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Kevin Hearle

Kevin Hearle is an author, an editor, a poet, and a lecturer. He holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It and Other Poems and served as an editor for The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism, Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck, and The Essential Mary Austin.

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, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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