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            5 articles posted on September 2021

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: The Environment General
            September 23 2021

            In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

            Left: Robin Broad; right: John Cavanagh   In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to

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            In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: The Environment General
            September 23 2021
            First-Year Reading General
            September 20 2021

            Read an Excerpt from Ruby Hamad’s White Tears/Brown Scars

            Called “powerful and provocative” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, White Tears/Brown Scars reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought

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            Read an Excerpt from Ruby Hamad’s White Tears/Brown Scars

            First-Year Reading General
            September 20 2021
            First-Year Reading
            September 15 2021

            2022 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

            We are delighted to present our new First-Year reading catalogs for 2022! From award-winning fiction and memoir to new books about science, technology, history and current events, the titles presented in our college reading catalogs will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages, but also excited for the chance to discuss their reading

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            2022 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

            First-Year Reading
            September 15 2021
            First-Year Reading
            September 10 2021

            What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2021-22

            With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.  We’ve compiled a list of over 460 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2021-22. We will continue to update this listing to provide the most

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            What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2021-22

            First-Year Reading
            September 10 2021
            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction General
            September 7 2021

            Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

            Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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            Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

            Community & School Reads Adults: Fiction First-Year Reading: Fiction General
            September 7 2021
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