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

For those who want to give their students a global perspective, this story of a young man from poverty-stricken New & featured Malawi who built a windmill from scavenged parts to bring electricity to his village hits all the right notes: a deep look into life in a developing nation, science and engineering insights—and inspiration. William is now an engineering major at Dartmouth College. “This is an amazing, inspiring and heartwarming story! It’s about harnessing the power not just of the wind but of imagination and ingenuity. Those are the most important forces we have for saving our planet. William Kamkwamba is a hero for our age.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

Freshman Common Read: Avila University, Purdue University, Maryville University, University of Florida, Central College, Boise State University, University of New Mexico- Albuquerque, Utah Valley University, Winthrop University, and California State University, Chico—among others William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-173033-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph Aimee Molloy

Here is the story of America-to-Senegal transplant Molly Melching and her collaboration with Senegalese locals to create the remarkably successful Tostan—a democracy and human-rights-based education initiative to promote relationships built upon dignity, equality, and respect. Unlike many Western organizations of the past that have tried to transform African cultures from the outside, Molly and Tostan’s philosophy is to work within a community, allowing people to make major changes to their culture of their own volition with the understanding that true change must come from within. Tostan’s groundbreaking strategies have led to better education for the women of rural Africa, improved health care, a decrease in child/forced marriage, and declarations by thousands of African communities to abandon the centuries-old practice of female genital cutting. “Molly Melching saw a deeply disturbing but deeply entrenched practice and refused to accept that it couldn’t be stopped. Her relentless efforts are proof that commitment and partnership can drive transformational change.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton HarperOne: 272 pp. • 2013 • 978-0-06-213276-5 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2014: 978-0-06-213279-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Mitch Albom all from Heaven: Heaven: The First Phone Call from A Novel Taught Me About Moving Mountains Mountains Moving Me About Taught demonstrating the power of true tenacity and persistence even in the face of seemingly even in the face of persistence and true of tenacity the power demonstrating opposition. insurmountable www.halfthesky.org visit volunteer, to how or internships on information For 288 pp. HarperOne: • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) 2014 • 978-0-06-219200-4 • hc 2014. in March will be ebook available editions and Hardcover

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the as e Hidden Side of Everything Id

i g Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner B 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, helping students develop a critical eye to many things that are presented as fact. “Genius . . . has you gasping in amazement.” —The Wall Street Journal Freshman Common Read: Appalachian State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Louisville William Morrow Paperbacks: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-073133-5 • pb • $16.99 ($19.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

Coming Soon Think Like a Freak Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

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

William Morrow: 256 pp. 2014 • 978-0-06-221833-9 • hc • $29.99 ($33.99/CAN) Hardcover and ebook editions will be available in May 2014.

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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic big ideas Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Providing lessons in parsing big data, economic models, and logic, SuperFreakonomics challenges the way students think all over again by asking such questions as: • What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? • Did TV cause a rise in crime? • Can eating kangaroo meat save the planet? “The Steves wryly, humorously and almost sadistically remind us that we are slaves to our own failures to parse situa- tions into basic economic components.” —Los Angeles Times Freshman Common Read: Salem State University

William Morrow Paperbacks: 320 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-088958-6 • pb • $16.99 ($18.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age William Powers

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. “Powers helps us understand what being ‘connected’ discon- nects 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 Freshman Common Read: Assumption College, Bucknell University Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-168717-4 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet Andrew Blum big ideas big “The Internet really is a series of tubes! Who knew?” —David Pogue, New York Times. In Tubes, Andrew Blum will take your students from the room in L.A. where the Internet began to the busiest streets in Manhattan as new fiber optic cable is installed; from the coast of Portugal as a new transatlantic undersea cable that connects West Africa and Europe is laid down to the Great Pyramids of our time, the monumental data centers that Google and Facebook have built in the wilds of Oregon. Along the way, your students will come to understand the nuts and bolts of the Internet, how vulnerable it can be, and its impact on their own lives. “Every website, every email, every instant message travels through real junctions in a real network of real cables. It’s all too awesome to behold. Andrew Blum’s fascinating book demystifies the earthly geography of this most ethereal terra incognita.” —Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein Ecco: 304 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-199495-1• pb • $15.99 (N/C) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Future Edited by John Brockman

How is the Internet changing the way we think? The Web impacts everything from the way we communicate and read, watch TV, and buy everything, to the way we love, make friends, find information, and organize politically. Thankfully, John Brockman’s cast of geniuses is here to put it all in perspective: Steven Pinker (author of The Language Instinct) on how the mind adapts to new technologies • Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion) on the massive profusion of knowledge available on the Internet • Sam Harris (author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation) on wired brains • Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan) on the degradation of precise knowledge • Chris Anderson (editor of Wired magazine; author of The Long Tail) compares the Internet to the discovery of fire • Lisa Randall (author of Warped Passages) on the challenge of too much (unreliable) information • Brian Eno (music producer) on the battle between the “authentic” and the reproducible . . . and many others. Harper Perennial: 448 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-202044-4 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) Also Available: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Today’s Leading Minds Rethink Everything What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and big ideas Elegant Theories of How the World Works Edited by John Brockman

In This Explains Everything, Edge.org publisher and founder John Brockman asks scientists for their simplest and most elegant explanations to everyday queries like: Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? We don’t think there’s another book on our list that will get new students to engage in conversation as easily as this one—the entries are beautifully written and mind-boggling at times. Brockman’s scientists (including the likes of Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker) relate complicated matters in understandable terms, illuminating material that students will carry with them through college and beyond.

“A collection of essays by big thinkers answering big questions [should be] deeply satisfy- ing. And This Explains Everything delivers.” —New Scientist Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-223017-1 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)

The Art of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dobelli

Ask your students: Have they invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? Or continued doing something they knew was bad for them? These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. The Art of Thinking Clearly, by world- class thinker Rolf Dobelli, is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning—essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives. It will change the way your students think and transform their decision-making, enabling them to make better choices now and in the future. “Rolf Dobelli is endowed with both imagination and realism, a combination hard to find since the 16th-century Renais- sance.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan “A fireworks show of insights into how our minds work. If you want to avoid tripping on cognitive errors, read this book.” —Iris Bohnet, Professor and Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory Harper: 384 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-221968-8 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2014: 978-0-06-221969-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Kathryn Schulz big ideas big Of all the things people are wrong about, our condemnation of error should top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. Wrongness is a vital part of how students learn and change. Thanks to error, students can revise their understanding of themselves and amend their ideas. When asked by the New York Times what book she wished all Harvard freshmen would read, Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard replied, “Kathryn Schulz’s Being Wrong advocates doubt as a skill and praises error as the foundation of wisdom. Her book would reinforce my encouragement of Harvard’s accomplished and successful freshmen to embrace risk and even failure.” Freshman Common Read: Wellesley College, Washington State College Ecco: 416 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-117605-0 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN) The Paradox of Choice: Why 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—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 them question the decisions they make before they even make them, it can set them up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make them blame themselves for any and all failures. “A revolutionary and beautifully reasoned book about the promiscuous amount of choice that leaves the consumer helpless. A must-read.” —Martin Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-000569-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to big ideas Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) Chade-Meng Tan Forewords by Jon Kabat-Zinn & Daniel Goleman Chade-Meng Tan originally developed the Search Inside Yourself program while working as an engineer at Google. A longtime practitioner of mindfulness, he knew there was a way to apply that practice to improving the personal and professional lives of his coworkers, and his program quickly took off because it did just that, enhancing the productivity, creativity, and day-to-day happiness of everyone who signed up. The tools Chade-Meng Tan reveals will not only foster deeper self-awareness but also enable students to be more successful, more productive, and more peaceful in all areas of life. “Mr. Tan promises that this technique will ‘increase productivity, creativity and happiness’. . . . The concept involves mastering one’s feelings and developing greater compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence. Mr. Tan believes a world of SIY users will be a peaceful one, and he sees the book as a step towards achieving this.” —The Economist HarperOne: 320 pp. 2012 • 978-0-0-6211692-5 • hc • $26.99 ($29.99/CAN) Paperback available November 2013: 978-0-06-211693-2 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Bruce Nussbaum

Innovation expert Bruce Nussbaum explores a new form of cultural literacy: creative intelligence, or CQ. He investigates the ways in which individuals, corporations, even nations are boosting their CQ, which enhances their creativity and creative problem solving within changing and complex contemporary environments. Nussbaum’s book will leave students with a powerful method for problem solving, driving innovation, and sparking start-up capitalism. “He demystifies one of the most important initiatives of our time—unlocking the creativity within ourselves.” —David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school

