Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

By Spenser Stevens | January 31 2023 | GeneralCollege & University Reads

On Friday, November 11th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:

 

David McRaney, author of How Minds Change

Carmen Rita Wong, author of Why Didn’t You Tell Me?

Jordan Salama, author of Every Day the River Changes

Corban Addison, author of Wastelands

 

Here are the videos:

 

David McRaney, How Minds Change

 

 

Carmen Rita Wong, Why Didn’t You Tell Me?

 

 

Jordan Salama, Every Day the River Changes

 

 

Corban Addison, Wastelands

The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
9780593190296
The 2022 Porchlight Marketing and Sales Book of the YearA brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant—by the bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart
Hardcover

Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
9781646220458
An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict.An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.
Ebook

The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
9780593320822
The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won.
Hardcover