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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, Hidden Figures is the never-before-told story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program—and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as “Human Computers,” calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these “colored computers,” as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support

America’s fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

The film of Hidden Figures—starring Octavia Spencer—will release in January 2017.

William Morrow: 384 pp.; illustrated.2016 • 978-0-06-236359-6 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in December 2016:978-0-06-236360-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Lauren Redniss

Lauren Redniss has created a fascinating and deeply moving visual biography that walks students through the story of Marie Curie’s life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma. It casts an eye forward to survey the changes wrought by Curie’s discovery of radioactivity—illuminating the path from the Curie laboratory past the bright red mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert through Three Mile Island and the advance in radiation therapy and nuclear power today.

“Absolutely dazzling. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art.” —Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Freshman Common Read: Stanford University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Madison-Wisconsin

Dey Street: 208 pp. 2015 • 978-0-06-241616-2 • pb • $21.99 ($26.99/CAN)

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A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age Matt Richtel

Digging deeper into his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the issue of distracted driving, Matt Richtel examines the impact of technology on our lives through the lens of Reggie Shaw, a college student, who, while texting and driving, killed two rocket scientists in 2006. Students will follow Reggie through the tragedy of the crash, the police investigation, his prosecution, and the role he plays today as an important advocate against distracted driving. Along the way, Richtel gives students cutting-edge scientific findings about human attention and technology that will help them envision how to manage this crisis both individually and on a societal level.

“A well-written true life account of tragedy, redemption and the public policy challenges of keeping pace with the march

of technology. This book should be placed in every school and legislative chamber in the country.” —Jon Huntsman, former Governor of Utah

Freshman Common Read: Boise State University, University of Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina University

William Morrow: 416 pp. 2015 • 978-0-06-228407-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.ADeadlyWandering.com

A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Gift of Thomas Ethan Gray Sarah Gray

When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she decided she wanted his death—and life—to have meaning. In the weeks before she gave birth to her twin sons in 2010, she arranged to donate Thomas’s organs to research. As transplant donors have the opportunity to meet recipients, Sarah wanted to know how Thomas’s donation would be used.

That curiosity fueled a scientific odyssey that has led Sarah to some of the most prestigious scientific facilities in the country, including Harvard, Duke, and the University of Pennsylvania. Pulling back the curtain of protocol and confidentiality, she introduces the researchers who received Thomas’s donations,

who are finding surprising and inventive ways to treat and cure disease.

HarperOne: 304 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-243822-5 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in September 2017: 978-0-06-243823-2 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and the Partners That Shape Who We Are Today Rob Dunn

In the name of progress, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and homes, removing whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, and predators. To modern humans, nature is the landscape outside. Biologist Rob Dunn contends that while “clean living” has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. Here, he examines how we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.

“An extraordinary book about a previously little explored subject. With clarity and charm the author takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary

biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition.” —Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Freshman Common Read: Vassar College

Harper: 304 pp.; index.2014 • 978-0-06-180646-9 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari

By examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem, affecting the fortunes of animals and plants, to charting the rise of empires and the development of monetary economics, Dr. Harari’s accessible and engaging history shows students how to connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and to examine specific events within the context of bigger ideas.

Sapiens, a New York Times and international bestseller, was one of Mark Zuckerberg’s “A Year of Books” selections, and it is being taught in classes across the globe.

“Yuval Noah Harari’s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time

did for physics. . . . He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination of the planet.” —Forbes

Harper: 464 pp.; illustrated; index.2015 • 978-0-06-231609-7 • hc • $29.99 ($36.99/CAN) Paperback available in February 2017: 978-0-06-231611-0 • pb • $19.99★ Professor Harari’s TED Talk: http://tinyurl.com/nqlzwqv

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The World According to Star Wars Cass R. Sunstein

Already assigned as required reading for Cornell’s cross-disciplinary course Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science, The World According to Star Wars by an acclaimed legal scholar and Harvard professor shares life lessons from Star Wars and what the series can teach us about being human.

“In this gem of a book, Cass Sunstein uses the Star Wars series to explore profound questions about being a parent, a child, and a human. It will change the way you think about your own journey, might even make you pick up the phone and call your dad.” —Walter Isaacson

“Delightful. . . . informative without being boring, funny without being silly . . . a marvelous swift read. The force is strong with this one.” —The Economist

“[Sunstein’s] enthusiasm is endearing...[the] Harvard Law professor uses George Lucas’s cinematic phenomenon to tackle such disparate topics as the creative process, the writing of constitutional law, and why people commit terrorist acts.” —New Yorker

William Morrow: 240 pp.; index.2016 • 978-0-06-248422-2 • hc • $21.99 ($26.99/CAN)

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Kathryn Schulz

Of all the things people are wrong about, our condemnation of error should top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. Wrongness is a vital part of how students learn and change. Thanks to error, students can revise their understanding of themselves and amend their ideas.

