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The Boy Who Harnessed the WindCreating Currents of eleCtriCity and Hope

William kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, Africa, a country plagued by AIDS and poverty. When, in 2002, Malawi experienced their worst famine in 50 years, fourteen-year-old William was forced to drop out of school because his family could not afford the $80-a-year-tuition. However, he continued to think, learn, and dream. Armed with curiosity, determina-tion, and a few old science textbooks he discovered in a nearby library, he embarked on a daring plan to build a windmill that could bring his family the electricity only two percent of Malawians could afford.

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [is] an autobiography so moving that it is almost impossible to read without

tears. In understated and simple prose, Kamkwamba and Mealer offer readers a tour through one Malawian boy’s inspiring life. . . . The telling of his story is surprisingly levelheaded. . . . As you read this book (I’d suggest keeping a box of tissues handy) you can be sure that William Kamkwamba’s future is bright. If this tale is any indication, we’ll be hearing his name again in the years ahead.”—Christian Science Monitor

Thematic Focus: Science, Engineering, Africa, Ingenuity, Personal Stories

Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-173033-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Maryville University, University of Central Florida, Central College, Boise State University, California State University, Chico

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e B o y W h o H a r n e s s e d t h e W i n d

Browse Inside the Book

Website for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Video of William Kamkwamba discussing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h i s I s a S o u l

Browse Inside the Book

Rick Hodes’s Website

Video of Rick Hodes & Marilyn Berger on Good Morning America

Trailer for HBO Films Documentary “Making the Crooked Straight”

Marilyn Berger’s Website

This Is a SoultHe Mission of riCk Hodes

Marilyn Berger

Dr. Rick Hodes is no ordinary doctor. An American, Dr. Hodes has spent most of his life treating serious spinal diseases in Ethiopia, a country with fewer than three physicians for every 45,000 inhabitants. Dr. Hodes says of his insistence on sending pictures of his subjects to the labs, “Doctors always ask why I send photos, why I don’t just send the x-rays and blood studies . . . I want them to know this is a human being. . . . This isn’t just a back. This is a soul.” This titular quote exemplifies the deeply humanistic attitude Dr. Hodes takes towards healthcare. Acclaimed journalist Marilyn Berger brings Dr. Hodes’s work to life in This Is a Soul, a book with the power to inspire students to think outside the normal application of their skills and education.

“There isn’t a living physician whose life and quiet heroism I have admired more than the subject of this extraordinary book. Rick Hodes cares little if the world knows of his work, and yet he has much to teach the world about an empathic civilization, and how boundaries and nationhood are meaningless in the face of suffering. . . . This Is a Soul is a powerful, important book for our age.”—Abraham Verghese, author My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story

Thematic Focus: Science, Medicine, Ethics, Public Policy, Global Health, Humanitarianism

William Morrow: 288 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-175954-3 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN)

Harper paperbacks: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-175955-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Paperback available in April 2011

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R e s o u r c e s f o r A P e a r l i n t h e S t o r m

Browse Inside the Book

Website for A Pearl in the Storm

A Pearl in the StormHow i found My Heart in tHe Middle of tHe oCean

tori Murden McClure

During June 1998, Tori Murden McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore, ultimately losing updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and on the weather. In deep solitude and perilous conditions, she was nonethe-less determined to prove what one person with a mission could do. When she was finally brought to her knees by a series of violent storms that nearly killed her, she had to signal for help and go home in what felt like complete disgrace.

Back home in Kentucky she went to work for Muhammad Ali, who told her that she did not want to be known as the woman who “almost” rowed

across the Atlantic Ocean—and she knew that he was right. In this thrilling story of high adventure, Tori Murden McClure gives students a true memoir of an explorer who maps her world with rare emotional honesty.

“Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. If you want to be inspired, read this book. You won’t stop till you’ve finished.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife

Thematic Focus: Personal Stories, Determination, Adventure, Survival

Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-171887-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Northern Kentucky University, Brescia University, Erksine College, Spring Hill College

R e s o u r c e s f o r L i t t l e P r i n c e s

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Conor Grennan’s Website

Next Generation Nepal’s Website

Video of Conor Grennan’s Message to Teachers and Students

Little Princesone Man’s proMise to Bring HoMe tHe lost CHildren of nepal

Conor Grennan

Conor Grennan had spent eight years working for The East West Institute in Prague and Brussels, focusing on peace in the Balkan region and serving as Deputy Director of EWI’s Program on Security and Good Governance, the Advisor on EU Affairs to EWI’s Worldwide Security Program. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday 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, Conor’s 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.

“Funny, touching, tragic. Conor Grennan’s Little Princes is a remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

Thematic Focus: Human Slavery, Humanitarianism, Global Culture, Personal Stories

William Morrow: 304 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-193005-8 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Available in February 2011

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Double Takea MeMoir

kevin Michael Connolly

Kevin Michael Connolly is a 25-year-old who has seen the world in a way most of your students never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Games on his mono-ski as a teenager, Connolly has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was raised like any other kid. As a college student, he traveled to seventeen countries on his skate-board and, in an attempt to capture the stares of strangers, he took more than 30,000 photographs of people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it is to truly see another person. His remarkable journey will change the way your students look at others and the way they see themselves.

Thematic Focus: Personal Stories, Photography, Disability, Travel

Harper paperbacks: 240 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-179152-9 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Montana State University, Colorado Mountain College, University of Wisconsin— La Crosse

R e s o u r c e s f o r D o u b l e T a k e

Browse Inside the Book

Website for Double Take

Website of Kevin Michael Connolly’s Photographs of People Staring at Him

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e L a s t L e c t u r e

Website for The Last Lecture

The Last Lecturerandy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” Although he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, that day Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, and often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the bestselling book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy

continues to inspire all who read The Last Lecture.

Thematic Focus: Inspiration, Determination

Hyperion: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-1-4013-2325-7 • hc • $21.95 ($23.50/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Georgia Institute of Technology, Ramapo College, Cazenovia College, Newberry College, Creighton University, Great Bay Community College, Indiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, North Georgia College and State University, Thomas College, Western Illinois University

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The Dressmaker of Khair Khanafive sisters, one reMarkaBle faMily, and tHe woMan wHo risked everytHing to keep tHeM safe

Gayle tzemach Lemmon

Kamela Sediqi is not the typical entrepreneur. Desperate to support her six brothers and sisters at home and banished from the streets of Kabul, Kamela opened a dressmaking business in her living room. Her business went on to employ 100 women in her community and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana chronicles her struggles and successes as she offered hope and resilience to women under the Taliban’s oppressive rule. While so many reports of the Taliban portray women as victims, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s book portrays its heroines as strong and resilient.

“Kamela Sediqi’s unforgettable story shows just how far we are willing to go for those we love, and proves once again the power of girls to remake our world. This is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” — Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea

Thematic Focus: Women, Afghanistan, The Taliban, Entrepreneurship

Harper: 272 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-173237-9 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN)

Available in March 2011

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e D r e s s m a k e r o f K h a i r K h a n a

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s Website

R e s o u r c e s f o r A H o m e o n t h e F i e l d

Browse Inside the Book

C-SPAN2 Book TV Video Interview with Paul Cuadros

A Home on the FieldHow one CHaMpionsHip teaM inspires Hope for tHe revival of sMall town aMeriCa

Paul Cuadros

This is a triumphant true story of a team of Latino high school students and their coach who fought against prejudice to win the North Carolina state soccer championship.

“Cuadros, a reporter, went to Siler City, North Carolina, to investigate the changes wrought by Latinos arriving to work in small-town poultry-processing plants. He became part of the story when he lobbied Jordan-Matthews High School to create a team for its soccer-loving Latino youth. Three seasons later, he had coached the Jets to a state championship. The engaging tale of the team’s climb to the top also provides a lens through which to view the challenges of assimilation.” —Booklist

Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, UNC Chapel Hill

It Books: 288 pp.; illustrated 2007 • 978-0-06-112028-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Not For SaletHe return of tHe gloBal slave trade— and How we Can figHt it

david Batstone

An estimated 27 million people around the globe suffer in situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves. Trafficking in people has become increasingly transnational in scope, and is today the third most profitable criminal activity in the world. As many as half of all those trafficked worldwide for sex and domestic slavery are children under 18 years of age.

In Not For Sale, David Batstone, a Professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco, tells the inspiring stories of rescued victims and their heroic rescuers, including background briefings on human trafficking, and practical ideas that empower individuals and their communities to join the campaign for human freedom.

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

HarperOne: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-120671-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r N o t f o r S a l e

Browse Inside the Book

Website for Not for Sale

R e s o u r c e s f o r B r e a k i n g N i g h t

Video of Liz Murray

Breaking Nighta MeMoir of forgiveness, survival, and My Journey froM HoMelessness to Harvard

Liz Murray

Breaking Night is the remarkable true story of one woman’s journey from living on the streets to attending Harvard. At age 15, her mother’s boyfriend kicked Liz Murray out of her family’s small Bronx apartment soon after her mother had died of AIDS. Homeless with nowhere to go, Liz chronicles her years surviving on the streets and the path she took that eventually led her to enroll at Harvard. A harrowing and inspiring story, Breaking Night will expose students to the story of destitution and retribution, offering them the unique perspective of someone who broke the cycle of drug addiction and poverty to end up attending one of the nation’s most prestigious universities.

Thematic Focus: Homelessness, AIDS, Drugs, Survival

Hyperion: 352 pp. 2010 • 978-0-78-686891-9 • hc • $24.99 (N/C)

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Fast Food NationtHe dark side of tHe all-aMeriCan Meal

eric schlosser

Why is Fast Food Nation a favorite pick for freshman reading? Among many reasons, it encourages students to think about their everyday actions within a larger context. The story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has:

• Triggered the homogenization of our culture• Hastened the “malling” of our landscape• Widened the gap between rich and poor• Fueled an epidemic of obesity• Propelled the juggernaut of American cultural

imperialism abroad

Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investi-gation that will show your students how one industry has changed the face of America—and the

world. It works in a multitude of courses and disciplines—from history, sociology, and business to composition, health and nutrition—and beyond.

“Channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson. . . . Schlosser’s research is impressive— statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Freshman Common Book: Western Illinois State University, Highline Community College, Prince George Community College, Hamline University, Champlain College, Bentley College, Windward Community College, Louisiana State University at Monroe, Ball State University, SUNY Oswego—and many others!

Harper Perennial: 416 pp.; illustrated; index 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083858-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r F a s t F o o d N a t i o n

Browse Inside the Book

Instructor’s Guide

Fast Food Nation Movie Website

PBS Frontline Program Modern Meat Website

The Fast Food Explorer Website

Fast Food and Families Website

R e s o u r c e s f o r G u y l a n d

Browse Inside the Book

Michael Kimmel’s Website

Video of Michael Kimmel Lecturing On Gender

GuylandtHe perilous world wHere Boys BeCoMe Menunderstanding tHe CritiCal years Between 16 and 26

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 in Guyland the larger 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 become for the rest of their lives.

“Michael Kimmel’s Guyland could save the humanity of many young men—and the sanity of their friends and parents—by explaining the forces behind a newly extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he names the problem and offers compassionate bridges to adulthood.”—Gloria Steinem

Harper paperbacks: 352 pp.; index 2009 • 978-0-06-083135-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Paradox of ChoicewHy More is less

How tHe Culture of aBundanCe roBs us of satisfaCtion

Barry schwartz

Whether your students are buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, registering for courses, or choosing a doctor, their everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which they are presented.

