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FEATURED TITLES The Boy Who Harnessed A Pearl In the Storm the Wind How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Tori Murden McClure William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer During June 1998, Tori Murden McClure set out to William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, Africa, a row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty- country plagued by AIDS and poverty. When, in three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. 2002, Malawi experienced their worst famine in 50 Within days she lost all communication with shore, years, fourteen-year-old William was forced to drop ultimately losing updates on the location of the Gulf out of school because his family could not afford the Stream and on the weather. In deep solitude and $80-a-year-tuition. However, he continued to think, perilous conditions, she was nonetheless learn, and dream. Armed with curiosity, determined to prove what one person with a mission determination, and a few old science textbooks he could do. When she was finally brought to her knees discovered in a nearby library, he embarked on a by a series of violent storms that nearly killed her, daring plan to build a windmill that could bring his she had to signal for help and go home in what felt family the electricity only two percent of Malawians like complete disgrace. could afford. Back home in Kentucky she went to work for “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [is] an autobiography Muhammad Ali, who told her that she did not want so moving that it is almost impossible to read without to be known as the woman who “almost” rowed tears. In understated and simple prose, Kamkwamba and Mealer offer readers a tour through one across the Atlantic Ocean—and she knew that he was right. In this thrilling story of high adventure, Malawian boy’s inspiring life. . . . The telling of his story is surprisingly levelheaded. . . . As you read this Tori Murden McClure gives students a true memoir of an explorer who maps her world with rare book (I’d suggest keeping a box of tissues handy) you can be sure that William Kamkwamba’s future is emotional honesty. bright. If this tale is any indication, we’ll be hearing his name again in the years ahead.”—Christian Science Monitor “Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. If you want to be inspired, read this book. You won’t William Morrow: 288 pp. stop till you’ve finished.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife 2009 • 978-0-06-173032-0 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) Freshman Common Book: Northern Kentucky University

Harper: 304 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-171886-1 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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The Last Lecture A Home on the Field How One Championship Team Inspires Hope Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow for the Revival of Small Town America On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Paul Cuadros Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last This is a triumphant true story of a team of Latino lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood high school students and their coach who fought Dreams.” Although he had been diagnosed with against prejudice to win the North Carolina state terminal cancer, that day Randy was youthful, soccer championship. energetic, handsome, and often cheerfully, darkly “Cuadros, a reporter, went to Siler City, North Carolina, funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief to investigate the changes wrought by Latinos arriving moment, as he himself acknowledged. to work in small-town poultry-processing plants. He Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has became part of the story when he lobbied Jordan- the bestselling book he wrote based on the same Matthews High School to create a team for its principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to soccer-loving Latino youth. Three seasons later, he had make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to coached the Jets to a state championship. The engaging pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy tale of the team’s climb to the top also provides a lens continues to inspire all who read The Last Lecture. through which to view the challenges of assimilation.” —Booklist Freshman Common Book: Georgia Institute of Technology, Ramapo College, Cazenovia College Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, UNC Chapel Hill Hyperion: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-1-4013-2325-7 • hc • $21.95 ($23.50/CAN) It Books: 288 pp.; illustrated 2007 • 978-0-06-112028-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Not For Sale Fast Food Nation The Return of the Global Slave Trade— The Dark Side of the All-American Meal and How We Can Fight It Eric Schlosser David Batstone Why is Fast Food Nation a favorite pick for freshman An estimated 27 million people around the globe reading? Among many reasons, it encourages suffer in situations of forced labor and commercial students to think about their everyday actions sexual exploitation from which they cannot free within a larger context. The story of fast food is the themselves. Trafficking in people has become story of postwar America. Though created by a increasingly transnational in scope, and is today the handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has: third most profitable criminal activity in the world. • Triggered the homogenization of our culture As many as half of all those trafficked worldwide for • Hastened the “malling” of our landscape sex and domestic slavery are children under • Widened the gap between rich and poor eighteen years of age. • Fueled an epidemic of obesity In Not For Sale, David Batstone, a Professor of Ethics • Propelled the juggernaut of American cultural at the University of San Francisco, tells the inspiring imperialism abroad stories of rescued victims and their heroic rescuers, Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of including background briefings on human investigation that will show your students how one trafficking, and practical ideas that empower industry has changed the face of America—and the individuals and their communities to join the world. It works in a multitude of courses and disciplines—from history, sociology, and business to campaign for human freedom. composition, health and nutrition—and beyond. Freshman Common Book: Kennesaw State University, University of South Carolina, Aikens “Channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson. . . . Schlosser’s research is impressive— HarperOne: 320 pp. statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global.” 2007 • 978-0-06-120671-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) —San Francisco Chronicle

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

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

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SuperFreakonomics Freakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy of Everything Life Insurance S teven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner S teven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Here’s a first-year book that encourages critical When originally published, Freakonomics exploded thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics like a bomb on the culture, forever changing the way addresses current social questions that students will students understand the way the world works and enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over how they really make decisions. After more than coffee in the student union: two years on the New York Times bestseller list, • Whic h is more dangerous—a gun or a swimming three million copies sold, and single-handedly pool? inventing a genre of books, University of Chicago • Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers? economist Steven D. Levitt and New York Times • What makes a perfect parent? writer Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics. Based on entirely new research, These may not sound like typical questions an it’s bigger, more provocative, and ready to economist asks, but Levitt is not your typical challenge the way students think all over again. economist. He studies the mysteries of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child “SuperFreakonomics is written for noneconomists. Using rearing—and his conclusions regularly turn wry humor, the authors explore unexpected areas—and conventional wisdom on its head. often, a huge economic change turns on a noneconomic hinge . . . . Present[s] a view of the world both fun and profound, in which human choice itself emerges as—superfreaky.”—Philadelphia Inquirer “We think we know how the world operates, but we really don’t. . . . Freakonomics uses the science of economics and concrete data to challenge our assumptions about everything. . . . You’ll walk away with William Morrow: 288 pp. not only a few good party tidbits, but also a more critical eye to many things presented as fact.”—Harvard 2009 • 978-0-06-088957-9 • hc • $29.99 ($38.99/CAN) Business Review

Freshman Common Book: Appalachian State University, Virginia Commonwealth University

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

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Power Trip Predictably Irrational From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decision the Renewable Future Dan Ariely Amanda Little Do you know why you still have a headache after A “next generation” manifesto for kicking America’s taking a one-cent aspirin, but why that same addiction to fossil fuels, Power Trip examines the headache disappears if the aspirin costs fifty cents? way in which oil and coal have shaped America as an Do you know why recalling the Ten Commandments international superpower—even as they pose reduces people’s tendency to lie, or why honor political and environmental dangers to the nations codes are actually effective in reducing dishonesty and the world. Journalist Amanda Little reveals how at the workplace? energy grows our food, fights our wars, makes our Predictably Irrational challenges students to ponder plastics and medicines, warms our homes, animates these questions (questions we sometimes avoid) our cities, moves our products and vehicles, and and demonstrates how irrationality manifests itself influences our politics. She exposes the hidden in situations (often very peculiar and hilarious consequences of America’s energy-lavish lifestyles, situations) where rational thought is expected. We and shows how American ingenuity has already all succumb to irrationality, it’s about time we find begun to cultivate a new energy economy. out how it affects our daily lives in a significant way. “Energy is the most important story in the world bar In this astounding book, groundbreaking in scope none, and no one has ever told it with more verve than and totally original, Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of Amanda Little. If you want to know how the world works, and why it may not work much longer, this is the our strange behaviors and presents outstanding material that will keep every student transfixed. book you need.”—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable “Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and Future explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act, in the marketplace and out. Predictably Irrational Harper: 464 pp.; index will reshape the way you see the world, and yourself, for good.”—James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom 2009 • 978-0-06-135325-3 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) of Crowds

