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Gil Kane

Gil Kane was a legendary comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s. Kane worked for every major comic imprint and worked on many influential characters. Kane is credited with cocreating the Green Lantern, Atom, and Iron Fist characters. With his title, His Name is . . . Savage, Kane helped poineer the graphic novel.

2026 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2026! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about the environment, current events, history, public health, science, social justice, student success, and technology, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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