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25 Articles Tagged First Year Reading

General College & University Reads
January 31 2023

Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

On Friday, November 11th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:   David McRaney, author of How Minds Change Carmen Rita

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Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

General College & University Reads
January 31 2023
College & University Reads
July 18 2022

Videos from the June 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

On Thursday, June 9th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:   Anita Hill, author of Believing Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a

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Videos from the June 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

College & University Reads
July 18 2022
College & University Reads
March 24 2022

Videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

We’re pleased to share videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips below.   Penguin Random House Saturday Event Saturday, February 12, 2022 | 8:00 – 9:30 pm EST

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Videos from the 2022 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

College & University Reads
March 24 2022
College & University Reads
December 2 2021

Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

On Thursday, November 11th 2021, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for common reading. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured:   Senator Mazie K. Hirono, author of Heart of Fire Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us Michael Sayman, author of App Kid Judith Heumann, author of Being Heumann

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Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

College & University Reads
December 2 2021
College & University Reads
September 23 2021

In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

Left: Robin Broad; right: John Cavanagh   In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to

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In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

College & University Reads
September 23 2021
College & University Reads Community Reads
September 7 2021

Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

College & University Reads Community Reads
September 7 2021
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August 23 2021

Register for the 2022 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

Penguin Random House Author Events at the 41st Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 12-15, 2022 Click Here to RSVP   While a complimentary meal and a limited number of books will be available to in-person attendees, PRH authors will speak virtually via screens set onstage and via Zoom for online attendees   Interested in hosting one of these authors at

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Register for the 2022 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events!

College & University Reads
August 23 2021
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July 19 2021

U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

U.S. News & World Report, which publishes the most widely quoted annual set of rankings for American colleges and universities, recently shared their list of “10 Books to Read Before College.” Describing these books as “assigned texts [that] are regularly used in freshman-level classes and offer students a chance to come together to discuss a

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U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

College & University Reads Community Reads
July 19 2021
College & University Reads Community Reads
May 20 2021

Talking about the Hard Stuff:
How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

Research shows the benefits incoming students glean from participating in a common academic experience as they join a new campus community (Hunter, 2006; Mintz, 2019). These findings have led many institutions to develop Common Reading programs for new members of their campus communities. These programs, centered around a group of faculty, staff, and students selecting

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Talking about the Hard Stuff:
How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

College & University Reads Community Reads
May 20 2021
College & University Reads
January 22 2021

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

Astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan—author of Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention from the MIT Press—has recently added three new accolades to the long list of accomplishments she has earned over the course of her career as scientist and explorer. With her visit this past June to the Challenger Deep at the base of the Mariana Trench, Dr.

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Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Shatters New Records

College & University Reads
January 22 2021
Community Reads
September 24 2020

Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.   Transcendent Kingdom Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and

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Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Community Reads
September 24 2020
College & University Reads
September 15 2020

Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

Penguin Random House Author Events at the 40th Annual First-Year Experience® Conference February 15-19, 2021 Click Here to RSVP PRH virtual events are open only to registered FYE® conference attendees. To register for the conference, click here. Once registered for the conference, be sure to sign up for each event that you plan to attend in advance to receive login

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Register for the 2021 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Virtual Author Events!

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September 15 2020
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