Harper: 400 pp.; revised and expanded edition; illustrated; index 2009 • 978-00-6185454-5 • hc • $27.99 ($35.99/CAN)

Harper Perennial: 400 pp.; revised and expanded edition; illustrated; index 2010 • 978-0-06-135324-6 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN)

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Guyland The Paradox of Choice The Perilous World Where Men Become Boys Why More Is Less Michael Kimmel How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction Sociologist Michael Kimmel tackles the world of Barry Schwartz late adolescent boys and young men: the “guys” of America, aged 16 to 26. Although these young men Whether your students are buying a pair of jeans, may appear to be growing up too fast, they are in ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance fact becoming adults quite slowly. From the carrier, registering for courses, or choosing a doctor, mundane—video games, movies and television, their everyday decisions—both big and small—have sports, and music—to the extreme—violent become increasingly complex due to the fraternity initiations, sexual predation, and school overwhelming abundance of choice with which they shootings—Kimmel reveals in Guyland the larger are presented. culture that every boy must navigate on his way to adulthood, whether he is a participant or a Students assume that more choices—the hallmark of bystander. Kimmel asserts that what happens to individual freedom and self-determination—mean boys in this period often determines the type of better options and greater satisfaction. But Barry men they become for the rest of their lives. Schwartz, a Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, “Michael Kimmel’s Guyland could save the humanity of warns them to beware of excessive choice: choice many young men—and the sanity of their friends and overload can make us question the decisions we parents—by explaining the forces behind a newly extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he make before we even make them, it can set us up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can names the problem and offers compassionate bridges to adulthood.”—Gloria Steinem make us blame ourselves for any and all failures.

Harper paperbacks: 352 pp.; index “This book is valuable in two ways. It argues persuasively that most of us would often be better off with 2009 • 978-0-06-083135-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) fewer options, and that many of us try too hard to make the best choices. While making its case, the book also provides an engaging introduction to current psychological research on choice and on well-being.” —Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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

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Free Viral Loop The Future of a Radical Price From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grown Themselves Chris Anderson Adam L. Penenberg Mostly everyone in the 21st-century consumer marketplace has received something for nothing, While practically all students interact with “Web and here Chris Anderson—bestselling author of The 2.0” on a daily basis, many do not understand how Long Tail—explains why, charting the most surprising these companies came to be, and what lies in store trend in business today. Using the fundamentals of as the Internet becomes more intertwined with economics, a long view of the history of business, everyday life. analysis of the current rapidly changing landscape, Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, and fascinating predictions of where we are all including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, and headed, the relevance of Anderson’s theory in this YouTube, are prime examples of what journalist book will ring true with students. Adam L. Penenberg calls a “viral loop”—meaning, in “Anderson skillfully makes the case that free is a order to use the product, the consumer has to share business strategy here to stay and that increasingly, it with others. Penenberg spotlights entrepreneurs businesses will profit more from giving things away than who first harnessed the potential of viral loops to by charging for them.”—USA Today create the successful online businesses—some with billion-dollar valuations—that we have all grown to “Free unpacks a paradox of the online marketplace— rely on, especially today’s generation of college people making money charging nothing. What was once students. Penenberg explores viral loops and their impact on contemporary American business, just a marketing gimmick has morphed into the basis of a trillion-dollar economy.”—Newsweek while illustrating how all kinds of businesses can use the paradigm-busting power of viral loops to Hyperion: 288 pp. enable their business through technology. 2009 • 978-1-4013-2290-8 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN) Hyperion: 288 pp. Hyperion: 288 pp. 2009 • 978-1-4013-2349-3 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-14013-1032-5 • pb • $15.99 (N/C)

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AMERICAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY A People’s History of the A New Religious America United States How A “Christian Country” Has Become The World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation 1492–Present Diana L. Eck Howard Zinn Diana Eck shows that since the changes in Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its immigration laws in the 1960s, the nation’s religious scholarly research, historian, playwright, and social constituency has been altered forever. There are activist Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the now as many Muslims living in the United States as United States is the only volume to tell America’s there are Jews or Episcopalians. Soon, Eck argues, story from the point of view of—and in the words we will have to face up to the radical changes of—America’s women, factory workers, African- wrought by this newly grown religious diversity. Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and With chapters focused on Hindus, Buddhists, and immigrant laborers. Revised and updated with two Muslims, Eck opens a larger discussion of the new chapters covering Bill Clinton’s presidency, the meaning of religious diversity and freedom in 2000 Election, and the “war on terrorism,” A America. People’s History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in “This is a true American story—an intriguing tale in our history. several parts that offers historical drama, geographical sweep, [and] engaging characters caught in the throes “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely of unsettling change . . . a sympathetic and encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from knowledgeable guide.”—Christian Science Monitor labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid descriptions of events that are usually ignored, such as the great railroad strike of 1877 and the brutal suppression to the Philippine HarperOne: 432 pp.; index independence movement at the turn of this century. Professor Zinn’s chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life 2002 • 978-0-06-062159-9 • pb • $17.99 ($22.99/CAN) once again the free-fire zones, secret bombings, massacres and cover-ups—should be required reading for a new generation of students now facing conscription.”—Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 768 pp.; index 2005 • 978-0-06-083865-2 • pb • $18.95 ($23.95/CAN)

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Amazing Grace Ordinary Resurrections The Lives of Children and the Conscience of Children in the Years of Hope a Nation Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol In Ordinary Resurrections Jonathan Kozol returns to Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s look at the the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx resilient poor black and Hispanic children of Mott that he wrote about in Amazing Grace to spend Haven, a neighborhood located in the South Bronx another four years with the children who have of New York City. Under the ever-watchful eye of come to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann’s concerned parents, the teachers of P.S. 30, and the Church. A fascinating narrative on the perils of religious leaders of St. Ann’s Church, who strive daily urban life as seen through the honest eyes of each day to foster optimism and self-respect in their children, it is a piercing discernment of right and children, Kozol hypnotically interweaves the wrong, of hope and despair—from our nation’s gripping story of a beleaguered community plagued corridors of power to its poorest city streets. Kozol with high rates of HIV and pediatric AIDS, homicide, gives a human face to what amounts to a modern- drug abuse, and gang rivalry. Yet regardless of their day version of segregation, and provides a stirring overwhelming hardships, the children featured in testimony to the courage of the children and the Amazing Grace are wonderfully tender, generous, parents, teachers, and social workers who are the religiously devout, and heartbreakingly eloquent devoted true heroes and heroines of these about the poverty and racism that they face in their remarkable children. young lives. These children may be wounded by their circumstances, but they are not hardened or “A deeply moving and marvelous book. Jonathan Kozol has shared poetic and powerful stories of the poor bitter. They are an inspiration to all who read their story. children of Mott Haven who became a part of his life.”—Marian Wright Edelman “Kozol reminds us that, with each casualty, part of the beauty of the world is extinguished, because these Harper Perennial: 400 pp. are children of intelligence and humor, of poetic insight and luminous faith.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author 2001 • 978-0-06-095645-5 • pb • $14.00 ($18.00/CAN) of Nickel and Dimed