When asked by the New York Times what book she wished all Harvard freshmen would read, Drew Gilpin Faust, President

of Harvard replied, “Kathryn Schulz’s Being Wrong advocates doubt as a skill and praises error as the foundation of wisdom. Her book would reinforce my encouragement of Harvard’s accomplished and successful freshmen to embrace risk and even failure.”

Freshman Common Read: University of Texas-Pan American, Wellesley College, Washington State College

Ecco: 416 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-117605-0 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)


How to Be Alive: No Impact Man’s Guide to a High Impact Life Colin Beavan

Deeply concerned about the environment, Colin Beavan went on a yearlong experiment to lead a zero net-impact existence in the middle of New York City. His “lifestyle redesign” project—chronicled in a bestselling book (No Impact Man), a documentary, and an ongoing lecture series—has provoked and inspired tens of thousands of people.

But most students cannot make the extreme changes that Colin explored. In this thoughtful, enlightening guide, Colin offers insight to help them negotiate the maze of dilemmas and questions that confront us all when trying to do right by themselves and the planet, suggesting small lifestyle adjustments that offer both security and meaning in a world plagued by ecological disaster, failing economies, war, and

social injustice. In the process, he helps students embark on an achievable quest for a “good life”— better both for themselves and the world.

Dey Street: 224 pp. 2016 • 978-0-06-223670-8 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in January 2017:2017 • 978-0-06-223671-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)


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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation Edward Humes

Thousands of miles are embedded in almost everything we do and touch and purchase, but we’re scarcely aware of it. A cup of Starbucks coffee materializes in front of us without any signs of the 30,000 miles it has travelled. Behind the scenes, there are grinding commutes, a violent death every 15 minutes on an American highway, and a crushing impact on the environment.

By delving into one week in the life of his family in suburban California—their commutes, traffic jams, grocery stops, and online shopping excursions—the author of first-year favorite Garbology reveals the truths and mounting challenges behind every trip we take and every click we make.

“Like Silent Spring and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Door to Door is a rallying point for cul-ture-wide change. Hume’s tireless curation of figure and fact, his well-reasoned arguments and his uncluttered, well-ordered prose may turn the ship that’s just begun to budge.” —Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review

Harper: 384 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-237207-9 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2017: 978-0-06-237208-6 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies—How What We Eat Defines Who We Are Sophie Egan

The Culinary Institute of America program director takes students on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche, examining the connections between the values that define our national character—work, freedom, and progress—and our eating habits, the good and the bad. Egan explores why these values make for such an unstable, and often unhealthy, food culture and, paradoxically, why they also make America’s cuisine so great.

“Devoured is a well-researched and fascinating exploration of what we eat, how we eat and why. It is only with this understanding of our food culture that we stand a chance of improving our food system. Devoured is a great contribution to this endeavor.” —Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst for

NBC News and former White House Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition

William Morrow: 416 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-239098-1 • hc • $28.99 ($35.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2017: 978-0-06-239099-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

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Epic Measures: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients Jeremy N. Smith

Already assigned as required reading for students at Harvard University, the University of Montana, and Hampshire College, Epic Measures tells the story of a 20-year, 500-scientist attempt to track and quantify every illness, injury, and death for everyone on Earth: the biggest of Big Data ever. The book offers an intimate look at doctor and economist Christopher Murray, who began the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies, and whose unwavering determination to improve global health standards has already changed the way the world addresses issues of health and wellness, sets policy, and distributes funding.

“My students really learned a lot from Epic Measures. Most importantly, they acquired new tools to understand for

themselves what ails the world—and they used this information to articulate arguments about how we should devote resources to improving global health.” —Kim Yi Dionne, Five College Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College

Harper Wave: 288 pp.2015 • 978-0-06-223750-7 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in January 2017: 978-0-06-223751-4 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)★GBD offers free data and other resources: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd

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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner single-handedly showed the world that applying economic theory and big data to everyday problems can bear surprising results. Think Like a Freak will take students further inside their special thought process, revealing a new way of approaching the decisions we make, the plans we create, and the morals we choose. It answers the question on the lips of everyone who’s read the previous books: How can I apply these ideas to my life? How do I make smarter, better decisions? How can I truly think like a freak? With short, highly entertaining insights running the gamut from “The Upside of Quitting” to “How to Succeed—With No Talent,” Think Like a Freak will radically alter the way your students think about all aspects of life on this planet.

William Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp.2015 • 978-0-06-221834-6 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) Paperback available in January 2017: 978-0-06-223751-4 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)★Teaching materials available at academic.hc.com/freakonomics.

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Also availableFreakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything William Morrow Paperbacks: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-073133-5 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at academic.hc.com/freakonomics.

SuperFreakonomics:Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes,and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life InsuranceWilliam Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-088958-6 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at academic.hc.com/freakonomics.

When To Rob a Bank:…And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended RantsWilliam Morrow: 400 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-238580-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.00/CAN)

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New in Paperback!Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African SlumKennedy Odede and Jessica Posner

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. Jessica Posner met Kennedy Odede on her junior year abroad. She had traveled to Nairobi to work with Shining Hope for Communities, the youth empowerment group that Kennedy had founded in Kibera, the notorious slum where he was raised. Though it was unheard of for a white person, Jessica decided to live in Kibera with Kennedy, and they fell in love. They went on to found Kibera’s first tuition-free school for girls—a large, bright blue building, which stands as a bastion of hope in what once felt like a hopeless place. This is their story, and they are just getting started.

