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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 2 F FEATURED TITLES eatured The Boy Who Harnessed This Is a Soul The Mission of Rick Hodes itles the Wind Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Marilyn Berger T William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer Dr. Rick Hodes is no ordinary doctor. An American, Dr. Hodes has spent most of his life treating serious
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, Africa, a T spinal diseases in Ethiopia, a country with fewer than country plagued by AIDS and poverty. When, in
three physicians for every 45,000 inhabitants. Dr. itles 2002, Malawi experienced their worst famine in 50 Hodes says of his insistence on sending pictures of years, fourteen-year-old William was forced to drop his subjects to the labs, “Doctors always ask why I out of school because his family could not afford the send photos, why I don’t just send the x-rays and eatured $80-a-year-tuition. However, he continued to think, blood studies . . . I want them to know this is a human
F learn, and dream. Armed with curiosity, determina- being. . . . This isn’t just a back. This is a soul.” This tion, and a few old science textbooks he discovered titular quote exemplifies the deeply humanistic in a nearby library, he embarked on a daring plan to attitude Dr. Hodes takes towards healthcare. build a windmill that could bring his family the Acclaimed journalist Marilyn Berger brings Dr. electricity only two percent of Malawians could Hodes’s work to life in This Is a Soul, a book with the afford. power to inspire students to think outside the normal “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [is] an autobiography application of their skills and education. so moving that it is almost impossible to read without “There isn’t a living physician whose life and quiet tears. In understated and simple prose, Kamkwamba and Mealer offer readers a tour through one heroism I have admired more than the subject of this extraordinary book. Rick Hodes cares little if the Malawian boy’s inspiring life. . . . The telling of his story is surprisingly levelheaded. . . . As you read this world knows of his work, and yet he has much to teach the world about an empathic civilization, and how book (I’d suggest keeping a box of tissues handy) you can be sure that William Kamkwamba’s future is boundaries and nationhood are meaningless in the face of suffering. . . . This Is a Soul is a powerful, bright. If this tale is any indication, we’ll be hearing his name again in the years ahead.”—Christian Science important book for our age.”—Abraham Verghese, author My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story Monitor Thematic Focus: Science, Medicine, Ethics, Public Policy, Global Health, Humanitarianism Thematic Focus: Science, Engineering, Africa, Ingenuity, Personal Stories William Morrow: 288 pp. Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-175954-3 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN) 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-173033-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 288 pp. Freshman Common Read: Maryville University, University of Central Florida, Central College, Boise State University, 2011 • 978-0-06-175955-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) California State University, Chico Paperback available in April 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 3 F eatured Little Princes A Pearl in the Storm One Man’s Promise to Bring Home How I Found My Heart in the Middle of itles the Lost Children of Nepal the Ocean
T Conor Grennan T ori Murden McClure
Conor Grennan had spent eight years working for During June 1998, Tori Murden McClure set out to T The East West Institute in Prague and Brussels, row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a
focusing on peace in the Balkan region and serving twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or itles as Deputy Director of EWI’s Program on Security sail. Within days she lost all communication with and Good Governance, the Advisor on EU Affairs to shore, ultimately losing updates on the location of EWI’s Worldwide Security Program. On the eve of the Gulf Stream and on the weather. In deep eatured his thirtieth birthday Conor Grennan left his job solitude and perilous conditions, she was nonethe- F with a plan to travel the world. Stopping first to less determined to prove what one person with a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in mission could do. When she was finally brought to war-torn Nepal, Conor’s life changed forever. Conor her knees by a series of violent storms that nearly soon discovered that many of the children with killed her, she had to signal for help and go home in whom he had been playing with were not orphans, what felt like complete disgrace. but the victims of human traffickers, who had Back home in Kentucky she went to work for kidnapped children from their homes and families. Muhammad Ali, who told her that she did not want Shocked and affected by what he learned Conor to be known as the woman who “almost” rowed opened his own orphanage two years later, with the mission of helping to reunite stolen kids with across the Atlantic Ocean—and she knew that he was right. In this thrilling story of high adventure, their families. Tori Murden McClure gives students a true memoir of an explorer who maps her world with rare “Funny, touching, tragic. Conor Grennan’s Little Princes is a remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking emotional honesty. and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with “Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea their parents.”—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. If you want to be inspired, read this book. You won’t Thematic Focus: Human Slavery, Humanitarianism, Global Culture, Personal Stories stop till you’ve finished.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife
William Morrow: 304 pp. Thematic Focus: Personal Stories, Determination, Adventure, Survival 2011 • 978-0-06-193005-8 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. Available in February 2011 2010 • 978-0-06-171887-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)
Freshman Common Read: Northern Kentucky University, Brescia University, Erksine College, Spring Hill College
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 4 F eatured Double Take The Last Lecture A Memoir itles Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow K evin Michael Connolly
T On September 18, 2007, computer science Kevin Michael Connolly is a 25-year-old who has professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an seen the world in a way most of your students never audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon T will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at University to deliver a last lecture called “Really
Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” Although he itles Games on his mono-ski as a teenager, Connolly has had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, that day been an object of curiosity since the day he was Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, and born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed eatured was raised like any other kid. As a college student, invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he F he traveled to seventeen countries on his skate- himself acknowledged. board and, in an attempt to capture the stares of Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has strangers, he took more than 30,000 photographs of the bestselling book he wrote based on the same people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to view ourselves and what it is to truly see another pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy person. His remarkable journey will change the way continues to inspire all who read The Last Lecture. your students look at others and the way they see themselves. Thematic Focus: Inspiration, Determination
Thematic Focus: Personal Stories, Photography, Disability, Travel Hyperion: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-1-4013-2325-7 • hc • $21.95 ($23.50/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 240 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-179152-9 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) Freshman Common Read: Georgia Institute of Technology, Ramapo College, Cazenovia College, Newberry College, Creighton University, Great Bay Community College, Indiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, North Freshman Common Read: Montana State University, Colorado Mountain College, University of Wisconsin— Georgia College and State University, Thomas College, Western Illinois University La Crosse
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 5 F eatured The Dressmaker of A Home on the Field How One Championship Team Inspires Hope itles Khair Khana for the Revival of Small Town America Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and T the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Paul Cuadros Them Safe This is a triumphant true story of a team of Latino Gayle Tzemach Lemmon high school students and their coach who fought T
against prejudice to win the North Carolina state itles Kamela Sediqi is not the typical entrepreneur. soccer championship. Desperate to support her six brothers and sisters at home and banished from the streets of Kabul, “Cuadros, a reporter, went to Siler City, North Carolina,
eatured Kamela opened a dressmaking business in her living to investigate the changes wrought by Latinos arriving
F room. Her business went on to employ 100 women to work in small-town poultry-processing plants. He in her community and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana became part of the story when he lobbied Jordan- chronicles her struggles and successes as she Matthews High School to create a team for its offered hope and resilience to women under the soccer-loving Latino youth. Three seasons later, he had Taliban’s oppressive rule. While so many reports of coached the Jets to a state championship. The engaging the Taliban portray women as victims, Gayle tale of the team’s climb to the top also provides a lens Tzemach Lemmon’s book portrays its heroines as through which to view the challenges of assimilation.” strong and resilient. —Booklist
Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, UNC Chapel Hill
“Kamela Sediqi’s unforgettable story shows just how far we are willing to go for those we love, and proves It Books: 288 pp.; illustrated 2007 • 978-0-06-112028-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) once again the power of girls to remake our world. This is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” — Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea Thematic Focus: Women, Afghanistan, The Taliban, Entrepreneurship
Harper: 272 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-173237-9 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN)
Available in March 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 6 F eatured Not For Sale Breaking Night The Return of the Global Slave Trade— A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My itles and How We Can Fight It Journey from Homelessness to Harvard
T D avid Batstone Liz Murray
An estimated 27 million people around the globe Breaking Night is the remarkable true story of one T suffer in situations of forced labor and commercial woman’s journey from living on the streets to
sexual exploitation from which they cannot free attending Harvard. At age 15, her mother’s itles themselves. Trafficking in people has become boyfriend kicked Liz Murray out of her family’s small increasingly transnational in scope, and is today the Bronx apartment soon after her mother had died of third most profitable criminal activity in the world. AIDS. Homeless with nowhere to go, Liz chronicles eatured As many as half of all those trafficked worldwide for her years surviving on the streets and the path she F sex and domestic slavery are children under 18 years took that eventually led her to enroll at Harvard. A of age. harrowing and inspiring story, Breaking Night will expose students to the story of destitution and In Not For Sale, David Batstone, a Professor of Ethics retribution, offering them the unique perspective of at the University of San Francisco, tells the inspiring someone who broke the cycle of drug addiction and stories of rescued victims and their heroic rescuers, poverty to end up attending one of the nation’s including background briefings on human most prestigious universities. trafficking, and practical ideas that empower individuals and their communities to join the Thematic Focus: Homelessness, AIDS, Drugs, Survival
campaign for human freedom. Hyperion: 352 pp. 2010 • 978-0-78-686891-9 • hc • $24.99 (N/C) Freshman Common Book: Kennesaw State University, University of South Carolina Aiken
HarperOne: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-120671-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 7 F eatured Fast Food Nation Guyland Th e Dark Side of the All-American Meal The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men itles Understanding the critical years between 16 and 26 Eric Schlosser T Michael Kimmel Why is Fast Food Nation a favorite pick for freshman reading? Among many reasons, it encourages Sociologist Michael Kimmel tackles the world of T students to think about their everyday actions late adolescent boys and young men: the “guys” of
within a larger context. The story of fast food is the America, aged 16 to 26. Although these young men itles story of postwar America. Though created by a may appear to be growing up too fast, they are in handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has: fact becoming adults quite slowly. From the mundane—video games, movies and television, eatured • Triggered the homogenization of our culture sports, and music—to the extreme—violent
F • Hastened the “malling” of our landscape fraternity initiations, sexual predation, and school • Widened the gap between rich and poor shootings—Kimmel reveals in Guyland the larger • Fueled an epidemic of obesity culture that every boy must navigate on his way to • Propelled the juggernaut of American cultural adulthood, whether he is a participant or a imperialism abroad bystander. Kimmel asserts that what happens to Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investi- boys in this period often determines the type of gation that will show your students how one men they become for the rest of their lives. industry has changed the face of America—and the “Michael Kimmel’s Guyland could save the humanity of world. It works in a multitude of courses and disciplines—from history, sociology, and business to many young men—and the sanity of their friends and parents—by explaining the forces behind a newly composition, health and nutrition—and beyond. extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he names the problem and offers compassionate “Channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson. . . . Schlosser’s research is impressive— bridges to adulthood.”—Gloria Steinem statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global.” Harper paperbacks: 352 pp.; index —San Francisco Chronicle 2009 • 978-0-06-083135-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
Freshman Common Book: Western Illinois State University, Highline Community College, Prince George Community College, Hamline University, Champlain College, Bentley College, Windward Community College, Louisiana State University at Monroe, Ball State University, SUNY Oswego—and many others!