Freshman Common Book: Loyola College

Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 1996 • 978-0-06-097697-2 • pb • $14.95 ($16.25/CAN)

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Savage Inequalities Why New Orleans Matters Children in America’s Schools Tom Piazza Jonathan Kozol In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning In Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol leads students author and New Orleans resident Tom Piazza into the lives of children in urban communities such wondered what would become of the city he loved. as East St. Louis, Illinois, which the U.S. Department Moved to illuminate its storied culture as well as of Housing and Urban Development has dubbed ponder its uncertain future, he wrote Why New “the most distressed small city in America,” New Orleans Matters. With wisdom and affection, he York City’s South Bronx, Washington, D.C., Camden, explores the hidden contours of familiar traditions New Jersey, and San Antonio, Texas. He describes in like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest, and evokes the graphic detail how children who attend public sensory rapture of the city that gave us jazz music schools in these districts are barely able to get a and Creole cooking. He writes, too, of the city’s standard education because their schools lack deep undercurrents of corruption, racism, and proper financial funding for textbooks, teachers, injustice, and of how its people endure and and classroom supplies, as well as such normal transcend those conditions. And, perhaps most amenities of civilization as toilet paper or a working important, he asks students to consider the spirit of toilet. As Kozol observes, public school is not at all this place and all the things it has shared with the like this for the privileged children of the world—grace and beauty, resilience and soul. neighboring wealthy suburbs of Winnetka, Illinois, “Like a good jazz funeral, Why New Orleans Matters is both a mournful dirge and a vivacious ode to the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, or Manhasset, Rye, or Great Neck, New York. city.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Poor children of all colors are increasingly looked upon as surplus baggage, mistakes that should never Freshman Common Book: Xavier College have happened. Indeed, an older view is returning that any attempts to educate the lower orders are doomed to fail. There can be more than one way to read the title of Jonathan Kozol’s depressing—and Harper Perennial: 224 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-113150-9 • pb • $10.95 ($13.99/CAN) essential—book.”—New York Times Book Review

Freshman Common Book: Albion College, Duke University

Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 1992 • 978-0-06-097499-2 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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F O O D , H E A L T H , A N D THE ENVIRONMENT Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Annie Dillard A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver with • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Steven L. Hopp & Camille Kingsolver No one really catches the beauty and essence of nature quite like Annie Dillard does in this Barbara Kingsolver describes her family’s adventure extraordinarily crafted reflection on nature and life. as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and In gorgeous and lyrical prose, Dillard demonstrates spend a year on a locally produced diet, realigning the descriptive and transformative power of their lives with the local food chain and paying close language, rivaled by very few contemporary writers. attention to the provenance of all they consume. “The book is a form of meditation, written with In that year, they find themselves eager to move headlong urgency, about seeing. A reader’s heart must away from the typical food scenario of American go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so families: a refrigerator packed with processed, fearless and unbridled. . . . There is an ambition about factory-farmed foods transported long distances her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” using nonrenewable fuels, and in their search for —Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review another way to eat and live, they begin to recover what Kingsolver considers our nation’s lost Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 304 pp. appreciation for farms and the natural processes of 2007 • 978-0-06-123332-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) food production.

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

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

Also available from Barbara Kingsolver: Small Wonder

All-Campus Book: Howard Community College (Columbia, MD)

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-050408-3 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)

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You Are Here The Blue Death The Surprising Link Between What We Do and Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink What That Does to Our Planet Dr. Robert D. Morris Thomas M. Kostigen With the keen eyes of a scientist and the Foreword by Kevin Bacon sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert D. The New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Morris, an internationally recognized expert in the Green Book reveals the vital missing link in today’s field of drinking water and health, chronicles the environmental crisis: how we as individuals are fascinating and at times frightening story of our connected to the most tenuous geography on the drinking water. In The Blue Death, Morris dispels planet. Despite the recent prominence of “green” notions of fail-safe water systems. Along the way he issues in the news, we continue to ignore the raw reveals some shocking truths: the millions of miles relationship between earth and our actions. But the of leaking water mains, constantly evolving seemingly insignificant things we do daily have the microorganisms, and the looming threat of power to literally alter the landscape in the ongoing bio-terrorism, which may lead to catastrophe. battle to resuscitate the planet. Combining “A beautifully written book so gripping it reads like groundbreaking research and page-turning frontline fiction, yet nothing in the text is exaggerated. Morris reporting, Thomas M. Kostigen pulls back the speaks to the probability of catastrophic microbial and curtain on the most pressing and provocative issues viral outbreaks in our aging drinking water delivery of the day, and in doing so, students can see the systems, the integrity of which is protected only by earth—and their place on it—in a brand new light. 19th-century technology. This book will shake the complacency of everyone who reads it.”—Theo Colburn, “Thomas Kostigen is an expert at taking the complexities of climate change, distilling them, and then Ph.D., coauthor of Our Stolen Future

relating the answers and solutions to our everyday lives. You Are Here is a common sense approach to Freshman Common Book: Tufts University, Winona State University complex issues.”—Duane Dahl, founder of Earthlab.com Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. HarperOne: 272 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-073090-1 • pb • $14.95 ($16.25/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-158037-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Hell and High Water The Tyranny of Oil The Global Warming Solution The World’s Most Powerful Industry— and What We Must Do to Stop It Joseph Romm Antonia Juhasz It has been estimated that we have ten years to start making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda, is a or we will undoubtedly face the catastrophic leading activist and expert on corporations and consequences of global warming. Unfortunately, globalization. In The Tyranny of Oil she investigates the required government policies and spending are the true state of the United States oil industry, strongly opposed by conservatives, who have uncovering its virtually unparalleled influence over blocked serious action on climate change and our elected officials, its lack of regulatory oversight, continue to publicly deny the dire warnings of and the truth behind $100-a-barrel oil, scientists. With so much at stake, never before has $4.00-a-gallon gasoline, and the highest profit rates there been such a sharp divergence between what in corporate history. Juhasz offers an immediate call top scientists know and what policy makers, the to action—a formula for reigning in the industry, general public, and the media believe. Authoritative cutting down its governmental powers, and persuasive, Hell and High Water is a searing environmental destruction, and movement toward indictment of our disastrous policy that goes war while reducing global dependence on oil. She beyond ideological rhetoric to offer practical, viable proposes a viable answer—break up the nation’s solutions that can avert the threat to our world and leading oil companies.