HarperBusiness: 368 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-208842-0 • hc • $28.99 ($31.99/CAN)

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inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity Tina Seelig big ideas big What does it mean to be creative, to use your imagination to its fullest potential, and how can one harness their personal creative muse in order to function successfully in the everyday world? The answers to these questions have been the professional mission of award-winning Stanford University educator Tina Seelig, who has taught creativity to the best and brightest students and to business leaders around the world. inGenius offers a revolutionary new model to inspire creativity—the Innovation Engine—which explains how creativity is generated on the inside and how it is influenced by the outside world. With inGenius Seelig expertly decodes creativity, revealing an approach that your students can use to enhance their own creative genius. “Tina Seelig has written a provocative field guide to twenty-first century creativity, with her energy and enthusiasm bursting through on every page. We all could use a little extra spark of creativity, and this book helps show the way.” —Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO and author of The Art of Innovation HarperOne: 256 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-202070-3 • hc • $25.99 ($28.99/CAN)

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World Tina Seelig

Tina Seelig told us that she wrote inGenius to show students how to generate new and innovative ideas and products, and she wrote What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 to help bring those ideas to life in the world. Here, she provides tangible skills and insights—from having a healthy disregard for the impossible, how to recover from failure, and how many problems are opportunities in disguise—that will last a lifetime. “Tina Seelig is one of the most creative and inspiring teachers at Stanford. Her book ought to be required reading. I wish I had read it when I was 20 . . . and again at 50.” —Professor Robert Sutton, Stanford University

HarperOne: 208 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-173519-6 • hc • $22.99 ($29.50/CAN)

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Kindred Beings: What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees big ideas Taught Me About Life, Love, and Connection Sheri Speede

Sheri Speede had always been an animal lover. But it was not until she was in Cameroon, as a conservation advocate for the nonprofit group In Defense of Animals that she began to discover her true calling. While there, Dr. Speede witnessed first- hand that chimpanzees, like humans, are capable of complex emotions and friendship—knowledge which inspired her to find land for a forest sanctuary for chimpanzees, refusing to be intimidated by those who would stand in her way.

To learn more about the good works of In Defense of Animals and to learn how to get involved, please visit www.ida-africa.org.

HarperOne: 272 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-213248-2 • hc • $26.99 ($28.99/CAN)

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals Hal Herzog

We admire this book because Professor Herzog is thoughtful, rational, and often funny as he shows students how illogical they are in their relationships with animals. It’s not a polemic. It’s a book that fosters debate and conversation by asking deceptively simple questions: • Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? • What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? • Who enjoys a better quality of life—the chicken on a dinner plate or a rooster who dies in a Saturday night cockfight? • Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? It’s already been adopted in a variety of courses from anthropology and composition to ethics. “Wildly readable, funny, scientifically sound, and with surprising moments of deep, challenging thoughts.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, Stanford University Freshman Common Read: Eastern Kentucky University Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-173085-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

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The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America Hannah Nordhaus big ideas big As Hannah Nordhaus tells the riveting story of John Miller, one of America’s foremost migratory beekeepers, students will learn of the myriad of mysterious epidemics that threaten American honeybee populations and of the absolutely vital role honeybees play in American agribusiness. “A fascinating peek into the precarious business of keeping the nation’s crops pollinated.” —Smithsonian “Nordhaus, an award-winning journalist, weaves a dramatic tale of how and why beehives and bees themselves are threat- ened by everything from mites to moths to bee thieves.” —Washington Post

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-187325-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink Dr. Robert D. Morris

With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert D. Morris, an internationally recognized expert in the field of drinking water and health, chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water and dispels notions of fail-safe water systems to reveal the shocking truth: the millions of miles of leaking water mains, constantly evolving microorganisms, and the looming threat of bio-terrorism could easily lead to catastrophe. “While casual readers don’t generally pick up public health books expecting to stay up late turning pages, Morris manages a neat trick—he provides an in-depth medical history that at times reads like a mystery.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Freshman Common Read: Tufts University, Winona State University Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-073090-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Harvest: big ideas An Adventure into the Heart of America’s Family Farms Richard Horan

Richard Horan went from coast to coast, visiting organic family farms and working the harvests of more than a dozen essential or unusual food crops—from Kansas wheat and Michigan wild rice to Maine potatoes, California walnuts, and Cape Cod cranberries—in search of connections with the farmers, the soil, the seasons, and the lifeblood of America. “What we eat and how it gets to the table are the subjects of Richard Horan’s new book about American farms. Horan loves a road trip, he loves talk with strangers, he loves people who take their work seriously, he loves working with his hands, he loves rural landscape, and he loves food.” —Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-209031-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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

Lauren Redniss has created a fascinating and deeply moving visual biography that walks students through the story of Marie Curie’s life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma. From her romantic partnership with Pierre, through his tragic decline from radium poisoning and death in a traffic accident, to the scandalous affair with another fellow scientist that almost jeopardized her second Nobel Prize, it also casts an eye forward to survey the changes wrought by Curie’s discovery of radioactivity—illuminating the path from the Curie laboratory past the bright red mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert through Three Mile Island and the advance in radiation therapy and nuclear power today. “Absolutely dazzling. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art. Like radium itself, Radioactive glows with energy*.” —Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Freshman Common Read: University of Madison-Wisconsin It Books: 208 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-135132-7 • hc • $29.99 ($33.99/CAN) *The cover of the book really does glow in the dark! An audio which contains the full text as well as descriptions of the art is available for visually disabled students.

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Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the ty Promise of Occupy Wall Street Todd Gitlin n Socie a n

ic Social historian Todd Gitlin offers the first narrative survey r

e of Occupy Wall Street—the most dynamic phenomenon in progressive politics in over 40 years—from its historic A m inspirations, to its inner tensions, to its prospects in the months and years to come. Informed by Gitlin’s own history in the 60s protest movement, but written with both eyes aimed at the future, Occupy Nation is the key book for students looking to understand their generation’s revolution, playing out before their eyes. “In this much needed book, Todd Gitlin, a veteran of the 1960s and an astute commentator on social move- ments offers a compelling portrait of the Occupy movement that captures the spirit of the people involved, the crisis that gave Occupy birth, and the possibility of genuine change it represents.” —Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction

It Books: 320 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-220092-1 • pb • $13.99 ($14.99/CAN)

Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are Katherine Sharpe

Like many of her generation, Katherine Sharpe grew up on anti-depressants. A serious panic attack in her first semester at college led to a prescription for Zoloft, a drug she would rely upon for the next ten years. Her story is not remarkable—except for its staggering ubiquity. In 2005, antidepressants surpassed blood-pressure medication as the most frequently prescribed class of drugs in the United States. That year, ten percent of the United States population took an antidepressant, a figure that has only increased. “Intuitive and investigative, personal and historical, narrative-rich and fact-packed. . . . Part of what makes this book riveting is the way Sharpe sets her own story within the larger context of cultural, social, and psychiatric changes that moved depression (along with other mental illnesses) into the medical spotlight.” —Elle Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-205973-4 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Americ Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

Nancy Jo Sales a n Society

The Bling Ring is an in-depth exposé of a band of beautiful, privileged teenagers who were caught breaking into celebrity homes and stealing millions of dollars worth of valuables. Driven by celebrity worship, vanity, and the desire to look and dress like the ultra-rich and famous, these seven teenagers forced the world to ask: How did our obsession with celebrities get so out of hand? Why would a group of teens who already had so much, take such a risk? In her book, acclaimed writer Nancy Jo Sales delves deeply into the personal and societal pressures that influenced the Bling Ring, highlighting the temptations and pitfalls of the celebrity culture that pervades all your students’ lives today.