Students assume that more choices—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination—mean better options and greater satisfaction. But Barry Schwartz, a Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, warns them to beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make us question the decisions we

make before we even make them, it can set us up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make us blame ourselves for any and all failures.

“This book is valuable in two ways. It argues persuasively that most of us would often be better off with fewer options, and that many of us try too hard to make the best choices. While making its case, the book also provides an engaging introduction to current psychological research on choice and on well-being.” —Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-000569-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e P a r a d o x o f C h o i c e

Browse Inside the Book

Barry Schwartz’s Website

Video of Barry Schwartz Discussing The Paradox of Choice

R e s o u r c e s f o r C u r i o u s ?

Browse Inside the Book

Todd Kashdan’s Website

Curious?disCover tHe Missing ingredient to a fulfilling life

todd kashdan, Ph.d.

On the surface, curiosity doesn’t appear to be a trait of tremendous importance. Todd Kashdan turns this assumption on its head, however, in Curious? cultivating an interest in one’s surroundings is a deep, complex phenomenon that plays a critical role in the pursuit of a meaningful life. This thesis implicitly underscores the importance of active mental engagement with one’s surroundings, a lesson from which students of all disciplines and walks of life can benefit.

“Curious? points the way to an exploring spirit that leads to wonderment, joy, and meaning. It’s one of those rare books that is both research-based and practical.” —David G. Myers, author of The Pursuit of Happiness

William Morrow: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-166118-1 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Harper paperbacks: 352 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-166119-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

Paperback available in December 2010

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Freakonomicsa rogue eConoMist explores tHe Hidden side of everytHing

steven d. Levitt & stephen J. dubner

Here’s a first-year book that encourages critical thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics addresses current social questions that students will enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over coffee in the student union:

• Which is more dangerous—a gun or a swimming pool?

• Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers?• What makes a perfect parent?

These may not sound like typical questions an economist asks, but Levitt is not your typical economist. He studies the mysteries of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing—and his conclusions regularly turn conventional wisdom on its head.

“We think we know how the world operates, but we really don’t. . . . Freakonomics uses the science of economics and concrete data to challenge our assumptions about everything. . . . You’ll walk away with not only a few good party tidbits, but also a more critical eye to many things presented as fact.”—Harvard Business Review

Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Louisville

Harper Perennial: 352 pp.; index 2009 • 978-0-06-073133-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r F r e a k o n o m i c s

Browse Inside the Book

Freakonomics Blog on the New York Times Website

Teaching Materials for Freakonomics

R e s o u r c e s f o r S u p e r F r e a k o n o m i c s

Browse Inside the Book

Teaching Materials for SuperFreakonomics

SuperFreakonomicsgloBal Cooling, patriotiC prostitutes, and wHy suiCide BoMBers sHould Buy life insuranCe

steven d. Levitt & stephen J. dubner

When originally published, Freakonomics exploded like a bomb on the culture, forever changing the way students understand the way the world works and how they really make decisions. After more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, 3 million copies sold, and single-handedly inventing a genre of books, University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and New York Times writer Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics. Based on entirely new research, it’s bigger, more provocative, and ready to challenge the way students think all over again.

“SuperFreakonomics is written for noneconomists. Using wry humor the authors explore unexpected

areas—and often, a huge economic change turns on a noneconomic hinge.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-88958-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Predictably Irrationalrevised and expanded edition

tHe Hidden forCes tHat sHape our deCisions

dan Ariely

Do you know why you still have a headache after taking a one-cent aspirin, but why that same headache disappears if the aspirin costs fifty cents? Do you know why recalling the Ten Commandments reduces people’s tendency to lie, or why honor codes are actually effective in reducing dishonesty at the workplace?

Predictably Irrational challenges students to ponder these questions (questions we sometimes avoid) and demonstrates how irrationality manifests itself in situations (often very peculiar and hilarious situations) where rational thought is expected. We all succumb to irrationality, it’s about time we find out how it affects our daily lives in a significant way. In this astounding book, groundbreaking in scope

and totally original, Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviors and presents outstanding material that will keep every student transfixed.

“Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act, in the marketplace and out. Predictably Irrational will reshape the way you see the world, and yourself, for good.”—James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds

Harper Perennial: 384 pp.; revised and expanded edition; index 2010 • 978-0-06-135324-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r P r e d i c t a b l y I r r a t i o n a l

Browse Inside the Book

Instructor’s Guide

Website for Predictably Irrational

Video Lecture of Dan Ariely

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e U p s i d e o f I r r a t i o n a l i t y

Browse Inside the Book

Listen to Dan Ariely Discuss the Book on NPR’s “All Things Considered”

The Upside of IrrationalitytHe unexpeCted Benefits of defying logiC at work and at HoMe

dan Ariely

The Upside of Irrationality examines the unexpected role irrationality plays in students’ day-to-day decision-making, impacting everything from finances to romances. In the follow-up to his bestseller Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely reflects on irrationality, particularly as it is brought to bear on the following topics:

• What we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy

• How we learn to love the ones we are with• Why online dating doesn’t work, and how we can

improve on it• Why learning more about people make us like

them less• Why large bonuses can make CEOs less productive

• How to really motivate people at work• Why bad directions can help us• How we fall in love with our ideas• How we are motivated by revenge • What motivates us to cheat.

Harper: 352 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-199503-3 • hc • $27.99 ($29.99/CAN)

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Hamlet’s BlackBerrya praCtiCal pHilosopHy for Building a good life in tHe digital age

William Powers

What does it mean to be “connected”? What are the positive and negative effects for a society achieving connectedness increasingly through technology? In Hamlet’s BlackBerry, William Powers reflects on our society’s relationship with technology and its effect on business and intrapersonal relationships. Though everything from social networking to smartphones has made has made it easier to communicate, many fear that the new social landscape diminishes the quality of human interaction.

Today’s students have grown up with and will continue to encounter unprecedented change as a result of the digital age. Unlike any previous generation they will be called upon to construct values and ethics in a world in which rapid

technological change is the norm. Smart and soulful, Hamlet’s BlackBerry asks students to evaluate what it means to be connected in a practical and philosophical sense and teaches them to evaluate the importance of this in their lives.

“In Hamlet’s BlackBerry, William Powers helps us understand what being ‘connected’ disconnects us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it. This is a thoughtful, elegant, and moving book.”—Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Harper: 288 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-168716-7 • hc • $24.99 ($25.90/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-168717-4 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

Paperback available in June 2011

R e s o u r c e s f o r H a m l e t ’ s B l a c k B e r r y

Browse Inside the Book

Garcia Media Interviews William Powers

R e s o u r c e s f o r B o u n c e

Browse Inside the Book

BBC Meet the Author Video

BounceMozart, federer, piCasso, BeCkHaM and tHe sCienCe of suCCess

Matthew syed

Mozart. Federer. Picasso. Beckham. For centuries, artists and athletes have exemplified the narrative of success, creating enduring legacies of excep-tional prowess, insight or artistic talent. In Bounce, Matthew Syed expands students’ understanding of the art of competition—in business, sports, school, or the arts—to show that developing a healthy sense of competition can lead to success. Drawing particu-larly illuminating examples from the worlds of arts and sports, Bounce’s lessons transcend disciplines and will appeal to students of all curricular and extracurricular interests. Syed backs his claims with the latest revolutionary findings in cognitive neuroscience, making Bounce both academic and broadly appealing.

“Sport is often used as an analogy for business, education, and personal relationships. In this insightful and entertaining book, Matthew Syed takes us a step deeper into the world of sports, showing us how much we can learn about our own behavior.”—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality

Harper: 320 pp.; index; illustrated 2010 • 978-0-06-172375-9 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN)

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The Rational OptimistHow prosperity evolves

Matt ridley

A provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley makes a hopeful case for what he calls “cultural evolution,” positing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation and change will inevitably increase human prosperity. Ridley’s optimism goes beyond simply extrapolating recent trends, to examine the way in which human culture has evolved by exchange and specialization, a process that began more than 100,000 years ago. As dialogue about the current economic climate is beset by pessimistic theses, The Rational Optimist provides students with a bold counterpoint that underscores the value of human progress as a fundamental asset to economic prosperity.

“A fast-moving, intelligent description of why human life has so consistently improved over the course of

history, and a wonderful overview of how human civilizations move forward.”—New York Times

Harper: 448 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-145205-5 • hc • $26.99 ($28.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 448 pp.; index 2011 • 978-0-06-145206-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e R a t i o n a l O p t i m i s t

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Website for The Rational Optimist

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e A u t h e n t i c i t y H o a x

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Andrew Potter’s Website

The Authenticity HoaxHow we get lost finding ourselves

Andrew Potter

In a modern society, where people often rely on cultural tastes and preferences to establish their identities, it can be easy to lose sight of the importance of authenticity. In The Authenticity Hoax, Potter masterfully applies philosophical principles to pop culture concepts to support his thesis that the pursuit of authenticity in contemporary American society—be it through Bikram yoga or the “whole foods” movement—can actually be exclusionary and self-promoting.

“In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter masters two of the trickiest balancing acts in contemporary social criticism. He takes on a wide range of highbrow sources—from John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Walter Benjamin and Lionel Trilling—and he makes them accessible without reducing them to cartoons. And he

comments on an even wider range of pop culture items—from The Matrix to skateboarding to locally grown produce and the YouTube aesthetic—in a tone that’s pitched just right . . . the kind of criticism that changes minds.”—Thomas De Zengotita, author of Mediated

Harper: 304 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-125133-7 • hc • $25.99

Harper paperbacks: 304 pp.; index 2011 • 978-0-06-125135-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We EatwHy it’s so Hard to tHink straigHt aBout aniMals

Hal Herzog

How do we reconcile our love for cats and dogs with our appetite for hamburgers and bacon? How can we rationalize testing medications on lab mice when some people also keep mice as pets? Why do we eat chicken but condemn cockfighting?

�The way people think about animals is inconsistent and often paradoxical. In Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, Hal Herzog examines our complicated feelings about our relationships with animals. With the intellectual rigor of The Ominvore’s Dilemma, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is an in-depth look at the complex way humans think about their connection with other members of the Animal Kingdom.

“A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.” —Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct

“Everybody who is interested in the ethics of our relationship between humans and animals should read this book.”—Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human

Harper: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-173086-3 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-173085-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Jonathan Kozol’s Website

Amazing Grace tHe lives of CHildren and tHe ConsCienCe of a nation

Jonathan kozol

Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s look at the resilient poor black and Hispanic children of Mott Haven, a neighborhood located in the South Bronx of New York City. Under the ever-watchful eye of concerned parents, the teachers of P.S. 30, and the religious leaders of St. Ann’s Church, who strive each day to foster optimism and self-respect in their children, Kozol hypnotically interweaves the gripping story of a beleaguered community plagued with high rates of HIV and pediatric AIDS, homicide, drug abuse, and gang rivalry. Yet regardless of their overwhelming hardships, the children featured in Amazing Grace are wonderfully tender, generous, religiously devout, and heartbreakingly eloquent about the poverty and racism that they face in their

young lives. These children may be wounded by their circumstances, but they are not hardened or bitter. They are an inspiration to all who read their story.

