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            23 Articles Tagged First Year Reading

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

            General
            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
            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 First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography General
            January 22 2021

            Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

            Astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan—author of Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention from the MIT Press—has recently added three new accolades to the long list of accomplishments she has earned over the course of her career as scientist and explorer. With her visit this past June to the Challenger Deep at the base of the Mariana Trench, Dr.

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            Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography General
            January 22 2021
            Community & School Reads Adults: Inspiration
            September 24 2020

            Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

            Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.   Transcendent Kingdom Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and

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            Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

            Community & School Reads Adults: Inspiration
            September 24 2020
            First-Year Reading
            September 15 2020

            Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

            Penguin Random House Author Events at the 40th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 15-19, 2021 Click Here to RSVP PRH virtual events are open only to registered FYE® conference attendees. To register for the conference, click here. Once registered for the conference, be sure to sign up for each event that you plan to attend in advance to receive login

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            Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

            First-Year Reading
            September 15 2020
            First-Year Reading
            November 11 2019

            Register for the 2020 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

             Penguin Random House Author Events at the 39th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference Washington, D.C., February 21-24, 2020 Click Here to RSVP Interested in hosting one of these authors at your school? Click their name below to learn more! Ibram X. Kendi Jennifer L. Eberhardt Nic Stone Bina Venkataraman Bren Smith

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            Register for the 2020 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

            First-Year Reading
            November 11 2019
            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 22 2019

            Eleven “Notes” of Wisdom from author Kwame Onwuachi

            By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants in America. Despite his young age, his success wasn’t won overnight: working in Manhattan, he was forced to grapple with just how unwelcoming the world of

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            Eleven “Notes” of Wisdom from author Kwame Onwuachi

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            August 22 2019
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