“Shining Hope for Communities is one of the most hopeful places I have ever visited.” —Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times

Freshman Common Read: University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Coastal Carolina University

Ecco: 352 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-229286-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)


The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

For those who want to give their students a global perspective, this story of a young man from poverty-stricken Malawi who built a windmill from scavenged parts to bring electricity to his village hits all the right notes: a deep look into life in a developing nation, science and engineering insights—and inspiration

“This is an amazing, inspiring and heartwarming story! It’s about harnessing the power not just of the wind but of imagi-nation and ingenuity. Those are the most important forces we have for saving our planet. William Kamkwamba is a hero for our age.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

Freshman Common Read: University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, Avila University, Purdue University, Maryville University, University of Florida, Central College, Boise State University, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, Utah Valley University, Winthrop University, and California State University, Chico—among others

William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-173033-7 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Loung Ung

One of seven children of a government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung’s family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

“[Ung] tells her stories straightforwardly, vividly, and without any strenuous effort to explicate their importance, allowing the stories themselves to create their own impact.” —New York Times

Angelina Jolie Pitt’s film adaption of Loung Ung’s memoir will release in late 2016 as a Netflix Original film.

Freshman Common Read: Ball State University, Colin County Community College, Stanford’s Three-Book Program

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. • 2006 • 978-0-06-085626-7 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) Also Available: Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Be-hind • Harper Perennial: 320 pp. • 2006 • 978-0-06-073395-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.50/CAN)Lulu in the Sky: a Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness Harper Perennial: 368 pp. • 2012 • 978-0-06-209191-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

The Lovers:Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor KillingRon Nordland

Zakia and Mohammad Ali grew up as neighbors, but differing backgrounds forbade contact. Eschewing custom, they fell in love, married, and fled both the authorities and Zakia’s vengeful family. In this real-life tale of star-crossed lovers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rod Nordland chronicles the story of their forbidden love while offering insight into the role women’s rights (or lack thereof) and sectarian differences play in Afghan culture. And, there’s a happy postscript: the couple are now in New York.

“A rich account of Zakia and Ali’s romance that doubles as an indictment of the Afghan patriarchy’s abuse of women and the

failures of all those in power, inside and outside the country, to curtail it.”—Boston Globe

Ecco: 384 pp. [paperback 288 pages]2016 • 978-0-06-237882-8 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in December 2016: 978-0-06-237883-5 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)


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Nujeen:One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a WheelchairNujeen Mustafa & Christina Lamb

Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, tells the story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis.

In spite of the tremendous physical hardship she endured, Nujeen’s optimism never wavered. As she told a BBC reporter, “You should fight to get what you want in this world.”

Nujeen’s resolve infuses this story of one young woman determined to make a better life for herself that gives voice

to the Syrian refugee crisis, helping us to understand that the world must change—and offering the inspiration to make that change reality.

Harper Wave: 304 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-256773-4 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in January 2018: 978-0-06-256774-1 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

The Girl With Seven Names:A North Korean Defector’s Story Hyeonseo Lee

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by the secretive and brutal communist regime created by dictator Kim Il-Sung and his successors. Although her privileged family background insulated her from the cruelest horrors of the regime, living near the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom, and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to realize that she had been brainwashed her entire life. At age seventeen, she decided to escape. Based on her TED Talk, which Oprah called “The most riveting TED talk ever,” Lee’s memoir is one of the first from a female defector from North Korea.

“This is a sad and beautiful story of a girl who could not even keep her name, yet over-came all with the identity of what it is to be human.” —Jang Jin-sung, author of Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee–A Look Inside North Korea

William Collins: 320 pp. • 2016 • 978-0-06-755485-0 • pb • $15.99 ($21.99/CAN) ★My Escape from North Korea at www.ted.com.

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The Shed That Fed a Million Children:The Mary’s Meals Story Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

In The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow retells how a series of miraculous circumstances and an overwhelming display of love from those around him led to the creation of Mary’s Meals, a global charity that could hold the key to eradicating child hunger in the world’s poorest countries. This humble, heart-warming yet powerful story has never been more relevant in our privileged society. It will open your students’ eyes to the extraordinary impact that one person can make.

“Magnus takes us on an extraordinary personal adventure into some of the most dangerous and unforgiving parts of the world, all for a single, simple mission: every child deserves to eat.” —Conor Grennan, bestselling author of Little Princes

William Collins: 320 pp.2016 • 978-0-00-815224-6 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war, Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana moves beyond the head-lines to transport students to an Afghanistan they have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair.

Kamila Sidiqi’s journey will inspire your students, but it will also change the way they think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.