“Kozol reminds us that, with each casualty, part of the beauty of the world is extinguished, because these are children of intelligence and humor, of poetic insight and luminous faith.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 1996 • 978-0-06-097697-2 • pb • $14.99 ($16.25/CAN)

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Ordinary Resurrections CHildren in tHe years of Hope

Jonathan kozol

In Ordinary Resurrections Jonathan Kozol returns to the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx that he wrote about in Amazing Grace to spend another four years with the children who have come to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann’s Church. A fascinating narrative on the perils of daily urban life as seen through the honest eyes of children, it is a piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope and despair—from our nation’s corridors of power to its poorest city streets. Kozol gives a human face to what amounts to a modern-day version of segregation, and provides a stirring testimony to the courage of the children and the parents, teachers, and social workers who are the devoted true heroes and heroines of these remarkable children.

“A deeply moving and marvelous book. Jonathan Kozol has shared poetic and powerful stories of the poor children of Mott Haven who became a part of his life.”—Marian Wright Edelman

Harper Perennial: 400 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-095645-5 • pb • $14.00 ($18.00/CAN)

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Savage Inequalities CHildren in aMeriCa’s sCHools

Jonathan kozol

In Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol leads students into the lives of children in urban communities such as East St. Louis, Illinois, which the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has dubbed “the most distressed small city in America,” New York City’s South Bronx, Washington, D.C., Camden, New Jersey, and San Antonio, Texas. He describes in graphic detail how children who attend public schools in these districts are barely able to get a standard education because their schools lack proper financial funding for textbooks, teachers, and classroom supplies, as well as such normal amenities of civilization as toilet paper or a working toilet. As Kozol observes, public school is not at all like this for the privileged children of the neighbor-ing wealthy suburbs of Winnetka, Illinois, Cherry

Hill, New Jersey, or Manhasset, Rye, or Great Neck, New York.

“Poor children of all colors are increasingly looked upon as surplus baggage, mistakes that should never have happened. Indeed, an older view is returning that any attempts to educate the lower orders are doomed to fail. There can be more than one way to read the title of Jonathan Kozol’s depressing—and essential—book.”—New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 1992 • 978-0-06-097499-2 • pb • $14.95 ($16.50/CAN)

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The Great DelugeHurriCane katrina, new orleans, and tHe Mississippi gulf Coast

douglas Brinkley

Bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley brings forth a timely examination of the unique social, cultural and political complexities that made Hurricane Katrina the ongoing crisis it is. Douglas Brinkley is uniquely well-qualified to tell the story, as a professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Tulane University, Brinkley fled New Orleans when Katrina hit the gulf coast in 2005. A book the New York Times called “the most evocative, soul-shaking account of the calamity” and the Washington Times said was “likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.” More than just a book about New Orleans, The Great Deluge is a book about crises in America.

Harper Perennial: 768 pp.; index; illustrated 2007 • 978-0-06-114849-1 • pb • $17.95 ($22.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e G r e a t D e l u g e

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Tom Piazza’s Website

Why New Orleans Matterstom Piazza

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning author and New Orleans resident Tom Piazza wondered what would become of the city he loved. Moved to illuminate its storied culture as well as ponder its uncertain future, he wrote Why New Orleans Matters. With wisdom and affection, he explores the hidden contours of familiar traditions like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest, and evokes the sensory rapture of the city that gave us jazz music and Creole cooking. He writes, too, of the city’s deep undercurrents of corruption, racism, and injustice, and of how its people endure and transcend those conditions. And, perhaps most important, he asks students to consider the spirit of this place and all the things it has shared with the world—grace and beauty, resilience and soul.

Harper Perennial: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-113150-9 • pb • $10.95 ($13.99/CAN)

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle a year of food life

Barbara kingsolver with steven L. Hopp & Camille kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver describes her family’s adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and spend a year on a locally produced diet, realigning their lives with the local food chain and paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume.

In that year, they find themselves eager to move away from the typical food scenario of American families: a refrigerator packed with processed, factory-farmed foods transported long distances using nonrenewable fuels, and in their search for another way to eat and live, they begin to recover what Kingsolver considers our nation’s lost appreciation for farms and the natural processes of food production.

“Charming, zestful, funny and poetic. . . . This is a serious book about important problems. . . . The authors of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle . . . add three powerful voices . . . to the swelling chorus of concern about the food we grow, buy and eat.”—Washington Post Book World

Harper Perennial: 400 pp. 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085256-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.50/CAN)

a l s o a v a i l a b l e f r o m B a r b a r a K i n g s o l v e r :

small Wonder All-Campus Book: Howard Community College (Columbia, MD) Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-050408-3 • pb • $13.95 ($17.95/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r A n i m a l , V e g e t a b l e , M i r a c l e

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Website

MySpace Page for Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Video of Barbara Kingsolver Reading from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Salon.com Interview with Barbara Kingsolver

Eat Local Challenge Website

R e s o u r c e s f o r P o w e r T r i p

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Power TriptHe story of aMeriCa’s love affair witH energy

Amanda Little

A “next generation” manifesto for kicking America’s addiction to fossil fuels, Power Trip examines the way in which oil and coal have shaped America as an international superpower—even as they pose political and environmental dangers to the nations and the world. Journalist Amanda Little reveals how energy grows our food, fights our wars, makes our plastics and medicines, warms our homes, animates our cities, moves our products and vehicles, and influences our politics. She exposes the hidden consequences of America’s energy-lavish lifestyles, and shows how American ingenuity has already begun to cultivate a new energy economy.

“Energy is the most important story in the world bar none, and no one has ever told it with more verve than

Amanda Little. If you want to know how the world works, and why it may not work much longer, this is the book you need.”—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Harper Perennial: 480 pp.; index; illustrated 2010 • 978-0-06-135326-0 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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The Blue DeathtHe intriguing past and present danger of tHe water you drink

dr. robert d. Morris

With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibili-ties of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert D. Morris, an internationally recognized expert in the field of drinking water and health, chronicles the fascinat-ing and at times frightening story of our drinking water. In The Blue Death, Morris dispels notions of fail-safe water systems. Along the way he reveals some shocking truths: the millions of miles of leaking water mains, constantly evolving microor-ganisms, and the looming threat of bio-terrorism, which may lead to catastrophe.

“A beautifully written book so gripping it reads like fiction, yet nothing in the text is exaggerated. Morris speaks to the probability of catastrophic microbial and viral outbreaks in our aging drinking water delivery

systems, the integrity of which is protected only by 19th-century technology. This book will shake the complacency of everyone who reads it.”—Theo Colburn, Ph.D., coauthor of Our Stolen Future

Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-073090-1 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r T h e B l u e D e a t h

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Dr. Robert D. Morris’s Website

Dr. Robert D. Morris’s MySpace Page

The Environmental Protection Agency Ground Water and Drinking Water Website

Safe Drinking Water Foundation Website

R e s o u r c e s f o r W a t e r

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Steven Solomon’s Website

WatertHe epiC struggle for wealtH, power, and Civilization

steven solomon

Steven Solomon’s Water is the epic story of man’s most important resource, which is becoming dangerously scarce in the 21st century. Throughout history more conflicts have been fought over water than oil, making water an important focus for any students interested in the environmental and political future of the planet.

“Water is an intelligent, well-informed assessment of the challenges we face today. . . . Solomon astutely synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship. . . . Ranging across several millenniums and dozens of cultures, Solomon offers thought-provoking material on nearly every page, leavening the abundant facts and figures with a judicious sprinkling of colorful anecdotes. . . . Water enlarges our understanding of how this vital

element has shaped our past, providing enough evidence of humanity’s ingenuity in the face of its challenges to offer reasonable hope that we will find ways to use it sanely.”—Los Angeles Times

Harper: 608 pp.; index; illustrated 2010 • 978-0-06-054830-8 • hc • $27.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 624 pp.; index; illustrated 2011 • 978-0-06-054831-5 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

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Hell and High WatertHe gloBal warMing solution

Joseph romm

It has been estimated that we have ten years to start making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions or we will undoubtedly face the catastrophic consequences of global warming. Unfortunately, the required government policies and spending are strongly opposed by conservatives, who have blocked serious action on climate change and continue to publicly deny the dire warnings of scientists. With so much at stake, never before has there been such a sharp divergence between what top scientists know and what policy makers, the general public, and the media believe. Authoritative and persuasive, Hell and High Water is a searing indictment of our disastrous policy that goes beyond ideological rhetoric to offer practical, viable solutions that can avert the threat to our world and

our way of life.

“Hell and High Water is an important and timely contribution that deserves careful consideration in the dialogue and debate on U.S. energy and climate policy.”—Judith Curry, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Harper Perennial: 304 pp.; index 2008 • 978-0-06-117213-7 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)

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Op-ed Piece on Global Warming by Joe Romm from Salon.com

Video Interview with Joe Romm

Global Warming Website

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Website for Who Turned Out the Lights?

Who Turned Out the Lights? your guided tour to tHe energy Crisis

scott Bittle & Jean Johnson

Who says that a book about the energy crisis can’t be informative, accessible and funny at the same time? From nuclear power to alternative forms of transportation to special interests in Washington, Who Turned Out the Lights? presents a clear, nonbiased look all the issues surrounding the energy crisis. Just because the topic is serious, doesn’t mean books about it have to be. With references to pop culture from “South Park” episodes to Rolling Stones songs, the authors break down relevant information into easily understand-able facts and arguments without sacrificing the complexity of the issues. For a generation of students more accustomed to getting their news from “The Daily Show” than the The Wall Street Journal, this is a perfect match.

Harper paperbacks: 368 pp.; illustrated 2009 • 978-0-06-171564-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

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Where does the Money Go? Revised Edition Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; illustrated 2011 • 978-0-06-202347-6 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN) Revised Edition available in January 2011

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Night FireBig oil, poison air, and Margie riCHard’s figHt to save Her town

ronnie Greene

Night Fire is the inspiring story of one woman’s fight to save her town from the ravages of illegal pollution and environmental racism. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of the New Orleans Refining Co., and witnessed her neighbors fall ill as a result of the toxic waste the plant emitted year after year. Determined to see the company take responsibility for their actions, Richard and her neighbors—largely poor and with few obvious resources—educated themselves not only on the consequences of environmental poison but also on how to fight back.

The unexpected results landed Richard the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, helped clean up a community, and demonstrated how determination and grit can topple even the most stubborn of corporate giants.

Amistad: 288 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-112362-7 • hc • $24.95 ($26.95/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r N i g h t F i r e

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PBS Website for POV Documentary Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

R e s o u r c e s f o r B e e f

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Andrew Rimas’s Website

Evan D. G. Fraser’s Website

The Cattlemen’s Beef Board Website

BeeftHe untold story of How Milk, Meat, and MusCle sHaped tHe world

Andrew rimas & evan d. G. fraser

The world is passionate about beef. From America’s unending love affair with steakhouses to Japan’s fashionable Kobe dishes to the village fires of rural Africa, where dependence on cattle is often the backbone of tribal society, beef is the meat that moves us. Since the beginning of human history, cattle have been central to our existence, not only as a source of food and labor but also as an inspiration for art, warfare, and religion. In Beef, students learn an exuberant, panoramic view of the cow’s rich history.

“Beef . . . is like the perfectly cooked steak, a rare thing. Combining intelligence with accessibility and superb research with genuine enthusiasm. . . . It will make you want to go and eat a large steak. Ribeye, of course, and

there can be no higher compliment.”—Simon Majumdar, author of Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere—and Eat Everything

Harper paperbacks: 256 pp.; index 2009 • 978-0-06-135385-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Gospel of Food wHy we sHould stop worrying and enJoy wHat we eat

Barry Glassner

Part exposé, part social commentary, The Gospel of Food is a rallying cry to abandon the fads and fallacies in favor of calmer, more pleasurable eating. By interviewing chefs, food chemists, nutritionists, and restaurant critics about the way we eat, Barry Glassner, a professor of sociology at USC, helps students recognize the myths, half-truths, and guilt trips they promulgate, and liberates them for greater joy at the table.