It Books: 228 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-224553-3 • pb • $15.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men Michael Kimmel

Sociologist Michael Kimmel tackles the world of late adolescent boys and young men: the “guys” of America, aged 16 to 26. Although these young men may appear to be growing up too fast, they are in fact becoming adults quite slowly. From the mundane—video games, movies and television, sports, and music—to the extreme—violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation, and school shootings—Kimmel reveals the culture that every boy must navigate on his way to adulthood, whether he is a participant or a bystander. Kimmel asserts that what happens to boys in this period often determines the type of men they will be for the rest of their lives. “Kimmel is our seasoned guide into a world that, unless we are guys, we barely know exists. As he walks with us through dark territories, he points out the significant and reflects on its meaning. Just as Reviving Ophelia introduced readers to the culture of teenage girls, Guyland takes us to the land of young men.” —Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia Freshman Common Read: Winona State University Harper Perennial: 356 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-083135-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America

n Societya n Paul Cuadros

This is the triumphant true story of a team of Latino high school

Americ students and their coach who fought against prejudice—and went on to win the North Carolina state championship. “Cuadros, a reporter, went to Siler City, North Carolina, to investigate the changes wrought by Latinos arriving to work in a 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 challenge of assimilation.” —Booklist “The championship helped unify the community because, for once, Hispanics could not be seen only as outsiders.” —New York Times Freshman Common Read: Appalachian State University, UNC Chapel Hill—among others It Books: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-112028-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game Dan Barry

On April 18, 1981, a ballgame sprang eternal. After the first pitch was thrown at dusk on Holy Saturday, what began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became something else entirely. For the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants between their collective pasts and futures, their collective sorrows and joys, in the longest game ever played in baseball history. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book with the power to transform your student’s perception of America’s favorite pastime and America’s past. “A fascinating, beautifully told story. . . . The book feels like Our Town on the diamond.” —Los Angeles Times Freshman Common Read: Boston College Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-201449-8 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army/Navy Americ Game and the War They Fought in Iraq

Steve Eubanks a n Society

In December 2001, while the fires from the World Trade Center were still burning, West Point cadet Chad Jenkins and midshipman Brian Stann squared off in what would go on to be the most-watched college football game of the decade. Stann, a Navy linebacker, first became wordlessly acquainted with the Army quarterback Jenkins with a perfectly played tackle. Though they would not meet again for another decade, both went to war, both led men, and both saw and did things that they never imagined possible. All American traces the heroic lives of these two men, from that fateful collegiate tackle in 2001 to their respective tours as first-class officers in the longest war in American history. “Steve Eubanks tells a masterful story about both, along with a story of two extraordinary people, from two extraordinary institutions, moving through extraordinary times.” —David Lipsky, author of Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point William Morrow: 384 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-220280-2 • hc • $27.99 ($35.99/CAN) Paperback available in April 2014: 978-0-06-220281-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Sean Parnell with John R. Bruning

At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon—a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws—and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan’s eastern frontier. What followed was sixteen months of close combat, over the course of which the platoon became Parnell’s family. But the cost of battle was high for these men: Over 80 percent were wounded in action, putting their casualty rate among the highest since Gettysburg, and not all of them made it home. “A detailed and utterly gripping account of what our soldiers endure on the front lines of America’s war in Afghanistan. . . . Here, in these pages, are the on-the-ground realities of a war we so rarely witness on news broadcasts.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried William Morrow Paperbacks: 416 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-206640-4 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

n Societya n Kevin Sites

During his years as a solo-journalist, travelling to the world’s

Americ most dangerous places to cover global war and disasters, Kevin Sites asked the toughest questions of the soldiers he met: What is it like to kill? What can you never forget? How can you tell what’s right? But he also asked these questions of himself, and tells the war stories that haunt him, including his own complicity in a murder. The Things They Cannot Say is a deep exploration of the lives and minds of soldiers during war, and the balance these soldiers seek to find afterwards. “There are, of course, no easy answers, but Sites highlights the importance of treatment for post-traumatic stress disor- der and sharing stories. Most importantly, [Sites] forces readers, those average civilians, to look at what war does to people and think about whether it’s always worth it.” —San Francisco Chronicle HarperPerennial: 336 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-199052-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN) I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World Martin Luther King, Jr.

As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword, “This collection includes many of what I consider to be my husband’s most important writings and orations.” In addition to the famed keynote address of the 1963 march on Washington, the renowned civil rights leader’s most influential words included here are the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the essay “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,” and his last sermon, “I See the Promised Land,” preached the day before he was assassinated. Freshman Common Read: Georgia Institute of Technology

HarperOne: 256 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-250552-1 • pb • $15.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Seventeen Traditions: Americ Lessons from an American Childhood

Ralph Nader a n Society

Activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate, Ralph Nader looks back at his small-town Connecticut childhood and the traditions and values that shaped his progressive worldview. At once thought-provoking and surprisingly moving, this is a celebration of uniquely American ethics and traditions that can help your students bring about meaningful and necessary change. Among them are:

• The Tradition of Listening • The Tradition of Work • The Tradition of Charity • The Tradition of Patriotism • The Tradition of Civics • The Tradition of Simple Enjoyment

Harper Paperbacks: 160 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-221064-7 • pb • $13.99 ($15.99/CAN)

The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader—perhaps our last great civic idealist—offers seventeen ideas to rescue our country from corruption, complacency, and corporate domination. His powerful, paradigm-shifting proposals address some of the most pressing concerns in our country today, from corporate crime to tax reform to health care and housing, which should galvanize all your students, liberal and conservative, into political action. Among them are: • Reforming the tax system • Protecting the family • Reclaiming science • Getting corporations for the people off welfare • Congressional watchdog groups “It will be very good for the country if Nader’s revelations shock a new generation.” —William Greider, The Nation Harper Paperbacks: 384 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-208353-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America Steven V. Roberts

n Societya n Today’s immigrant population comes mostly from economi- cally developing countries like Iraq, Iran, Mexico, and many parts of Africa. But in a post-9/11 world, how do their experi- Americ ences compare with those of earlier generations of newcomers to the United States? In From Every End of This Earth, New York Times bestselling author Steven V. Roberts takes a look at what it means to be an immigrant in 21st-century America. “[An] homage to the sacrifice generation and the children for which they make that sacrifice. . . . Roberts offers not only diversity of geography, but also diversity of experiences. . . . Roberts focuses on each family and tells its tale in a compassionate, engaging way.” —Washington Post Freshman Common Read: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-124562-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza

A microcosm of the American “melting pot,” New Orleans is home to French, Spanish, Creole, African, and many other cultural influences. No heaven on earth, it is riddled with poverty, racism and injustice. But it is also a city like no other; the birthplace of jazz, source of spectacular cuisine, and one of the country’s largest ports. In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, there was some question as to whether or not the devastated city of New Orleans should be rebuilt. Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Tom Piazza is a longtime resident of the Crescent City, and Why New Orleans Matters is his impassioned defense of this unique town. Freshman Common Read: Xavier College Harper Perennial: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-113150-9 • pb • $10.95 ($13.99/CAN)

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Scratch Beginnings: m e

Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream r ic

Adam Shepard a n Me

After graduating from college, Adam Shepard felt disillu- m

sioned by the apathy around him and set out to prove that it oi

was possible to make something out of nothing and achieve r i the American Dream. With a sleeping bag, the clothes on his back, and $25 in cash, and restricted from using his contacts or college education, he headed out for Charleston, South Carolina, a randomly selected city with one objective: to work his way out of homelessness and to have, after one year, $2,500 in savings, a working automobile, and a furnished apartment. Scratch Beginnings is the earnest and passionate account of Shepard’s struggle to overcome the pressures placed on the homeless. His journey is sure to inspire students and will remind them that America is still one of the most hopeful countries in the world.

Freshman Common Read: Methodist University, North Carolina Central University, Lewis University (Illinois), St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and Voorhees College—among others Harper Perennial: 240 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-171427-6 • pb • $14.99 ($17.99/CAN) A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean Tori Murden McClure

A Pearl in the Storm is not a memoir about great successes— of which Tori Murden McClure has many. Instead, the bulk of her inspiring story focuses on her first failed attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. After being rescued from the middle of the worst hurricane season in the North Atlantic, McClure must deal with the self-imposed disgrace tied to her failed attempt. She is forced to embrace her own vulnerability. After meeting Muhammad Ali—and being told that she does not want to be known as the woman who “almost” rowed across the Atlantic Ocean—she decides to shake off the weight of failure and attempt her great feat again. With her characteristic wry sense of humor, she explores her interaction with failure, which she responded to and ultimately overcame. “The reader of this book encounters a rare spirit whose courage is an inspiration.” —Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain Freshman Common Read: Northern Kentucky University, Brescia University, Erksine College, Spring Hill College Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-171887-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World Claire and Mia Fontaine n memoir n a In their first memoir,Come Back, the authors explored teenage Mia’s drug addiction and her mother Claire’s ultimately successful attempts to get her clean. Now, a decade later, Mia Americ and Claire grapple with the frustrations of adulthood and life after motherhood, respectively. Determined to better themselves and their relationship, they decide venture off on a five- month journey through twelve countries. Learning from the many women they meet along the way, Claire and Mia make peace with their tumultuous past, and return with a greater sense of who they are and where they want to be. “Finally, a book that celebrates the complexities of the mother- daughter bond with humor and depth.” —Maureen Murdock, author of The Heroine’s Journey William Morrow Paperbacks: 336 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-168842-3 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

The Astor Orphan: A Memoir Alexandra Aldrich

A direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson Valley Mansion; and her brave escape from the clan. Aldrich reaches back to the Gilded Age when the Astor legacy began to come undone, leaving the Aldrich branch of the family penniless and squabbling over what was left. More than an insider’s look at a decaying American institution, The Astor Orphan renders the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh, and introduces a young heroine who possesses the strength to escape the seductive pull of the past.

