN BOOK, THE ......................................73 LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT ..................4
Campbell, Donovan ......................................1 Greenberg, Michael ....................................24 LAW OF DREAMS, THE ................................35
Canedy, Dana ................................................2 Grisham, John ............................................56 LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS ............39
CARTWHEELS IN A SARI ..............................29 Grooms, Anthony ........................................37 LECTURE NOTES ........................................61
Castillo, Ana ................................................35 GUARDIANS, THE ........................................35 LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER ..........................21
Chang, Leslie T. ..........................................55 GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO Levine, James MD ......................................38
CHARACTER IS DESTINY..............................50 PEEL PIE SOCIETY ..................................43 Levine, Mark ..............................................26
Chen, Da ....................................................36 GUIDE TO COLLEGE MAJORS 2010..............66 LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT ........................49
Christen, Carol ............................................63 Hakakian, Roya ..........................................24 LIFE YOU CAN SAVE, THE ............................51
Author/Title Index 77
Author/Title Index
LION CALLED CHRISTIAN, A ........................22 Pollan, Michael ............................................57 STAY RICH FOR LIFE! ..................................76
LITTLE HEATHENS ......................................25 POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING, THE ..............23 STAY RICH FOR LIFE! WORKBOOK................76
LIVING LIKE ED ............................................74 POWER OF ONE, THE ..................................36 Steinman, Louise ........................................29
LOOK ME IN THE EYE ..................................12 PRIDE OF BAGHDAD ....................................43 Stengel, Richard ..........................................45
LOST BOY....................................................25 Princeton Review ..................................66, 67 STREET SHADOWS ......................................18
LUCIFER EFFECT, THE ..................................60 PROGRESS PARADOX, THE ..........................56 STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS ......................6
Lynas, Mark ................................................74 PROMISES I MADE MY MOTHER ..................50 Strickland, Bill ............................................46
MADE TO STICK ..........................................62 Quigley, Joan ..............................................58 Stringer, C. Vivian ........................................51
Madson, Patricia Ryan ................................65 Rahimi, Atiq ................................................41 SUCCESS ....................................................66
MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION ........................20 Rawles, Nancy ............................................41 Suskind, Ron ..............................................16
MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE ..............46 READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN..........................9 SUZE ORMAN’S ACTION PLAN ....................75
Mam, Somaly ..............................................26 READY, SET, GREEN ....................................74 Swan, Robert ..............................................74
MAN WHO LIVES WITH WOLVES ..................24 RECLAIMING VIRTUE ....................................48 SWAY ..........................................................55
MANDELA’S WAY ........................................45 Remarque, Erich Maria ................................41 SWEEPING UP GLASS ..................................44
Mansbach, Adam ........................................39 RESILIENCE ................................................23 SWITCH ......................................................62
MANY DEATHS OF FIREFLY BROS ................33 RESILIENCE ................................................51 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas................................59
Martel, Yann ................................................40 Rico, Johnny................................................58 Tamm, Jayanti ............................................29
Maskalyk, James ........................................26 Rinella, Steven ............................................58 Tatchell, Jo..................................................30
Matthews, Chris ..........................................57 ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE ........................26 TEARS OF THE DESERT ..............................21
McCain, John ..............................................50 ROADTRIP NATION ......................................50 The Freedom Writers ..................................49
McCarthy, Susan Carol ................................39 Robbins, John ............................................73 THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT..................8
McCoy, Sarah ..............................................40 Robison, John Elder ....................................12 THINKERTOYS..............................................66
McFarlane, Evelyn ......................................76 Rodriguez, Richard ......................................28 THREAD OF GRACE, A..................................42
MEANINGFUL LIFE, A ..................................36 Rogers, Douglas ..........................................28 TIES THAT BIND, THE ..................................21
MERCURY 13, THE ......................................54 Rogers, Elizabeth ........................................73 TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO ..............40
Meyer, Philipp..............................................40 Roy, Arundhati ............................................41 Torres, Alissa ..............................................30
Michalko, Michael ................................65, 66 Roy, Lucinda................................................58 Tram, Dang Thuy ........................................30
MIGHTY LONG WAY, A ....................................3 Rushdie, Salman ........................................42 TRANSLATOR, THE ......................................25
Miller, Jennifer ............................................57 Russell, Mary Doria ....................................42 TRUE FIRES ................................................39
MINDFULLY GREEN......................................72 Salih, Tayeb ................................................43 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE ............................48
