Sharman Apt Russell, author portrait
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Sharman Apt Russell

SHARMAN APT RUSSELL is a professor emeritus in humanities at Western New Mexico University and an associate on the faculty of Antioch University. She is the author of Diary of a Citizen Scientist (winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal), Knocking on Heaven’s Door (winner of the Arizona Authors Association Award), and Teresa of the New World (winner of the Arizona Authors Association Award). She lives in New Mexico.
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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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