“Evocative. . . . One can’t help but cheer as she breaks away from the others to make a name for herself.” —Elliott Holt, author of You Are One of Them “This unflinching memoir of childhood chaos and neglect is relieved and enlivened by Aldrich’s wittily sharp observations and her obvious affection for her peculiar relations.” —Booklist Ecco: 272 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-220793-7 • hc • $24.99 ($26.99/CAN) Paperback available in April 2014: 978-0-06-220795-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Just Kids Americ Patti Smith

• National Book Award Winner a n M emoir A chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art and devotion. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed New York City from Coney Island to 42nd Street, and set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea— where they entered a community of the famous and infamous, the influential artists of the late 1960s and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding.

Winner of the National Book Award, Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, their prelude to fame. “This beautifully written memoir is a haunting elegy for Smith’s soul mate Robert Map- plethorpe and a lost New York City. One of the best books ever written on becoming an artist.” —Washington Post, Best Books of 2010 “A moving portrait of the artist as a young woman, and a vibrant profile of Smith’s one- time boyfriend and lifelong muse, Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989.” —Los Angeles Times Ecco: 320 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-093622-8 • pb • $16.00 ($17.50/CAN) Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston; Introduction by Maya Angelou

Here 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. “Told in a gutsy language . . . her story is an encouraging and enjoyable one for any member of the human race.” —New York Review of Books “Delightful . . . wise . . . full of humor, color, and good sense.” —Saturday Review of Literature Visit www.ZoraNealeHurston.com for new ways to teach Hurston’s oeuvre. Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 336 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-085408-9 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Black Boy Richard Wright, with a Foreword by Edward P. Jones

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a brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as “black boy.”

Americ “Superb. . . . Most important of all is the opportunity we have now to hear a great American writer speak with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives.” —Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review “A major event in American literary history.” —The New Republic

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Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam Asra Q. Nomani

As President Bush prepares to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey to the Middle East to join her fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. “[A] life-changing experience that she chronicles with compelling detail, candor, and passion both intellectual and spiritual . . . . Ultimately, Nomani’s riveting, cogent, and inspiring account urges the moderate majority in all faiths to rescue their traditions from those who twist religion into a weapon of mass oppression and terror.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Red, White, and Muslim: Americ My Story of Belief

Asma Hasan a n M emoir

For Asma Hasan, being a Muslim is not merely a matter of birth, but also of choice and faith. Based on her understanding of the Qur’an and her upbringing as an American Muslim, she presents a vision of Islam that is ethnically diverse, tolerant of others, and supportive of the rights of women. “A new generation of Muslim Americans—proud of their heritage and their country—stand poised to take their right- ful place at the forefront of American religious and political life. Asma Gull Hasan is an extraordinary spokesperson for this widely diverse community. Honest, disarmingly open, and sparkling with the author’s radiance and intelligence, Red, White, and Muslim opens a window to a world of faith, reason, and questioning that is distinctively American and Muslim at the same time.” —Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author of Fall and Rise of the Islamic State HarperOne: 208 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-167375-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf, a member of one of New Orleans’s oldest Jewish families, recreates the sights, sounds, tastes and simultane- ously provides an insider’s look at this fabled city, so damaged and changing in the wake of Katrina. Reflecting the yearnings and anxieties of a generation that came of age after World War II, this is the iconic journey of a restless man who leaves the hometown he loves to discover the world, and in so doing, to find himself. “A heartfelt, intimate, and painfully honest account of the coming of age of one shy boy and of the exotic city he left behind, but will never forget. A story of the courage of breaking away and the ‘you are there’ descriptions of places and people that make the reader part of this narrative of struggle and triumph.” —Barbara Goldsmith, author of Little Gloria, Happy at Last Delphinium Books: 322 pp. 2013 • 978-1-88-328556-2 • hc • $24.95

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Population: 485 Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Michael Perry n memoir n a Population: 485 is Michael Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of returning to his small hometown of New Auburn, Wisconsin after a decade away. Unable to Americ polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Perry figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he traces his “calls” on a map in the little firehouse, noticing how the story of this tiny town emerges and builds to a final chapter that is at once devastating and transcendent. “Swells with unadorned heroism. He’s the real thing.” —USA Today

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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir Neil White

Neil White wanted only the best for those he loved and was willing to go to any lengths to provide it—which is how he ended up in a federal prison in rural Louisiana, serving eighteen months for bank fraud. But it was no ordinary prison. The beautiful, isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana, was also home to the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy—a small circle of outcasts who had forged a tenacious, clandestine community, a fortress to repel the cruelty of the outside world. “A remarkable story of a young man’s loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society’s most dreaded outcasts.” —John Grisham Freshman Common Read: St. Bonaventure University William Morrow Paperbacks: 352 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-135163-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Double Take: Americ A Memoir

Kevin Michael Connolly a n M emoir

Kevin Michael Connolly is a 27-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. In an attempt to capture the stares of others, he took more than 30,000 photographs of people staring at him. In Double Take, Kevin casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it means to truly see another person. “Kevin Connolly has used an unusual physical circumstance to create a gripping work of art. This deeply affecting memoir will place him in the company of Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs.” —Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants Freshman Common Read: Montana State University, University of New Haven, Colorado Mountain College, and the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Harper Perennial: 240 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-179152-9 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life Eric LeGrand

When beloved Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand was left paralyzed after a devastating football accident in October 2010, he knew his life would never be the same again. What he didn’t know, however, was that the months to come would mark a remarkable, transformative journey: one so profound that he would call the time since his accident the “best year of my life.” His is a story of finding purpose in pain and facing setbacks with strength. “Positive and absolutely authentic.” —New Jersey Star-Ledger “My friend, one of my heroes, and a true inspiration.” —Tim Tebow, author of Through My Eyes William Morrow: 272 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-222631-0 • pb • $14.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Gimp: The Story Behind the Star of Murderball Mark Zupan & Tim Swanson n memoir n a Gimp is the no-holds barred memoir of Mark Zupan, the Paralympic athlete and the star of the Academy Award-nomi- nated documentary Murderball. It is an inspiring, defiant, and Americ revealing celebration of spirit that will confound your students’ prejudices by offering proof that a guy in a wheelchair can still do amazing things. “Mark Zupan uses fast, effective prose to tell his story. . . . You have to admire Zupan.” —Washington Post Book World “The book is alternately funny, biting, snarky, self-indulgent, and moving. . . . It really is a story about success and tackling life on our own terms.” —Booklist Freshman Common Read: Ball State University It Books: 288 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-112769-4 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)

One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir Paul Guest

Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest was twelve years old, racing down a hill on a too-big, ancient bicycle when he discovered it had no brakes. Trying to steer into anything that would slow him down, he hit a ditch, was thrown over the handlebars, and broke his neck. One More Theory About Happiness follows a boy into manhood, his path marked by a hard-earned acceptance and a biting sense of humor. In inspiring, incisive, and lyrical prose, Guest shows students that a body irrevocably changed can lead to a life fiercely cherished. “[A] graceful and unflinching account. . . . The book is not an easy read, nor is it a feel-good story that paints Guest’s inju- ry as a blessing in disguise. By turns dispassionate, disgusted, furious, embarrassed, appalled and hopeful, the author lays bare his heartache at losing a world he had barely begun to experience as he sets a determined course toward inde- pendence. It’s a remarkable journey.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ecco: 208 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-168518-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Autobiography of a Face: Americ Lucy Grealy, With an Afterword by Ann Patchett a “I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but n M emoir 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 tells her story with remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable 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 Read: Miami University (with Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett), Ohio State University Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-056966-2 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows students what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. “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 “Truth & Beauty is Patchett’s tribute to Grealy, at once a grief-haunted eulogy and a larger meditation on the solace and limitations of friendship.” —Washington Post Freshman Common Read: Miami University (with Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy), Clemson College Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-057215-0 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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ic • Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award r for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and a National Book Award Finalist e am Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents—and the video that went viral— transformed the Bravo Squad into America’s most sought- after heroes. Ben Fountain’s novel follows the surviving members of the Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive “Victory Tour” at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys. “Fountain’s excellent first novel follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day . . . Through the eyes of the titular soldier, Fountain creates a minutely observed portrait of a society with woefully misplaced priorities.” —The New Yorker “[A] masterful gut-punch of a debut novel.” —Washington Post Ecco: 320 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-088561-8 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel Wiley Cash