Harper Perennial: 416 pp.; illustrated; index 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083858-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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The Paradox of Choice Curious? I
deas Why More Is Less D iscover the Missing Ingredient to deas a Fulfilling Life I How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction Todd Kashdan, Ph.D. ig Barry Schwartz On the surface, curiosity doesn’t appear to be a trait B of tremendous importance. Todd Kashdan turns this Whether your students are buying a pair of jeans, assumption on its head, however, in Curious? ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance cultivating an interest in one’s surroundings is a carrier, registering for courses, or choosing a deep, complex phenomenon that plays a critical role doctor, their everyday decisions—both big and in the pursuit of a meaningful life. This thesis small—have become increasingly complex due to the implicitly underscores the importance of active overwhelming abundance of choice with which they mental engagement with one’s surroundings, a are presented. lesson from which students of all disciplines and Students assume that more choices—the hallmark of walks of life can benefit. individual freedom and self-determination—mean “Curious? points the way to an exploring spirit that leads better options and greater satisfaction. But Barry to wonderment, joy, and meaning. It’s one of those rare Schwartz, a Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social books that is both research-based and practical.” Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, —David G. Myers, author of The Pursuit of Happiness warns them to beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make us question the decisions we William Morrow: 352 pp. make before we even make them, it can set us up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can 2009 • 978-0-06-166118-1 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) make us blame ourselves for any and all failures. Harper paperbacks: 352 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-166119-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN) “This book is valuable in two ways. It argues persuasively that most of us would often be better off with fewer options, and that many of us try too hard to make the best choices. While making its case, the book Paperback available in December 2010 also provides an engaging introduction to current psychological research on choice and on well-being.” —Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-000569-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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Freakonomics SuperFreakonomics I
deas A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side G lobal Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, deas of Everything and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy I Life Insurance S teven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner ig S teven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
B Here’s a first-year book that encourages critical thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics When originally published, Freakonomics exploded addresses current social questions that students will like a bomb on the culture, forever changing the enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over way students understand the way the world works coffee in the student union: and how they really make decisions. After more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, 3 • Whic h is more dangerous—a gun or a swimming million copies sold, and single-handedly inventing a pool? genre of books, University of Chicago economist • Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers? Steven D. Levitt and New York Times writer Stephen • What makes a perfect parent? J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics. Based on These may not sound like typical questions an entirely new research, it’s bigger, more provocative, economist asks, but Levitt is not your typical and ready to challenge the way students think all economist. He studies the mysteries of everyday over again. life—from cheating and crime to sports and child “SuperFreakonomics is written for noneconomists. rearing—and his conclusions regularly turn Using wry humor the authors explore unexpected conventional wisdom on its head. areas—and often, a huge economic change turns on a noneconomic hinge.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “We think we know how the world operates, but we really don’t. . . . Freakonomics uses the science of Harper Perennial: 304 pp. economics and concrete data to challenge our assumptions about everything. . . . You’ll walk away with 2010 • 978-0-06-88958-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) not only a few good party tidbits, but also a more critical eye to many things presented as fact.”—Harvard Business Review
Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Louisville
Harper Perennial: 352 pp.; index 2009 • 978-0-06-073133-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)
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Predictably Irrational The Upside of Irrationality I
deas Revised and Expanded Edition The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic deas at Work and at Home I The Hidden Forces that Shape Our DecisionS D an Ariely D an Ariely ig The Upside of Irrationality examines the unexpected B Do you know why you still have a headache after role irrationality plays in students’ day-to-day taking a one-cent aspirin, but why that same decision-making, impacting everything from headache disappears if the aspirin costs fifty cents? finances to romances. In the follow-up to his Do you know why recalling the Ten Commandments bestseller Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely reflects reduces people’s tendency to lie, or why honor on irrationality, particularly as it is brought to bear codes are actually effective in reducing dishonesty on the following topics: at the workplace? • What we think will make us happy and what really Predictably Irrational challenges students to ponder makes us happy these questions (questions we sometimes avoid) • How we learn to love the ones we are with and demonstrates how irrationality manifests itself • Why online dating doesn’t work, and how we can in situations (often very peculiar and hilarious improve on it situations) where rational thought is expected. We • Why learning more about people make us like all succumb to irrationality, it’s about time we find them less out how it affects our daily lives in a significant way. • Why large bonuses can make CEOs less productive In this astounding book, groundbreaking in scope • How to really motivate people at work and totally original, Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviors and presents outstanding • Why bad directions can help us material that will keep every student transfixed. • How we fall in love with our ideas “Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering • How we are motivated by revenge and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act, in the marketplace and out. Predictably • What motivates us to cheat. Irrational will reshape the way you see the world, and yourself, for good.”—James Surowiecki, author of Harper: 352 pp.; index The Wisdom of Crowds 2010 • 978-0-06-199503-3 • hc • $27.99 ($29.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 384 pp.; revised and expanded edition; index 2010 • 978-0-06-135324-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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Hamlet’s BlackBerry Bounce I
deas A Practical Philosophy for Building Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham and the deas a Good Life in the Digital Age Science of Success I William Powers Matthew Syed ig Mozart. Federer. Picasso. Beckham. For centuries, B What does it mean to be “connected”? What are the positive and negative effects for a society achieving artists and athletes have exemplified the narrative connectedness increasingly through technology? In of success, creating enduring legacies of excep- Hamlet’s BlackBerry, William Powers reflects on our tional prowess, insight or artistic talent. In Bounce, society’s relationship with technology and its effect Matthew Syed expands students’ understanding of on business and intrapersonal relationships. Though the art of competition—in business, sports, school, everything from social networking to smartphones or the arts—to show that developing a healthy sense has made has made it easier to communicate, many of competition can lead to success. Drawing particu- fear that the new social landscape diminishes the larly illuminating examples from the worlds of arts quality of human interaction. and sports, Bounce’s lessons transcend disciplines and will appeal to students of all curricular and Today’s students have grown up with and will extracurricular interests. Syed backs his claims with continue to encounter unprecedented change as a the latest revolutionary findings in cognitive result of the digital age. Unlike any previous neuroscience, making Bounce both academic and generation they will be called upon to construct broadly appealing. values and ethics in a world in which rapid technological change is the norm. Smart and soulful, Hamlet’s BlackBerry asks students to evaluate “Sport is often used as an analogy for business, education, and personal relationships. In this insightful what it means to be connected in a practical and philosophical sense and teaches them to evaluate and entertaining book, Matthew Syed takes us a step deeper into the world of sports, showing us how the importance of this in their lives. much we can learn about our own behavior.”—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality “In Hamlet’s BlackBerry, William Powers helps us understand what being ‘connected’ disconnects us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it. This is a thoughtful, elegant, and moving Harper: 320 pp.; index; illustrated book.”—Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less 2010 • 978-0-06-172375-9 • hc • $25.99 ($27.99/CAN)
Harper: 288 pp. Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; index; illustrated 2010 • 978-0-06-168716-7 • hc • $24.99 ($25.90/CAN) 2011 • 978-0-06-172376-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
Harper Perennial: 288 pp. Paperback available in May 2011 2011 • 978-0-06-168717-4 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) Paperback available in June 2011
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The Rational Optimist The Authenticity Hoax I
deas How Prosperity Evolves How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves deas
I Matt Ridley Andrew Potter
ig A provocative interpretation of economic history, In a modern society, where people often rely on cultural tastes and preferences to establish their B Matt Ridley makes a hopeful case for what he calls “cultural evolution,” positing that the benefits of identities, it can be easy to lose sight of the commerce, technology, innovation and change will importance of authenticity. In The Authenticity Hoax, inevitably increase human prosperity. Ridley’s Potter masterfully applies philosophical principles optimism goes beyond simply extrapolating recent to pop culture concepts to support his thesis that trends, to examine the way in which human culture the pursuit of authenticity in contemporary has evolved by exchange and specialization, a American society—be it through Bikram yoga or the process that began more than 100,000 years ago. As “whole foods” movement—can actually be dialogue about the current economic climate is exclusionary and self-promoting. beset by pessimistic theses, The Rational Optimist “In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter masters two of provides students with a bold counterpoint that the trickiest balancing acts in contemporary social underscores the value of human progress as a criticism. He takes on a wide range of highbrow fundamental asset to economic prosperity. sources—from John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to “A fast-moving, intelligent description of why human Walter Benjamin and Lionel Trilling—and he makes them life has so consistently improved over the course of accessible without reducing them to cartoons. And he history, and a wonderful overview of how human civilizations move forward.”—New York Times comments on an even wider range of pop culture items—from The Matrix to skateboarding to locally grown produce and the YouTube aesthetic—in a tone that’s pitched just right . . . the kind of criticism that Harper: 448 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-145205-5 • hc • $26.99 ($28.99/CAN) changes minds.”—Thomas De Zengotita, author of Mediated
Harper Perennial: 448 pp.; index Harper: 304 pp.; index 2011 • 978-0-06-145206-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-125133-7 • hc • $25.99
Paperback available in June 2011 Harper paperbacks: 304 pp.; index 2011 • 978-0-06-125135-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
Paperback available in May 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 13 A AMERICAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY meric Some We Love, Some We Amazing Grace deas Hate, Some We Eat The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation I Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight
about Animals Jonathan Kozol an ig Hal Herzog Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s look at the B
resilient poor black and Hispanic children of Mott H How do we reconcile our love for cats and dogs with Haven, a neighborhood located in the South Bronx
our appetite for hamburgers and bacon? How can istory of New York City. Under the ever-watchful eye of we rationalize testing medications on lab mice when concerned parents, the teachers of P.S. 30, and the some people also keep mice as pets? Why do we eat religious leaders of St. Ann’s Church, who strive chicken but condemn cockfighting? each day to foster optimism and self-respect in their The way people think about animals is inconsistent children, Kozol hypnotically interweaves the and often paradoxical. In Some We Love, Some We gripping story of a beleaguered community plagued Hate, Some We Eat, Hal Herzog examines our with high rates of HIV and pediatric AIDS, homicide, and complicated feelings about our relationships with drug abuse, and gang rivalry. Yet regardless of their animals. With the intellectual rigor of The overwhelming hardships, the children featured in Ominvore’s Dilemma, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Amazing Grace are wonderfully tender, generous,
Some We Eat is an in-depth look at the complex way religiously devout, and heartbreakingly eloquent S humans think about their connection with other about the poverty and racism that they face in their ociety members of the Animal Kingdom. young lives. These children may be wounded by their circumstances, but they are not hardened or bitter. They are an inspiration to all who read their story. “A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.” —Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of “Kozol reminds us that, with each casualty, part of the beauty of the world is extinguished, because these The Language Instinct are children of intelligence and humor, of poetic insight and luminous faith.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed “Everybody who is interested in the ethics of our relationship between humans and animals should read this book.”—Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 1996 • 978-0-06-097697-2 • pb • $14.99 ($16.25/CAN) Harper: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-173086-3 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 14 A meric Ordinary Resurrections Savage Inequalities Children in the Years of Hope Children in America’s Schools Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol ociety an In Ordinary Resurrections Jonathan Kozol returns to In Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol leads students S the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx into the lives of children in urban communities such that he wrote about in Amazing Grace to spend as East St. Louis, Illinois, which the U.S. Department H another four years with the children who have come of Housing and Urban Development has dubbed istory and to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann’s Church. A “the most distressed small city in America,” New
fascinating narrative on the perils of daily urban life York City’s South Bronx, Washington, D.C., as seen through the honest eyes of children, it is a Camden, New Jersey, and San Antonio, Texas. He piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope describes in graphic detail how children who attend and despair—from our nation’s corridors of power to public schools in these districts are barely able to its poorest city streets. Kozol gives a human face to get a standard education because their schools lack what amounts to a modern-day version of proper financial funding for textbooks, teachers, and istory segregation, and provides a stirring testimony to and classroom supplies, as well as such normal the courage of the children and the parents, amenities of civilization as toilet paper or a working H teachers, and social workers who are the devoted toilet. As Kozol observes, public school is not at all
true heroes and heroines of these remarkable like this for the privileged children of the neighbor- S an children. ing wealthy suburbs of Winnetka, Illinois, Cherry ociety Hill, New Jersey, or Manhasset, Rye, or Great Neck, New York. “A deeply moving and marvelous book. Jonathan Kozol has shared poetic and powerful stories of the poor children of Mott Haven who became a part of his life.”—Marian Wright Edelman “Poor children of all colors are increasingly looked upon as surplus baggage, mistakes that should never have happened. Indeed, an older view is returning that any attempts to educate the lower orders are Harper Perennial: 400 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-095645-5 • pb • $14.00 ($18.00/CAN) doomed to fail. There can be more than one way to read the title of Jonathan Kozol’s depressing—and meric essential—book.”—New York Times Book Review A Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 1992 • 978-0-06-097499-2 • pb • $14.95 ($16.50/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 15 A meric The Great Deluge Why New Orleans Matters Hurri cane Katrina, New Orleans, and Tom Piazza the Mississippi Gulf Coast ociety In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning D ouglas Brinkley an author and New Orleans resident Tom Piazza S Bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley wondered what would become of the city he loved. brings forth a timely examination of the unique Moved to illuminate its storied culture as well as H social, cultural and political complexities that made ponder its uncertain future, he wrote Why New istory and Hurricane Katrina the ongoing crisis it is. Douglas Orleans Matters. With wisdom and affection, he
Brinkley is uniquely well-qualified to tell the story, explores the hidden contours of familiar traditions as a professor of history and director of the like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest, and evokes the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Tulane University, sensory rapture of the city that gave us jazz music Brinkley fled New Orleans when Katrina hit the gulf and Creole cooking. He writes, too, of the city’s coast in 2005. A book the New York Times called deep undercurrents of corruption, racism, and “the most evocative, soul-shaking account of the injustice, and of how its people endure and and istory calamity” and the Washington Times said was “likely transcend those conditions. And, perhaps most to be the [account] against which other treatments important, he asks students to consider the spirit of H of the subject will be judged.” More than just a this place and all the things it has shared with the
book about New Orleans, The Great Deluge is a book world—grace and beauty, resilience and soul. S an about crises in America.
