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New First-Year Reading Titles from Penguin Random House
By Allan Spencer | January 10 2024 | College & University Reads
Making Peace with a Stutter
9780593312834
An intimate, candid memoir about learning to live with—rather than “overcome”—a stutter
Paperback
- All-School Reads > Inspiration > Overcoming Adversity
- All-School Reads > Professional Learning > Psychology
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Disability Justice
- College & University Reads > College Success and Career Development > Life Skills
- College & University Reads > Inspiration > More in Inspiration
- College & University Reads > Inspiration > Overcoming Adversity
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Voices & Stories of the Disabled
- Community Reads > Inspiration
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Voices & Stories of the Disabled
- Community Reads > Social Justice > Disability Justice
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The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
9780593727553
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
Hardcover
- All-School Reads > College Readiness and Career Development > Ethics
- All-School Reads > Inspiration > Courage
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Service & Altruism
- College & University Reads > Big Ideas
- College & University Reads > College Success and Career Development > Ethics
- College & University Reads > Inspiration > Courage
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Service & Altruism
- Community Reads > Inspiration
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A Novel
9780593469316
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black
Paperback
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Black Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Criminal Justice & Law
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Black Voices & Stories
- Community Reads > Social Justice > Criminal Justice & Law
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Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
9781984801456
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
Paperback
- All-School Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) > Health & Medicine
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Public Health
- College & University Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) > Medical Sciences
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Public Health
- Community Reads > Social Justice > Public Health
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