Beautifully bridging the gap between literary thriller and coming-of-age story, A Land More Kind Than Home introduces students to two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town. Filled with resonant and evocative characters, this is a tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in all of us. “Absorbing. . . . Cash illuminate[s] a familiar truth of South- ern lit: Many are the ways that fathers fail their sons.” —Entertainment Weekly “A Land More Kind Than Home is a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch William Morrow: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-208823-9 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

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The Good Luck of Right Now: A Novel Matthew Quick n fiction n a From the author of The Silver Linings Playbook comes a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, and accepting

Americ ourselves and others—featuring Bartholomew Neil—who for thirty-eight years has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? “Funny, touching, wise, and ultimately life-affirming, The Good Luck of Right Now is quite possibly the greatest feel- good misfit-road story I’ve had the good luck to read. If you loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this book is for you.” —Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Harper: 304 pp. 2014 • 978-0-06-228553-9 • hc • $25.99 (N/C)

The Family Fang: A Novel Kevin Wilson

• A Best Book of the Year: Time, Amazon, People, Esquire, Booklist With the quirky humor of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang introduces students to a family of brilliant and endearing oddballs who have blurred the lines between their lives and their mischievous performance art. “Wilson expertly navigates between pathos and black comedy while negotiating a smart debate about the human cost of sacrificing all for one’s art. Fang has bite but it is also incredi- bly fun.” —Time

“The poignant truth . . . beneath the humor of this peculiar family: Our crazy parents’ offenses sometimes loom so large that we don’t realize just what they did for us until it’s too late.” —Washington Post Ecco: 336 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-157905-9 • pb • $13.99 ($15.99/CAN)

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Flight Behavior: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver n fiction n a Rich in themes of science, faith, and class, Kingsolver’s novel begins when a young wife and mother on a failing farm in

Americ rural Tennessee stumbles upon a forested valley in which “every bough glowed with [the] orange blaze” of thousands of butterflies set off course by escal-ating climate change. Her discovery brings together various competing factions— religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and politicians—trapping her in the center of the conflict but ultimately opening up her world. “A majestic and brave new novel . . . both intimate and enor- mous.” —New York Times Book Review “Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change.” —Washington Post Harper Perennial: 464 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-212427-2 • pb • $16.99 (N/C)

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. This tale of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction, over the course of three decades in post- colonial Africa, is set against one of history’s most dramatic political parables. “Fully realized, richly embroidered, triumphant.” —Newsweek Freshman Common Read: Augsburg College Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 576 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-078650-2 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Tracks: A Novel Louise Erdrich n fiction n a Tracks follows a North Dakota Native American tribe of the early 1900s and their struggles to keep their land out of the

Americ hands of encroaching white society. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance—yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender. “Ms. Erdrich’s novels, regional in the best sense, are ‘about’ the experience of Native Americans the way Toni Morrison’s are about black people, William Faulkner’s and Eudora Wel- ty’s about the South, Philip Roths and Bernard Malamud’s about the Jews. The specificity implies nothing provincial or small . . . Ms. Erdrich artfully sifts the miraculous through the mundane.” —New York Times Book Review Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-097245-5 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) See page 7 for Louise Erdich’s The Round House.

The Known World: A 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who is now a slave owner in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never cir- cumvents 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 cannon.” —Time Freshman Common Read: Brandeis University, Kalamazoo College Amistad: 432 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-055755-3 • pb • $14.95 ($16.99/CAN)

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The House Girl: A Novel Tara Conklin n fiction n a Shifting seamlessly between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, Tara Conklin’s The House Girl tells the

Americ story of two women. The first, Josephine Bell, is a house slave to artist Lu Anne Bell. The second, Lina Sparrow, is an associate at an elite New York law firm, assigned to find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a class-action lawsuit for trillions in reparations to descendants of American slaves. Thinking she may have found this plaintiff in Josephine, who may have produced her mistress’s most famous works, the two women become intertwined in each other’s lives, while living centuries apart—allowing the author to ask big questions like what it truly means to right a wrong and whether truth is more important than justice. “Conklin’s sensitive, deft handling of complex racial and cultural issues, as well as her creation of a complicated, engaging story make this book destined to be a contender for best of 2013.” —School Library Journal (starred review) William Morrow Paperbacks: 336 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-220751-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

In Country: A 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. 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 Read: Centenary College, University of South Carolina, Upstate Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-083517-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Orphan Train: A Novel Christina Baker Kline n fiction n a Orphan Train tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Molly Ayers, a foster-kid hoping to avoid juvie, and

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

“A compelling story about loss, adaptability, and courage . . . . With compassion and deli- cacy Kline presents a little-known chapter of American history and draws comparisons with the modern-day foster care system.” —Library Journal William Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-195072-8 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel Tom Franklin

Two men, once friends in their youth, are torn apart by circumstance and brought together by tragedy in a small Mississippi town. “Racial prejudice, the tragedy of the assumption of guilt, newly discovered family connections and the closed world of a small Southern community are at the heart of this thriller, which can easily share shelf space with literary novels.” —USA Today “If you’re looking for a smart, thoughtful novel that sinks deep into a Southern hamlet of the American psyche, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is your next book.” —Washington Post Freshman Common Book: University of Mississippi William Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-059467-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Harper: • $26.99 ($28.99/CAN) 2013 • 978-0-06-211083-1 • hc Helene Wecker Helene A Novel A Novel The Golem and the Jinni: Jinni: the and Golem The Paperback available in April 2014: 978-0-06-211084-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) 2014: 978-0-06-211084-8 • pb in April available Paperback 50 American fiction Jess Walter A Novel Beautiful Ruins: so muchso of ahead and them, such differentpaths up forthe choosing. 2011 •978-0-06-208155-1 •pb •$13.99($15.99/CAN) Perennial: Harper 2011 •978-0-06-208155-1pb •$13.99($15.99/CAN) William Morrow Paperbacks: 320pp. Freshman CommonRead: Western MichiganUniversity Illustrated byDaveMcKean Neil Gaiman A Novel The GraveyardBook: FIRST-YEAR B STUDENTS: “ [A] high-wire feat of bravura storytelling. .[Walter’s] mixture of pathos and comedy motor of complex this and ever-evolving novel. stirs and heart the amuses as it us rescues fromhuman too also all the pain that is the 320pp. ooks Key who will relate will who to two the young almost-lovers in1962,with celebrity culture, Walter’s is sure book to enthrall students investigation of genesis the and evolution of contemporary seamlessly, evenmagically. Part coming-of-age story, part a movie pitch, and a play—distinct plots he pulls together narrative with fragments of aWorld War IInovel, amemoir, characters over more than 50years, supplementing central the form, as Walter weaves together stories the of dozens of Ruins trademark wit, Beautiful Written with Jess Walter’s incomparable human insight and in 1962.and is rekindled inHollywoodyears fifty later. ofstory an almost-love affairthat begins the on coast Italian Jess Walter’s New York Time is unforgettable the s #1bestseller “ and what it alive. means be to truly its timeless meditation on love, and . sacrifice loss, survival, Medal-winner captivate will Newberry readers of ages all with in agraveyard. Inventive, chilling, and 2009 magical, this Nobody “Bod” is by who raised Owens ghosts and ghouls The Jungle ofBook, is story the an book this orphaned boy, inThe Graveyardhood Book. Neil Gaiman tells ahaunting and touching of child- allegory storytellers, weaving of atale unforgettable enchantment. of wonder, Neil Gaiman follows footsteps inthe of long-ago and tender, shows Gaiman at top the of his form. In novel this —New York Times Book Review The The GraveyardBook : for ebook Available C ourse A doption ” —New York Times Book Review , by turns exciting and witty, sinister In of style the Rudyard Kipling’s