“Pure inspiration. . . . It reveals in acute detail the anxiety of ordinary people trying to fold their lives around the whims and laws of abusive regimes.” —Los Angeles Times

Freshman Common Read: University of Florida, Berry College

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-173247-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

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Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It [REVISED EDITION] David Batstone

In this newly revised and updated edition, award-winning journalist, author, and professor David Batstone gives students the facts on the $31 billion human trafficking epidemic, profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are fighting it, and reports on how to stop it.

“Not for Sale not only informs, it challenges each reader to take action. My students were appalled to learn of the preva-lence of human trafficking around the world, but this insight inspired many of them to begin working on a local, national, or global level to bring about change. David Batstone will in-spire any student.” —Stephanie M. Foote, Director, Academ-ic Success Center, University of South Carolina Aiken

Freshman Common Read: Kennesaw State University, University of South Carolina Aiken

HarperOne: 304 pp.2010 • 978-0-06-199883-6 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal Conor Grennan

Conor Grennan left his job with a plan to travel the world. Stopping first to volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal, his life changed forever. Conor soon discovered that many of the children with whom he had been playing with were not orphans, but the victims of human traffickers, who had kidnapped children from their homes and families. Shocked and affected by what he learned, Conor opened his own orphanage two years later, with the mission of helping to reunite stolen kids with their families.

“The author stumbles into volunteering in an orphanage in Nepal and gets involved in reuniting trafficked children with their families. The energy of these children will make you laugh even though they’ve been through hardship and loss.”

—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Freshman Common Read: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Mount St. Olive, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ball State University, St. Bonaventure Uni-versity, San Jose State University, Otterbein University, Central College, Wingate University, Michigan Technical University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute—among others

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Carry On:A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely FamilyLisa Fenn

When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa Fenn returned to her hometown for a story about two wrestlers at one of Cleveland’s toughest public high schools, she had no idea that the trip would change her life. Both young men were disadvantaged students with significant physical disabilities. Dartanyon is legally blind. Leroy lost his legs in an accident when he was eleven. Brought together by wrestling, they had developed a brother-like bond.

After forming a profound connection with Dartanyon and Leroy, Fenn realized she couldn’t just walk away when the filming ended. Instead, she dedicated herself to ensuring their success—forming an unlikely family.

“Carry On is a surprising book, not only due to the tremendous hearts within these two young men, but because the failures and triumphs in their stories don’t align with typical narrative rhythms. . . . And as in real life, the moments of understanding, of healing, of unbounded joy will astonish you with the scope of their power.”—Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

Harper Wave: 320 pp.; illustrated.2016 • 978-0-06-24283-0 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in August 2017: 978-0-06-242784-7 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

The Boys in the Bunkhouse:Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland Dan Barry

In a literary tour de force, prize-winning author Dan Barry chronicles the lives of 32 mentally disabled men who labored for decades in a turkey-processing plant in small-town Iowa, and the extraordinary advocates who worked tirelessly to free them.

“I am excited to explore themes of human dignity and re-spect for creation in this year’s All Bonaventure Reads selec-tion. When discussing themes of social justice, the topic of ability is often forgotten. The Boys in the Bunkhouse reminds us of significant shortfalls in attaining equitable treatment of persons with disabilities.” —Chris Brown, director of St. Bonaventure University’s First-Year Experience (FYE) program

“Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

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Hillbilly Elegy:A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.

“[Vance’s] description of the culture he grew up in is essential reading for this moment in history.” —David Brooks, New York Times

“You will not read a more important book about America this year.” —The Economist

Harper: 272 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-230054-6 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in June 2017: 978-0-06-230055-3 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)


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In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan to assist on raids and gather crucial information from Afghani women. In Ashley’s War, reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the tale of one of these secret units and the remarkable hero at its heart: Ashley White, a beloved and effective soldier who gave her life serving her country in a role for which she will never officially receive credit. Ashley’s War is a gripping combat narrative and a moving story of friendship—a book that will change the way students think about war and the meaning of service.

“An unforgettable story of female soldiers breaking the brass ceiling. The women who answered America’s call to

serve show that our military is stronger when it engages both halves of the population. This book will inspire you and remind you of the power that comes with defying limits.” —Sheryl Sandberg

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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American DreamAdam Shepard

After graduating from college, Adam Shepard felt disillusioned by the apathy around him and set out to prove that it was possible to make something out of nothing and achieve the American Dream. With a sleeping bag, the clothes on his back, and $25 in cash, and restricted from using his contacts or college education, he headed out for Charleston, South Carolina, a randomly selected city with one objective: to work his way out of homelessness and to have, after one year, $2,500 in savings, a working automobile, and a furnished apartment.

Scratch Beginnings is the earnest and passionate account of Shepard’s struggle to overcome the pressures placed on the homeless. His journey is sure to inspire students and will remind them that America is still one of the most hopeful countries in the world.

Freshman Common Read: Methodist University, North Carolina Central University, Lewis University (Illinois), St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and Voorhees College—among others


The Wild Truth Carine McCandlessForeword by John Krakauer

The success of Into the Wild brought Chris McCandless’s story to millions of readers and movie-goers, but left them asking, “What set the stage for Chris’s willingness to embrace the dangers of Alaska’s wilderness?”