“The Gospel of Food is pure fun to read . . . Glassner is methodical and relentless in his exploration, fierce in his finger-pointing . . . and he’s genuinely concerned about our growing disassociation with, and emotional baggage around, food.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; index 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-050122-8 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Website for The Gospel of Food

Salon.com Interview with Barry Glassner

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Website for The Niman Ranch

March 7, 2005 New York Times Op-Ed Piece by Nicolette Hahn Niman

March 14, 2007 New York Times Op-Ed Piece by Nicolette Hahn Niman

Righteous Porkchopfinding a life and good food Beyond faCtory farMs

nicolette Hahn niman foreword by robert f. kennedy, Jr.

Righteous Porkchop exposes the shocking practices of today’s meat, poultry, and dairy industries by following the experiences of an intrepid environ-mental lawyer who goes up against the big business farming establishment. It depicts Nicolette Hahn Niman’s search for—and ultimate discovery of—a way for America to produce food from animals that is healthful, environmentally sound, and humane.

From a health standpoint, Righteous Porkchop details how and why to avoid meat, poultry, and eggs tainted by chemicals and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. From an eating standpoint, the book shows how students can reclaim the pleasures of good dining by seeking out foods from traditionally farmed animals.

Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-199845-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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How Soccer Explains the Worldan unlikely tHeory of gloBalization witH a new afterword

franklin foer

You don’t have to be a soccer fanatic to appreciate this book. Franklin Foer merely uses the world’s most popular sport as a lens to dramatically illuminate the religious, economic, political, and ethnic divisions around the world. Foer will take your students on a surprising journey through the world of soccer, shattering the myths of our new global age along the way. From Brazil to Bosnia, and from Italy to Iran, How Soccer Explains the World chronicles how a sport and its rabid followers highlight such societal fault lines as terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, and radical Islam.

“ Full of important insights into both cultural change and persistence. . . . Foer’s soccer odyssey lends weight to the argument that a human world order is possible.” —Washington Post Book World

Harper Perennial: 288 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-197805-0 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r H o w S o c c e r E x p l a i n s t h e W o r l d

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Video of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Interview with Franklin Foer

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New York Times Book Reviews Book Review of The Weight of a Mustard Seed

The Weight of a Mustard SeedtHe intiMate story of an iraqi general and His faMily during tHirty years of tyranny

Wendell steavenson

• NAMED A New York Times NOTABLE BOOk FOR 2009

When Wendell Steavenson set out to profile Iraqi General Kamel Sachet, she had these questions about Sachet and other Baathist loyalists: “Why had they served such a regime? How had they accommo-dated their own morality? How had they lived? How had they lived with themselves?” Her journey to find these answers took five years, and an accumulation of facts, opinions, fears, confessions and suspicions from Sachet’s family, friends, and enemies. Kamel Sachet was one of Saddam’s commanders in his Special Forces, in charge of Kuwait City during Desert Storm, and a Governor in

the province of Maysan. In The Weight of a Mustard Seed, Steavenson profiles not just Sachet, but Sachet’s sons and daughters, his wife, an army psychiatrist, a military henchman and more, whose lives intersected with Sachet’s tragic rise and fall. As she writes, “In Iraq, there was never one story, there were always many stories, layers of episodes, each one a wound.”

Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-172188-5 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

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In the Hot Zoneone Man, one year, twenty wars

kevin sites

Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for the news division of Yahoo! Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005, Sites spoke with government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and featured the people on every side, including those caught in the crossfire. His honest reporting helped destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war’s inhumanity. Personally, Sites will came to discover that the

greatest danger he faced may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth.

“Instead of telling us what we already know, [Sites] has done something remarkable, delivering the sort of fresh and insightful human stories . . . that we seldom hear.”—Columbia Journalism Review

Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-122875-9 • pb • $15.95 ($18.95/CAN)

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Opium Nationone woMan’s Journey HoMe to afgHanistan

fariba nawa

Worth billions of dollars worldwide, the opium trade has come to define a large part of Afghanistan’s economy and society. In Opium Nation, Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a searing, multi-faceted account of the drug trade and its effects on the country of her birth.

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-193470-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Paperback Original available in March 2011

One Day the Soldiers CamevoiCes of CHildren in war

Charles London

Twenty million children around the world have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. Through the stories and drawings of children from Congo, Burma, Kosovo, Sudan, and Rwanda—the sites of some of the most violent upheavals of the past decade—students see the invisible narrative of the young as they experience, understand, and are shaped by the conflicts around them.

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124047-8 • pb • $14.95 ($17.50/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r O p i u m N a t i o n

R e s o u r c e s f o r O n e D ay t h e S o l d i e r s C a m e

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R e s o u r c e s f o r S o u n d s o f t h e R i v e r

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Sounds of the Rivera young Man’s university days in BeiJing

da Chen

Teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living conditions, lack of food, and suicidal roommates. Undaunted by these hurdles, and armed with a dogged determination to learn English and “all things Western,” he competes to win a chance to study in America—a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of his almighty professors.

Poetic, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Sounds of the River is a gloriously written coming-of-age saga that chronicles a remarkable journey.

“A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication and, ultimately, triumph.”—New York Times Book Review

Freshman Common Book: Kennesaw State University, Seton Hall University

Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-095872-5 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Not on Our Watch tHe Mission to end genoCide in darfur and Beyond

don Cheadle & John Prendergast

The genocide in the Sudan has attracted activist attention for years. In this book, Don Cheadle, an actor nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Hotel Rwanda, and John Prendergast, a Senior Advisor of the International Crisis Group and former official in the Clinton White House, explain exactly how real people can make real changes happen in the face of one of the most devastating tragedies in human history.

Not on Our Watch begins with each writer’s story of how they came to activism, recounts a brief history of the atrocities in the Sudan, describes successful activist efforts, and gives six practical strategies for ordinary people who want to take action. With

concrete advice and a hopeful outlook, this is the book that will inspire both seasoned activists and students just coming to the movement to stand up, pay attention, and take action.

Hyperion: 272 pp. 2007 • 978-1-40-130335-8 • pb • $14.95 ($18.95/CAN)

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The Bitter SeaCoMing of age in a CHina Before Mao

Charles n. Li

In this haunting and illuminating memoir, Charles N. Li brings into focus the growth pains of a nation undergoing torturous rebirth and offers an intimate understanding of the intricate, subtle, and yet all-powerful traditions that bind the Chinese family. Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official. By the time he was 21, he had witnessed enough hardship, hope, and tremendous change to last a lifetime. He went from being Li Na—the dutiful Chinese son yearning for a harsh, manipula-tive father’s love—to Charles, an independent Chinese-American seeking no one’s approval but his own. Lyrical and luminous, intense and extraordi-nary, The Bitter Sea is an unforgettable tale of one young man and his country.

“Li’s memoir is not just an account of a turbulent period of Chinese history. It is also the heart-rending story of a father-son relationship in which ambition proves more powerful than love. . . . Li Na’s story overlaps with so much of the drama of modern China that it provides a compelling firsthand view of history.”—Christian Science Monitor

Common Book: Baruch College (CUNY)

Harper Perennial: 304 pp.; illustrated 2009 • 978-0-06-170954-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Roxana Saberi Interviewed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Roxana Saberi Interviewed on Good Morning America

Between Two WorldsMy life and Captivity in iran

roxana saberi

On the morning of January 31, 2009, Iranian-Ameri-can journalist Roxana Saberi was pulled from her home by four men, accused of espionage and arrested. Between Two Worlds is the liberated Saberi’s penetrating look at Iran and its political tensions, based on six years of research and interviews with Iranians across society.

“Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.”—Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Harper: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-196528-9 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-196529-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Children of the Dusta MeMoir of pakistan

Ali eteraz

Children of Dust is a memoir of the author’s coming of age in a fundamentalist Islam milieu in Pakistan. Through personal anecdotes, Eteraz sheds light on the ways in which people internalize and submit to Islamic extremism and social alienation. A harrowing narrative of abuse and violence, an intimate portrait of life at the lower levels of Pakistani society, Children of Dust expounds on the troubled interplay between Islam and modern life.

“Throughout his meandering spiritual journey, Eteraz’s faith has given him great pride and contentedness but has also been a source of deep shame, anger and frustration. This emotional struggle is the backdrop for his memoir, Children of Dust, which chronicles his childhood in Pakistan, his family’s immigration to the

United States and finally his return to Asia as an adult. . . . Compelling.”—Washington Post

HarperOne: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-156708-7 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

HarperOne: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-162685-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Paperback available in February 2011

Featured Freshman Book: College of Wooster

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In Search of My Homelanda MeMoir of a CHinese laBor CaMp

er tai Gao

In Search of My Homeland is the memoir of Er Tai Gao, a Chinese artist, art critic, and intellectual who spent twenty years in and out of China’s gulag until his escape to freedom in Hong Kong in 1992 and his defection to America in 1993. Epic in scope, reaching from the depths of work ditches in the Gobi Desert to the heights of the Buddhist heavens depicted on the Dunhuang cave ceilings, In Search of My Homeland is a striking portrayal of Gao’s experiences of political persecution, of prisoners pushed to the limits of human endurance, and ultimately of the power of hope. Powerful and elegantly written, Gao’s work teaches students that freedom is the most important political stand for an artist, to be able to dissent from the dominant ideology—thereby making beauty, both its creation and perception, its ultimate symbol.

Ecco: 272 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-088126-9 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN)

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Kabul Girls Soccer Cluba dreaM, eigHt girls, & a Journey HoMe

Awista Ayub

The plight of Afghanistan’s people—especially its women under the brutal reign of the Taliban—has never been more clearly demonstrated than it is today. Here is a first-person account of a young Afghani woman and her quest to make a difference in her country.

In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, where Awista flourished, thanks to organized athletics—and where she vowed to make a difference in her home country some day. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: She founded the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an organization dedicated to nurturing Afghan girls through soccer. What began with eight young women has exploded into something of a phenom-

enon. Fifteen teams now compete with the Afghanistan Football Federation, with hundreds of girls participating.

By bringing soccer to young Afghan women, Awista reintroduced the very traits the decades of war had cruelly stripped away from them—confidence and self-worth.

“Awista’s work shows young Afghan women that there is a wider world open to them now that the brutality of the Taliban is a thing of the past.”—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Hyperion: 272 pp. 2010 • 978-1-4013-1025-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Reading Group Guide for The Kabul Girls Soccer Club

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New York Times article about Agnes Kamara-Umunna’s Work

And Still Peace Did Not ComeAgnes kamara-umunna & emily Holland

There are 300,000 children across the world that fight in today’s wars. They are being recruited on a scale that is barely imaginable; given AK-47s some of them can barely lift; and plied with alcohol and narcotics that blur the line between fantasy and reality. This harrowing method of combat was

especially prevalent in the long-standing civil war in Liberia, a conflict that stripped many child soldiers of their voices and left them haunted by the things they had seen and done.

Agnes Kamara-Umunna built the Straight from the Heart center as a refuge and rehabilitation facility for child soldiers in Liberia. More than simply her memoir, this book is tha author’s testimony to the horrors of civil war and the aftermath of the conflict on those lost boys who fought. An important book on subject on which relatively little is written, And Still Peace Did Not Come is a harrowing, multidimensional account of the atrocities of war and the longstanding repercussions of conflict.