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Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds oir Love, Healing, and Double Happiness

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The author of First They Killed My Father describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her daily struggle to keep darkness, anger, and depression at bay as she falls in love with a man who embodies the archetype of American optimism. It is the story of Ung’s tentative steps

global issues & Me into love, activism, and marriage—a journey that takes her to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother’s spirit, to finding a vocation focused literally on healing the landscape of her birth, and to the patience and unconditional support of her husband. “You can’t help liking and admiring this young woman. . . . [A] lively, humorous account . . . when you arrive at the hard- earned happy ending, it’s with a sigh of deep relief.” —Washington Post Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-209191-8 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, is a memoir of ruin, recounting the exile of Lagnado’s Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father’s heroic and tragic struggle to survive his “riches to rags” trajectory. Lagando skillfully recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II through Nasser’s rise to power. Set against the stunning portraits of Cairo, Paris, and ultimately New York City, this memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of family, tradition, tragedy and triumph in their epic exodus from paradise. “Beautifully written. . . . A great personalized telling of Egypt’s complicated history in the last half of the 20th century.” —Fareed Zakaria Freshman Common Read: Drury University Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-082218-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost & Me issues global Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado

In her sequel to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado tells the story of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo of dusty alleyways and grand villas

inhabited by pashas and their wives, and she revisits her own m first years in America, first in Brooklyn, then at Vassar and oir Columbia, revealing a coming-of-age interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. “[E]nchanting. . . . It’s risky to write a second memoir about the same time period, but in Lagnado’s hands, the result feels natural and right. She skillfully reminds us that a single human life is infinitely complex, that there are as many sides to a story as times it is told.” —New York Times Book Review Ecco: 416 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-180369-7• pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Late For Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family Tamara Chalabi “It’s an admirable endeavour to have Iraq addressed by someone who is in so many ways able to approach it from two worlds. . . . Tamara Chalabi has the stuff, in every sense, that is needful to undertake this.” —Christopher Hitchens Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the ancestral homeland she’d known only through stories. At once intimate and magisterial, Chalabi’s memoir of return and reclamation vividly captures the rich history of a country shattered by war and a family that has never forgotten its past. “An absorbing social history of Iraq. . . . A work of exile literature, beautifully written, rich with human detail as only personal family histories can be.” —New York Times Book Review Harper Perennial: 448 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-124040-9 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99 CAN)

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Between Two Worlds: oir My Life and Captivity in Iran

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On the morning of January 31, 2009, Iranian-American 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

global issues & Me Iranians across society. “Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an in- nocent 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 Freshman Common Read: Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Moraine Valley Community College Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-196529-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN

Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan Fariba Nawa

In 2000, after nearly two decades in exile from Afghanistan, Fariba Nawa returned to find her homeland vastly changed. A chance meeting with a twelve-old-girl bartered as a bride to settle her father’s opium debt sets Nawa off on a journey across the country to investigate the drug trade that has come to define so much of Afghanistan’s economy and society. “An insightful and informative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personal story of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engaging narrative that chronicles Afghanistan’s dangerous descent into opium trafficking, its impact on the U.S. campaign, and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives of ordinary Afghan people.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-193470-4 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade— & Me issues global and How We Can Fight It [Revised Edition] David Batstone

In this newly revised and updated edition, award-winning journalist, author and professor David Batstone gives students the facts on the $31 billion human trafficking epidemic and

profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are fighting it m and reports on how to stop it. oir “Not for Sale not only informs, it challenges each reader to take action. My students were appalled to learn of the prevalence of human trafficking around the world, but this insight inspired many of them to begin working on a local, national, or global level to bring about change. David Batstone will inspire any student.” —Stephanie M. Foote, Director, Academ- ic Success Center, University of South Carolina Aiken Freshman Common Read: Kennesaw State University, University of South Carolina Aiken HarperOne: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-199883-6 • pb • $16.99 ($16.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

Our Kind of People: A Continent’s Challenge, A Country’s Hope Uzodinma Iweala

When presented together, these dozens of in-person interviews conducted over months with people who were affected by HIV/AIDS in Iweala’s native Nigeria illuminate the greater crisis in a way that transcends the staggering statistics we’ve heard about this disease. The people in this book come from all walks of life: doctors and nurses, sex workers and their customers, orphaned children and their adoptive families, NGO workers and government officials. Not all carry the vi- rus, but none have escaped its hold. “Iweala’s arguments are well reasoned. By making generous use of the voices of many Africans, Iweala’s writing possesses an immediacy that makes his message powerful and compelling.” —Boston Globe “A stunning inquiry into the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. . . . What Iweala evokes is the human cost of AIDS, and this is where Our Kind of People excels. . . . Iweala’s focus on narrative, on sharing the voices and experiences of his subjects, becomes an act of redemption.” —The Los Angeles Times Book Review Harper Perennial: 240 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-128491-5 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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r Sounds of the River: oi A Young Man’s University Days in Beijing

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ue farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He ss soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living l i

a conditions, lack of food, and suicidal roommates. Undaunted by these hurdles, and armed with a dogged determination to lob

g 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. “A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication and, ultimately, triumph.” —New York Times Book Review “Moves briskly and entertainingly along.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Freshman Common Read: Kennesaw State University, Seton Hall University, Spring Hill College, SUNY Stony Brook Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-095872-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler

Peter Hessler takes students on an unforgettable journey to a small village in China where he spent two years teaching English. What he discovers while in this remote village is far more than he ever thought possible. This is a very intimate and human look at a town’s struggle to adapt to the modern world that surrounds it. “Charming and insightful. . . . Poignant, hilarious. . . . Live- ly, 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 Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-085502-4 • pb • $15.99 ($16.99/CAN) Also Available: Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time In China By Peter Hessler • Harper Perennial: 528 pp. • 2007 • 978-0-06-082659-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/Can) Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip By Peter Hessler • Harper Perennial: 448 pp. • 2011 • 978-0-06-180410-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/Can)

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Paulo Coelho l d Fic “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” —from The Alchemist t ion The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, the young Andalu- sian shepherd who dreams of buried treasure in Egypt and embarks upon a challenging journey to find it. With all the simplicity and symbolic richness of a fable, Coelho’s novel is both a hunt for buried treasure and a spiritual quest, with a hero who overcomes trials along the way with the help of teachers who guide him. Paulo Coelho’s books have difficult—and valuable—lessons to impart, but much of their appeal comes from the way Coelho dramatizes these lessons. With exquisite simplicity, the author brings to these stories his own experience of confronting life’s most profound challenges, his broad knowledge of philosophy, psychology, and literature, and a deeply-felt humanity. Freshman Common Read: Erskine College, Montana State University at Bozeman, Immaculata University Harper One: 208 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-112241-5 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at www.HarperAcademic.com. Beasts of No Nation: A Novel Uzodinma Iweala

This short but enormously powerful 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 that will give students the opportunity to explore current issues with a deeply human voice as their guide. “The hypnotic present tense, first-person narration draws the reader deep into the child soldier’s shattered psyche.” —The Washington Post Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College Harper Perennial: 176 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-079868-0 • pb • $11.99 ($15.50/CAN)

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The Secret Lives of the Four Wives: A Novel Lola Shoneyin

The prosperous patriarch of a large household in Nigeria that

World Fiction World includes a quartet of wives and seven children, Baba Segi wants a child with his latest bride—a desire that just might be his undoing, thanks to the machinations, jealousies, and lies of his four deeply different wives. “Alternately funny, shocking, and sad, The Secret Lives is a complex depiction of family and culture in modern-day Nigeria.” —Sacramento Book Review “Using alternating narration, Shoneyin quickly gains the readers interest in this warts-and-all depiction of a culture that will be unfamiliar to many. Each wife finds her own way to assert her power and desire within the confines of a patri- archal system; in some cases, with disastrous consequences.” —Library Journal William Morrow Paperbacks: 304 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-194638-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

The Space Between Us: A Novel Thrity Umrigar

The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper- middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. “Umrigar’s piercing second novel examines the class divide in Bombay through the complex relationship of two women, a middle-class Parsi widow and her longtime servant.” —New York Times “It is so precious to have a book about a woman one rarely even ‘sees’ in society, whether Indian or American.” —Alice Walker Harper Perennial: 352 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-079156-8 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

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The Writing on My Forehead: World Fiction A Novel Nafisa Haji