Carine McCandless, Chris’s sister and closest friend, witnessed firsthand the complex and abusive relationship Chris had with his father that formed his worldview. Never before having shared this story, Carine has spent more than 20 years seeking the same understanding, reconciliation, and absolution she believes Chris finally found in an abandoned school bus in Alaska. In this touching and deeply personal memoir, she reveals how she has learned that real redemption can only come from speaking the truth.

“The Wild Truth is a moving narrative of domestic abuse, grief and survival, and for the perspective and revelations it contains, an essential addition to the Into the Wild story.” —Newsweek

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Etched in Sand:A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island Regina Calcaterra

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness. Despite her difficult circumstances, she remained committed to her education, and eventually put herself through college. Etched in Sand is a reminder for students that regardless of social status, the American Dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.

“Riveting reading from start to finish.” —Kirkus Reviews

Freshman Common Read: Hesston College

William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp.2013 • 978-0-06-221883-4 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Girl Unbroken: A Sister’s Harrowing Story of Survival from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho Regina Calcaterra

The author of Etched in Sand chronicles the journey of her youngest sister Rosie after their abusive and alcoholic mother removed her from a foster home in New York and dragged her all the way to Idaho—far away from her older sisters who had watched over her.

“As engrossing as Etched in Sand, this book is a testament to Maloney’s remarkable resilience and a moving tribute to the unbreakable bond of love she shared with her siblings. Courageous and emotionally intense.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as “Human Computers,” calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these “colored computers,” as they were known, used slide rules, adding

machines, and pencil and paper to support America’s fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.


William Morrow: 384 pp.; illustrated.2016 • 978-0-06-236359-6 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in December 2016: 978-0-06-236360-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Just Kids Patti Smith

• National Book Award

A chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art and devotion. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography.

Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, their prelude to fame.

“This beautifully written memoir is a haunting elegy for Smith’s soul mate Robert Mapplethorpe and a lost New York City. One

of the best books ever written on becoming an artist.” —Washington Post, Best Books of 2010

Freshman Common Read: Kingsborough Community College

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Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle Kristen Green

This provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate and closed its public schools. The community’s white leaders quickly established the private Prince Edward Academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use for their all-white classrooms, while black parents scrambled to find alternative education for their children for five years.

Kristen Green grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, without knowledge of its shameful past. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period, her own

family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light, producing a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today.

“Kristen Green was born to write this book. . . . [She] deftly interweaves the personal and the historical into a compelling narrative that leaves no stone unturned. . . . [N]ot only fascinating but cinematic. . . . [A]n award-worthy book.” —Booklist (Top Pick)

Freshman Common Read: Mary Washington University


Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

After their father’s death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara—all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest—moved to Hiroshima, their mother’s ancestral home. Eager to go back to America, Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. This story of a Japanese-American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II is an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, redemption, U.S.-Japan relations, and the Japanese experience in America.

“Deeply reported and researched. . . . Midnight in Broad Daylight not only tells one family’s remarkable story but also makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the Jap-anese-American experience in World War II, on both sides of the ocean and the hyphen.” —New York Times Book Review

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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as “Human Computers,” calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these “colored computers,” as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America’s fledgling aeronautics industry,

and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA’s female Human Computers.


William Morrow: 384 pp.; illustrated.2016 • 978-0-06-236359-6 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN) Paperback available in December 2016:978-0-06-236360-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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On her second night of college, Aspen Matis was raped by a fellow student. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled through her freshman year. At its end, she made a bold decision: she would seek healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada. In this grippingly honest and inspiring memoir, Aspen recounts her journey from shattered girl to self-reliant woman, and how she found hope and healing in nature.

“Beautiful and so wildly engaging.” —Lena Dunham

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Sex Object: A Memoir Jessica Valenti

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti—called “one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation” by the Washington Post—has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the everyday to the existential. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it.

“Jessica Valenti is a breath of fresh air. She offers the kind of raw honesty that can feel like a punch in the gut, but leaves you with the warmth of a deep embrace.” —Ms. Magazine

Dey Street: 224 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-243508-8 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in February 2017: 978-0-06-243509-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)


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Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.

Roxane Gay—one of the most-watched and original young cultural observers of her generation—takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.

“Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” —Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest Professor and MSNBC Host

Freshman Common Read: University of California-Los Angeles, Virginia Wesleyan College

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Beauty Sick:How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and WomenRenee Engeln, Ph.D.

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the obsession over body image in today’s generation of women is an epidemic that is harming their ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives.

Combing scientific studies with the voices of real young women, she makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, women must break free from these destructive desires, attitudes, and words—and she provides workable solutions to help them embrace their whole selves to transform their lives, claim they futures they deserve, and ultimately, change their world.

Harper: 256 pp.April 2017 • 978-0-06-246977-9 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) ★ An Epidemic of Beauty Sickness at http://tedxtalks.ted.com/

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube:Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North Blair Braverman

By the time Blair was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Often, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she embraced the wilderness and make it her home.