Hyperion: 256 pp. 2011 • 978-1-4013-2357-8 • hc • $22.99

Available in March 2011

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River Towntwo years on tHe yangtze

Peter Hessler

• WINNER OF THE kIRIYAMA PACIFIC RIM BOOk PRIzE

Like many other small cities in China, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society.

“Lively, intelligent. . . . You will learn a great deal about real life in contemporary China in River Town, and about how that vast country appears in the eyes of a sensitive,

aware, rugged young American who keeps both his eyes and his mind open.”—New York Times

Freshman Common Book: College of Charleston

Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085502-4 • pb • $14.95 ($16.50/CAN)

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Oracle Bonesa Journey tHrougH tiMe in CHina

Peter Hessler

Oracle Bones tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world, as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.

“Deeply engaging. . . . Hessler has achieved something quite special in Oracle Bones, conveying the idiosyncra-sies of China in a way that makes its people palpably human and distinctly memorable.”—Los Angeles Times

“Compelling. . . . Hessler moves engagingly back and forth between narratives and characters. . . . Offers unusual insights into the yearnings and frustrations of the country’s young adults.”—Washington Post

Harper Perennial: 528 pp.; illustrated; index 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-082659-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Country Drivinga Journey tHrougH CHina froM farM to faCtory

Peter Hessler

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver’s license, and for the next seven years he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved transport were transform-ing China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the country during one of the most critical periods in its history. Country Driving follows Hessler’s 7,000-mile drive across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau, illuminating the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against outsiders, is building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.

“Peter Hessler is one of the Western world’s most thoughtful writers on modern China.”—Wall Street Journal

Harper: 416 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-180409-0 • hc • $27.99 ($35.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 480 pp.; illustrated 2011 • P.S. • 978-0-06-180410-6 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Paperback available in February 2011

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suita JewisH faMily’s exodus froM old Cairo to tHe new world

Lucette Lagnado

This poignant and breathtaking memoir from Wall Street Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado recounts the exile of her Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father’s heroic and tragic struggle to survive his “riches to rags” inversion of the American dream.

“[A] stunning memoir . . . a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from war-time Cairo to the New World. . . . She conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and . . . she calculates the emotional costs of exile with an unsentimental but forgiving eye. . . . Writing in crystalline yet melodious prose, Ms. Lagnado gives us

an indelible gallery of family portraits.”—New York Times

Harper Perennial: 368 pp.; illustrated 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-082218-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Drury University

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First They Killed My Fathera daugHter of CaMBodia reMeMBers

Loung ung

• WINNER OF A BOOkS FOR A BET TER LIFE AWARD

First They Killed My Father is a narrative of war, desperate actions, and the strength of a child and her family. Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a government official. When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city in April 1975, Ung’s family was forced to flee their home. Eventually, they dispersed in order to survive. Ung was trained as a child soldier while her siblings were sent to labor camps. Only after the Vietnamese destroyed the Khmer Rouge were Ung and her surviving siblings slowly reunited. Loung Ung is now a national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

“[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

Freshman Common Book: Ball State University, Colin County Community College

Harper Perennial: 288 pp.; illustrated 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085626-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

A teacher’s guide is available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

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Lucky Childa daugHter of CaMBodia in aMeriCa reunites witH tHe sister sHe left BeHind

Loung ung

In this triumphant and heartbreaking sequel to the best-selling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee attempting to assimilate to life in the United States, and her sister Chou’s struggle to survive in rural Cambodia.

“This is a strong story, simply told. Ung helps us understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity and war. Change the names of the characters, give them another country of origin, and this story of dislocation becomes a tragedy millions of immigrants have lived through but seldom talk about.”—Washington Post Book World

Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; illustrated 2007 • P.S. • 978-00-6073395-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Dust Tracks on a Roadan autoBiograpHy

Zora neale Hurston introduction by Maya Angelou

Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life—public and private—of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America.

“Warm, witty, and imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.” —The New Yorker

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 336 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085408-9 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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R e s o u r c e s f o r F i n d i n g F i s h

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Finding Fisha MeMoir

Antwone Quenton fisher & Mim e. rivas

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. Just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, Fisher enlisted in the U.S. Navy—a decision that would ultimately save him. There, he became a man and discovered a loving family he never had. Through it all, Fisher refused to allow his spirit to be broken and never gave up on his dreams of a better day.

“Fisher’s gripping memoir is an inspiring story of one man’s journey, a tale of strength of the individual over the challenges of life.”—Chicago Tribune

Harper paperbacks: 352 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-000778-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

An instructor’s guide is available at www.HarperAcademic.com

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The Pursuit of HappynessChris Gardner with Quincy troupe

At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco and set his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an internship at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him homeless with his toddler son. Instead of giving in to despair, the two stayed together—moving from shelter to shelter—and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station—before they triumphed.

Hopefully, none of your students will ever face such dire circumstances—but everyone can learn from Chris Gardner’s story. How do you keep going? What choices will you make along the way? What is truly important to you?

“Real, exciting, courageous, this story is universal and just might provide us with a new understanding of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.”—Reverend Cecil Williams, Glide United Methodist

Freshman Common Book: University of Findlay

Harper paperbacks: 320 pp.; illustrated 2006 • 978-0-06-074487-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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This Life is in Your Handsone dreaM, sixty aCres, and a faMily undonea MeMoir

Melissa Coleman

The counterculture movement in late 1960s rural Maine conjures up images of an idyllic life living off the land. This element is present in Melissa Coleman’s memoir, but it is not the exclusive image to emerge from her evocative, atmospheric book. A literary memoir in the tradition of Dave Eggers and Tobias Wolff, Melissa Coleman recounts her childhood spent on the farm her parents purchased, built and tended with their own hands, hoping to create a utopia in which to raise their family in unison with nature. Tragedy and wonder weave through Coleman’s narrative, as she tells of relentless winters, unnerving isolation, and infidelity that rocks her parents’ marriage. Then one summer day when Melissa is seven, her three-year-

old sister wanders off and disappears into the black water of the irrigation pond built to sustain her family’s crops. Melissa is left to search for truth while tragedy threatens to tear her family apart, a quest is both deeply human and heartbreaking.

Harper: 288 pp.; illustrated 2011 • 978-0-06-195832-8 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

Available in April 2011

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Autobiography of a FaceLucy Grealy With an Afterword by Ann Patchett

“I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.”—Lucy Grealy

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tell her story with remarkable strength without sentimentality and with consider-able wit.

“Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style and class.”—Washington Post Book World

Freshman Common Book: Miami University (with Truth & Beauty), Ohio State University

Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2003 • P.S. • 978-0-06-056966-2 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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R e s o u r c e s f o r T r u t h & B e a u t y

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NPR Interview with Ann Patchett About Truth & Beauty

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Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Grealy wrote about losing her jaw to childhood cancer, and then the years of reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life, but the parts of their lives that they shared.

“This frank, perceptive book can be read in many ways, not only as a story of friendship but also as a young artist’s eye-opening introduction to the wider world.”—New York Times

Freshman Common Book: Miami University (with Autobiography of a Face), Clemson College

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Bending Toward the Suna MotHer and daugHter MeMoir

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with rita Lurie

This is a rare and beautiful dual memoir about a unique family bond, forged in the wake of a brutal terror. Bending Toward the Sun weaves a riveting and unique first-hand account of how the Holocaust experience had a profound and lasting psychologi-cal impact on the survivors and their descendants. The memoir spans from the time in which Rita fled her home in Poland, hiding from the Nazis in an attic with fourteen family members for two years, to the warm moments of watching her granddaughter grow up. However, Rita’s emotional legacy of fear, guilt, and pain had a tremendous impact on her children. Her eldest daughter Leslie developed fears eerily related to Rita’s past. Now, Leslie is beginning to notice similar tendencies in her own daughter. Bending Toward the Sun explores how the

Holocaust reverberates in their hearts and minds, and extends into the lives of second and third generations.

“Bending Toward the Sun is a captivating memoir that explores a complicated, loving, and enduring mother-daughter bond, and reveals how doubts, hopes, and dreams are handed down from generation to generation. As both a mother and a daughter, I found it deeply touching.”—Arianna Huffington, author, syndicated columnist, and founder of The Huffington Post

Harper Perennial: 368 pp.; illustrated 2010 • 978-0-06-177672-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Lita MeMoir

Mary karr

• NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOkS OF 2009 BY the New York times

Mary Karr’s prizewinning The Liars’ Club chronicled her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough sass and literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir. Cherry, her account of a psychedelic adolescence and a moving sexual coming-of-age, followed. Lit answers the question asked by Karr’s readers: How did she make it out of that toxic upbringing to tell her own tale?

Karr’s longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, blueblood poet who can quote Shakespeare by the yard produces a blond son they adore. But Karr can’t outrun her apocalyptic upbringing. She drinks herself into the

same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in “The Mental Marriott” with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy again, and leads her to an unlikely faith and salvation in Catholicism.

“Karr writes with such intensity and poetry. . . . This struggle to reconcile her past and present, her family and her future, is the steel-wired ribbon that not only runs through this affecting book, but that also connects it to Ms. Karr’s two earlier memoirs—the bright, elastic thread on which she so deftly strings the colored beads of her tumultuous life.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-059699-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Crazy for the Storma MeMoir of survival

norman ollestad

The father he idolized thrust Norman Ollestad into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age. Resentful of a childhood lost to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, Crazy for the Storm captures the earthy surf culture of Southern California; the boy’s conflicted feelings for his magnetic father; and the exhilarating tests of skill that prepared young Norman to become a fearless champion—which ultimately saved his life. In February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father’s girlfriend, and the pilot, crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was suspended at 8,000 feet, engulfed in a blizzard. Norman’s father was dead, and the 11-year-old had

to descend the mountain alone and grief-stricken. Crazy for the Storm is the beautifully crafted, astonishing true story of a boy who spent his childhood living for his father and ended up owing him his own life.

“Never a dull moment. . . . Ollestad’s prose is crisp and exacting, a controlled approach to his tumultuous past. . . . There’s enough drama in the plane crash alone to sustain a novel, but Ollestad has done something much more. He’s written a beautiful story about a thrill-loving father—‘the man with the sunshine in his eyes’—who taught his boy not just how to live, but how to thrive.”—Houston Chronicle

Ecco: 304 pp.; illustrated 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-176678-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Coopa year of poultry, pigs, and parenting

Michael Perry

In Coop, the author of Population 485 and Truck: A Love Story plumbs his unorthodox past (he was raised in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect by city-bred parents who took in over 100 foster children) for clues as to how he should proceed as a farmer and a parent. Whether describing his family (“I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon”) or what it’s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig (“two firsts in one day”), Coop is filled with Michael Perry’s trademark humor, but in the course of a year in which the birth of his child is balanced by the death of a dear friend and worse, he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart.

“In less talented hands, the stories he recounts in Coop would merely have been the subject of an unusually busy holiday letter. But in Perry’s engrossing narration, they take on the heft of history.”—Christian Science Monitor

Harper Perennial: 384 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124044-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Always Looking UptHe adventures of an inCuraBle optiMist

Michael J. fox

A New York Times hardcover bestseller, Always Looking Up by actor and political activist Michael J. Fox recounts events from the past ten years of his life, including his battle with Parkinson’s disease and his retirement from acting. Writing with candor and humor, Fox uses the themes of family, faith, politics and work to demonstrate a hard-earned optimism that allows him to see life’s challenges as opportunities.

