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              First-Year Reading: Inspiration
              November 9 2021

              Homework Assignment: Love Yourself So You Can Love the World

              Contributed by the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, a public theologian, senior minister at Middle Church, and the author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World I’m so excited for the journey your students are on! They’ve embarked on a path not only to an education

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              Homework Assignment: Love Yourself So You Can Love the World

              First-Year Reading: Inspiration
              November 9 2021
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              November 4 2021

              Bookshop.org Launches Donation Platform to Celebrate Publication of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

              Bookshop.org, the ethical online marketplace which supports independent bookstores, has announced a ground-breaking partnership with Penguin Random House imprint One World ahead of the publication of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story on November 16. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the team at The New York Times Magazine

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              Bookshop.org Launches Donation Platform to Celebrate Publication of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

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              November 4 2021
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              October 15 2021

              Register for the Penguin Random House 2021 Common Reading Virtual Author Event!

              Penguin Random House Common Reading Virtual Author Events  November 11th, 2021 Click Here to RSVP Penguin Random House Education would like to invite you to attend our Fall Virtual Author Event for Common Reading, which will take place on November 11th, 2021, from 1-2 pm ET (10am-11am PDT) featuring live presentations by Michael Sayman, US Senator

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              General
              October 15 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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              August 23 2021

              Register for the 2022 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

              Penguin Random House Author Events at the 41st Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 12-15, 2022 Click Here to RSVP   While a complimentary meal and a limited number of books will be available to in-person attendees, PRH authors will speak virtually via screens set onstage and via Zoom for online attendees   Interested in hosting one of these authors at

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              August 23 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
              First-Year Reading: The Environment
              June 4 2021

              Titles for World Environment Day

              For World Environment Day, we are providing resources to help students gain an awareness of the varying threats to the environment. Through this understanding, we hope to give them the tools to take action to help protect the planet.   Finding the Mother Tree From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people

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              Titles for World Environment Day

              First-Year Reading: The Environment
              June 4 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
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