“As a storyteller and a stylist, Braverman is remarkably skilled, with a keen sense of visceral detail that borders on sublime. Her ability to draw readers into heart-pounding action sequences is what makes the book so courageous and original as a travel narrative and a memoir of self-discovery.” —New York Times Book Review

Ecco: 288 pp. 2016 • 978-0-06-231156-6 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in March 2017: 978-0-06-231157-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage EqualityDebbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell

In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to key players, Love Wins reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind Obergefell v Hodges and the lives at its center. This is a story of law and love—and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered.

“A tender story, inspiring, and ultimately a huge cele- bration. . . . You will never forget Jim Obergefell and his lawyer Al Gerhardstein, two men who fought with every ounce of will they could muster. This book will become a classic.” —Erin Brockovich

Wiliam Morrow: 304 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-245608-3 • hc • $27.99 ($34.99/CAN)Paperback available in June 2017: 978-0-06-245610-6 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Darling Days:A Memoir iO Tillett Wright

When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old iO play ball, she instantly adopts a new persona, becoming a boy named Ricky, a choice her parents support and celebrate. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Alternating between the harrowing and the hilarious, Darling Days is the candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as her family and home life devolve into chaos.

Now an actress and artist, iO is currently finishing a project to photograph people across the LGBTQ spectrum in every state.

“It’s already a rare and wonderful thing to have a great story—but a unique and compelling voice to tell it with is even rarer. With Darling Days, iO Tillett Wright takes us right to where great storytelling lives. A terrific, terrific book.” —Anthony Bourdain

Ecco: 400 pp. • 2016 • 978-0-06-236820-1 • hc • $26.99 ($33.50/CAN) Paperback available in September 2017: 978-0-06-236821-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)★ iO Tillett Wright’s TED Talk, Fifty Shades of Gay: www.ted.com

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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood Richard Blanco

This powerful and inspiring memoir from Richard Blanco, the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, explores his coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants, and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. Blanco’s poignant, often hilarious memoir brilliantly illuminates the experience of “becoming” in America—a singular yet universal story that all your students will relate to in some way.

“A warm, emotionally intimate memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews

Freshman Common Read: Florida International University, Quinsigamond Community College

Ecco: 272 pp.2015 • 978-0-06-231377-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men Michael Kimmel

Sociologist Michael Kimmel tackles the world of late adolescent boys and young men: the “guys” of America, aged 16 to 26. Although these young men may appear to be growing up too fast, they are in fact becoming adults quite slowly. From the mundane—video games, movies and television, sports, and music—to the extreme—violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation, and school shootings—Kimmel reveals the culture that every boy must navigate on his way to adulthood, whether he is a participant or a bystander. Kimmel asserts that what happens to boys in this period often determines the type of men they will be for the rest of their lives.

“Kimmel is our seasoned guide into a world that, unless we are guys, we barely know exists. As he walks with us through

dark territories, he points out the significant and reflects on its meaning. Just as Reviving Ophelia introduced readers to the culture of teenage girls, Guyland takes us to the land of young men.” —Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

Freshman Common Read: Winona State University

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Another Brooklyn: A NovelJacqueline Woodson

This novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming is a look back on four friends’ fifteenth year: the year that changed them all forever.

Against the backdrop of a changing neighborhood and a changing world, four brown teenage girls are figuring out their lives. Their dreams of modeling, lawyering, dancing, and writing feeling very real until “the most beautiful among us” becomes pregnant. Suddenly, the world is different, more dangerous, their vulnerability more evident, and their dreams of success begin to feel like part of “another Brooklyn, a different time.”

“The novel’s richness defies its slim page count. In her poet’s prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life parallel to the one we’re living.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

Amistad: 192 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-235998-8 • hc • $22.99 ($28.50/CAN) Paperback available in August 2017: 978-0-06-235999-5 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

Go Set a Watchman: A NovelHarper Lee

Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee’s earliest known novel. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014, and is now published for the first time. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman is set during an era of rapid change and significant progress in Civil Rights legislation, and it engages with questions of racial equality and justice that are still at the forefront of our national conversation.

“A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions.” —Washington Post

“Go Set a Watchman comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don’t know how much we need them. Only in retrospect, only when they’re already here and we’re discussing the issues they raise and the emotions they engender, do we appreciate the beautiful synchronicity that links the historical mo-ment with the individual imagination that so heroically explores it.”—Chicago Tribune

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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A NovelZora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God, a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance, continues to inspire the next generation of students.

“No book is more important to me than this one.” —Alice Walker

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith

Freshman Common Read: Manchester Community College —among others

Harper Perennial: 256 pp.2013 • 978-0-06-083867-6 • pb • $14.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★ Teaching resources are available at www.ZoraNealeHurston.com

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel Ben Fountain

• Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and a National Book Award Finalist

Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents—and the video that went viral—transformed the Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. Ben Fountain’s novel follows the surviving members of the Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive “Victory Tour” at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys.

