FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Sara Nović’s Mother Tongue

The New York Times bestselling author of True Biz retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who are different from her—in this emotionally rich memoir.   Two Boys Sometimes strangers approach me on the street and ask if my sons are twins. The first

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unCommon Authors, an Author Video Series: CITIZENSHIP by Daisy Hernández

PRH Education/Common Reads presents: unCommon Authors unCommon Authors is a monthly video series highlighting exceptional and unique authors talking about their books.   Citizenship is a provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?     Daisy Hernández is the

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FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World

From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.   Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite

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