Moon, Elizabeth ..........................................40 Sancton, Tom ..............................................31 Tyson, Timothy B. ......................................59
Moore, Wes ................................................27 Sanders, Lisa ..............................................28 Uhlberg, Myron............................................30
MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS ................7 SATANIC VERSES, THE ................................42 Vaughan, Brian K. ......................................44
Mourning, Alounzo ......................................51 Sayrafiezadeh, Said ....................................29 Vonnegut, Kurt ............................................44
Mullen, Thomas ....................................32, 33 Seal, Mark ..................................................29 Walker, Jerald..............................................18
MY JIM........................................................41 SEASON OF MIGRATION NORTH ..................43 WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO
Nafisi, Azar ................................................8, 9 See, Lisa ....................................................43 STARTING YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE ............76
Nazario, Sonia ............................................10 Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows..........43 Wall, Carolyn ..............................................44
NEW GOOD LIFE, THE ..................................73 SHAME OF THE NATION, THE ......................57 WAY TO GOD ..............................................49
Newman, Brooke ........................................27 SHANGHAI GIRLS ........................................43 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?
NIKI ............................................................36 Shapiro, Ronald M. ....................................67 2010 ......................................................63
NIKOLSKI ....................................................37 SHE’S NOT THERE ......................................22 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?
NINE LIVES ..................................................31 SHIFT YOUR HABIT ......................................73 TEENS ....................................................63
Nist-Olejnik, Sherrie ....................................61 SHOWING UP FOR LIFE................................65 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?
WORKBOOK ............................................63
NO GOD BUT GOD ......................................54 Singer, Peter................................................51
WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN . . . ....................65
NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT ....................58 SIX DEGREES ..............................................74
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? ..........48
NOBODIES ..................................................55 SIX MONTHS IN SUDAN ..............................26
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR ENGLISH
Obama, Barack............................................19 Skloot, Rebecca ..........................................52
OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE ..............67
O’Dea, Brian ................................................27 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE..............................44
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR HISTORY
ONE FOOT WRONG ......................................38 Slott, Ed ......................................................76 OR POLITICAL SCIENCE DEGREE ............67
ONE-WEEK JOB PROJECT, THE ....................48 SLOW HOMECOMING ..................................37 WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR PSYCHOLOGY
Oren, Ram ..................................................27 Smith, Alisa and J.B. MacKinnon ................74 OR SOCIOLOGY DEGREE ........................67
Orman, Suze ..............................................75 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN ........43 WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE ..........29
OTHER WES MOORE, THE ............................27 SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER, THE ..................35 WILDFLOWER ..............................................29
OUTCASTS UNITED......................................14 SONG FOR MY FATHERS ..............................31 Wilkinson, Bruce..........................................51
OVERNIGHT RESUME, THE ..........................64 SONIC BOOM ..............................................56 Wilson, David Sloan ....................................60
PATIENCE STONE, THE ................................41 SOUVENIR, THE............................................29 WOMEN & MONEY ......................................75
PAYING FOR COLLEGE 2010 ........................66 SPARROW, THE ............................................42 WORKING LIFE, THE ....................................64
Pham, Andrew X. ........................................28 SPEED OF DARK, THE ..................................40 Yoshino, Kenji ..............................................60
Pincott, Jena ..............................................66 St. John, Warren..........................................14 YOU CAN SAVE EARTH ................................72
PLANETWALKER ..........................................68 STANDING TALL ..........................................51 YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS ........................51
PLENTY ......................................................74 Stark, Tim....................................................59 Zimbardo, Philip ..........................................60
POET OF BAGHDAD, THE ............................30 START HERE ................................................50
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hen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the

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LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT Website: www.firoozehdumas.com

n the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas

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zar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller,

very Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic

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ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Website: www.enriquesjourney.com

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LOOK ME IN THE EYE Websites: www.johnrobison.com • www.jerobison.blogspot.com

ver since he was a child, John Robison longed to connect

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OUTCASTS UNITED Website: www.outcastsunited.com/

utcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a

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A HOPE IN THE UNSEEN

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erald Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and

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