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    On Coming of Age as a Queer Muslim Immigrant & Discovering Oneself Through Literature
    College & University Reads
    September 25 2023

    On Coming of Age as a Queer Muslim Immigrant & Discovering Oneself Through Literature

    Contributed by Lamya H, author of Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir. Using some of the most famous stories in the Quran to make sense of her struggles and triumphs as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant, Lamya H tells her story, from childhood in the Middle East to her arrival in the United States for college

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    On Coming of Age as a Queer Muslim Immigrant & Discovering Oneself Through Literature

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    September 25 2023
    How Students at Oldenburg Academy Explored Reconciliation Through <i>Convicted</i>
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    September 20 2023

    How Students at Oldenburg Academy Explored Reconciliation Through Convicted

    We are very pleased to share that Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg, Indiana, selected Convicted: An Innocent Man, the Cop Who Framed Him, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship by Jameel Zookie McGee and Andrew Collins with Mark Tabb for the student body to read over the summer. English Teacher

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    How Students at Oldenburg Academy Explored Reconciliation Through Convicted

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    September 20 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Esau McCaulley’s <i>How Far to the Promised Land</i>
    College & University Reads
    September 18 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Esau McCaulley’s How Far to the Promised Land

    After his father’s death, Esau McCaulley went back through his family history, seeking to understand the community that shaped him: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. With profound honesty

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Esau McCaulley’s How Far to the Promised Land

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    September 18 2023
    What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2023-24
    College & University Reads
    September 15 2023

    What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2023-24

    With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 330 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2023-24. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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    What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2023-24

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    September 15 2023
    How an Afghan Girl Risked Everything for Education
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    August 17 2023

    How an Afghan Girl Risked Everything for Education

    Contributed by Malaina Kapoor, co-author of Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education. A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life, the book has received advance praise from Bill Gates, Sal Khan, and

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    How an Afghan Girl Risked Everything for Education

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    August 17 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s <i>Waiting to Be Arrested at Night</i>
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    August 16 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

    Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is a poet’s account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family’s escape from genocide. One A Phone Call from Beijing I keep returning to the first day of 2013. That evening, I received an unexpected call from Ilham Tohti, an economics

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

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    August 16 2023
    2024 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading
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    August 9 2023

    2024 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

    We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2024! From award-winning fiction and memoir to new books about science, technology, history, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages, but also excited for the chance to discuss

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    2024 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

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    August 9 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Javier Zamora’s <i>Solito</i>
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    August 9 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Javier Zamora’s Solito

    In Solito, a young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine.   Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award Finalist for

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Javier Zamora’s Solito

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    August 9 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Bo Seo’s <i>Good Arguments</i>
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    July 24 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Bo Seo’s Good Arguments

    Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion.   1. Topic How to find the debate On a Monday morning in January 2007, a couple of months after my graduation

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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Bo Seo’s Good Arguments

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    July 24 2023
    <I>Hope Wins</I> Community Book Club
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    June 8 2023

    Hope Wins Community Book Club

    By Courtney Walker, Campus Librarian at Skaggs Elementary School in Plano ISD When times are tough, we must continue to find and spread HOPE. I am the campus librarian at Skaggs Elementary School in Plano ISD, and this year I hosted my campus’ first after school book club. When selecting a book, I knew that

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    Hope Wins Community Book Club

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    June 8 2023
    Julie Otsuka’s novel <i>The Swimmers</i> is Seattle Reads’ 25th anniversary selection
    Community Reads
    May 8 2023

    Julie Otsuka’s novel The Swimmers is Seattle Reads’ 25th anniversary selection

    The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka has been chosen as the 2023 selection for Seattle Reads. The Seattle Public Library provides information on the program: “Founded in 1998, Seattle Reads is a city-wide book group, where people are encouraged to read and discuss the same book. Originally called ‘If All of Seattle Read the Same Book,’

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    Julie Otsuka’s novel The Swimmers is Seattle Reads’ 25th anniversary selection

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    May 8 2023
    The PRH First-Year Reading Advisory Board Convenes Virtually
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    May 4 2023

    The PRH First-Year Reading Advisory Board Convenes Virtually

    The PRH CommonReads Advisory Board Convenes Virtually On April 26, 2023, the Penguin Random House First-Year Reading Advisory Board convened for their annual summit. The Board members, representing a variety of public and private higher education institutions of varying sizes, came together to exchange ideas, and provide feedback and guidance. PRH Education received valuable information

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    The PRH First-Year Reading Advisory Board Convenes Virtually

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