our way of life. Harper paperbacks: 480 pp.; index “Hell And High Water is an important and timely contribution that deserves careful consideration in the 2009 • 978-0-06-143451-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) dialogue and debate on U.S. energy and climate policy.”—Judith Curry, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

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After the Ice Night Fire Life, Death, and Geopolitics in Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard’s the New Arctic Fight to Save Her Town Alun Anderson Ronnie Greene

The Arctic has reacted more quickly and dramatically Night Fire is the inspiring story of one woman’s fight to global warming than many had anticipated. to save her town from the ravages of illegal Hundreds of scientists are urgently trying to predict pollution and environmental racism. Margie Eugene just how the Arctic will change, and how those Richard was raised in the shadow of the New changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But Orleans Refining Co., and witnessed her neighbors plenty of other people, inspired by profit rather fall ill as a result of the toxic waste the plant emitted than data, are interested as well. The riches of the year after year. Determined to see the company world’s last virgin territory have spurred the take responsibility for their actions, Richard and her reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries. The neighbors—largely poor and with few obvious United States, Canada, Russia, Norway and the resources—educated themselves not only on the Danish territory of Greenland all control chunks consequences of environmental poison but also on around the Arctic Ocean. Alongside the potential how to fight back. winners from an open Arctic sea are the many losers, The unexpected results landed Richard the from the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia and prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, helped Scandinavia to the Inuit hunters of Alaska, clean up a community, and demonstrated how Greenland and Canada. Other creatures that rely on the vast expanses of sea ice, including seals, determination and grit can topple even the most birds and whales—and the ecosystems within which they live—may disappear to be replaced by stubborn of corporate giants. different creatures. Combining science, business, politics, and adventure, After the Ice takes students to the end of the earth for what may be the last narrative portrait of this rapidly changing Amistad: 288 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-112362-7 • hc • $24.95 ($26.95/CAN) land of unparalleled global significance.

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Crimes Against Nature Beef How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Muscle Shaped the World Our Democracy Andrew Rimas & Evan D. G. Fraser Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The world is passionate about beef. From America’s In this passionate, and persuasively argued book, unending love affair with steakhouses to Japan’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. charges that the George W. fashionable Kobe dishes to the village fires of rural Bush White House ordered every federal agency Africa, where dependence on cattle is often the that oversees environmental programs to roll back backbone of tribal society, beef is the meat that rules aimed at the oil, coal, logging, and mining moves us. Since the beginning of human history, industries, as well as automakers, developers, and cattle have been central to our existence, not only corporate agribusiness—much to the detriment of as a source of food and labor but also as an public health and safety. He also contends that the inspiration for art, warfare, and religion. In Beef, Bush administration used smartly crafted, deceptive students learn an exuberant, panoramic view of the euphemisms to deceive the public, that it cow’s rich history. manipulated and suppressed scientific data, and “Beef . . . is like the perfectly cooked steak, a rare thing. that it pursued a policy of rampant influence Combining intelligence with accessibility and superb peddling and corporate cronyism, especially with research with genuine enthusiasm. . . . It will make you regard to its energy programs. Crimes Against Nature want to go and eat a large steak. Ribeye, of course, and is about far more than the environment—it is about an administration that was, in Kennedy’s view, there can be no higher compliment.”—Simon Majumdar, author of Eat My Globe: One Year to Go in service of private profits and personal power. Everywhere—and Eat Everything “A meticulous, elegant and devastating account of an administration that . . . seems to get a kick out of Harper paperbacks: 256 pp.; index sticking it to the planet. Scary stuff.”—New York Post 2009 • 978-0-06-135385-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Stuffed The Gospel of Food An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy America Fat What We Eat Hank Cardello & Doug Garr Barry Glassner

For almost 30 years, Hank Cardello worked for some Part exposé, part social commentary, The Gospel of of the largest food and beverage corporations in the Food is a rallying cry to abandon the fads and world, helping companies like Coca-Cola, Anheuser- fallacies of food in favor of calmer, more pleasurable Busch, and General Mills find bigger and better eating. By interviewing chefs, food chemists, ways to keep Americans within reach of one more nutritionists, and restaurant critics about the way carbonated beverage and a larger bag of chips. In we eat, Barry Glassner, a professor of sociology at Stuffed, Cardello exposes the food industry, USC, helps students recognize the myths, half- offering an insider’s account of how the boardroom truths, and guilt trips they promulgate, and decisions and marketing muscle of America’s food liberates them for greater joy at the table. industry have promoted the bottom line at the “The Gospel of Food is pure fun to read . . . Glassner is expense of consumer health. Provocative and methodical and relentless in his exploration, fierce in his groundbreaking, Stuffed is a sweeping critique of finger-pointing . . . and he’s genuinely concerned about the food and beverage industry that highlights the our growing disassociation with, and emotional money behind the calories and how the economics baggage around, food.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review of food has overpowered the science of health. Harper Perennial: 320 pp.; index Ecco: 272 pp.; index 2007 P.S. • 978-0-06-050122-8 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-189674-3 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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WORLD ISSUES Righteous Porkchop How Soccer Explains the Finding a Life and Good Food World Beyond Factory Farms An {Unlikely} Theory of Globalization Nicolette Hahn Niman Franklin Foer Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. You don’t have to be a soccer fanatic to appreciate Righteous Porkchop exposes the shocking practices this book. Franklin Foer merely uses the world’s most of today’s meat, poultry, and dairy industries by popular sport as a lens to dramatically illuminate the following the experiences of an intrepid religious, economic, political, and ethnic divisions environmental lawyer who goes up against the big around the world. Foer takes students on a surprising business farming establishment. It depicts Nicolette journey through the world of soccer, shattering the Hahn Niman’s search for—and ultimate discovery myths of our new global age along the way. From of—a way for America to produce food from animals Brazil to Bosnia, and from Italy to Iran, How Soccer that is healthful, environmentally sound, and Explains the World chronicles how a sport and its rabid humane. followers highlight such societal fault lines as From a health standpoint, Righteous Porkchop terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, and radical Islam. details how and why to avoid meat, poultry, and “Full of important insights into both cultural change and eggs tainted by chemicals and antibiotic-resistant persistence. . . . Foer’s soccer odyssey lends weight to bacteria. From an eating standpoint, the book the argument that a human world order is possible.” shows how students can reclaim the pleasures of — Washington Post Book World good dining by seeking out foods from traditionally farmed animals. Harper Perennial: 272 pp.; index 2005 • 978-0-06-073142-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) William Morrow: 304 pp.; index 2008 • 978-0-06-146649-6 • hc • $23.99 ($31.50/CAN)

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Daughter of Destiny Reconciliation An Autobiography Islam, Democracy, and the West Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto

The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir In Reconciliation, Benazir Bhutto recounts her final Bhutto’s autobiography Daughter of Destiny is a months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for historical document of uncommon passion and how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to courage, the dramatic story of a brilliant, beautiful rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that woman whose life was, up to her tragic lie at the heart of her religion. In this riveting and assassination in 2007, inexorably tied to her deeply insightful book, she explores the nation’s tumultuous history. Bhutto writes of complicated history between the Middle East and growing up in a family of legendary wealth and the West, tracing the roots of international near-mythic status, whose rich heritage survived in terrorism across the world. But Bhutto speaks out tales passed from generation to generation. She not just to the West, but also to the Muslims across describes her journey from this protected world the globe that are at a crossroads between the past onto the volatile stage of international politics and the future, between education and ignorance, through her education at Radcliffe at the close of between peace and terrorism, and between the sixties, her four years at Oxford, and the sudden dictatorship and democracy, making clear what the coup that plunged her family into a prolonged world has lost with her untimely assassination. nightmare of threats and torture. With candor but “This is a courageous and powerful answer to hatred and without bitterness, Benazir Bhutto recounts the events surrounding her father’s assassination and intolerance, written by an extraordinary woman. Reading Benazir Bhutto’s Reconciliation shows just how her grueling experience as a political prisoner in solitary confinement. much we lost with her death. You’ll finish it and mourn for what might have been.”— Arianna Huffington, “A shrewd political autobiography. . . . It offers a fascinating look at a Western-educated politician author, syndicated columnist, and founder of The Huffington Post promoting democracy in an Islamic country with a history of military rule.”—New York Times Harper Perennial: 352 pp. Harper Perennial: 480 pp.; index 2008 • 978-0-06-156759-9 • pb • $15.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2008 • 978-0-06-167268-2 • pb • $15.95 ($17.25/CAN)

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The Weight of a What Americans Really Want Mustard Seed . . . Really The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and The Truth about Our Hopes, Dreams, His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny and Fears Wendell Steavenson Frank Luntz

• Named a New York Times Notable Book for 2009 More than ever, students are aware of the power of words and understanding. Arguably the most When Wendell Steavenson set out to profile Iraqi influential pollster in America today, Frank Luntz’s General Kamel Sachet, she had these questions work has shaped the national dialogue and the about Sachet and other Baathist loyalists: “Why had political landscape, and here he offers his they served such a regime? How had they explanation of why knowledge is the currency of the accommodated their own morality? How had they 21st-century. lived? How had they lived with themselves?” Her journey to find these answers took five years, and In a book that’s a cross between What’s the Matter an accumulation of facts, opinions, fears, with Kansas and Why We Buy, pupils of every confessions and suspicions from Sachet’s family, discipline of study will find information they can friends, and enemies. Kamel Sachet was one of use. Luntz’s research in the book represents a Saddam’s commanders in his Special Forces, in decade of face-to-face interviews with 25,000 charge of Kuwait City during Desert Storm, and a people and telephone polls with 1,000,000 more, as Governor in the province of Maysan. In The Weight of a Mustard Seed, Steavenson profiles not just well as the first-ever “What Americans Really Want” survey, conducted in 2009 specifically for the Sachet, but Sachet’s sons and daughters, his wife, an army psychiatrist, a military henchman and book. What he offers is a glimpse into the American psyche, covering everything from personal more, whose lives intersected with Sachet’s tragic rise and fall. As she writes, “In Iraq, there was priorities, daily habits, private desires, and elected officials, to family life, the workplace, never one story, there were always many stories, layers of episodes, each one a wound.” parenting, religion, and retirement, along with analysis that will rock assumptions and right business judgment. Harper: 304 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-172178-6 • hc • $24.99 (N/C) “When Frank Luntz wants you to talk to his focus group, you talk to his focus group.” —President Barack Obama Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-172188-5 • pb • $14.99 (N/C) Hyperion: 336 pp. 2009 • 978-1-4013-2281-6 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN) Paperback available in March 2010

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Give a Little Secrets of Powerful Women How Your Small Donations Can Transform Leading Change for a New Generation Our World Foreword by Andrea Wong, President & CEO, Wendy Smith Lifetime Networks Introduction by Rosario Dawson, Co-Founder, Even the most jaded student will be wide-eyed at this fact: the most significant charitable donor in Voto Latino the world, by far, is not Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. All freshmen begin their first year of school in the Rather, it’s the American of modest means. In 2007, hopes that they can learn the “keys to success”—this small donations from those everyday citizens great essay collection provides just that. Dozens of amounted to $229 billion—that is, 114 times the the nation’s most influential female political leaders amount the Gates Foundation gave away in this hold forth on the missteps, small braveries, and same year. enormous leaps that shaped their individual journey Wendy Smith draws upon her extensive experience to success, and impart valuable lessons any young with not-for-profit groups and charitable woman will appreciate, whether she aspires to the organizations to give examples of nonprofits and boardroom, the halls of Congress, the anchor’s desk, the inspiring ways they use our affordable or the head of the student council.

contributions to make a major impact. Whether Hyperion: 208 pp. students want to affect global change or help out in 2010 • 978-1-4013-4111-4 • pb • $14.99 (N/C) their local community, this book gives them all the inspirational tools they need.

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This Child Will Be Great Wars, Guns, and Votes Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Democracy in Dangerous Places Woman President Paul Collier Ellen Johnson Sirleaf In Wars, Guns, And Votes, highly regarded economist On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was on developing countries Paul Collier investigates inaugurated into office as the President of the the violence and poverty in the small countries at Republic of Liberia. After fourteen years of civil the bottom of the world economy that are home to a conflict and brutal violence, during which the billion people. Collier argues that the spread of economy and physical landscape of Liberia had been elections and peace settlements in the world’s most destroyed, President Sirleaf’s election marked a dangerous countries may lead to a brave new tremendous turning point in the history of the West democratic world. In the meantime, though, nasty African nation. To international observers, it was a and long civil wars, military coups, and failing moment that signaled Liberia’s commitment to the economies have plagued the bottom billion. democratic process and offered great hope to Through innovative research and astute analysis, aspiring female leaders around the world. In this Collier gives students an eye-opening assessment of memoir, President Sirleaf shares the inside story of the ethnic divisions and insecurity in the developing her rise to power—from her early childhood; to her countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, where experiences with domestic abuse, imprisonment, the new democratic peace has not always been and exile; to her fight for democracy and social successful. He persuasively outlines what must be justice. done to bring peace and stability—the international community must intervene through aid, “The first thing to be said about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s This Child Will Be Great is that it is exceptionally democracy building, and a very limited amount of force. Wars, Guns, and Votes is a passionate and well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave convincing argument for the peaceful development of the most volatile places on earth. woman. . . . This timely book, essential for anyone who hopes to understand West Africa in general and “A penetrating analysis of some of the thorniest problems confronting less-developed countries such as Liberia in particular, is a lesson in courage and perseverance.”—Washington Post ethnic divisions, civil wars and other pitfalls of democracy. Paul Collier is one of the most original minds in Harper: 368 pp.; index the world today.”—George Soros 2009 • 978-0-06-135347-5 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN) Harper Perennial: 272 pp.; index Harper Perennial: 384 pp.; index 2010 • 978-0-06147964-9 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2010 • 978-0-06-135348-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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One Day the Soldiers Came In the Hot Zone Voices of Children in War One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars Charles London Kevin Sites