Michael J. Fox has won numerous awards, including four Golden Globes, four Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild awards, GQ Man of the Year, and the People’s Choice award. He now actively lobbies for stem cell research around the country and is very visible in raising money for Parkinson’s research with the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Hyperion: 288 pp. 2010 • 978-1-40-131016-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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I Love Yous Are for White Peoplea MeMoir

Lac su

From an early age in Vietnam, Lac Su had to deal with the most harrowing of life obstacles before immigrating to Los Angeles with his family. Yet despite his hopes for a paradise much more beautiful than his homeland, Lac found out that the American Dream was not all it was cracked up to be. Living in squalid conditions and barely making ends meet, his family struggled to forge its identity in a cultural mix that often invited more trouble than solace. Soon enough, Lac’s search for love and acceptance led him to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to tear his life apart. Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People is a memoir at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that countless immigrants have faced in their pursuit of a better life.

Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-154366-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned Hyperion: 112 pp. 2010 • 978-1-40-132386-8 • hc • $17.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Lucky Man A Memoir Hyperion: 272 pp. 2003 • 9780786888740 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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In Hanuman’s Handsa MeMoir

Cheeni rao

Hitting rock bottom as a homeless drug addict, Cheeni Rao returns to his family to find the door locked. Behind it he hears his Indian immigrant mother sobbing, “I can do nothing for you. You are now in Hanuman’s hands.” Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, is his last resort. In Hanuman’s Hands is a gritty, hauntingly beautiful memoir by Cheeni Rao, a young man born to a long line of Indian Hindu priests, who faced with the freedoms and temptations of life on an elite New England college campus, spirals down into a hedonistic nightmare of drugs, sex and crime. On his long journey to recovery and rehabilitation, he is magically guided by visions of Hanuman, the trickster monkey god of the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana. Bringing India wholeheartedly into America, Rao weaves his own

story of Western culture clash with mythic stories of his Hindu ancestors who served in the ancestral temples of Kali.

“This lyrical, haunting book is much more than just an account of Mr. Rao’s descent into crack-cocaine addiction, criminality and homelessness on the streets of Chicago. Remarkably, he also weaves into his story fully realized visions of his Hindu ancestry. . . . In Hanuman’s Hands beguiles.”—Wall Street Journal

HarperOne: 416 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-073662-0 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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The House at the End of the RoadtHe story of tHree generations of an interraCial faMily in tHe aMeriCan soutH

W. ralph eubanks

In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, around 1914 a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Eventually, together they built a house at the dead end of a road in a black community in rural south Alabama. Jim and Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubanks’s grandpar-ents. In The House at the End of the Road Eubanks takes students on a journey to where he recon-structs their life and times and seeks lessons for America’s multiracial future. In a past filled with tightly conscribed formulas for racial identity and laws that prohibited interracial marriage, making it punishable with up to seven years of hard labor,

Eubanks seeks to understand the common humanity Jim and Edna Richardson were trying to embrace through the way they lived their lives.

Smithsonian: 224 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-137573-6 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN)

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Scratch BeginningsMe, $25, and tHe searCH for tHe aMeriCan dreaM

Adam shepard

Adam Shepard graduated from college disillusioned by the apathy he saw around him, and incensed by Barbara Ehrenreich’s famous works Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. Eager to see if he could make something out of nothing, he set out to prove her theory wrong that those who start at the bottom stay at the bottom, and to see if the American Dream can still be a reality. With no concrete plan and nothing but $25 and a backpack, Shepard got off a train in Charleston, South Carolina, and spent 70 days in a homeless shelter, with the goal of having $2,500, a car, and a place to live by the end of the year. Earnest and passionate, Scratch Beginnings is a story that will not only inspire students, but also remind them that success can

come to anyone who is willing to work hard—and that America is still one of the most hopeful and inspiring countries in the world.

Harper paperbacks: 240 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-171427-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Red, White, and MuslimMy story of Belief

Asma Gull Hasan

For Asma Gull Hasan, a young American-born Muslim, woman journalist, and lawyer, being a Muslim is not merely a matter of birth, but a matter of choice and faith. In Red, White, and Muslim Hasan persuades students that Islam is not the misogynis-tic, oppressive belief system of common perception, but a faith tradition that has many varied interpreta-tions of Christianity. She articulates a vision of Islam that is ethically diverse, tolerant of others, and supportive of the rights of women. Red, White, and Muslim is a paradigm-shifting glimpse into the life of a young American Muslim woman who argues that you do not have to give up your Islamic faith in order to be a strong, independent American woman.

“ Hasan will rock your stereotypes about Islam in this refreshing book.”—Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

HarperOne: 208 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-167375-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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In the Sanctuary of Outcastsa MeMoir

neil White

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is the incredibly emotional true story of crime, redemption, vanity, and ultimately, spirituality. Neil White was an ordinary guy who measured worth by appearance: expensive cars, nice homes, fashionable clothing. Generous with his heart and with his bank account, his exquisite tastes exceeded his income and soon he was kiting checks. Eventually, White was caught, convicted of fraud, and sent to prison, but he was not sentenced to an ordinary lockup. For the man whom appearance was supreme was going to serve out his sentence in the last leper colony in the continental United States—known today as The Long Center, located in southeastern Louisiana on a short spit of land where the Mississippi River runs north.

It was here, in this unlikely place rich in history that goes back more than 150 years, among an unlikely mix of white-collar criminals and leprosy patients, that White gained perspective and discovered what is truly important in life.

“A moving story of growth and transformation. Among the lost, [White] found humility, beauty, courage—and himself. ”—Dallas Morning News

Harper Perennial: 352 pp.; illustrated 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-135163-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Septembers of Shiraz a novel

dalia sofer

Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, The Septembers of Shiraz follows the Amin family as they cope with the father’s false imprisonment for being a spy, watch their formerly peaceful world collapse, and flee their homeland.

“[A] richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the revolution . . . it’s impossible to predict whether Sofer’s novel will become a classic, but it certainly stands a chance . . . the book’s simple plot is immediately engaging. . . . Sofer writes beautifully . . . and she tells her characters’ stories with deceptive simplicity . . . The Septembers of Shiraz is miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be.”—Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-113041-0 • pb • $13.99 ($14.95/CAN)

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A Golden Agea novel

tahmima Anam

A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone—from student protesters to the country’s leaders, from rickshaw wallahs to the army’s soldiers—must make.

“Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment while lyrically depicting the way in which the struggle for freedom allows Rehana to discover both her strength and her heart.”—The New Yorker

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-147875-8 • pb • $13.99 ($14.95/CAN)

Voice of Americae. C. osondu

The 2009 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, E. C. Osondu has just written his debut collection of short stories entitled Voice of America. The stories take place in the United States and Nigera, united by the ways in which each echoes the joys and sorrows of a cruel, beautiful world.

“E.C. Osondu is a man with a clear head and a great ear, writing from crucial places.”—Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections

Harper: 224 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-199086-1 • hc • $23.99 ($31.50/CAN)

Available in November 2010

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Oscondu’s Short Story “A Simple Case” in the August 2010 Issue of The Atlantic

The Guardian: “E. C. Osondu takes £10,000 ‘African Booker’”

a v a i l a b l e i n J u l y 2 0 1 1 : the Good Muslim: A Novel Tahmima Anam Harper: 304 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-147876-5 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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The Writing on My Foreheada novel

nafisa Haji

From childhood, Saira Qader broke the boundaries between her family’s traditions and her desire for independence. A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, she rejected constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, the world her home. Five years later, tragedy strikes, throwing Saira’s life into turmoil. Now the woman who chased the world to uncover the details of other lives must confront the truths of her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and her father.

“A moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind. The Writing on My Forehead is lyrical and touching.”—Khaled Hosseini

Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-149386-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Beasts of No Nationa novel

uzodinma iweala

• SUE kAUFMAN PRIzE FOR FIRST FICTION FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LET TERS

• the Los ANgeLes times ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

This short but enormously powerful debut novel is told in the voice of Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, who is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. In a strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu’s youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, inventive, and deeply affecting novel. For students, here is a chance to explore current issues with a deeply human voice as their guide.

“Devastating. . . . A raw and brutal story about the horrifying effects of cruelty and the incredible power of hope.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Harper Perennial: 176 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-079868-0 • pb • $11.95 ($15.50/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College

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The Monkey Wrench Gangedward Abbey With an introduction by douglas Brinkley

Audacious, controversial, and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey’s masterpiece—a big, boisterous, and unforgettable novel about a motley group of renegades whose freedom and commit-ment helped to ignite the flames of environmental activism.

“A thing of beauty . . . a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine.” —Houston Chronicle

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 480 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-112976-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Alchemista novel

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel is short and easy to read—and it holds hidden treasures. The story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.

What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of self—and students will witness the transforming power of dreams, learn to recognize the wisdom in others, and discover the importance of listening to their hearts and heeding their instincts.

“ Beneath this novel’s compelling story and the shimmering elegance with which it’s told lies a bedrock of wisdom about following one’s heart.”—Booklist

Freshman Common Book: Erskine College Freshman Seminars: Montana State University, Bozeman

HarperOne: 208 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-112241-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Love Medicinea novelnewly revised edition

Louise erdrich

• WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOk CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Love Medicine, set on and around a North Dakota reservation in the years 1934–1984, tells the story of the intertwined fates of two families. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements together into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

As they read the novel—told in the voices of Chippewa men and women—students will think about the love-hate relationships that often occur between family members, the nature of families, the impact of the non-Indian world (for instance,

Catholicism, alcohol, intermarriages, Capitalism, the legal system, and the Vietnam War) on the Chippewa, and the difficulties and consequences of dealing with a mixed world.

“A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity.”—Philip Roth

Freshman Common Book: Carleton College

Harper Perennial: 400 pp. 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-178742-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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tracks A Novel Louise Erdrich Freshman Enrichment & Composition: Iona College Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-097245-5 • pb • $13.95 ($17.50/CAN)

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The Known Worlda novel

edward P. Jones

• WINNER OF THE PULITzER PRIzE

In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who is now a slave owner in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones weaves a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities.

“A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon.”—Time

Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College

Amistad: 432 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-055755-3 • pb • $14.95 ($18.95/CAN)

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The Graveyard Bookneil Gaiman With illustrations by dave Mckean

Bestselling author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman tells a haunting and touching allegory of childhood in The Graveyard Book. In the style of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, this book is the story of an orphaned boy, Nobody “Bod” Owens who is raised by ghosts and ghouls in a graveyard. Inventive, chilling, and magical, this 2009 Newberry Medal-winner is sure to delight students of all reading levels.

“The Graveyard Book, by turns exciting and witty, sinister and tender, shows Gaiman at the top of his form. In this novel of wonder, Neil Gaiman follows in the footsteps of long-ago storytellers, weaving a tale of unforgettable enchantment.”—New York Times Book Review

HarperCollins Childrens Books: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-053094-5 • pb • $7.99 ($10.50/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Western Michigan University

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The LearnerstHe Book after “tHe CHeese Monkeys”

Chip kidd

In this sequel to Kidd’s first book, The Cheese Monkeys, protago-nist Happy is fresh out of college in the summer of 1961. He lands his first job at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. When Happy is tapped to design a newspaper advertisement recruiting participants for Stanley Milgram’s notorious “Obedience to Authority” experiment, he can’t resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know, the experience will devastate him, forcing him to re-examine his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty—chiefly, his own.

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-167324-5 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: State University of New York, Oswego

The Cheese Monkeysa novel in two seMesters

Chip kidd

The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, much to his parents’ dismay, has decided to major in art. This autobiographical, coming-of-age novel tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.

Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-145248-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Animal DreamsBarbara kingsolver

“Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life’s largest commitments.

“Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book.”—Chicago Tribune

Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-092114-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Poisonwood Biblea novel

Barbara kingsolver

The wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, tell their sides of the story. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is transformed on African soil.

“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.”—The New Yorker

Freshman Common Book: Augsburg College

Harper Perennial: 576 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-078650-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Bean Treesa novel

Barbara kingsolver

Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functioning car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a child: a three-year-old Cherokee girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity of putting down roots.

“So wry and wise we wish it would never end. . . . The chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Freshman Common Book: Nebraska Methodist College

Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-091554-4 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Purple HeartPatricia McCormick

When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he’s honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn’t feel like a hero. Private Duffy is haunted by the image of a young Iraqi boy being shot. Though he can’t remember the details due to a head injury he sustained, Matt has a feeling that he was somehow involved in the boy’s death.

Matt returns to combat with his squad, soldiers and friends with whom he has become close during his time in Iraq. He’s counting on his buddies to help him find the truth about the boy he remembers. But Matt soon discovers that there are no clear, easy answers in war and the notion of guilt and innocence is never black and white. A visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone, Purple Heart will leave students to ponder the murky ethics of war.

Balzer + Bray: 208 pp. 2009 978-0-06-173090-0 • hc • $16.99 ($22.50/CAN)

Balzer + Bray: 224 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-173092-4 • pb • $8.99 ($11.99/CAN)

Paperback available in February 2011

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In Countrya novel

Bobbie Ann Mason

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Samantha Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. All she has is a picture of him as a young soldier, and as Sam begins to grapple with the challenges of her own adolescent years, she also finds herself confronting the desire and need to know more about her father and what happened to him and the other American soldiers who served in Vietnam.

Today’s students will relate to Sam and her desire to leave her small town for the bigger world versus the pull of a loving boyfriend and family. Her need to confront the controversies and horrors of war and its impact on soldiers and the families they leave behind makes In Country a meaningful book for the current generation of students.

“A brilliant and moving book . . . a moral tale that entwines public history with private anguish.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Freshman Common Book: Centenary College, University of South Carolina, Upstate

Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083517-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Lauren Oliver’s Website

Before I FallLauren oliver

High school senior Samantha and her three best friends lead a charmed life. On the night of February 12th, Samantha dies in a car crash. Yet when she dies, Samantha doesn’t really pass on; instead she is left to relive the last day of her life seven times, as long as it takes for her to right the wrongs of her last day on earth. A high concept novel that ponders the meaning of death and consequences, Before I Fall is stunning, emotionally charged and heartbreaking.

“Before I Fall is smart, complex, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Lauren Oliver has written an extraordinary debut novel about what it means to live—and die.” —Carolyn Mackler, author of Tangled and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

HarperCollins Teen: 480 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-172680-4 • hc • $17.99 ($21.99/CAN)

HarperCollins Teen: 496 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-172681-1 • pb • $8.99 ($11.99/CAN)

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MonsterWalter dean Myers

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner has been shot and killed during a robbery, and word is that Steve served as the lookout. He’s been called a monster, and worse. To cope with the horrific events that entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides to transcribe his trial into a movie script. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no longer tell who he is or what is the truth. Monster is a provocative coming of age story that deals with such topical issues as prejudice and racism.

Amistad: 320 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-440731-1 • pb • $8.99 ($9.99/CAN)

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Runa novel

Ann Patchett

Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows students how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you’ve never even met. Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative.

“[E]ngaging, surprising, provocative and moving. . . . A thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family.”—Washington Post

Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-134064-2 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Bel Cantoa novel

Ann Patchett

• WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULkNER AWARD

• WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIzE

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country’s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera’s most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threat-ening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

“Patchett doing what she does best. . . . What gives this novel its power is Patchett’s flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters’ behavior.”—New York Times Book Review

Freshman Common Book: NYU/Steinhardt School, Converse College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Harper Perennial: 352 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083872-0 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Serenaa novel

ron rash

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the mountains of North Carolina from Boston to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness. Together, they ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to kill the son George had without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegiti-mate family, the Pemberton’s intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

“If you haven’t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should. Rash has been writing poems, stories and novels for years, but with the release of Serena, a dark fable that mixes Southern Gothic motifs with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, he may reach the mainstream audience he long deserves. . . . Rash writes brisk and beautiful prose. Like early Cormac McCarthy, he creates deliciously grotesque characters. His descriptions of the punishing work camp recall William Faulkner at his most rhetorical.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Ecco: 400 pp. 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-147084-4 • pb $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Book: Piedmont College

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Carol Plum-Ucci’s Website

The Body of Christopher CreedCarol Plum-ucci

When Christopher Creed, the class freak and whipping boy, suddenly disappears without a trace, first his fellow students, then all the citizens of Steepleton join to speculate on what could have happened to him. As fingers begin pointing, the town starts to fall apart and several lives are changed forever. Innovative and intense, The Body of Christopher Creed will fascinate students until its chilling conclusion.

Hyperion: 336 pp. 2001 • 978-0-786-81641-5 • pb • $6.99 (N/C)

Freshman Common Book: Western Michigan University

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Burning Bright Stories Ecco: 224 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-180411-3 • hc • $22.99 ($26.50/CAN) Ecco: 384 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-180412-0 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Zora Neale Hurston’s Website

Website for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities

Their Eyes Were Watching Goda novel

Zora neale Hurston foreword by edwidge danticat Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.

The P.S. section contains two essays by Valerie Boyd, Hurston’s biographer. A short biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled “She Was the Party,” and “A Protofeminist Postcard from Haiti” gives students candid insights into the writing of this acclaimed novel.

Freshman Common Book: Albion College

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 256 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083867-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez’s Website

One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez’s finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendía generations—from José Arcadio and Úrsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendía (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three addi-tional José Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union. As babies are born and the world’s “great inventions” are introduced into Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and more subject to the workings of the outside world, to its politics and progress, and to history itself. And the Buendías and their fellow Macondons

advance in years, experience, and wealth . . . until madness, corruption, and death enter their homes. Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy—a tapestry in which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind’s inescapable potential and reality.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.”—New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 448 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-088328-7 • pb • $14.95 ($16.25/CAN)

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Excerpt from The Odyssey of Homer

Odyssey of Homerrichard Lattimore

“In this Odyssey, Professor Lattimore has achieved his chef d’oeuvre as a translator. . . . A dazzling and well-nigh flawless performance. . . . Here is a master in perfect control of his medium. . . . A landmark in the history of modern translation. . . . It would be a crime to underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry with which Professor Lattimore has reanimated Homer for this generation, and perhaps for other generations to come.”—Times Literary Supplement

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 400 pp. 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124418-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Brave New Worlda novel

Aldous Huxley

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psycho-logical engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley’s most enduring masterpiece.

A P.S. section includes information on Huxley’s upbringing and childhood years, reviews and letters during the initial publication, an essay on the contemporary response to Brave New World, a letter to George Orwell from Aldous Huxley, and a chronological and comprehensive list of Huxley’s works.

“Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist’s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers.”—Saturday Review of Literature

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 288 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085052-4 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

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Brave new World revisited Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 144 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-089852-6 • pb • $11.95 (N/C)

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Brave new World and Brave new World revisited Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 384 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-077609-1 • pb • $16.95 (N/C)

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Native Sona novel

richard Wright introduction by Arnold rampersad

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

“This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it is central both to an ongoing conversation among

African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what it means to live in a multi-racial society in which power splits along racial lines.”—Los Angeles Times

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 544 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083756-3 • pb • $14.95 ($16.95/CAN)

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Thornton Wilder’s Website

The Bridge of San Luis Reya novel

thornton Wilder foreword by russell Banks

“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world.

By chance, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragedy. He then embarks on a six-year-long quest to determine whether it was divine intervention or happenstance that led to the deaths of the five victims. Brother Juniper’s search for answers leads him to more questions, and, ultimately, to his own death. “There are a hundred ways of wondering at circumstance,” Wilder writes, challenging students to question and to wonder

about a story that novelist Russell Banks says in his Foreword is “as close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.”

“One merely has to consider the central question raised by the novel, which, according to Wilder himself, was simply: ‘Is there a direction and meaning in lives beyond the individual’s own will?’ It is perhaps the largest and most profoundly personal philosophical inquiry that we can undertake. It is the question that defines us as human beings.”—Russell Banks, Foreword to The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 160 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-008887-3 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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our town A Play in Three Acts Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 208 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-051263-7 • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Reasons to Believeone Man’s Journey aMong tHe evangeliCals and tHe faitH He left BeHind

John Marks

From veteran journalist and former “60 Minutes” producer John Marks, Reasons to Believe is an intimate portrait of evangelicals—one of America’s most influential religious groups—and the chronicle of how, as a lost believer, he came to terms with his own faith.

Born again at age 16, John Marks later abandoned his faith. While on assignment for “60 Minutes” in 2003, he interviewed a couple for a piece on the “Left Behind” series, the bestselling Christian novels about the apocalypse. At the end of the interview, the couple asked him simply, would he be left behind? Had he accepted Jesus as his savior or would he go to hell? In Reasons to Believe he says simply, “This book represents the answer to that question.”

“Essential reading for anyone observing our nation’s evolving political landscape.”—Boston Globe

“Courageous investigative journalism . . . a memoir of startling self-reflection. . . . Marks writes with unfailing intelligence, insight, and deep compassion.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Harper Perennial: 400 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-083277-3 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Read: Georgia College

R e s o u r c e s f o r R e l i g i o u s L i t e r a c y

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Stephen Prothero’s Website

A l s o A v a i l a b l e b y S t e p h e n P r o t h e r o :

God Is Not One The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World— and Why Their Differences Matter

HarperOne: 400 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-157127-5 • hc $26.99 ($28.99/CAN) HarperOne: 400 pp 2011 • 978-0-06-157128-2 • pb $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

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Religious LiteracywHat every aMeriCan needs to know— and doesn’t

stephen Prothero

Are your students ready to confront the domestic and foreign challenges facing our country?

Stephen Prothero, chair of the religion department at Boston University, says, “We have a major civic crisis on our hands.” Although the United States is a deeply religious nation, many Americans—even the most devout—are shockingly ignorant about religion. Yet, much of our public debate is rooted in religious rhetoric.

Prothero offers a practical solution: a Dictionary of Religious Literacy—key terms, beliefs, characters, and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions that every student needs to understand.

“In this book, the author combines a lively history of the rise and fall of American religious literacy with a set of proposed remedies. . . . He also includes a useful multicultural glossary of religious definitions and allusions, in which religious illiterates can find the prodigal son, the Promised Land, the Quakers and the Koran.”—Washington Post Book World

HarperOne: 384 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-085952-7 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Freedom in ExiletHe autoBiograpHy of tHe dalai laMa

dalai Lama

Some believe him to be a living reincarnation of the Buddha; some despise him as a counterrevolution-ary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and the heads of nations, while fearlessly speaking the truth to power. He packs arenas with followers who want to learn from his words and are inspired by his life. Freedom in Exile covers his amazing life from his discovery at age four as the fourteenth Dalai Lama when he was whisked away from his home, through his unconventional training and education, political turmoil with China, his dangerous escape to India in 1959, his diplomatic efforts on behalf of Tibet, his Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, his personal spirituality, and his continuing popularity.