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 16 F FOOD, HEALTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ood Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Power Trip A Year of Food Life The Story of America’s Love Affair with Energy , H Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp & Camille Kingsolver Amanda Little ealth Barbara Kingsolver describes her family’s adventure A “next generation” manifesto for kicking America’s as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and addiction to fossil fuels, Power Trip examines the spend a year on a locally produced diet, realigning way in which oil and coal have shaped America as an nvironment their lives with the local food chain and paying close international superpower—even as they pose political and environmental dangers to the nations , E attention to the provenance of all they consume. and the world. Journalist Amanda Little reveals how
In that year, they find themselves eager to move energy grows our food, fights our wars, makes our and away from the typical food scenario of American plastics and medicines, warms our homes, animates the families: a refrigerator packed with processed, our cities, moves our products and vehicles, and
factory-farmed foods transported long distances influences our politics. She exposes the hidden
using nonrenewable fuels, and in their search for consequences of America’s energy-lavish lifestyles, the another way to eat and live, they begin to recover and shows how American ingenuity has already and what Kingsolver considers our nation’s lost begun to cultivate a new energy economy. appreciation for farms and the natural processes of E , food production. “Energy is the most important story in the world bar none, and no one has ever told it with more verve than “Charming, zestful, funny and poetic. . . . This is a serious book about important problems. . . . The authors nvironment Amanda Little. If you want to know how the world works, and why it may not work much longer, this is the of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle . . . add three powerful voices . . . to the swelling chorus of concern about the book you need.”—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable food we grow, buy and eat.”—Washington Post Book World Future
ealth Harper Perennial: 400 pp. Harper Perennial: 480 pp.; index; illustrated 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085256-6 • pb • $15.99 ($17.50/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-135326-0 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) Also available from Barbara Kingsolver: , H Small Wonder All-Campus Book: Howard Community College (Columbia, MD) Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-050408-3 • pb • $13.95 ($17.95/CAN) ood F
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 17 F ood The Blue Death Water The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, the Water You Drink and Civilization , H D r. Robert D. Morris S teven Solomon ealth With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibili- Steven Solomon’s Water is the epic story of man’s ties of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert D. Morris, an most important resource, which is becoming internationally recognized expert in the field of dangerously scarce in the 21st century. Throughout nvironment drinking water and health, chronicles the fascinat- history more conflicts have been fought over water ing and at times frightening story of our drinking than oil, making water an important focus for any , E water. In The Blue Death, Morris dispels notions of students interested in the environmental and fail-safe water systems. Along the way he reveals political future of the planet. and some shocking truths: the millions of miles of “Water is an intelligent, well-informed assessment of the
leaking water mains, constantly evolving microor- the challenges we face today. . . . Solomon astutely
ganisms, and the looming threat of bio-terrorism, synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship. . . . Ranging which may lead to catastrophe. the across several millenniums and dozens of cultures, “A beautifully written book so gripping it reads like Solomon offers thought-provoking material on nearly and fiction, yet nothing in the text is exaggerated. Morris every page, leavening the abundant facts and figures E , speaks to the probability of catastrophic microbial and with a judicious sprinkling of colorful anecdotes. . . . viral outbreaks in our aging drinking water delivery Water enlarges our understanding of how this vital nvironment systems, the integrity of which is protected only by 19th-century technology. This book will shake the element has shaped our past, providing enough evidence of humanity’s ingenuity in the face of its complacency of everyone who reads it.”—Theo Colburn, Ph.D., coauthor of Our Stolen Future challenges to offer reasonable hope that we will find ways to use it sanely.”—Los Angeles Times
Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. Harper: 608 pp.; index; illustrated ealth 2008 • 978-0-06-073090-1 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-054830-8 • hc • $27.99 ($33.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 18 F ood Hell and High Water Who Turned Out the Lights? The Global Warming Solution Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis , H Joseph Romm Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson
It has been estimated that we have ten years to start Who says that a book about the energy crisis can’t ealth making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions be informative, accessible and funny at the same or we will undoubtedly face the catastrophic time? From nuclear power to alternative forms of consequences of global warming. Unfortunately, transportation to special interests in Washington, nvironment the required government policies and spending are Who Turned Out the Lights? presents a clear, strongly opposed by conservatives, who have nonbiased look all the issues surrounding the , E blocked serious action on climate change and energy crisis. Just because the topic is serious, continue to publicly deny the dire warnings of doesn’t mean books about it have to be. With and scientists. With so much at stake, never before has references to pop culture from “South Park” the episodes to Rolling Stones songs, the authors break
there been such a sharp divergence between what down relevant information into easily understand- top scientists know and what policy makers, the
general public, and the media believe. Authoritative able facts and arguments without sacrificing the the and persuasive, Hell and High Water is a searing complexity of the issues. For a generation of and indictment of our disastrous policy that goes students more accustomed to getting their news E , beyond ideological rhetoric to offer practical, viable from “The Daily Show” than the The Wall Street solutions that can avert the threat to our world and Journal, this is a perfect match. nvironment our way of life. Harper paperbacks: 368 pp.; illustrated “Hell and High Water is an important and timely contribution that deserves careful consideration in the 2009 • 978-0-06-171564-8 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN) dialogue and debate on U.S. energy and climate policy.”—Judith Curry, School of Earth and Atmospheric Also Available by Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson ealth Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Harper Perennial: 304 pp.; index Where Does the Money Go? 2008 • 978-0-06-117213-7 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN) Revised Edition , H Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; illustrated 2011 • 978-0-06-202347-6 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN) Revised Edition available in January 2011 ood Resources for Where Does the Money Go? F Browse Inside the Book
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 19 F ood Night Fire Beef Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard’s The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Fight to Save Her Town Muscle Shaped the World , H R onnie Greene Andrew Rimas & Evan D. G. Fraser ealth Night Fire is the inspiring story of one woman’s fight The world is passionate about beef. From America’s to save her town from the ravages of illegal unending love affair with steakhouses to Japan’s pollution and environmental racism. Margie Eugene fashionable Kobe dishes to the village fires of rural nvironment Richard was raised in the shadow of the New Africa, where dependence on cattle is often the Orleans Refining Co., and witnessed her neighbors backbone of tribal society, beef is the meat that , E fall ill as a result of the toxic waste the plant emitted moves us. Since the beginning of human history, year after year. Determined to see the company cattle have been central to our existence, not only and take responsibility for their actions, Richard and her as a source of food and labor but also as an the inspiration for art, warfare, and religion. In Beef,
neighbors—largely poor and with few obvious students learn an exuberant, panoramic view of the resources—educated themselves not only on the
consequences of environmental poison but also on cow’s rich history. the how to fight back. “Beef . . . is like the perfectly cooked steak, a rare thing. and The unexpected results landed Richard the Combining intelligence with accessibility and superb E , prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, helped research with genuine enthusiasm. . . . It will make you clean up a community, and demonstrated how want to go and eat a large steak. Ribeye, of course, and nvironment determination and grit can topple even the most there can be no higher compliment.”—Simon Majumdar, author of Eat My Globe: One Year to Go stubborn of corporate giants. Everywhere—and Eat Everything
Amistad: 288 pp. Harper paperbacks: 256 pp.; index ealth 2008 • 978-0-06-112362-7 • hc • $24.95 ($26.95/CAN) 2009 • 978-0-06-135385-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) , H ood F
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 20 F ood The Gospel of Food Righteous Porkchop Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy Finding a Life and Good Food What We Eat Beyond Factory Farms , H Barry Glassner Nicolette Hahn Niman Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ealth Part exposé, part social commentary, The Gospel of Food is a rallying cry to abandon the fads and Righteous Porkchop exposes the shocking practices fallacies in favor of calmer, more pleasurable eating. of today’s meat, poultry, and dairy industries by nvironment By interviewing chefs, food chemists, nutritionists, following the experiences of an intrepid environ- and restaurant critics about the way we eat, Barry mental lawyer who goes up against the big business , E Glassner, a professor of sociology at USC, helps farming establishment. It depicts Nicolette Hahn students recognize the myths, half-truths, and guilt Niman’s search for—and ultimate discovery of—a and trips they promulgate, and liberates them for way for America to produce food from animals that the
greater joy at the table. is healthful, environmentally sound, and humane.
“The Gospel of Food is pure fun to read . . . Glassner is From a health standpoint, Righteous Porkchop the methodical and relentless in his exploration, fierce in his details how and why to avoid meat, poultry, and finger-pointing . . . and he’s genuinely concerned about
and eggs tainted by chemicals and antibiotic-resistant our growing disassociation with, and emotional bacteria. From an eating standpoint, the book E , baggage around, food.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review shows how students can reclaim the pleasures of
Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; index good dining by seeking out foods from traditionally nvironment 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-050122-8 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) farmed animals.
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 21 W WORLD ISSUES orld How Soccer Explains The Weight of a the World Mustard Seed ssues An Unlikely Theory of Globalization The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and I I With a new afterword His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny ssues Franklin Foer Wendell Steavenson
You don’t have to be a soccer fanatic to appreciate this • NaMED a New York Times N otable Book for 2009
orld book. Franklin Foer merely uses the world’s most When Wendell Steavenson set out to profile Iraqi popular sport as a lens to dramatically illuminate the
W General Kamel Sachet, she had these questions religious, economic, political, and ethnic divisions about Sachet and other Baathist loyalists: “Why had around the world. Foer will take your students on a they served such a regime? How had they accommo- surprising journey through the world of soccer, dated their own morality? How had they lived? How shattering the myths of our new global age along the had they lived with themselves?” Her journey to way. From Brazil to Bosnia, and from Italy to Iran, How find these answers took five years, and an Soccer Explains the World chronicles how a sport and its accumulation of facts, opinions, fears, confessions rabid followers highlight such societal fault lines as and suspicions from Sachet’s family, friends, and terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, and radical Islam. enemies. Kamel Sachet was one of Saddam’s “ Full of important insights into both cultural change and commanders in his Special Forces, in charge of persistence. . . . Foer’s soccer odyssey lends weight to Kuwait City during Desert Storm, and a Governor in the argument that a human world order is possible.” the province of Maysan. In The Weight of a Mustard Seed, Steavenson profiles not just Sachet, but —Washington Post Book World Sachet’s sons and daughters, his wife, an army psychiatrist, a military henchman and more, whose lives intersected with Sachet’s tragic rise and fall. As she writes, “In Iraq, there was never one Harper Perennial: 288 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06-197805-0 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) story, there were always many stories, layers of episodes, each one a wound.”
Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-172188-5 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 22 W orld In the Hot Zone Opium Nation One woman’s Journey Home to Afghanistan One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
ssues F ariba Nawa K evin Sites I I Worth billions of dollars worldwide, the opium trade has come
Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone ssues to define a large part of Afghanistan’s economy and society. into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video In Opium Nation, Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite delivers a searing, multi-faceted account of the drug trade and modem, the award-winning journalist covered orld its effects on the country of her birth. virtually every major global hot spot as the first
W Internet correspondent for the news division of Harper Perennial: 288 pp. Yahoo! Beginning his journey with the anarchic 2011 • 978-0-06-193470-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) chaos of Somalia in September 2005, Sites spoke Paperback Original available in March 2011 with government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and featured the people on every side, including those caught in the crossfire. His honest reporting helped destroy the myths of war by Resources for Opium Nation putting a human face on war’s inhumanity. Fariba Nawa’s Website Personally, Sites will came to discover that the Liam O’Donoghue Interviews Fariba Nawa in “Fighting for the Future of Afghanistan” greatest danger he faced may not be from bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth.
“Instead of telling us what we already know, [Sites] has done something remarkable, delivering the sort of fresh and insightful human stories . . . that we seldom hear.”—Columbia Journalism Review
Harper Perennial: 368 pp. One Day the Soldiers Came 2007 • 978-0-06-122875-9 • pb • $15.95 ($18.95/CAN) Voices of Children in War Charles London
Twenty million children around the world have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. Through the stories and drawings of children from Congo, Burma, Kosovo, Sudan, and Rwanda—the sites of some of the most violent upheavals of the past decade—students see the invisible narrative of the young as they experience, understand, and are Resources for In the Hot Zone shaped by the conflicts around them. Harper Perennial: 304 pp. Browse Inside the Book 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124047-8 • pb • $14.95 ($17.50/CAN) Kevin Sites’s Website
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 23 M MEMOIR/WORLD VIEWS emoir Not on Our Watch Sounds of the River The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur A Young Man’s University Days in Beijing ssues and Beyond D a Chen
I D on Cheadle & John Prendergast Teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away /W The genocide in the Sudan has attracted activist from the farm he was raised on to his new university
attention for years. In this book, Don Cheadle, an life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly orld actor nominated for an Academy Award for his work challenges, including poor living conditions, lack of orld in Hotel Rwanda, and John Prendergast, a Senior food, and suicidal roommates. Undaunted by these
W Advisor of the International Crisis Group and former hurdles, and armed with a dogged determination to official in the Clinton White House, explain exactly learn English and “all things Western,” he competes V how real people can make real changes happen in to win a chance to study in America—a chance that the face of one of the most devastating tragedies in rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of his iews human history. almighty professors.
Not on Our Watch begins with each writer’s story of Poetic, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Sounds of the how they came to activism, recounts a brief history River is a gloriously written coming-of-age saga that of the atrocities in the Sudan, describes successful chronicles a remarkable journey. activist efforts, and gives six practical strategies for “A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication ordinary people who want to take action. With and, ultimately, triumph.”—New York Times Book Review concrete advice and a hopeful outlook, this is the book that will inspire both seasoned activists and students just coming to the movement to stand up, pay attention, and take action. Freshman Common Book: Kennesaw State University, Seton Hall University
Hyperion: 272 pp. Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-1-40-130335-8 • pb • $14.95 ($18.95/CAN) 2003 • 978-0-06-095872-5 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 24 M emoir The Bitter Sea Between Two Worlds iews Coming of Age in a China Before Mao My Life and Captivity in Iran Roxana Saberi
V Charles N. Li
In this haunting and illuminating memoir, Charles N. On the morning of January 31, 2009, Iranian-Ameri- /W Li brings into focus the growth pains of a nation can journalist Roxana Saberi was pulled from her
undergoing torturous rebirth and offers an intimate home by four men, accused of espionage and orld
orld understanding of the intricate, subtle, and yet arrested. Between Two Worlds is the liberated all-powerful traditions that bind the Chinese family. Saberi’s penetrating look at Iran and its political Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was tensions, based on six years of research and /W the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government interviews with Iranians across society. V official. By the time he was 21, he had witnessed “Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an enough hardship, hope, and tremendous change to innocent young woman got caught up in the current of iews last a lifetime. He went from being Li Na—the political events and met individuals whose stories dutiful Chinese son yearning for a harsh, manipula- vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.”—Shirin emoir tive father’s love—to Charles, an independent Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
M Chinese-American seeking no one’s approval but his own. Lyrical and luminous, intense and extraordi- Harper: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-196528-9 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) nary, The Bitter Sea is an unforgettable tale of one young man and his country. Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-196529-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) “Li’s memoir is not just an account of a turbulent period of Chinese history. It is also the heart-rending story of a father-son relationship in which ambition proves more powerful than love. . . . Li Na’s story Paperback available in March 2011 overlaps with so much of the drama of modern China that it provides a compelling firsthand view of history.”—Christian Science Monitor
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Harper Perennial: 304 pp.; illustrated 2009 • 978-0-06-170954-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 25 M emoir Children of the Dust In Search of My Homeland iews A Memoir of Pakistan A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp Er Tai Gao
V Ali Eteraz
Children of Dust is a memoir of the author’s coming In Search of My Homeland is the memoir of Er Tai /W of age in a fundamentalist Islam milieu in Pakistan. Gao, a Chinese artist, art critic, and intellectual who
Through personal anecdotes, Eteraz sheds light on spent twenty years in and out of China’s gulag until orld
orld the ways in which people internalize and submit to his escape to freedom in Hong Kong in 1992 and his Islamic extremism and social alienation. A harrowing defection to America in 1993. Epic in scope, narrative of abuse and violence, an intimate portrait reaching from the depths of work ditches in the /W of life at the lower levels of Pakistani society, Gobi Desert to the heights of the Buddhist heavens V Children of Dust expounds on the troubled interplay depicted on the Dunhuang cave ceilings, In Search of between Islam and modern life. My Homeland is a striking portrayal of Gao’s iews experiences of political persecution, of prisoners pushed to the limits of human endurance, and “Throughout his meandering spiritual journey, Eteraz’s emoir ultimately of the power of hope. Powerful and faith has given him great pride and contentedness but elegantly written, Gao’s work teaches students that M has also been a source of deep shame, anger and freedom is the most important political stand for an frustration. This emotional struggle is the backdrop for artist, to be able to dissent from the dominant his memoir, Children of Dust, which chronicles his ideology—thereby making beauty, both its creation childhood in Pakistan, his family’s immigration to the and perception, its ultimate symbol. United States and finally his return to Asia as an adult. . . . Compelling.”—Washington Post Ecco: 272 pp. HarperOne: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-088126-9 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN) 2009 • 978-0-06-156708-7 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 26 M emoir Kabul Girls Soccer Club And Still Peace iews A Dream, Eight Girls, & a Journey Home Did Not Come
V Awista Ayub Agnes Kamara-Umunna & Emily Holland
The plight of Afghanistan’s people—especially its /W There are 300,000 children across the world that women under the brutal reign of the Taliban—has fight in today’s wars. They are being recruited on a
never been more clearly demonstrated than it is orld scale that is barely imaginable; given AK-47s some orld today. Here is a first-person account of a young of them can barely lift; and plied with alcohol and
Afghani woman and her quest to make a difference M. MacDonald narcotics that blur the line between fantasy and in her country. /W reality. This harrowing method of combat was
In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, especially prevalent in the long-standing civil war in Liberia, a conflict that stripped many child V her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, soldiers of their voices and left them haunted by the things they had seen and done.
where Awista flourished, thanks to organized iews Agnes Kamara-Umunna built the Straight from the Heart center as a refuge and rehabilitation athletics—and where she vowed to make a facility for child soldiers in Liberia. More than simply her memoir, this book is tha author’s difference in her home country some day. Soon emoir testimony to the horrors of civil war and the aftermath of the conflict on those lost boys who after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: fought. An important book on subject on which relatively little is written, And Still Peace Did Not M She founded the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an Come is a harrowing, multidimensional account of the atrocities of war and the longstanding organization dedicated to nurturing Afghan girls repercussions of conflict. through soccer. What began with eight young women has exploded into something of a phenom- enon. Fifteen teams now compete with the Afghanistan Football Federation, with hundreds of girls Hyperion: 256 pp. 2011 • 978-1-4013-2357-8 • hc • $22.99 participating. Available in March 2011 By bringing soccer to young Afghan women, Awista reintroduced the very traits the decades of war had cruelly stripped away from them—confidence and self-worth.
“Awista’s work shows young Afghan women that there is a wider world open to them now that the brutality of the Taliban is a thing of the past.”—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 27 M emoir River Town Oracle Bones iews T wo Years on the Yangtze A Journey Through Time in China Peter Hessler
V Peter Hessler
• Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Oracle Bones tells the story of modern-day China /W and its growing links to the Western world, as seen Like many other small cities in China, Fuling is
through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. orld heading down a new path of change and growth, orld which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter “Deeply engaging. . . . Hessler has achieved something Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking quite special in Oracle Bones, conveying the idiosyncra- /W the first time in more than half a century that the sies of China in a way that makes its people palpably
city had an American resident. Hessler taught human and distinctly memorable.”—Los Angeles Times V English and American literature at the local college, “Compelling. . . . Hessler moves engagingly back and iews but it was his students who taught him about the forth between narratives and characters. . . . Offers complex processes of understanding that take place unusual insights into the yearnings and frustrations of emoir when one is immersed in a radically different the country’s young adults.”—Washington Post society.
M Harper Perennial: 528 pp.; illustrated; index “Lively, intelligent. . . . You will learn a great deal about 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-082659-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) 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
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 28 M emoir Country Driving The Man in the White iews A Journey Through China from Sharkskin Suit Farm to Factory A jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo V Peter Hessler to the New World /W
In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Lucette Lagnado
Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired orld This poignant and breathtaking memoir from Wall orld his Chinese driver’s license, and for the next seven Street Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado recounts years he traveled the country, tracking how the the exile of her Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in automobile and improved transport were transform- /W 1963 and her father’s heroic and tragic struggle to ing China. Hessler writes movingly of the average
survive his “riches to rags” inversion of the V people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs— American dream. who have reshaped the country during one of the iews most critical periods in its history. Country Driving “[A] stunning memoir . . . a deeply affecting portrait of follows Hessler’s 7,000-mile drive across northern her family and its journey from war-time Cairo to the emoir China, following the Great Wall, from the East China New World. . . . She conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and . . . she
M Sea to the Tibetan plateau, illuminating the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation calculates the emotional costs of exile with an that, having once built walls against outsiders, is unsentimental but forgiving eye. . . . Writing in building roads and factory towns that look to the crystalline yet melodious prose, Ms. Lagnado gives us outside world. an indelible gallery of family portraits.”—New York Times
“Peter Hessler is one of the Western world’s most thoughtful writers on modern China.”—Wall Street Harper Perennial: 368 pp.; illustrated 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-082218-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Journal Freshman Common Read: Drury University Harper: 416 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-180409-0 • hc • $27.99 ($35.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 29 M emoir First They Killed My Father Lucky Child iews A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers A Daughter of Cambodia in America Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
V Loung Ung Loung Ung
• Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award /W In this triumphant and heartbreaking sequel to the First They Killed My Father is a narrative of war,
best-selling memoir First They Killed My Father, orld desperate actions, and the strength of a child and her orld Loung Ung describes her school years in Vermont as family. Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven a Cambodian refugee attempting to assimilate to children of a government official. When Pol Pot’s life in the United States, and her sister Chou’s /W Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city in April struggle to survive in rural Cambodia.