Twenty million children around the world have been Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video poverty. Charles London was given the rare camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite opportunity—as a Research Associate for Refugees modem, the award-winning journalist covered International—to live with and work with these virtually every major global hot spot as the first children. In One Day The Soldiers Came he enters Internet correspondent for the news division of their world, celebrating their unique skills for Yahoo! Beginning his journey with the anarchic survival and reflection. Through the stories and chaos of Somalia in September 2005, Sites spoke drawings of children from Congo, Burma, Kosovo, with government troops, child soldiers and child Sudan, and Rwanda—the sites of some of the most brides, and featured the people on every side, violent upheavals of the past decade—students see including those caught in the crossfire. His honest the invisible narrative of the young as they reporting helped destroy the myths of war by experience, understand, and are shaped by the putting a human face on war’s inhumanity. conflicts around them. As a saying in East Africa Personally, Sites came to discover that the greatest goes, “When elephants fight, it is the grass that danger he faced may not be from bombs and bullets, suffers.” This book is an account of the fighting but from the unsettling power of the truth. from the grass’s point of view—how it is crushed, but how it keeps growing. “Instead of telling us what we already know, [Sites] has done something remarkable, delivering the sort of “Charles London has somehow managed to write a book about children in war that is not sentimental, not fresh and insightful human stories . . . that we seldom hear.”—Columbia Journalism Review maudlin, not shrill and certainly not preachy. Instead, One Day The Soldiers Came is an unblinking account Harper Perennial: 368 pp. of a peculiar human reality that extends even down to the littlest of us—namely that we (adults and 2007 • 978-0-06-122875-9 • pb • $15.95 ($18.95/CAN) children alike) are a species of relentless survivors.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

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MEMOIR/WORLD VIEWS Leaving Microsoft to Sounds of the River Change the World A Young Man’s University Days in Beijing An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the Da Chen World’s Children Teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from John Wood the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at challenges, including poor living conditions, lack of Microsoft when he decided to take a vacation that food, and suicidal roommates. Undaunted by these ultimately transformed his life. A trip to Nepal hurdles, and armed with a dogged determination to inspired him to change the world one book and one learn English and “all things Western,” he competes child at a time by setting up schools and libraries in to win a chance to study in America—a chance that the developing world. Wood married Microsoft rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of his business practices and the world of non-profits to almighty professors. create Room to Read, a stunningly effective non-profit organization that has created a network of Poetic, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Sounds of the more than 2,000 schools and libraries throughout River is a gloriously written coming-of-age saga that rural and poor communities in Asia and Africa. chronicles a remarkable journey. Shining a spotlight on dozens of everyday heroes and “A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication and, offering specific lessons for entrepreneurs and ultimately, triumph.”—New York Times Book Review leaders, Wood’s story is an uncommon and instructive primer on creating success on one’s own Freshman Common Book: Kennesaw State University, Seton Hall University terms, and an inspiration on changing the world. Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2003 • 978-0-06-095872-5 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 304 pp.; index 2007 • 978-0-06-112108-1 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

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The Bitter Sea However Tall the Mountain Coming of Age in a China Before Mao A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home Charles N. Li Awista Ayub

In this haunting and illuminating memoir, Charles N. The plight of Afghanistan’s people—especially its Li brings into focus the growth pains of a nation women under the brutal reign of the Taliban—has undergoing torturous rebirth and offers an intimate never been more clearly demonstrated than it is understanding of the intricate, subtle, and yet today. Here is a first-person account of a young all-powerful traditions that bind the Chinese family. Afghani woman and her quest to make a difference Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was in her country. the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, official. By the time he was 21, he had witnessed her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, enough hardship, hope, and tremendous change to where Awista flourished, thanks to organized last a lifetime. He went from being Li Na—the athletics—and where she vowed to make a dutiful Chinese son yearning for a harsh, difference in her home country some day. Soon manipulative father’s love—to Charles, an after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: independent Chinese American seeking no one’s She founded the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an approval but his own. Lyrical and luminous, intense organization dedicated to nurturing Afghan girls and extraordinary, The Bitter Sea is an unforgettable through soccer. What began with eight young tale of one young man and his country. women has exploded into something of a “Li’s memoir is not just an account of a turbulent period of Chinese history. It is also the heart-rending phenomenon. Fifteen teams now compete with the Afghanistan Football Federation, with story of a father-son relationship in which ambition proves more powerful than love. . . . Li Na’s story hundreds of girls participating. overlaps with so much of the drama of modern China that it provides a compelling firsthand view of By bringing soccer to young Afghan women, Awista reintroduced the very traits the decades of war history.”—Christian Science Monitor had cruelly stripped away from them—confidence and self-worth. Harper Perennial: 304 pp. “Awista’s work shows young Afghan women that there is a wider world open to them now that the brutality 2009 • 978-0-06-170954-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) of the Taliban is a thing of the past.”—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Hyperion: 256 pp. 2009 • 978-1-4013-2249-6 hc, $23.99 ($31.50/CAN)

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My Prison, My Home Children of Dust One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran A Memoir of Pakistan Haleh Esfandiari Ali Eteraz

On December 30, 2006, 67-year-old Haleh In this beautifully told memoir, Ali Eteraz relates the Esfandiari prepared to leave her mother in Tehran remarkable tale of his emergence behind the veil of after their yearly Christmas visit. Esfandiari climbed extreme fundamentalist Islam. In a honest portrayal into the taxi of a longtime family driver and headed of a life that few Americans can imagine, Eteraz for the airport. Before she could get there, the taxi takes students from his schooling in a madrassa in was forced to pull over. Three men armed with large Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American, knives hassled Esfandiari and the driver and made and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife— off with her passports, plane tickets, and money. resulting in a clash with the Taliban with nearly fatal Believing it was a simple robbery, she returned to consequences. The spellbinding story takes a Tehran, grateful to be unhurt. What Esfandiari did gripping turn, as the devout Eteraz becomes the not understand was that she was about to become a target of a plot to abduct and hold him for ransom victim of President Amidinijad’s repressive regime. for being a suspected CIA agent, forcing him to After weeks of incessant questioning, Esfandiari escort under military escort. Ultimately, Eteraz must was sent to jail where she spent eight harrowing reevaluate everything to find reconciliation with his months—including four in solitary confinement, Islamic identity.

undergoing intensive interrogation, sleeping on the HarperOne: 352 pp. floor and suffering from severe malnourishment. Threatening her with life imprisonment, the 2009 • 978-0-06-156708-7 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) Iranian government accused Esfandiari, a scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center, of harboring information about an American conspiracy for “regime change” in Iran. My Prison, My Home is at once a searing and mesmerizing story of survival, and a clear-eyed living portrait of modern Iran and the history, cultural misunderstandings, and fear that created it.