“Fountain’s excellent first novel follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day. . . . Through

the eyes of the titular soldier, Fountain creates a minutely observed portrait of a society with woefully misplaced priorities.” —The New Yorker

Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee’s film based on the book will release in November 2016.

Ecco: 320 pp.2012 • 978-0-06-088561-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

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LaRose: A NovelLouise Erdrich

The bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic acci-dent, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.

“Louise Erdrich captures the passion, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leave the reader breathless.”—New Yorker

“The radiance of this many-faceted novel is generated by Erdrich’s tenderness for her characters . . . magnificent . . . a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy, elegy, spirituality, resilience, wit, wonder, and hope that will stand as a defining master work of American literature for generations to come.”—Booklist (starred review)


The Round House:A Novel Louise Erdrich

• Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction

This exquisitely told story set on the Ojibwe reservation in contemporary North Dakota follows a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. The Round House is “moving, complex, and surprisingly uplifting . . . likely to be dubbed the Native American To Kill a Mockingbird.” (Parade)

“Erdrich skillfully makes Joe’s coming-of-age both universal and specific . . . the story is also ripe with detail about reser-vation life.” —Library Journal

Freshman Common Read: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Minne-sota, Oswego State University of New York


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Orphan Train:A Novel Christina Baker Kline

Orphan Train tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Molly Ayers, a foster-kid hoping to avoid juvie, and Vivian Daly, the elderly woman she has been assigned to help. Shared experience serves to unite them as it comes to light that the aged Vivian spent time on “orphan trains,” which ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest from 1854 to 1929, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. The subject matter will grab students’ attention because so few people know about this particularly heartbreaking piece of American history, and the novel’s message of resilience and unlikely bonds will carry them through.

“A compelling story about loss, adaptability, and courage. . . . With compassion and delicacy Kline presents a little-known chapter of American history and draws comparisons with the modern-day foster care system.” —Library Journal

Freshman Common Read: Edgewood College, Richard Stockton College, Owensboro Community and Technical College, University of Kentucky—among others


Commonwealth: A Novel Ann Patchett

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.

When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation,

and the ownership of stories from an award-winning, bestselling author.

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Letting Go (Sixth Edition): A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College YearsKaren Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger

Based on research and real life experience, and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, has been updated and revised, offering even more insightful, practical, and up-to-date information. In this era of constant communication, this edition tackles the challenge facing parents: finding the balance between staying connected and letting go.

With its workshop guides and downloadable tips for parents and students, Letting Go answers the questions your students’ parents have as their children enter college:

• When should parents encourage independence?

• When should they intervene?

• What issues of identity and intimacy await students?

• What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students—and for parents?

• What is different about today’s college environment?• What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming

classes?

A timeless resource, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, is an indispensable book that parents can depend on and turn to for all of their questions and concerns regarding sending their children to college.

“Coburn and Treeger offer an exemplary resource filled with practical insight to enhance familial support for today’s college students.” —Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., Dean of Academic and Student Success, Johns Hopkins University

“Sending a child off to college can be jolting as well as joyous. Letting Go offers a treasury of insight into this rite of passage, rooted not in psychological jargon but in experience and common sense.” —Edward B. Fiske, author of Fiske Guide to Colleges

“Up-to-date, insightful, and above all else, practical. Coburn and Treeger continue as gurus for parents sending their children off to college.” —Dr. Mike Riera, Head of Brentwood School, Los Angeles and author of Staying Connected to Your Teenager


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Getting from College to Career (Revised Edition): Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World Lindsey Pollak

It’s the classic conundrum that faces college students, recent graduates and young professionals: How do I get a job with no experience and how do I get experience without a job? In this newly revised edition, consultant and Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn Lindsey Pollak presents 101 things to do to build a great résumé and gain excellent experience. Pollak helps students use social media on the job hunt, stand out in today’s ultra-competitive job market, and make every networking opportunity a success. Her insightful ideas will provide excellent guidance for recent graduates and those new to the workforce.

“A well-written, lively and easy to follow guide.” —Time.com

“Pollak’s thorough research reveals some startling facts that the modern job-searcher may be overlooking.” —Metro New York

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There is Life After College What Parents and Students Should Know about Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of TomorrowJeffrey J. Selingo

Your students and their parents have heard all of the post-col-lege horror stories: they’ll spend the next 10 years trying to find a job with a salary big enough to cover their college loan payments while they remain financially dependent on their parents. Although this is the bleak outlook college students are told to prepare for, Jeffrey J. Selingo argues that this doesn’t have to be the case.

Selingo gives the next generation what they desperately need: detailed advice and new approaches that will help every student, no matter their major or degree, find real employ-ment—a journey that is not linear, but personal and unique.

“Jeffrey Selingo’s book belongs on the desk of every career counselor, on the shelf of every parent, and in the hands of every young person planning his or her future. There Is Life After College is essential reading for navigating the new workplace terrain.” — Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

William Morrow: 320 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-23886-5 • hc • $25.99 ($31.99/CAN) Paperback available in April 2017: 978-0-06-238885-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.00/CAN)

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Winning Arguments What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the ClassroomStanley Fish

This lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor touches on hot-button issues to reveal how successful argument can be used to win over popular opinion.