1975, Ung’s family was forced to flee their home. V Eventually, they dispersed in order to survive. Ung “This is a strong story, simply told. Ung helps us was trained as a child soldier while her siblings were understand what happens when a family is torn apart by iews sent to labor camps. Only after the Vietnamese politics, adversity and war. Change the names of the characters, give them another country of origin, and this
emoir destroyed the Khmer Rouge were Ung and her surviving siblings slowly reunited. Loung Ung is now a story of dislocation becomes a tragedy millions of M national spokesperson for the Campaign for a immigrants have lived through but seldom talk Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam about.”—Washington Post Book World Veterans of America Foundation. Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; illustrated 2007 • P.S. • 978-00-6073395-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) “[Ung] tells her stories straightforwardly, vividly, and without any strenuous effort to explicate their importance, allowing the stories themselves to create their own impact.”—New York Times
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 30 M MEMOIR/AMERICAN VOICES emoir Dust Tracks on a Road Finding Fish A n Autobiography A Memoir oices Zora Neale Hurston Antwone Quenton Fisher & Mim E. Rivas
V Introduction by Maya Angelou Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions /A Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, from the moment his single mother gave birth to meric an funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from than a dozen years of abandonment and physical childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the place among the leading artists and intellectuals of streets. Just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her Fisher enlisted in the U.S. Navy—a decision that an meric acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personal literary would ultimately save him. There, he became a man self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious and discovered a loving family he never had.
/A Through it all, Fisher refused to allow his spirit to be
glimpse into the life—public and private—of an V extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and broken and never gave up on his dreams of a better
champion of the black experience in America. day. oices
“Warm, witty, and imaginative. . . . This is a rich and “Fisher’s gripping memoir is an inspiring story of one winning book.” —The New Yorker man’s journey, a tale of strength of the individual over
emoir the challenges of life.”—Chicago Tribune Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 336 pp.
M 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085408-9 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 352 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-000778-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 31 M emoir The Pursuit of Happyness This Life is in Your Hands One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe oices A Memoir At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris
V Melissa Coleman Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San /A Francisco and set his sights on the competitive The counterculture movement in late 1960s rural meric an world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed Maine conjures up images of an idyllic life living off an internship at a prestigious firm, Gardner found the land. This element is present in Melissa himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging Coleman’s memoir, but it is not the exclusive image circumstances that left him homeless with his to emerge from her evocative, atmospheric book. A toddler son. Instead of giving in to despair, the two literary memoir in the tradition of Dave Eggers and an meric stayed together—moving from shelter to shelter— Tobias Wolff, Melissa Coleman recounts her and even sleeping in the public restroom of a childhood spent on the farm her parents purchased,
/A subway station—before they triumphed. built and tended with their own hands, hoping to V create a utopia in which to raise their family in Hopefully, none of your students will ever face such
unison with nature. Tragedy and wonder weave oices dire circumstances—but everyone can learn from through Coleman’s narrative, as she tells of Chris Gardner’s story. How do you keep going? relentless winters, unnerving isolation, and What choices will you make along the way? What is infidelity that rocks her parents’ marriage. Then one emoir truly important to you? summer day when Melissa is seven, her three-year-
M “Real, exciting, courageous, this story is universal and just might provide us with a new understanding of old sister wanders off and disappears into the black water of the irrigation pond built to sustain the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.”—Reverend Cecil Williams, Glide United her family’s crops. Melissa is left to search for truth while tragedy threatens to tear her family Methodist apart, a quest is both deeply human and heartbreaking.
Freshman Common Book: University of Findlay Harper: 288 pp.; illustrated 2011 • 978-0-06-195832-8 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 320 pp.; illustrated 2006 • 978-0-06-074487-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Available in April 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 32 M emoir Autobiography of a Face Truth & Beauty A Friendship Lucy Grealy oices With an Afterword by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett V “I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in /A but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated for 1981, and began a friendship that would be as meric an nothing other than looking different from everyone defining to both of their lives as their work was. In else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I her memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Grealy wrote always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact about losing her jaw to childhood cancer, and then that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.”—Lucy the years of reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Grealy Beauty, the story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life, but an meric the parts of their lives that they shared. At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to “This frank, perceptive book can be read in many ways, /A school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the not only as a story of friendship but also as a young V cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid artist’s eye-opening introduction to the wider oices memoir, Grealy tell her story with remarkable world.”—New York Times
strength without sentimentality and with consider- Freshman Common Book: Miami University (with able wit. Autobiography of a Face), Clemson College emoir “Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is Harper Perennial: 272 pp.
M engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-057215-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) and class.”—Washington Post Book World
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 33 M emoir Bending Toward the Sun Lit A Mother and Daughter Memoir A Memoir oices Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie Mary Karr V This is a rare and beautiful dual memoir about a • NaMED one of the 10 B est Books of 2009 by the /A New York Times unique family bond, forged in the wake of a brutal meric an terror. Bending Toward the Sun weaves a riveting and Mary Karr’s prizewinning The Liars’ Club chronicled unique first-hand account of how the Holocaust her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough sass experience had a profound and lasting psychologi- and literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir. cal impact on the survivors and their descendants. Cherry, her account of a psychedelic adolescence The memoir spans from the time in which Rita fled and a moving sexual coming-of-age, followed. Lit an meric her home in Poland, hiding from the Nazis in an attic answers the question asked by Karr’s readers: How with fourteen family members for two years, to the did she make it out of that toxic upbringing to tell
/A warm moments of watching her granddaughter her own tale? V grow up. However, Rita’s emotional legacy of fear, Karr’s longing for a solid family seems secure when guilt, and pain had a tremendous impact on her oices children. Her eldest daughter Leslie developed fears her marriage to a handsome, blueblood poet who eerily related to Rita’s past. Now, Leslie is can quote Shakespeare by the yard produces a beginning to notice similar tendencies in her own blond son they adore. But Karr can’t outrun her emoir daughter. Bending Toward the Sun explores how the apocalyptic upbringing. She drinks herself into the
M Holocaust reverberates in their hearts and minds, and extends into the lives of second and third same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of generations. suicide. A hair-raising stint in “The Mental Marriott” with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy again, and leads her to an unlikely faith and salvation in “Bending Toward the Sun is a captivating memoir that explores a complicated, loving, and enduring mother- Catholicism. daughter bond, and reveals how doubts, hopes, and dreams are handed down from generation to generation. As both a mother and a daughter, I found it deeply touching.”—Arianna Huffington, author, “Karr writes with such intensity and poetry. . . . This struggle to reconcile her past and present, her family syndicated columnist, and founder of The Huffington Post and her future, is the steel-wired ribbon that not only runs through this affecting book, but that also connects it to Ms. Karr’s two earlier memoirs—the bright, elastic thread on which she so deftly strings the Harper Perennial: 368 pp.; illustrated colored beads of her tumultuous life.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 2010 • 978-0-06-177672-4 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-059699-6 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 34 M emoir Crazy for the Storm Coop A Memoir of Survival A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting oices Norman Ollestad Michael Perry V The father he idolized thrust Norman Ollestad into In Coop, the author of Population 485 and Truck: A /A the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing Love Story plumbs his unorthodox past (he was meric an at a very young age. Resentful of a childhood lost to raised in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, by city-bred parents who took in over 100 foster young Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in children) for clues as to how he should proceed as a Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, Crazy for the farmer and a parent. Whether describing his family Storm captures the earthy surf culture of Southern (“I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he an meric California; the boy’s conflicted feelings for his drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered magnetic father; and the exhilarating tests of skill to the bumper of his Ford Falcon”) or what it’s like
/A that prepared young Norman to become a fearless to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig (“two V champion—which ultimately saved his life. In firsts in one day”), Coop is filled with Michael
February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, Perry’s trademark humor, but in the course of a year oices his father, his father’s girlfriend, and the pilot, in which the birth of his child is balanced by the crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was death of a dear friend and worse, he also writes suspended at 8,000 feet, engulfed in a blizzard. from the quieter corners of his heart. emoir Norman’s father was dead, and the 11-year-old had “In less talented hands, the stories he recounts in Coop M to descend the mountain alone and grief-stricken. Crazy for the Storm is the beautifully crafted, would merely have been the subject of an unusually busy holiday letter. But in Perry’s engrossing astonishing true story of a boy who spent his childhood living for his father and ended up owing narration, they take on the heft of history.”—Christian Science Monitor him his own life. Harper Perennial: 384 pp. “Never a dull moment. . . . Ollestad’s prose is crisp and exacting, a controlled approach to his tumultuous 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124044-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) past. . . . There’s enough drama in the plane crash alone to sustain a novel, but Ollestad has done something much more. He’s written a beautiful story about a thrill-loving father—‘the man with the sunshine in his eyes’—who taught his boy not just how to live, but how to thrive.”—Houston Chronicle
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 35 M emoir Always Looking Up I Love Yous Are Th e Adventures of an Incurable Optimist for White People oices Michael J. Fox A Memoir V A New York Times hardcover bestseller, Always Lac Su /A Looking Up by actor and political activist Michael J. From an early age in Vietnam, Lac Su had to deal with meric an Fox recounts events from the past ten years of his the most harrowing of life obstacles before life, including his battle with Parkinson’s disease immigrating to Los Angeles with his family. Yet and his retirement from acting. Writing with candor despite his hopes for a paradise much more beautiful and humor, Fox uses the themes of family, faith, than his homeland, Lac found out that the American politics and work to demonstrate a hard-earned Dream was not all it was cracked up to be. Living in an meric optimism that allows him to see life’s challenges as squalid conditions and barely making ends meet, his opportunities. family struggled to forge its identity in a cultural mix /A
Michael J. Fox has won numerous awards, including that often invited more trouble than solace. Soon V four Golden Globes, four Emmys, two Screen Actors enough, Lac’s search for love and acceptance led him Guild awards, GQ Man of the Year, and the People’s to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to oices Choice award. He now actively lobbies for stem cell tear his life apart. Heart-wrenching and ultimately research around the country and is very visible in uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People is a memoir
emoir raising money for Parkinson’s research with the at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that Michael J. Fox Foundation. countless immigrants have faced in their pursuit of a M better life. Hyperion: 288 pp. 2010 • 978-1-40-131016-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 272 pp. Also Available by Michael J. Fox 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-154366-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future Lucky Man Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned A Memoir Hyperion: 112 pp. Hyperion: 272 pp. 2010 • 978-1-40-132386-8 • hc • $17.99 ($19.99/CAN) 2003 • 9780786888740 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 36 M emoir In Hanuman’s Hands The House at the End A Memoir of the Road oices Cheeni Rao The Story of Three Generations of an
V Interracial Family in the American South Hitting rock bottom as a homeless drug addict, /A Cheeni Rao returns to his family to find the door W. Ralph Eubanks meric an locked. Behind it he hears his Indian immigrant In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, mother sobbing, “I can do nothing for you. You are around 1914 a young white man named James now in Hanuman’s hands.” Hanuman, the Hindu Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black monkey god, is his last resort. In Hanuman’s Hands is woman named Edna Howell. Eventually, together a gritty, hauntingly beautiful memoir by Cheeni Rao, they built a house at the dead end of a road in a an meric a young man born to a long line of Indian Hindu black community in rural south Alabama. Jim and priests, who faced with the freedoms and Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubanks’s grandpar-
/A temptations of life on an elite New England college ents. In The House at the End of the Road Eubanks V campus, spirals down into a hedonistic nightmare of takes students on a journey to where he recon-
drugs, sex and crime. On his long journey to oices structs their life and times and seeks lessons for recovery and rehabilitation, he is magically guided America’s multiracial future. In a past filled with by visions of Hanuman, the trickster monkey god of tightly conscribed formulas for racial identity and the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana. Bringing India emoir laws that prohibited interracial marriage, making it wholeheartedly into America, Rao weaves his own punishable with up to seven years of hard labor, M story of Western culture clash with mythic stories of his Hindu ancestors who served in the Eubanks seeks to understand the common humanity Jim and Edna Richardson were trying to ancestral temples of Kali. embrace through the way they lived their lives. “This lyrical, haunting book is much more than just an account of Mr. Rao’s descent into crack-cocaine Smithsonian: 224 pp. addiction, criminality and homelessness on the streets of Chicago. Remarkably, he also weaves into his 2009 • 978-0-06-137573-6 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN) story fully realized visions of his Hindu ancestry. . . . In Hanuman’s Hands beguiles.”—Wall Street Journal
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 37 M emoir Scratch Beginnings Red, White, and Muslim Me, $25, and the Search for My Story of Belief oices the American Dream Asma Gull Hasan
V Adam Shepard For Asma Gull Hasan, a young American-born /A Adam Shepard graduated from college disillusioned Muslim, woman journalist, and lawyer, being a meric an by the apathy he saw around him, and incensed by Muslim is not merely a matter of birth, but a matter Barbara Ehrenreich’s famous works Nickel and Dimed of choice and faith. In Red, White, and Muslim Hasan and Bait and Switch. Eager to see if he could make persuades students that Islam is not the misogynis- something out of nothing, he set out to prove her tic, oppressive belief system of common perception, theory wrong that those who start at the bottom but a faith tradition that has many varied interpreta- an meric stay at the bottom, and to see if the American tions of Christianity. She articulates a vision of Islam Dream can still be a reality. With no concrete plan that is ethically diverse, tolerant of others, and
/A and nothing but $25 and a backpack, Shepard got supportive of the rights of women. Red, White, and V off a train in Charleston, South Carolina, and spent Muslim is a paradigm-shifting glimpse into the life
70 days in a homeless shelter, with the goal of of a young American Muslim woman who argues oices having $2,500, a car, and a place to live by the end that you do not have to give up your Islamic faith in of the year. Earnest and passionate, Scratch order to be a strong, independent American woman. Beginnings is a story that will not only inspire emoir “Hasan will rock your stereotypes about Islam in this students, but also remind them that success can refreshing book.”—Fareed Zakaria, author of The M come to anyone who is willing to work hard—and that America is still one of the most hopeful and Post-American World inspiring countries in the world. HarperOne: 208 pp. Harper paperbacks: 240 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-167375-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-171427-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 38 W WORLD FICTION orld In the Sanctuary of Outcasts The Septembers of Shiraz A Memoir A Novel oices Neil White Dalia Sofer F V In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is the incredibly Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 iction emotional true story of crime, redemption, vanity, revolution, The Septembers of Shiraz follows the an and ultimately, spirituality. Neil White was an Amin family as they cope with the father’s false ordinary guy who measured worth by appearance: imprisonment for being a spy, watch their formerly expensive cars, nice homes, fashionable clothing. peaceful world collapse, and flee their homeland. Generous with his heart and with his bank account, “[A] richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of his exquisite tastes exceeded his income and soon a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the meric he was kiting checks. Eventually, White was caught, revolution . . . it’s impossible to predict whether Sofer’s convicted of fraud, and sent to prison, but he was novel will become a classic, but it certainly stands a
/A not sentenced to an ordinary lockup. For the man chance . . . the book’s simple plot is immediately whom appearance was supreme was going to serve engaging. . . . Sofer writes beautifully . . . and she tells out his sentence in the last leper colony in the her characters’ stories with deceptive simplicity . . . The continental United States—known today as The Septembers of Shiraz is miraculously light in its touch, as Long Center, located in southeastern Louisiana on a beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can short spit of land where the Mississippi River runs emoir be.”—Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review north.