Ecco: 240 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-158327-8 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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In Search of My Homeland From Harvey River A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Er Tai Gao Lorna Goodison

In Search of My Homeland is the memoir of Er Tai “Throughout her life my mother Doris lived in two Gao, a Chinese artist, art critic, and intellectual who places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised spent twenty years in and out of China’s gulag until a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the his escape to freedom in Hong Kong in 1992 and his parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew defection to America in 1993. Epic in scope, up.” When Doris Harvey’s English grandfather, reaching from the depths of work ditches in the William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a Gobi Desert to the heights of the Buddhist heavens path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, depicted on the Dunhuang cave ceilings, In Search of he gives his name to what will become his family’s My Homeland is a striking portrayal of Gao’s home for generations. In lush, vivid prose, textured experiences of political persecution, of prisoners with the cadences of Creole speech, Lorna Goodison pushed to the limits of human endurance, and weaves together memory and mythology to create a ultimately of the power of hope. Powerful and vivid tapestry. She takes students deep into the elegantly written, Gao’s work teaches students that heart of a complete world to tell a universal story of freedom is the most important political stand for an family and the ties that bind us to the place we call artist, to be able to dissent from the dominant home. ideology—thereby making beauty, both its creation “Being introduced to the cast of From Harvey River is like and perception, its ultimate symbol. sitting down at the family dining table. You’ll stay for the day then on into the evening as each new Ecco: 272 pp. character pulls up a chair. You could not be in better company.” —New York Times Book Review 2009 • 978-0-06-088126-9 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 304 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-133756-7 • pb • $13.99 (N/C)

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River Town Oracle Bones Two Years on the Yangtze A Journey Through Time in China Peter Hessler Peter Hessler

• Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Oracle Bones tells the story of modern-day China 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. heading down a new path of change and growth, 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 the first time in more than half a century that the idiosyncrasies of China in a way that makes its people city had an American resident. Hessler taught palpably human and distinctly memorable.”—Los English and American literature at the local college, Angeles Times but it was his students who taught him about the “Compelling. . . . Hessler moves engagingly back and complex processes of understanding that take place forth between narratives and characters. . . . Offers when one is immersed in a radically different unusual insights into the yearnings and frustrations of society. the country’s young adults.”—Washington Post

“Lively, intelligent. . . . You will learn a great deal about Harper Perennial: 528 pp.; illustrated; index real life in contemporary China in River Town, and about 2007 P.S. • 978-0-06-082659-8 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) 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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Harper Perennial: 432 pp. 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-085502-4 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Country Driving The Man in the White A Journey Through China from Farm to Sharkskin Suit Factory A JEWISH Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to Peter Hessler the New World

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Lucette Lagnado Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired This poignant and breathtaking memoir from Wall 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 1963 and her father’s heroic and tragic struggle to transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the survive his “riches to rags” inversion of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, American dream. entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the country during one of the most critical periods in its history. “[A] stunning memoir . . . a deeply affecting portrait Country Driving follows Hessler’s 7,000-mile drive of her family and its journey from war-time Cairo to across northern China, following the Great Wall, the New World. . . . She conjures a vanished world from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau, with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and . . . illuminating the vast, shifting landscape of a she calculates the emotional costs of exile with an traditionally rural nation that, having once built unsentimental but forgiving eye. . . . Writing in walls against outsiders, is building roads and factory crystalline yet melodious prose, Ms. Lagnado gives towns that look to the outside world. us 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 Journal Harper Perennial: 368 pp.; illustrated 2008 P.S. • 978-0-06-082218-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Harper: 448 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-180409-0 • hc • $27.99 ($35.99/CAN)

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First They Killed My Father Lucky Child A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers A Daughter of Cambodia in America Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind Loung Ung Loung Ung • Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award 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, desperate actions, and the strength of a child and her 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 Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city in April 1975, struggle to survive in rural Cambodia. Ung’s family was forced to flee their home. 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 sent to labor camps. Only after the Vietnamese politics, adversity and war. Change the names of the destroyed the Khmer Rouge were Ung and her characters, give them another country of origin, and this surviving siblings slowly reunited. Loung Ung is now story of dislocation becomes a tragedy millions of a 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 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-073395-7 • 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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Harper Perennial: 288 pp.; illustrated 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-085626-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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MEMOIR/AMERICAN VOICES Clara’s War Black Boy One Girl’s Story of Survival Richard Wright Clara Kramer With a new Foreword by Edward P. Jones

Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a from a small town at the outbreak of the World War subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright’s journey II. But when the Germans invaded, the Becks, a from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. Volksdeutsch (ethnically German) family took in the An enduring story of one young man’s coming of Kramers. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a age during a particular time and place, Black Boy womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. His wife had remains a seminal text in our history about what it worked as Clara’s family’s housekeeper. But on means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. hearing that Jewish families were being led into the “Superb. . . . The Library of America has insured that woods and shot, the Becks sheltered the Kramers most of Wright’s major texts are now available as he and two other Jewish families. Eighteen people in wanted them to be read. . . . Most important of all is the all lived in a bunker dug out of Beck’s basement. opportunity we now have to hear a great American Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the writer speak with his own voice about matters that still twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, resonate at the center of our lives.”—Alfred Kazin, writing down details of their unpredictable life, New York Times Book Review from the house catching fire to Mr. Beck’s affair with Clara’s cousin; the nightly S.S. drinking Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 448 pp. sessions in the room above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp. Against all odds, Clara 2007 P.S. • 978-0-06-113024-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) lived to tell her story, and her diary is now kept in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Ecco: 352 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-172860-0 • hc • $25.99 (N/C)

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Dust Tracks on a Road Finding Fish An Autobiography A Memoir Zora Neale Hurston Antwone Quenton Fisher Introduction by Maya Angelou Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, from the moment his single mother gave birth to 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 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. glimpse into the life—public and private—of an Through it all, Fisher refused to allow his spirit to extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and be broken and never gave up on his dreams of a champion of the black experience in America. better day.

“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 the challenges of life.”—Chicago Tribune Freshman Common Book: Albion College Freshman Common Book: University of Buffalo Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 336 pp. 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-085408-9 • pb • $13.99 ($16.50/CAN) Harper paperbacks: 352 pp. 2001 • 978-0-06-000778-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Come Back The Pursuit of Happyness A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Chris Gardner Hell and Back Claire Fontaine & Mia Fontaine At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San After fifteen-year-old Mia runs away from home in Francisco and set his sights on the competitive the middle of the night, her mother, Claire, enters world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed the dark and sinister world of runaways and drug an internship at a prestigious firm, Gardner found addicts to save her daughter in an inspiring true himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging story of the love and courage that connects mother circumstances that left him homeless with his to daughter. toddler son. Instead of giving in to despair, the two stayed together—moving from shelter to shelter— “It takes great tenacity for a parent and child to revisit and even sleeping in the public restroom of a experiences like the ones described in this book. . . . subway station—before they triumphed. Come Back is a testament to the power of the love between a mother and daughter.” —New York Times Hopefully, none of your students will ever face such Book Review dire circumstances—but everyone can learn from Chris Gardner’s story. How do you keep going? Harper Perennial: 336 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-156757-5 • pb • $15.95 ($19.99/CAN) What choices will you make along the way? What is truly important to you?