A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo- Pakistani descent, Saira Qader 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. “[N]ot only a family history but also a social history with an ambitious arc. Haji deftly illustrates how the Qaders’ lives in- tersect with defining world events. [Haji is a] talented new writer of sense and a distinct sensibility.” —San Francisco Chronicle William Morrow Paperbacks: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-149386-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Secret Daughter: A Novel Shilpi Somaya Gowda

In a tiny hut in rural India, Kavita gives birth to Asha. Unable to afford the “luxury” of raising a daughter, her husband forces Kavita to give the baby up—a decision that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to adopt after making the wrenching discovery that she will never have children of her own. When her husband Krishnan shows her a photo of baby Asha sent to him from a Mumbai orphanage, she knows she has found her child. “Gowda offers especially vivid descriptions of the contrasts and contradictions of modern India . . . Rife with themes that lend themselves to discussion, such as cultural identity, adoption, and women’s roles.” —Library Journal William Morrow Paperbacks: 368 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-192835-2 • pb • $13.99 ($15.99/CAN)

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Together Tea Marjan Kamali

After a last ill-fated attempt at matchmaking, Iranian- American Darya and her daughter, Mina, embark on a return

World Fiction World journey to her homeland. Immersed once again in Persian culture, the two women gradually begin to understand each other. But when Mina falls for a young man who never appeared on her mother’s matchmaking radar, will Mina and Darya’s new-found appreciation for each other survive? Together Tea is a moving and joyous novel about family, love, and finding the place you truly belong. “Kamali’s thoughtful novel presents the story of a young Iranian woman’s coming of age in modern America and her mother’s parallel journey from the old world to the new. Kamali’s writing spans oceans yet depicts a common humanity—a lovely work.” —Rishi Reddi, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories Ecco: 336 pp. 2013 • 978-0-06-223680-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

The Good Muslim: A Novel Tahmima Anam

Set in Bangladesh at a time when Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise, The Good Muslim is a story about faith, family and the long shadow of war. Tahmima Anam, the prize-winning author of A Golden Age, offers a moving portrait of a sister and brother who struggle with the competing loyalties of love and belief as they cope with the lasting ravages of war and confront the deeply intimate roots of religious extremism. Anam’s “accomplished and gripping novel,” in the words of author Pankaj Mishra, “describes not only the tumult of a great historical event, but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war.” “The writer’s gift is to make the unfamiliar understood. The Good Muslim succeeds in doing exactly that, and doing it well.” —Denver Post Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-147886-4 • pb • $14.99

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The Girl Who Fell To Earth: World Fiction A Memoir Sophia Al-Maria

With poignancy and humor, Al-Maria shares the struggles of being raised by an American mother and Bedouin father while shuttling between homes in the Pacific Northwest and the Middle East. Part family saga and part personal quest, it traces Al-Maria’s journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds. While her life growing up may have been unusual, Al-Maria’s story is marked by its subtlety as she insightfully examines cultural differences and commonalities. “Daring, witty, and brimming with the unexpected, Sophia Al-Maria’s riveting memoir is as much about America as it is [about] the Arab world. Chronicling a coming-of-age between Washington State, Doha, and Cairo, this bracing first book startles and illuminates.” —Yasmine El Rashidi, author of The Battle for Egypt Freshman Common Read: Northwestern University’s campuses in Evanston and Qatar Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-199975-8 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

Never Fall Down: A Novel Patricia McCormick

A finalist for the National Book Award, Never Fall Down is a novel based on the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond—who was just a kid, dancing to rock ‘n’ roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother when the soldiers of the Khmer Rouge invaded his town. Forcibly separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp, he bears witness as other children, weak from hunger, malaria, or sheer exhaustion, die before his eyes and prisoners march to a nearby mango grove, never to return. “A gripping account of the inner turmoil of a child soldier.” —New York Times Book Review

Baltzer + Bray: 224 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-173093-1 • hc • $17.99 (19.99/CAN) Paperback available in December 2013: 978-0-06-173095-5 • pb • $9.99 (10.99/CAN)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God: ion

t A Novel Zora Neale Hurston ic Fic Foreword by Edwidge Danticat, Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ass

C l “There is no book more important to me than this one.” —Alice Walker One of the most important works of 20th-century American literature, 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 Read: Albion College, Valparaiso University Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 256 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-083867-6 • pb • $14.99 ($1699/CAN) ★Teaching materials available at ZoraNealeHurston.com. Native Son: A Novel Richard Wright Introduction by Arnold Rampersad

Native Son tells the story of a 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 meant to be black in America. “Richard Wright’s masterpiece is in the school of protest novel. . . . Native Son taught me that it’s all right to have passion within your work, that you don’t need to shy away from politics in order to write fiction.” —Gloria Naylor

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 544 pp. 2005 • 978-0-06-083756-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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One Hundred Years of Solitude Classi Gabriel García Márquez c “One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature Fi c

since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for tion the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man. . . . Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.” —William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 448 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-088328-7 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)

The Odyssey of Homer Richard Lattimore “It would be a crime to underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry with which Professor Lattimore has re- animated Homer for this generation, and perhaps for other generations to come.” —Times Literary Supplement “A splendid achievement . . . the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet.” —New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 400 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-124418-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Religious Literacy: Reli

What Every American Needs To Know— And Doesn’t g Stephen Prothero ion

Are your students ready to discuss 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.

“Prothero is the kind of professor who makes you want to go back to college. [He] is a world-religions scholar with the soul of a late-night television comic.” —Newsweek Freshman Common Read: Western Washington University HarperOne: 384 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-085952-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World Stephen Prothero

Stephen Prothero debunks the popular myth that all religions are “different paths to the same God.” Contrary to what many popular religion writers say, we actually disrespect the core of each religious tradition when we treat them as if they were indistinguishable. God Is Not One showcases the disparities between each tradition, revealing the undeniable differences drawn by religious boundaries of belief and practice. “Enough of lazy paddling of a false and dangerous idea that all religions are the same! They are the same and they are different, they are clashing and complementary, overlapping and incongruous. To live together well in a globalized world, we need to know each other’s faiths, learn to debate in a civil way about their truth claims, and above come to respect each other even when we disagree on what matters to us the most. A very much needed book!” —Miroslav Volf, Professor, Yale University HarperOne: 400 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-157128-2 • pb • $16.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense N. T. Wright Religion

Why is justice fair? Why do we crave relationships? Why are so many people pursuing spirituality? For two thousand years Christianity has claimed to answer these mysteries, and in Simply Christian, renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop N. T. Wright demonstrates that it still does so today. Like C. S. Lewis in his classic Mere Christianity, Wright makes the case for Christian faith from the ground up, assuming that the student has no predisposition to and perhaps even some negativity toward religion in general and Christianity in particular. “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 ($26.99/CAN)

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life James Martin, SJ

Famous for their practical spirituality and ardent commitment to education, the Jesuits have a reputation as smart people of faith who change lives for the better and make a difference in the world. The traditional wisdom that Jesuits use to help other people in their daily lives—how to make decisions, how to move towards freedom, how to live a spiritual life in the modern world—are easily applied, but not often explained well to the general public. The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything translates the 500-year-old insights of Saint Ignatius (often called “Ignatian spirituality”) for a modern audience, using stories and examples from Martin’s 20 years as a Jesuit and from the lives of the great Jesuit saints and spiritual masters.

