Monthly Archives: August 2009
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Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands a nationwide common read!
2003 Chautauqua South Fiction Award winner 2003 San Diego Magazine’s Book Award for Fiction 2002 Deadly Pleasures’ Best U.S. First Novel Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands is a novel that tackles race politics in the … Continue reading →
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John Barleycorn makes it to Sonoma State
This just in! Sonoma State University has selected Jack London’s semi-autobiographical John Barleycorn for its Freshman Year Experience read. Click here to learn more about the book. Read an excerpt here. Order an exam copy here.
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Need a dynamic speaker? Check out videos from the Random House 2009 First-Year Experience Author Luncheon
Looking for dyamic speakers for your common reading program? Consider the great authors we featured at our luncheon program last February at the 2009 Freshman Year Experience conference in Orlando, FL. Visit our Freshman Year Reading webpage to view videos of … Continue reading →
A Hope in the Unseen chosen from North Dakota to Maryland!
It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and feociously 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 … Continue reading →
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Marquette County Michigan and Northern Michigan U come together to read ONE BOOK.
This just in! Northern Michigan University has adopted Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried in conjunction with the Marquette County One Book, One Community reading program sponsored by and partnered with local businesses and public libraries. Though critics can’t agree … Continue reading →
Virginia Tech goes green!
Virginia Tech University has selected Daniel Goleman’s new Ecological Intelligence for its 2009-2010 Common Reading program. ———- Read more about the book. Read an excerpt. Order an exam copy.
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Over 40 programs have followed Enrique’s Journey!
When Enrique was just five years old, his mother Lourdes, seeing no other way out of their poverty in Honduras, decided to make the hazardous trek north. Enrique and his siblings struggled without their mother, until he finally made his … Continue reading →
Top Adoption – Funny in Farsi
Winner, 2008 Spirit of America Award (National Council for the Social Studies) Finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist, PEN/USA Award in Creative Non-Fiction Finalist: Audie Award for best recording of a memoir, 2005 In 1972, when she was seven, … Continue reading →
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Top Adoption – Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder’s New York Times bestseller and ALA Notable book is the story of Paul Farmer, a doctor, Harvard professor, renouned disease specialist, anthropologist and more who saw it as his life’s calling to help those who need it … Continue reading →
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