“A simple and powerful autobiography. The Dalai Lama’s story of exile must serve, of course, as a vital

historical witness, not only to inhumanity but to compassion as well, not only to betrayal and treachery but to generosity and faithfulness.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

HarperOne: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-098701-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Made for Goodnessand wHy tHis Makes all tHe differenCe

desmond tutu & Mpho tutu

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world’s darkest moments, having spent decades fighting the apartheid then acting as an ambassador of peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his strength and optimism, arguing that God has made us for goodness.

Written with his daughter, Mpho, who is also an ordained Anglican minister, Tutu argues that God has made the world as a grand theater for us to work out this call to goodness; it is up to us to live up to this calling, but God is there to help us every step of the way. Father and daughter offer an inspiring mes-sage of hope that will transform students into activists for change and blessing.

HarperOne: 224 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-170659-2 • hc • $25.99 ($35.99)

Freshman Common Read: College of St. Elizabeth

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The Screwtape LettersC. s. Lewis

This engaging correspondence between two devils is one of C. S. Lewis’s brilliant imaginative creations. Here, Lewis delves into moral questions about good versus evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, students will emerge with a better knowledge of what it means to live a good, honest life.

“If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.”—The New Yorker

HarperOne: 224 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-065293-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Mere ChristianityC. s. Lewis

Named one of the best religious books of the 20th-century by Christianity Today, C. S. Lewis’s forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief is also one of the most popular introductions to Christianity.

“He has quite a unique power for making theology an attractive, exciting and fascinating quest.”—Times Literary Supplement

“The point about reading C. S. Lewis is that he makes you sure, whatever you believe, that religion accepted or rejected means something extremely serious, demanding the entire energy of mind.”—Harper’s

HarperOne: 256 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-065292-0 • pb • $13.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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C. S. Lewis’s Website

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Website

The Heart of Islamenduring values for HuManity

seyyed Hossein nasr

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to stand for the values of an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the Western world centered on distorted portrayals of its core values. Born of ignorance, such confusion feeds the very problem at hand. What is needed is a clear exposition of the true values of Islam by someone steeped in the peaceful and humane center of the tradition that is also fluent in the ways of the West.

In The Heart of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers a timely presentation of the core spiritual and social values of Islam, such as peace, compassion, social justice, tolerance, and the like. Each chapter shows

the roots of these values in Islamic scripture, teaching, and tradition, and shows parallels with their counterparts in Jewish and Christian traditions. Nasr calls the followers of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) to a new future of mutual respect and common global purpose, as he portrays the beauty and appeal of the heart of the faith of 1.2 billion people.

HarperOne: 352 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-073064-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Carl Anderson’s Website

A Civilization of LovewHat every CatHoliC Can do to transforM tHe world

Carl Anderson

Carl Anderson and the Knights of Columbus organization want to tell the world about the exciting and history-changing ideas introduced by Pope John Paul II. Through embracing the culture of life and standing with those most marginalized and deemed “useless” or a “burden” by modern society, Christians can change the tone and direction of our culture. In A Civilization of Love Anderson demon-strates that not everyone has to agree on the fundamental questions of life in order to come together on the centrality of loving and caring for others. He brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a clash of civilizations and provides a roadmap for helping Christians understand their role in the world.

HarperOne: 240 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-133532-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Letting GofiftH editiona parents’ guide to understanding tHe College years

karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence treeger

Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.

• 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?

The fifth edition features updated research on admissions and finances; identity and student development; student attitudes, including political and social views; health concerns and behaviors; use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs; choices of majors and careers; religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. This edition also includes examples of new programs and practices on campus that address growing concerns about mental health; safety and security; and sustainability; as well as new opportunities for international study, undergraduate research, interdisciplinary majors, and increased interaction with faculty.

“Very practical with lots of nuts and bolts illustrations of how to deal with concrete situations.” —John N. Gardner, National Center for the Freshman-Year Experience

Harper paperbacks: 464 pp.; index 2009 • 978-0-06-166573-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Free brochures in packs of 100 are available for orientation events. Please e-mail academic@harperacademic.com to order: 978-0-06-057656-1 A workshop outline for orientation programs is available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

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Simply Christian wHy CHristianity Makes sense

n. t. Wright

Simply Christian walks students through the Christian faith step-by-step and question-by-ques-tion. With simple yet exciting and accessible prose, Wright challenges skeptics by offering explanations for even the toughest doubt-filled dilemmas, leaving believers with a reason for renewed faith. For anyone who wants to travel beyond the controversies that can obscure what the Christian faith really stands for, this accessible book is the perfect vehicle for that journey.

“Simply Christian is simply outstanding. It will confirm, challenge, and deepen your grasp of Christian faith and practice.”—Christianity Today

HarperOne: 256 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-192062-2 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN)

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The Vision BoardunloCk tHe seCret to an extraordinary life

Joyce schwarz foreword by Bob Proctor, Contributor to The Secret Afterword by Jack Canfield, Co-Creator of The Chicken Soup for the Soul® series

Vision boards are colorful canvases that serve as motivational life and career maps—highly inspira-tional and personal in nature—comprised of photographs, collages, mementos, drawings, and quotes, which create a visual layout of personal aspirations. Each chapter in The Vision Board begins with a brief interview from a celebrity who has achieved success through vision boards, such as

Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr., and Jesse Jackson. Also included are examples of everyday lives influenced by vision boards as well as full color pictures of vision boards, and a three-step system to identify exactly what you want in life and how to attain it.

Collins Design: 208 pp.; 75 illustrations 2010 • 978-0-06-1956386-6 • pb • $18.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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The Naked Truthyoung, Beautiful, and (Hiv) positive

Marvelyn Brown with Courtney e. Martin

At 19, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white hospital bed at Tennessee Christian Medical Center, feeling hopeless. A former top track and basketball athlete, she was in the best shape of her life, but was battling a sudden illness in the intensive care unit. Doctors had no idea what was going on. It never occurred to Brown that she might be HIV positive. Having unprotected sex with her boyfriend set into swift motion a set of circumstances that not only landed her in the fight of her life, but also alienated her from her community. But rather than give up, Brown found a reason to fight, and a reason to live. The Naked Truth is an inspirational memoir of how an everyday teen refused to give up on herself, and a cautionary tale that every young adult should read.

Harper paperbacks: 240 pp.; illustrated 2008 • 978-0-06-156239-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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I’ll Find a Way or Make Onea triBute to HistoriCally BlaCk Colleges and universities

Juan Williams & dwayne Ashley

I’ll Find a Way or Make One is a groundbreaking commemorative book that explores the history and cultural importance of America’s 108 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through photos, historical memoir, anecdotal information, archival and contemporary materials, and personal interviews. Stories abound about the abolishment of slavery, but lesser known are the efforts—both prior to and after the Civil War—of African-American and white abolitionists banding together to formerly educate illiterate blacks. Through the government, tireless work of black churches, white

missionary organizations and philanthropists, HCBUs were established. The tales of how these schools were created and the individuals who are linked to their histories are controversial, rich, and vast. HCBUs have come to be known as the backbone of and catalyst for the emergence of America’s black middle class, producing some of our country’s most impressive minds and leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Thurgood Marshall, Ed Bradley, and Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ll Find a Way or Make One reveals how the social and cultural atmosphere at these institutions ultimately played a major role in shaping modern day African-Americans.

Harper paperbacks: 480 pp.; 183 black & white photos 2007 • 978-0-06-009456-0 • pb • $20.95 ($24.95/CAN)

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Getting from College to Career90 tHings to do Before you Join tHe real world

Lindsey Pollak

It’s the classic conundrum that faces college students, recent graduates, and young profession-als: How do I get a job with no experience and how do I get experience without a job? In Getting from College to Career Lindsey Pollak presents 90 things to do to build a great resume and gain excellent experience. From volunteering to becoming an EMT to subscribing to a daily newspaper, these insightful ideas will provide excellent guidance for recent graduates and those new to the workforce.

Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-114259-8 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Start Where You AreLife Lessons in GettinG from Where You Are to Where You WAnt to Be

Chris Gardner & Mim e. rivas

Ever since the story of his transformation from homeless, single and struggling father to millionaire became known the world over, Chris Gardner—whose life story both inspired the movie The Pursuit of Happyness—has been inundated with two questions: “How did you do it?” and “How can I do it too?” In Start Were You Are Gardner avoids any tilt toward magical thinking by staying with real issues and solutions impacting individuals in all walks of life. It abounds with life lessons that offer hope and provide a road map for starting anew. This is also the book for anyone ready to launch a personal, professional undertaking, or break generational cycles that harm individual potential.

“Start Where You Are is a must-have, must-read guide to pursuing happiness in changing times. It’s not just about surviving as an individual or business in the current economic environment, but about thriving— personally, collectively, and globally.”—Quincy Jones

Harper paperbacks: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-153712-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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sheenah hankin, Ph.d.

Renowned psychotherapist Dr. Sheenah Hankin points the way to a confident life free from self-criticism, anxiety, and immature anger. Complete Confidence teaches new ways of thinking and acting, making one reorient their brain to manage emotions and put their problems into perspective.

Harper paperbacks: 272 pp.; index 2008 • 978-0-06-154454-5 • pb • $14.95 ($16.25/CAN)

The Happiness Projector, WhY i sPent A YeAr trYinG to sinG in the morninG, CLeAn mY CLosets, fiGht riGht, reAd AristotLe, And GenerALLY hAve more fun

Gretchen rubin

Soon after her 36th birthday, Gretchen Rubin realized that she was in danger of wasting her life—she was among millions of people who lead seemingly indulgent lives but aren’t as happy as they’d like to be. So instead of continuing to wait for her problems to correct themselves, Rubin decided to make changes, and on January 1st, the Happiness Project began.

Harper: 320 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-158325-4 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Paperback available in May 2011

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Website for Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College

Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in CollegeLynn f. Jacobs, Ph.d. & Jeremy s. Hyman, M.A.

The Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College reveals insider secrets about how professors grade and gives practical tips designed to maximize student success in all kinds of courses.

Organized around five “grade-bearing” moments, the Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College includes topics such as:

• How to pick courses with an eye to grades• Top 10 tips for taking excellent lecture notes• Best test-preparation and test-taking strategies• Strategies for staying motivated• How to get the most from your professor

Fast-paced and easy to follow, the Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is a must-read for every college student.

“The Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College deserves an A+. . . . Filled with concrete techniques and strategies for earning the best grades possible, students can become efficient learners, spending time on what is important.” —Dr. Eric R. White, Executive Director, Division of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean for Advising, Pennsylvania State University

“Every student who uses the tips and techniques in this volume is virtually guaranteed a grade increase.” —Sharon J. Hamilton, Director, Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching

Collins: 368 pp.; index. 2006 • 978-0-06-087908-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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On Writing WelltHe ClassiC guide to writing non-fiCtion

William Zinsser

Expanded and updated, the 30th anniversary edition of this favorite of both teachers and students now contains three new chapters, and many new passages that place new emphasis on the writer’s voice and on such fundamental values as intention, character, and making decisions.

While still covering all of the basics, Zinsser includes a new chapter entitled “Enjoyment, Fear, and Confidence,” urging students to convey zest for what they are writing about and to overcome their anxieties by trusting their general intelligence. Another chapter, “The Tyranny of the Final Product,” advises students not to visualize their completed article but to focus on all the prior decisions of selection, organization, and tone that will eventually let them know what their piece is about.

“Not since Elements of Style has there been a guide to writing as well presented and readable as this one. A love and respect for the language is evident on every page.”—Library Journal

“On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers.”—New York Times

Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; index 2006 • 978-0-06-089154-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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