M Harper Perennial: 368 pp. It was here, in this unlikely place rich in history that goes back more than 150 years, among an 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-113041-0 • pb • $13.99 ($14.95/CAN) unlikely mix of white-collar criminals and leprosy patients, that White gained perspective and discovered what is truly important in life.
“A moving story of growth and transformation. Among the lost, [White] found humility, beauty, courage—and himself. ”—Dallas Morning News
Harper Perennial: 352 pp.; illustrated 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-135163-1 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 39 W orld A Golden Age The Writing on My Forehead A Novel A Novel Nafisa Haji
iction Tahmima Anam F A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and
F From childhood, Saira Qader broke the boundaries iction unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and between her family’s traditions and her desire for the choices everyone—from student protesters to the country’s independence. A free-spirited and rebellious leaders, from rickshaw wallahs to the army’s soldiers—must make. Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, she “Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of rejected constricting notions of family, duty, orld war spare, powerful treatment while lyrically depicting the way in which obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a
W the struggle for freedom allows Rehana to discover both her strength journalist, the world her home. Five years later, and her heart.”—The New Yorker tragedy strikes, throwing Saira’s life into turmoil. Now the woman who chased the world to uncover Harper Perennial: 304 pp. the details of other lives must confront the truths of 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-147875-8 • pb • $13.99 ($14.95/CAN) her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, Resources for A Golden Age Available in Jul y 2011: The Good Muslim: A Novel a beloved aunt, her mother and her father. Browse Inside the Book Tahmima Anam “A moving meditation on the meaning of family, Harper: 304 pp. Tahmima Anam’s Website 2011 • 978-0-06-147876-5 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) tradition, and the ties that bind. The Writing on My Forehead is lyrical and touching.”—Khaled Hosseini
Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2010 • P.S. • 978-0-06-149386-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Voice of America E. C. Osondu
The 2009 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, E. C. Osondu has just written his debut collection of short stories entitled Voice of America. The stories take place in the United States and Nigera, united by the ways in which each echoes the joys and sorrows of a cruel, beautiful world.
“E.C. Osondu is a man with a clear head and a great ear, writing from crucial places.”—Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections Resources for The Writing on My Forehead Harper: 224 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-199086-1 • hc • $23.99 ($31.50/CAN) Browse Inside the Book
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Resources for Voice of America Browse Inside the Book Oscondu’s Short Story “A Simple Case” in the August 2010 Issue of The Atlantic The Guardian: “E. C. Osondu takes £10,000 ‘African Booker’”
HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 40 W FICTION orld Beasts of No Nation The Monkey Wrench Gang A Novel E dward Abbey
iction Uzodinma Iweala With an Introduction by Douglas Brinkley F
• Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the F Audacious, controversial, and hilarious, The Monkey American Academy of Arts and Letters iction Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey’s masterpiece—a big, • The Los A ngeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award boisterous, and unforgettable novel about a motley for First Fiction group of renegades whose freedom and commit- ment helped to ignite the flames of environmental orld This short but enormously powerful debut novel is activism. told in the voice of Agu, a young boy in an unnamed W West African nation, who is recruited into a unit of “A thing of beauty . . . a wildly funny, infinitely wise, guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. In a near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine.” strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu’s —Houston Chronicle youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 480 pp. produced a harrowing, inventive, and deeply 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-112976-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) affecting novel. For students, here is a chance to explore current issues with a deeply human voice as their guide.
“Devastating. . . . A raw and brutal story about the horrifying effects of cruelty and the incredible power of hope.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Harper Perennial: 176 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-079868-0 • pb • $11.95 ($15.50/CAN)
Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 41 F iction The Alchemist Love Medicine A Novel A Novel Newly Revised Edition
iction Paulo Coelho Louise Erdrich F Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel is short and easy to read—and it holds hidden treasures. The story, • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy Love Medicine, set on and around a North Dakota named Santiago who travels from his homeland in reservation in the years 1934–1984, tells the story Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure of the intertwined fates of two families. Black buried in the Pyramids. humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family turns into a discovery of self—and students will marry the elements together into a tightly woven witness the transforming power of dreams, learn to whole that pulses with the drama of life. recognize the wisdom in others, and discover the As they read the novel—told in the voices of importance of listening to their hearts and heeding Chippewa men and women—students will think their instincts. about the love-hate relationships that often occur “ Beneath this novel’s compelling story and the between family members, the nature of families, shimmering elegance with which it’s told lies a bedrock the impact of the non-Indian world (for instance, of wisdom about following one’s heart.”—Booklist Catholicism, alcohol, intermarriages, Capitalism, the legal system, and the Vietnam War) on the Chippewa, and the difficulties and consequences of dealing with a mixed world. Freshman Common Book: Erskine College Freshman Seminars: Montana State University, Bozeman “A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity.”—Philip Roth
HarperOne: 208 pp. Freshman Common Book: Carleton College 2006 • 978-0-06-112241-5 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 400 pp. Also Available: 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-178742-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Tracks A Novel Louise Erdrich Freshman Enrichment & Composition: Iona College Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-097245-5 • pb • $13.95 ($17.50/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 42 F iction The Graveyard Book The Known World A Novel Neil Gaiman E dward P. Jones iction With illustrations by Dave McKean
F • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Bestselling author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman tells a haunting and touching allegory of childhood In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent in The Graveyard Book. In the style of Rudyard memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Kipling’s The Jungle Book, this book is the story of an Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a orphaned boy, Nobody “Bod” Owens who is raised black farmer and former slave who is now a slave by ghosts and ghouls in a graveyard. Inventive, owner in Manchester County, Virginia. Making chilling, and magical, this 2009 Newberry certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend Medal-winner is sure to delight students of all runs his affairs with unusual discipline. In a daring reading levels. and ambitious novel, Jones weaves a footnote of “The Graveyard Book, by turns exciting and witty, history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at sinister and tender, shows Gaiman at the top of his slavery in all of its moral complexities. form. In this novel of wonder, Neil Gaiman follows in “A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American the footsteps of long-ago storytellers, weaving a tale literary canon.”—Time of unforgettable enchantment.”—New York Times Book Review Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College
HarperCollins Childrens Books: 336 pp. Amistad: 432 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-053094-5 • pb • $7.99 ($10.50/CAN) 2004 • 978-0-06-055755-3 • pb • $14.95 ($18.95/CAN)
Freshman Common Read: Western Michigan University
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 43 F iction The Learners Animal Dreams The Book After “The Cheese Monkeys” Barbara Kingsolver
iction Chip Kidd “Animals dream about the things they do in the day F In this sequel to Kidd’s first book, The Cheese Monkeys, protago- time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, nist Happy is fresh out of college in the summer of 1961. He you’ve got to live a sweet life.” So says Loyd lands his first job at a small Connecticut advertising agency Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. When Happy is latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline tapped to design a newspaper advertisement recruiting returns to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully participants for Stanley Milgram’s notorious “Obedience to out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her Authority” experiment, he can’t resist responding to the ad rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront himself. Little does he know, the experience will devastate him, her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the forcing him to re-examine his past, his soul, and the nature of finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental human cruelty—chiefly, his own. catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-167324-5 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Freshman Common Read: State University of New York, Oswego Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life’s largest commitments. Resources for The Learners “Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal Browse Inside the Book talent . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book.”—Chicago Tribune
Harper Perennial: 368 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-092114-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) The Cheese Monkeys A Novel in Two Semesters Chip Kidd
The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, much to his parents’ dismay, has decided to major in art. This autobiographical, coming-of-age novel tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher. Resources for Animal Dreams
Browse Inside the Book Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-145248-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 44 F iction The Bean Trees The Poisonwood Bible A Novel A Novel Barbara Kingsolver
iction Barbara Kingsolver
F Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the The wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and when she heads west with high hopes and a barely mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, tell their sides functioning car, she meets the human condition of the story. They carry with them everything they head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, believe they will need from home, but soon find Arizona, she has acquired a child: a three-year-old that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is Cherokee girl named Turtle, and must somehow transformed on African soil. come to terms with both motherhood and the “An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed necessity of putting down roots. by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable “So wry and wise we wish it would never end. . . . The determination of living creatures to keep on being chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver’s alive.”—The New Yorker remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page.” Freshman Common Book: Augsburg College —San Francisco Chronicle Harper Perennial: 576 pp. Freshman Common Book: Nebraska Methodist College 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-078650-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-091554-4 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 45 F iction In Country Purple Heart A Novel Patricia McCormick
iction Bobbie Ann Mason When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army F In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes hospital in Iraq, he’s honored with a Purple Heart. home to Samantha Hughes, whose father was killed But he doesn’t feel like a hero. Private Duffy is there before she was born. All she has is a picture of haunted by the image of a young Iraqi boy being him as a young soldier, and as Sam begins to grapple shot. Though he can’t remember the details due to a with the challenges of her own adolescent years, she head injury he sustained, Matt has a feeling that he also finds herself confronting the desire and need to was somehow involved in the boy’s death. know more about her father and what happened to Matt returns to combat with his squad, soldiers and him and the other American soldiers who served in friends with whom he has become close during his Vietnam. time in Iraq. He’s counting on his buddies to help Today’s students will relate to Sam and her desire to him find the truth about the boy he remembers. But leave her small town for the bigger world versus the Matt soon discovers that there are no clear, easy pull of a loving boyfriend and family. Her need to answers in war and the notion of guilt and confront the controversies and horrors of war and innocence is never black and white. A visceral and its impact on soldiers and the families they leave compelling portrait of life in a war zone, Purple behind makes In Country a meaningful book for the Heart will leave students to ponder the murky ethics current generation of students. of war.
