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            58 Articles Categorized Under First-Year Reading

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Fiction
            April 26 2022

            Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new novel, Take My Hand

            “I believe that in order to heal, we must remember. Once we remember, we acknowledge. Once we acknowledge, we can take more significant action.”   Watch Dolen Perkins-Valdez discuss her inspiration for writing Take My Hand:   Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African

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            Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new novel, Take My Hand

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Fiction
            April 26 2022
            First-Year Reading General
            March 30 2022

            Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

            By David Laskin   After a long career successful in narrative nonfiction (The Children’s Blizzard, The Long Way Home, The Family), I decided a few years ago to jump the fence to fiction. My first novel, What Sammy Knew, is the story of a high school senior named Sammy Stein who, in the first months

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            Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

            First-Year Reading General
            March 30 2022
            First-Year Reading General
            March 24 2022

            Videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

            We’re pleased to share videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips below.   Penguin Random House Saturday Event Saturday, February 12, 2022 | 8:00 – 9:30 pm EST

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            Videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

            First-Year Reading General
            March 24 2022
            First-Year Reading General
            December 2 2021

            Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

            On Thursday, November 11th 2021, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for common reading. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured:   Senator Mazie K. Hirono, author of Heart of Fire Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us Michael Sayman, author of App Kid Judith Heumann, author of Being Heumann

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            Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

            First-Year Reading General
            December 2 2021
            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: History First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            November 16 2021

            NOW AVAILABLE: Books from The 1619 Project

            The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The project, which was initially launched in August of 2019, offered a revealing new origin story for the United States, one that helped explain not only the persistence of

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            NOW AVAILABLE: Books from The 1619 Project

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: History First-Year Reading: Social Justice
            November 16 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 First-Year Reading General
            July 19 2021

            U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

            U.S. News & World Report, which publishes the most widely quoted annual set of rankings for American colleges and universities, recently shared their list of “10 Books to Read Before College.” Describing these books as “assigned texts [that] are regularly used in freshman-level classes and offer students a chance to come together to discuss a

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            U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

            Community & School Reads Adults First-Year Reading General
            July 19 2021
            Community & School Reads Adults First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            May 20 2021

            Talking about the Hard Stuff:
            How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

            Research shows the benefits incoming students glean from participating in a common academic experience as they join a new campus community (Hunter, 2006; Mintz, 2019). These findings have led many institutions to develop Common Reading programs for new members of their campus communities. These programs, centered around a group of faculty, staff, and students selecting

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            Talking about the Hard Stuff:
            How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

            Community & School Reads Adults First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            May 20 2021
            First-Year Reading General
            April 16 2021

            Videos from the 2021 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

            We’re pleased to share videos from the 2021 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips below.   Penguin Random House Monday Event Monday, February 15, 2021 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

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            Videos from the 2021 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

            First-Year Reading General
            April 16 2021
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