For students, Winning Arguments is a fun read and a powerful tool that will stay with them long after they finish the book. For, as Stanley Fish writes, “argument is unavoidable, argument is interminable, argument is all we have.”

“Fish mines cultural touchstone from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory.” —New York Times Book Review

Harper: 224 pp.2016 • 978-0-06-222665-5 • pb • $19.99 ($24.99/CAN)

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read OneStanley Fish

Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.

“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.” —Financial Times

“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount, Jr.

Harper Paperbacks: 164 pp.2012 • 978-0-06-184053-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.50/CAN)

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Another Brooklyn ....................... 27Ashley’s War ................................. 17

BBad Feminist ................................ 23Barry, Dan .................................... 16Batstone, David ............................ 15Beauty Sick ................................... 24Beavan, Colin ................................. 8Being Wrong .................................. 7Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime

Walk.......................................... 28Blanco, Richard ............................ 26Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,

The ............................................ 11Boys in the Bunkhouse, The ....... 16Braverman, Blair .......................... 24

CCalcaterra, Regina ....................... 19Carry On ....................................... 16Cenziper, Debbie ......................... 25Coburn, Karen Levin .................. 31Commonwealth ........................... 30

DDarling Days ................................ 25Deadly Wandering, A.................... 5Devoured ........................................ 9Door to Door ................................. 8Dressmaker of Khair Khana ....... 14Dubner, Stephen J. ....................... 10Dunn, Rob ...................................... 6

EEgan, Sophie ................................... 9Engeln, Renee ............................... 24Epic Measures ................................ 9Erdrich, Louise ............................. 29Etched in Sand ............................. 19

FFenn, Lisa...................................... 16Find Me Unafraid ........................ 11First They Killed My Father ....... 12Fish, Stanley ................................. 33Fountain, Ben ............................... 28Freakonomics ............................... 10

GGay, Roxane .................................. 23Getting from College to Career . 32Girl in the Woods ........................ 22Girl Unbroken .............................. 19Girl With Seven Names, The ...... 13Go Set a Watchman ..................... 27

Gray, Sarah ..................................... 5Green, Kristen .............................. 21Grennan, Conor ........................... 15Guyland ........................................ 26

HHarari, Yuval Noah ........................ 6Hidden Figures ..................4, 20, 22Hillbilly Elegy. .............................. 17 How to Be Alive ............................. 8How to Write a Sentence ............ 33Humes, Edward ............................. 8Hurston, Zora Neale .................... 28

JJust Kids ........................................ 20

KKamkwamba, William ................ 11Kimmel, Michael ......................... 26Kline, Christina Baker ................ 30

LLamb, Christina ........................... 13LaRose ........................................... 29Lee, Harper ................................... 27Lee, Hyeonseo .............................. 13Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach .....14, 17 Letting Go ..................................... 31Levitt, Steven D. ........................... 10Life Everlasting, A ......................... 5Little Princes ................................ 15Love Wins ..................................... 25Lovers, The ................................... 12

MMacFarlane-Barrow, Magnus ..... 14Matis, Aspen ................................. 22McCandless, Carine .................... 18Midnight in Broad Daylight ....... 21Mustafa, Nujeen ........................... 13

NNordland, Ron ............................. 12Not for Sale ................................... 15Nujeen ........................................... 13

OObergefell, Jim ............................. 25Odede, Kennedy .......................... 11Orphan Train ............................... 30

PPatchett, Ann ................................ 30Pollak, Lindsey ............................. 32Posner, Jennifer ............................ 11Prince of Los Cocuyos, The ........ 26

RRadioactive ..................................... 4Redniss, Lauren ............................. 4Richtel, Matt ................................... 5Round House, The ....................... 29

SSakamoto, Pamela Rotner .......... 21Sapiens ............................................ 6Schulz, Kathryn ............................. 7Scratch Beginnings ...................... 18Selingo, Jeffrey J. .......................... 32Sex Object ..................................... 23Shed That Fed a Million Children,

The ............................................ 14Shepard, Adam............................. 18Shetterly, Margot Lee ........4, 20, 22Smith, Jeremy N. ............................ 9Smith, Patti ................................... 20Something Must Be Done about

Prince Edward County........... 21Sunstein, Cass R. ............................ 7SuperFreakonomics ..................... 10

TTheir Eyes Were Watching God . 28There Is Life After College .......... 32Think Like a Freak ....................... 10Treeger, Madge Lawrence ........... 31

UUng, Loung ................................... 12

VValenti, Jessica .............................. 23Vance, J. D. .................................... 17

WWelcome to the Goddamn

Ice Cube ................................... 24When to Rob a Bank ................... 10Wild Life of Our Bodies, The ....... 6Wild Truth, The ........................... 18Winning Arguments ................... 33Woodson, Jacqueline ................... 27World According to Star Wars,

The .............................................. 7Wright, iO Tillett ......................... 25

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