“A brilliant and moving book . . . a moral tale that entwines public history with private anguish.” —Los Balzer + Bray: 208 pp. Angeles Times Book Review 2009 978-0-06-173090-0 • hc • $16.99 ($22.50/CAN) Balzer + Bray: 224 pp. Freshman Common Book: Centenary College, University of South Carolina, Upstate 2011 • 978-0-06-173092-4 • pb • $8.99 ($11.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 272 pp. Paperback available in February 2011 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083517-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 46 F iction Monster Before I Fall Walter Dean Myers Lauren Oliver iction Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for High school senior Samantha and her three best F murder. A Harlem drugstore owner has been shot friends lead a charmed life. On the night of February and killed during a robbery, and word is that Steve 12th, Samantha dies in a car crash. Yet when she served as the lookout. He’s been called a monster, dies, Samantha doesn’t really pass on; instead she is and worse. To cope with the horrific events that left to relive the last day of her life seven times, as entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides long as it takes for her to right the wrongs of her last to transcribe his trial into a movie script. But despite day on earth. A high concept novel that ponders the his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no longer meaning of death and consequences, Before I Fall is tell who he is or what is the truth. Monster is a stunning, emotionally charged and heartbreaking. provocative coming of age story that deals with “Before I Fall is smart, complex, and heartbreakingly such topical issues as prejudice and racism. beautiful. Lauren Oliver has written an extraordinary Amistad: 320 pp. debut novel about what it means to live—and die.” 2004 • 978-0-06-440731-1 • pb • $8.99 ($9.99/CAN) —Carolyn Mackler, author of Tangled and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
HarperCollins Teen: 480 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-172680-4 • hc • $17.99 ($21.99/CAN)
HarperCollins Teen: 496 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-172681-1 • pb • $8.99 ($11.99/CAN)
Paperback available in February 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 47 F iction Bel Canto Run A Novel A Novel Ann Patchett
iction Ann Patchett
F • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows students how worlds of privilege and poverty can • Winner of the Orange Prize coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how Somewhere in South America, at the home of the family can include people you’ve never even met. country’s vice president, a lavish birthday party is Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects being held in honor of the powerful businessman disparate lives, weaving several stories into one Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera’s most revered surprising and endlessly moving narrative. soprano, has mesmerized the international guests “[E]ngaging, surprising, provocative and moving. . . . with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band A thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threat- us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, ening scenario slowly evolves into something quite family.”—Washington Post different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2008 • P.S. • 978-0-06-134064-2 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.
“Patchett doing what she does best. . . . What gives this novel its power is Patchett’s flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters’ behavior.”—New York Times Book Review
Freshman Common Book: NYU/Steinhardt School, Converse College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Harper Perennial: 352 pp. 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083872-0 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 48 F iction The Body of Serena Christopher Creed A Novel Ron Rash iction Carol Plum-Ucci F The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena When Christopher Creed, the class freak and Pemberton arrive in the mountains of North whipping boy, suddenly disappears without a trace, Carolina from Boston to create a timber empire. first his fellow students, then all the citizens of Although George has already lived in the camp long Steepleton join to speculate on what could have enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new happened to him. As fingers begin pointing, the to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the town starts to fall apart and several lives are equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting changed forever. Innovative and intense, The Body rattlesnakes, even saving her husband’s life in the of Christopher Creed will fascinate students until its wilderness. Together, they ruthlessly kill or chilling conclusion. vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena Hyperion: 336 pp. learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out 2001 • 978-0-786-81641-5 • pb • $6.99 (N/C) to kill the son George had without her. Mother and
Freshman Common Book: Western Michigan University child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegiti- mate family, the Pemberton’s intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.
“If you haven’t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should. Rash has been writing poems, stories and novels for years, but with the release of Serena, a dark fable that mixes Southern Gothic motifs with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, he may reach the mainstream audience he long deserves. . . . Rash writes brisk and beautiful prose. Like early Cormac McCarthy, he creates deliciously grotesque characters. His descriptions of the punishing work camp recall William Faulkner at his most rhetorical.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ecco: 400 pp. Also Available by Ron Rash 2009 • P.S. • 978-0-06-147084-4 • pb Burning Bright $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Stories Ecco: 224 pp. Freshman Common Book: Piedmont College 2010 • 978-0-06-180411-3 • hc • $22.99 ($26.50/CAN) Ecco: 384 pp. 2011 • 978-0-06-180412-0 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 49 C CLASSIC FICTION lassic One Hundred Years of Their Eyes Were Solitude Watching God A Novel iction Gabriel García Márquez
Zora Neale Hurston F F Gabriel García Márquez’s finest and most famous Foreword by Edwidge Danticat
work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of iction Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendía “There is no book more important to me than this one.” generations—from José Arcadio and Úrsula, through —Alice Walker their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendía (who lassic commands numerous revolutions and fathers One of the most important works of twentieth- C eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three addi- century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s tional José Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with of an incestuous union. As babies are born and the wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the world’s “great inventions” are introduced into captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, more subject to the workings of the outside world, it is the story of fiercely independent Janie to its politics and progress, and to history itself. Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three And the Buendías and their fellow Macondons marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and advance in years, experience, and wealth . . . until madness, corruption, and death enter their purpose. homes. Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the The P.S. section contains two essays by Valerie Boyd, Hurston’s biographer. A short biography of fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy—a tapestry in Zora Neale Hurston entitled “She Was the Party,” and “A Protofeminist Postcard from Haiti” gives which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding students candid insights into the writing of this acclaimed novel. vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind’s inescapable potential and reality. Freshman Common Book: Albion College “One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 256 pp. required reading for the entire human race.”—New York Times Book Review 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083867-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 448 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-088328-7 • pb • $14.95 ($16.25/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 50 C lassic Brave New World Odyssey of Homer A Novel Richard Lattimore
iction Aldous Huxley “In this Odyssey, Professor Lattimore has achieved his
chef d’oeuvre as a translator. . . . A dazzling and F F The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision well-nigh flawless performance. . . . Here is a master in iction of the future of a world utterly transformed. perfect control of his medium. . . . A landmark in the Through the most efficient scientific and psycho- history of modern translation. . . . It would be a crime to logical engineering, people are genetically designed underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry to be passive and therefore consistently useful to with which Professor Lattimore has reanimated Homer
lassic the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative for this generation, and perhaps for other generations to come.”—Times Literary Supplement
C fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present
and is considered to be Aldous Huxley’s most Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 400 pp. enduring masterpiece. 2007 • P.S. • 978-0-06-124418-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) A P.S. section includes information on Huxley’s upbringing and childhood years, reviews and letters during the initial publication, an essay on the contemporary response to Brave New World, a letter to George Orwell from Aldous Huxley, and a chronological and comprehensive list of Huxley’s works.
“Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist’s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers.”—Saturday Review of Literature
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 288 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-085052-4 • pb • $14.99 (N/C) Also available: A combined edition is also available: Brave New World Revisited Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 144 pp. Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 384 pp. 2006 • P.S. • 978-0-06-089852-6 • pb • $11.95 (N/C) 2005 • 978-0-06-077609-1 • pb • $16.95 (N/C)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 51 C lassic The Bridge of San Luis Rey Native Son A Novel A Novel Richard Wright
iction T hornton Wilder Foreword by Russell Banks Introduction by Arnold Rampersad F F “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been iction finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five headed for jail. It could have been for assault or travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a lassic and a novel still read throughout the world. young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set
C in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is By chance, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings witnesses the tragedy. He then embarks on a of hopelessness experienced by people in inner six-year-long quest to determine whether it was cities across the country and of what it means to be divine intervention or happenstance that led to the black in America. deaths of the five victims. Brother Juniper’s search for answers leads him to more questions, and, “This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key ultimately, to his own death. “There are a hundred line in the key scene is restored to the great good ways of wondering at circumstance,” Wilder writes, fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it challenging students to question and to wonder is central both to an ongoing conversation among about a story that novelist Russell Banks says in his Foreword is “as close to perfect a moral fable as African-American writers and critics and to the consciousness among all American readers of what it means we are ever likely to get in American literature.” to live in a multi-racial society in which power splits along racial lines.”—Los Angeles Times
“One merely has to consider the central question raised by the novel, which, according to Wilder himself, Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 544 pp. was simply: ‘Is there a direction and meaning in lives beyond the individual’s own will?’ It is perhaps the 2005 • P.S. • 978-0-06-083756-3 • pb • $14.95 ($16.95/CAN) largest and most profoundly personal philosophical inquiry that we can undertake. It is the question that defines us as human beings.”—Russell Banks, Foreword to The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 160 pp. Also available: 2003 • 978-0-06-008887-3 • pb • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN) Our Town A Play in Three Acts Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 208 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-051263-7 • $12.99 ($16.99/CAN)
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R Are your students ready to confront the domestic From veteran journalist and former “60 Minutes” and foreign challenges facing our country? producer John Marks, Reasons to Believe is an intimate portrait of evangelicals—one of America’s Stephen Prothero, chair of the religion department most influential religious groups—and the chronicle at Boston University, says, “We have a major civic of how, as a lost believer, he came to terms with his crisis on our hands.” Although the United States is a own faith. deeply religious nation, many Americans—even the most devout—are shockingly ignorant about Born again at age 16, John Marks later abandoned religion. Yet, much of our public debate is rooted in his faith. While on assignment for “60 Minutes” in religious rhetoric. 2003, he interviewed a couple for a piece on the “Left Behind” series, the bestselling Christian Prothero offers a practical solution: a Dictionary of novels about the apocalypse. At the end of the Religious Literacy—key terms, beliefs, characters, interview, the couple asked him simply, would he be and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions left behind? Had he accepted Jesus as his savior or that every student needs to understand. would he go to hell? In Reasons to Believe he says “In this book, the author combines a lively history of the simply, “This book represents the answer to that rise and fall of American religious literacy with a set of proposed remedies. . . . He also includes a useful question.” multicultural glossary of religious definitions and allusions, in which religious illiterates can find the “Essential reading for anyone observing our nation’s evolving political landscape.”—Boston Globe prodigal son, the Promised Land, the Quakers and the Koran.”—Washington Post Book World HarperOne: 384 pp. “Courageous investigative journalism . . . a memoir of startling self-reflection. . . . Marks writes with 2008 • 978-0-06-085952-7 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) unfailing intelligence, insight, and deep compassion.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Harper Perennial: 400 pp. Also Available by Stephen Prothero: HarperOne: 400 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-083277-3 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) God Is Not One 2010 • 978-0-06-157127-5 • hc The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World— $26.99 ($28.99/CAN) Freshman Common Read: Georgia College and Why Their Differences Matter HarperOne: 400 pp 2011 • 978-0-06-157128-2 • pb $16.99 ($21.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2011