“Writing beautifully, and with frequent touches of humor, James Martin, SJ, shows us what he’s learned in religious life, and in the process offers us a rich spiritual feast” — Catholic Digest (Editor’s Top Pick of the Month) HarperOne: 448 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-143269-9 • pb • $16.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Made for Goodness: Religion And Why This Makes All The Difference Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu

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 our 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 message of hope that will transform students into activists for change and blessing. “Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho Tutu have seen more evil than most of us can begin to imagine. . . . That is why their book is shocking: How can they say that all people ‘are fundamentally good,’ that ‘we are all made to inhabit heaven’? . . . Like Augustine and Calvin and their heirs, the Tutus acknowledge the mixture of good and bad in all of us. But where traditional theologians speak of original sin, the bad seed that spoils everything we attempt, the Tutus speak of original goodness—the good seed that can be nurtured until it eventually drives out evil.” —The Christian Century Freshman Common Read: College of St. Elizabeth HarperOne: 224 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-170660-8 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99)

Also available The Words of Desmond Tutu Selected and Introduced by Naomi Tutu William Morrow Paperbacks: 112 pp. 1999 • 9781557042828 • pb • $11.95 ($12.95/CAN) God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations Desmond Tutu HarperOne: 256 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-187462-8 • pb • $23.99 ($25.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2014: 978-0-06-187463-5 • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu HarperOne: 256 pp. 2014 • 978-0-06-220356-4 • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis

Religion This is a forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity, and the most popular among the books of C. S. Lewis. Mere Christianity is a book that uncovers common ground upon which all those who have Christian faith can stand together. “C. S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way.” —Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book Review “I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiration.” —John Updike HarperOne: 256 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-065292-0 • pb • $14.99 ($15.99/CAN)

The Screwtape Letters C. 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 “Lewis, perhaps more than any other 20th-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.” —Los Angeles Times HarperOne: 224 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-065293-7 • pb • $14.99 ($15.99/CAN)

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The World’s Religions Religion Huston Smith

Huston Smith’s masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world’s predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner— rather than the institutional—dimension of these religions, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination. “This is one book on world religions I can’t do without. I return to it often—and always with reward.” —Bill Moyers HarperOne: 448 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-166018-4 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama

In this astonishingly frank autobiography, the Dalai Lama reveals the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism and the brutal realities of Chinese Communism. He describes the five decades of Chinese rule, which have left 1.25 million Tibetans dead, and the Tibetan natural and religious landscapes decimated, yet his story is one of hope. Inspiring in every way, Freedom in Exile is both a historical document and an example of deep trust in humanity. “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 ($17.99/CAN)

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Letting Go (Fifth Edition): Or A Parents’ Guide To Understanding The College Years ien Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger tat ion

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. 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. Harper Perennial: 464 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-166573-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) A workshop outline for orientation programs is available at www.HarperAcademic.com.

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

It’s the classic conundrum that faces college students, recent graduates and young professionals: How do I get a job with no experience and how do I get experience without a job? In this newly revised edition, consultant and Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn Lindsey Pollak presents 101 things to do to build a great résumé and gain excellent experience. Pollak helps students use social media on the job hunt, stand out in today’s ultra-competitive job market, and make every networking opportunity a success. Her insightful ideas will provide excellent guidance for recent graduates and those new to the workforce. “A well-written, lively and easy to follow guide.” —Time.com “Pollak’s thorough research reveals some startling facts that the modern job-searcher may be overlooking.” —Metro New York HarperBusiness: 352 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-206927-6 • pb • $16.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Best Four Years: o n How to Survive and Thrive in College (and Life) Adam Shepard

Orientati After speaking at colleges and universities across the nation, the author of Scratch Beginnings found he was being asked the same questions by students and parents hungry to know how to capitalize on their education: How do you walk away with more than just a piece of paper saying you graduated? What are the pitfalls and the opportunities that you should look out for? How do you make the absolute most of your time in college? In The Best Four Years, he uses his own experiences from college and lessons learned on his speaking circuit to examine and explain the many aspects (and surprises) of college life, including: • The transition to life away from home • The importance of time off • The ins and outs of a tight budget • The subtleties of social life, and much more. • The necessity of scheduling

Harper Perennial: 240 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-198392-4 • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College Lynn 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 • Strategies for staying motivated with an eye to grades • How to get the most from your • Top 10 tips for taking professor excellent lecture notes • Best test-preparation and test-taking strategies

“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 Advis- ing, Pennsylvania State University Collins Reference: 368 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-087908-2 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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How Will You Measure Your Life? Orientati Clayton M. Christensen with James Allworth & Karen Dillon

In How Will You Measure Your Life? Christensen puts forth a o n series of questions that he asks his students before they leave Harvard Business School: How can I be sure that I’ll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity? Using lessons from some of the world’s greatest businesses, he provides incredible insight into these challenging questions. “Instead of force-feeding readers with orders on how to im- prove, it aims to give them the tools to set their own course.” —Financial Times

“Recommend the book to friends and family who have no connection to the business world. They will thank you for it.” —Harvard Business Review HarperBusiness: 240 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-210241-6 • hc • $25.99 ($28.99/CAN)

The Naked Truth: Young, 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 landed her in the fight of her life. “This brave book puts a real face on the tragic statistics.” —Ebony

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

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How to Write a Sentence:

101 And How to Read One g

in Stanley Fish i t r

W New York Times columnist and Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, Stanley Fish strongly emphasizes form and structure as the foundations of good writing skills. And, How to Write a Sentence stresses this truism: the basic need for students to know how to write a sentence—the essential form of communication on the page—is primal. As Fish proclaims, “If you know sentences, you know everything. Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world.” Drawing on a wide range of examples from Hobbes to Scalia to Elmore Leonard, Fish takes students on a grand tour of great writing—sentence by sentence.

“[Fish’s] approach is genially experiential—a lifelong reader’s engagement whose amatory enthusiasm is an attempt to overthrow Strunk & White’s infamous insistences on gram- mar by rote.” —New York Observer Harper Paperbacks: 176 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-184053-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction William Zinsser

On Writing Well, a classic guide to writing nonfiction, has been praised by educators and students for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. Whether students need to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about themselves, On Writing Well offers students fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. “Not since The 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

Harper Paperbacks: 176 pp. 2012 • 978-0-06-184053-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)

74 Key: ebook Available Audio Book Available FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS: Books for Course Adoption I Index n d ex A D Albom 6 Dalai Lama 69 High Price 10 Alchemist, The 57 Devil in the Grove 8 Home of the Field, A 24 Aldrich 30 Dobelli 15 Horan 21 All American 25 Double Take 35 House Girl, The 46 Al-Maria 61 Dressmaker of Khair Khana, How to Be Black 8 American Tapestry 9 The 7 How to Write a Sentence 74 Anam 60 Dust Tracks on a Road 31 How Will You Measure Your Life 73 Arrogant Years, The 53 However Long the Night 4 Art of Thinking Clearly, The 15 E Hurston 31, 62 Astor Orphan, The 30 Erdrich 7, 43, 44 Huxley 64 Autobiography of a Face 37 Etched in Sand 9 Eubanks 25 B I I Have a Dream 26 Barry 24 F In Country 46 Batstone 55 Family Fang 40 In the Sanctuary of Outcasts 34 Bean Trees, The 43 First Phone Call from Heaven, InGenius 18 Beasts of No Nation 57 The 6 Is the Internet Changing the Beautiful Ruins 50 First They Killed My Father 51 Way You Think 14 Beekeeper’s Lament, The 16 Fish 74 Iweala 55, 57 Being Wrong 16 Flight Behavior 42 Fontaine 30 Bel Canto 41 J Believe 35 Fountain 38 Jacobs and Hyman 72 Best Four Years, The 72 Franklin 48 Freakonomics 12 Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Between Two Worlds 54 Everything, The 66 Freedom in Exile 69 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 38 Jones 44 From Every End of This Earth 28 Black Boy 32 Just Kids 31 Bling Ring, The 23 G Blue Death, The 20 K Gaiman 11, 49, 50 Blum 14 Kamali 60 Getting From College to Career 71 Bottom of the 33rd 24 Kamkwamba 4 Gimp 36 Bowen 6 Kidd 39 Girl Who Fell to Earth, The 61 Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Kimmel 23 The 4 Gitlin 22 Kindred Beings 19 Brave New World 64 God Is Not One 65 King, M. 26 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The 64 Golem and the Jinni, The 49 King, G. 8 Brockman 14,15 Good Luck of Right Now, The 40 Kingsolver 42, 43 Good Muslim, The 60 Kline 48 C Gowda 59 Known World, The 44 Calcaterra 9 Graveyard Book, The 50 Cash 38 Grealy 37 L Chalabi 53 Grennan 5 Lagnado 52, 53 Cheese Monkeys, The 39 Guest 36 Land More Kind Than Home 38 Chen 56 Guyland 23 Late for Tea at Deer Palace 53 Christensen 73 Lattimore 63 Coburn 71 H Learners, The 39 Coelho 57 Haji 59 LeGrand 35 Coming of Age on Zoloft 22 Hamlet’s BlackBerry 13 Lemmon 7 Conklin 46 Happiness Project, The 10 Letting Go 71 Connolly 35 Hart 10 Leveen 45 Cove, The 47 Harvest 21 Levitt and Dubner 12 Creative Intelligence 17 Hasan 33 Lewis 68 Crooked Letter, Crooked Have Mother, Will Travel 30 Little Princes 5 Letter 48 Heart of Islam, The 70 Love Medicine 43 Cuadros 24 Herzog 19 Lucky Child 51 Hessler 56 Lulu in the Sky 52

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