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 53 R eligion Made for Goodness Freedom in Exile And Why This Makes All the Difference Th e Autobiography of The Dalai Lama Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu Dalai Lama eligion Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Some believe him to be a living reincarnation of the R Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world’s Buddha; some despise him as a counterrevolution- darkest moments, having spent decades fighting ary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and the the apartheid then acting as an ambassador of heads of nations, while fearlessly speaking the truth peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural to power. He packs arenas with followers who want disasters. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his to learn from his words and are inspired by his life. strength and optimism, arguing that God has made Freedom in Exile covers his amazing life from his us for goodness. discovery at age four as the fourteenth Dalai Lama when he was whisked away from his home, through Written with his daughter, Mpho, who is also an his unconventional training and education, political ordained Anglican minister, Tutu argues that God turmoil with China, his dangerous escape to India in has made the world as a grand theater for us to work 1959, his diplomatic efforts on behalf of Tibet, his out this call to goodness; it is up to us to live up to Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, his personal spirituality, this calling, but God is there to help us every step of and his continuing popularity. the way. Father and daughter offer an inspiring mes- sage of hope that will transform students into “A simple and powerful autobiography. The Dalai activists for change and blessing. 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: 224 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-170659-2 • hc • $25.99 ($35.99) HarperOne: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-098701-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) Freshman Common Read: College of St. Elizabeth
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Named one of the best religious books of the This engaging correspondence between two devils eligion 20th-century by Christianity Today, C. S. Lewis’s is one of C. S. Lewis’s brilliant imaginative R forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief creations. Here, Lewis delves into moral questions is also one of the most popular introductions to about good versus evil, temptation, repentance, Christianity. and grace. Through this wonderful tale, students will emerge with a better knowledge of what it “He has quite a unique power for making theology an means to live a good, honest life. attractive, exciting and fascinating quest.”—Times Literary Supplement “If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be “The point about reading C. S. Lewis is that he makes among the angels.”—The New Yorker you sure, whatever you believe, that religion accepted or rejected means something extremely serious, HarperOne: 224 pp. demanding the entire energy of mind.”—Harper’s 2001 • 978-0-06-065293-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 55 R eligion A Civilization of Love The Heart of Islam Wh at Every Catholic Can Do to Enduring Values for Humanity Transform the World Seyyed Hossein Nasr Carl Anderson eligion As the specter of religious extremism has become a R Carl Anderson and the Knights of Columbus fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow organization want to tell the world about the the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to exciting and history-changing ideas introduced by stand for the values of an entire tradition. In the Pope John Paul II. Through embracing the culture of case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion life and standing with those most marginalized and in the Western world centered on distorted deemed “useless” or a “burden” by modern society, portrayals of its core values. Born of ignorance, such Christians can change the tone and direction of our confusion feeds the very problem at hand. What is culture. In A Civilization of Love Anderson demon- needed is a clear exposition of the true values of strates that not everyone has to agree on the Islam by someone steeped in the peaceful and fundamental questions of life in order to come humane center of the tradition that is also fluent in together on the centrality of loving and caring for the ways of the West. others. He brings a message of inclusion and hope in In The Heart of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers a the midst of a clash of civilizations and provides a timely presentation of the core spiritual and social roadmap for helping Christians understand their values of Islam, such as peace, compassion, social role in the world. justice, tolerance, and the like. Each chapter shows HarperOne: 240 pp. the roots of these values in Islamic scripture, teaching, and tradition, and shows parallels with their 2009 • 978-0-06-133532-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) counterparts in Jewish and Christian traditions. Nasr calls the followers of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) to a new future of mutual respect and common global purpose, as he portrays the beauty and appeal of the heart of the faith of 1.2 billion people.
HarperOne: 352 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-073064-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 56 O ORIENTATION RESOURCES rientation Simply Christian Letting Go Why Christianity Makes Sense Fifth Edition A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the N. T. Wright College Years eligion Simply Christian walks students through the K aren Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger R Christian faith step-by-step and question-by-ques- tion. With simple yet exciting and accessible prose, Based on real-life experience and recommended by Wright challenges skeptics by offering explanations colleges and universities around the country, Letting for even the toughest doubt-filled dilemmas, Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the- R leaving believers with a reason for renewed faith. minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.
For anyone who wants to travel beyond the esources controversies that can obscure what the Christian • When should parents encourage independence? faith really stands for, this accessible book is the • When should they intervene? perfect vehicle for that journey. • Wha t issues of identity and intimacy await students? • Wha t are normal feelings of disorientation and “Simply Christian is simply outstanding. It will confirm, loneliness for students—and for parents? challenge, and deepen your grasp of Christian faith and • Wha t is different about today’s college environment? practice.”—Christianity Today • Wha t new concerns about safety, health and HarperOne: 256 pp. wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes? 2010 • 978-0-06-192062-2 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN) The fifth edition features updated research on admissions and finances; identity and student development; student attitudes, including political and social views; health concerns and behaviors; use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs; choices of majors and careers; religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. This edition also includes examples of new programs and practices on campus that address growing concerns about mental health; safety and security; and sustainability; as well as new opportunities for international study, undergraduate research, interdisciplinary majors, and increased interaction with faculty.
“Very practical with lots of nuts and bolts illustrations of how to deal with concrete situations.” —John N. Gardner, National Center for the Freshman-Year Experience
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HarperCollins First-Year Students Books For Course Adoption Index View Print Exit Books for t he First-Year Student • • 57 O rientation The Naked Truth The Vision Board Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive Unlock the Secret to an Extraordinary Life Marvelyn Brown with Courtney E. Martin Joyce Schwarz Foreword by Bob Proctor, At 19, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white Contributor to The Secret hospital bed at Tennessee Christian Medical Center, esources feeling hopeless. A former top track and basketball Afterword by Jack Canfield, Co-Creator of ® R athlete, she was in the best shape of her life, but The Chicken Soup for the Soul Series was battling a sudden illness in the intensive care Vision boards are colorful canvases that serve as R unit. Doctors had no idea what was going on. It motivational life and career maps—highly inspira-
never occurred to Brown that she might be HIV esources tional and personal in nature—comprised of positive. Having unprotected sex with her boyfriend photographs, collages, mementos, drawings, and set into swift motion a set of circumstances that not quotes, which create a visual layout of personal only landed her in the fight of her life, but also aspirations. Each chapter in The Vision Board begins alienated her from her community. But rather than with a brief interview from a celebrity who has give up, Brown found a reason to fight, and a reason achieved success through vision boards, such as to live. The Naked Truth is an inspirational memoir Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr., and Jesse Jackson. Also included are examples of everyday lives of how an everyday teen refused to give up on rientation influenced by vision boards as well as full color pictures of vision boards, and a three-step system herself, and a cautionary tale that every young
O to identify exactly what you want in life and adult should read. how to attain it. Harper paperbacks: 240 pp.; illustrated 2008 • 978-0-06-156239-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Collins Design: 208 pp.; 75 illustrations 2010 • 978-0-06-1956386-6 • pb • $18.99 ($19.99/CAN)
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INSPIRATION/SELF-HELP nspiration I’ll Find a Way or Make One Getting from College to A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges Career and Universities 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real Juan Williams & Dwayne Ashley World
I’ll Find a Way or Make One is a groundbreaking Lindsey Pollak esources commemorative book that explores the history and It’s the classic conundrum that faces college R cultural importance of America’s 108 Historically students, recent graduates, and young profession-
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through /S als: How do I get a job with no experience and how photos, historical memoir, anecdotal information, do I get experience without a job? In Getting from archival and contemporary materials, and personal elf College to Career Lindsey Pollak presents 90 things interviews. Stories abound about the abolishment to do to build a great resume and gain excellent of slavery, but lesser known are the efforts—both experience. From volunteering to becoming an EMT prior to and after the Civil War—of African-American -
to subscribing to a daily newspaper, these insightful help and white abolitionists banding together to ideas will provide excellent guidance for recent formerly educate illiterate blacks. Through the graduates and those new to the workforce. government, tireless work of black churches, white missionary organizations and philanthropists, HCBUs were established. The tales of how these Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. rientation 2007 • 978-0-06-114259-8 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) schools were created and the individuals who are linked to their histories are controversial, rich, O and vast. HCBUs have come to be known as the backbone of and catalyst for the emergence of America’s black middle class, producing some of our country’s most impressive minds and leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Thurgood Marshall, Ed Bradley, and Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ll Find a Way or Make One reveals how the social and cultural atmosphere at these institutions ultimately played a major role in shaping modern day African-Americans.
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Complete Confidence Start Where You Are
A Handbook Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are i
BECOMING THE POWERFUL PERSON YOU WERE BORN TO BE to Where You Want to Be rat Updated Edition Chris Gardner & Mim E. Rivas Sheenah Hankin, Ph.D. elf-help
Ever since the story of his transformation from i S Renowned psychotherapist Dr. Sheenah Hankin points the way homeless, single and struggling father to on/ to a confident life free from self-criticism, anxiety, and millionaire became known the world over, Chris immature anger. Complete Confidence teaches new ways of Gardner—whose life story both inspired the on/ thinking and acting, making one reorient their brain to manage movie The Pursuit of Happyness—has been S i
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rat thinking by staying with real issues and solutions i impacting individuals in all walks of life. It abounds with life lessons that offer hope and Resources for Complete Confidence provide a road map for starting anew. This is also Browse Inside the Book the book for anyone ready to launch a personal,
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“Start Where You Are is a must-have, must-read guide to pursuing happiness in changing times. It’s not just about surviving as an individual or business in the current economic environment, but about thriving— The Happiness Project personally, collectively, and globally.”—Quincy Jones Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Harper paperbacks: 336 pp. Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun 2010 • 978-0-06-153712-7 • pb • $14.99 ($16.99/CAN) Gretchen Rubin
Soon after her 36th birthday, Gretchen Rubin realized that she was in danger of wasting her life—she was among millions of people who lead seemingly indulgent lives but aren’t as happy as they’d like to be. So instead of continuing to wait for her problems to correct themselves, Rubin decided to make changes, and on January 1st, the Happiness Project began. Harper: 320 pp. Resources for Start Where You Are 2010 • 978-0-06-158325-4 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. Browse Inside the Book 2011 • 978-0-06-158326-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Chris Gardner’s Website Paperback available in May 2011
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Lynn F. Jacobs, Ph.D. & Jeremy S. Hyman, M.A. William Zinsser R
The Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in Expanded and updated, the 30th anniversary esources edition of this favorite of both teachers and esources College reveals insider secrets about how professors grade and gives practical tips designed to maximize students now contains three new chapters, and R student success in all kinds of courses. many new passages that place new emphasis on the writer’s voice and on such fundamental values as Organized around five “grade-bearing” moments, intention, character, and making decisions. the Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College includes topics such as: While still covering all of the basics, Zinsser includes tudy a new chapter entitled “Enjoyment, Fear, and • How to pick courses with an eye to grades S Confidence,” urging students to convey zest for • Top 10 tips for taking excellent lecture notes what they are writing about and to overcome their • Best test-preparation and test-taking strategies anxieties by trusting their general intelligence. • Strategies for staying motivated Another chapter, “The Tyranny of the Final • How to get the most from your professor Product,” advises students not to visualize their Fast-paced and easy to follow, the Professors’ Guide completed article but to focus on all the prior to Getting Good Grades in College is a must-read for decisions of selection, organization, and tone that every college student. will eventually let them know what their piece is about. “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 “Not since Elements of Style has there been a guide to writing as well presented and readable as this one. on what is important.” —Dr. Eric R. White, Executive Director, Division of Undergraduate Studies and A love and respect for the language is evident on every page.”—Library Journal Associate Dean for Advising, Pennsylvania State University “On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers.”—New York Times
“Every student who uses the tips and techniques in this volume is virtually guaranteed a grade increase.” Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; index —Sharon J. Hamilton, Director, Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching 2006 • 978-0-06-089154-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)
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