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

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Amistad: 320 pp.; illustrated 2007 • 978-0-06-074487-8 • pb • $14.99 ($19.50/CAN)

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Autobiography of a Face Truth & Beauty A Friendship Lucy Grealy With an Afterword by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett

“I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated and began a friendship that would be as defining to for nothing other than looking different from both of their lives as their work was. In her memoir, everyone else. It was the pain from that, from Autobiography of a Face, Grealy wrote about losing feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great her jaw to childhood cancer, and then the years of tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the minor in comparison.”—Lucy Grealy story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life, but 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, school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the not only as a story of friendship but also as a young cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid artist’s eye-opening introduction to the wider memoir, Grealy tell her story with remarkable world.”—New York Times

strength without sentimentality and with Freshman Common Book: Miami University (with considerable wit. Autobiography of a Face), Clemson College

“Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is Harper Perennial: 272 pp. engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style 2005 • 978-0-06-057215-0 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) and class.”—Washington Post Book World

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

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

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Double Take Bending Toward the Sun A Memoir A Mother and Daughter Memoir Kevin Michael Connolly Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie

Kevin Michael Connolly is a 23-year-old who has This is a rare and beautiful dual memoir about a seen the world in a way most of your students never unique family bond, forged in the wake of a brutal will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at terror. Bending Toward the Sun weaves a riveting and Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X unique first-hand account of how the Holocaust Games on his mono-ski as a teenager, Connolly has experience had a profound and lasting been an object of curiosity since the day he was psychological impact on the survivors and their born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he descendants. The memoir spans from the time in was raised like any other kid. As a college student, which Rita fled her home in Poland, hiding from the he traveled to seventeen countries on his Nazis in an attic with fourteen family members for skateboard and, in an attempt to capture the stares two years, to the warm moments of watching her of strangers, he took more than 30,000 photographs granddaughter grow up. However, Rita’s emotional of people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, legacy of fear, guilt, and pain had a tremendous Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we impact on her children. Her eldest daughter Leslie view ourselves and what it is to truly see another developed fears eerily related to Rita’s past. Now, person. His remarkable journey will change the way Leslie is beginning to notice similar tendencies in your students look at others and the way they see her own daughter. Bending Toward the Sun explores themselves. how the Holocaust reverberates in their hearts and minds, and extends into the lives of second and third generations. HarperStudio: 240 pp.; illustrations 2009 • 978-0-06-179153-6 • hc • $19.99 ($25.99/CAN) “Bending Toward the Sun is a captivating memoir that explores a complicated, loving, and enduring mother-daughter bond, and reveals how doubts, hopes, and dreams are handed down from generation to generation. As both a mother and a daughter, I found it deeply touching.”—Arianna Huffington, author, syndicated columnist, and founder of The Huffington Post

Harper: 368 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-173476-2 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Lit Crazy for the Storm A Memoir A Memoir of Survival Mary Karr Norman Ollestad

• Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by the The father he idolized thrust Norman Ollestad into the New York Times and a New York Times notable world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a book of the year very young age. Resentful of a childhood lost to his Mary Karr’s prizewinning The Liars’ Club chronicled father’s reckless and demanding adventures, young her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough sass Ollestad was often paralyzed by fear. Set in Malibu and literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir. and Mexico in the late 1970s, Crazy for the Storm Cherry, her account of a psychedelic adolescence captures the earthy surf culture of Southern California; and a moving sexual coming-of-age, followed. Lit the boy’s conflicted feelings for his magnetic father; answers the question asked by Karr’s readers: How and the exhilarating tests of skill that prepared young did she make it out of that toxic upbringing to tell Norman to become a fearless champion—which her own tale? ultimately saved his life. In February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father’s Karr’s longing for a solid family seems secure when girlfriend, and the pilot, crashed into the San Gabriel her marriage to a handsome, blueblood poet who Mountains and was suspended at 8,000 feet, engulfed can quote Shakespeare by the yard produces a in a blizzard. Norman’s father was dead, and the blond son they adore. But Karr can’t outrun her 11-year-old had to descend the mountain alone and apocalyptic upbringing. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her grief-stricken. Crazy for the Storm is the beautifully crafted, astonishing true story of a boy who spent charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in “The Mental his childhood living for his father and ended up owing him his own life. Marriott” with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy again, and “Never a dull moment. . . . Ollestad’s prose is crisp and exacting, a controlled approach to his tumultuous leads her to an unlikely faith and salvation in Catholicism. past. . . . There’s enough drama in the plane crash alone to sustain a novel, but Ollestad has done “Karr writes with such intensity and poetry. . . . This struggle to reconcile her past and present, her family something much more. He’s written a beautiful story about a thrill-loving father—‘the man with the and her future, is the steel-wired ribbon that not only runs through this affecting book, but that also sunshine in his eyes’—who taught his boy not just how to live, but how to thrive.”—Houston Chronicle connects it to Ms. Karr’s two earlier memoirs—the bright, elastic thread on which she so deftly strings the Ecco: 288 pp. colored beads of her tumultuous life.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 2009 • 978-0-06-176672-5 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Coop House Rules A Memoir A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting Rachel Sontag Michael Perry In the tradition of This Boy’s Life comes a memoir of In Coop, the author of Population 485 and Truck: A recovery from the complex psychological hold of an Love Story plumbs his unorthodox past (he was overly controlling father and the fall-out that raised in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect transforms a family forever. by city-bred parents who took in over 100 foster children) for clues as to how he should proceed as a “Sontag recollects in vivid detail what it is to die a slow farmer and a parent. Whether describing his family emotional death then somehow manages to resuscitate (“I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he herself. These are the hardest stories to tell, the most drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered complex, and I would venture to say, the most universal. to the bumper of his Ford Falcon”) or what it’s like Sontag stumbles out of her parents’ house on the verge to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig (“two of collapse, but also, miraculously, with a very strong firsts in one day”),Coop is filled with Michael Perry’s pulse.”—Alicia Erian, author of Towelhead

trademark humor, but in the course of a year in Harper Perennial: 288 pp. which the birth of his child is balanced by the death 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-134123-6 • pb • $13.99 (N/C) of a dear friend and worse, he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart.

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

Harper: 368 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-124043-0 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Boy Alone I Love Yous Are for White A Brother’s Memoir People Karl Taro Greenfeld A Memoir

Josh Greenfeld and his wife Foumi dedicated their Lac Su lives to caring for their autistic son, Noah—a From an early age in Vietnam, Lac Su had to deal with challenging, often painful, yet moving experience the most harrowing of life obstacles before that the devoted father chronicled in a bestselling immigrating to Los Angeles with his family. Yet trilogy of books begun with the classic A Boy Called despite his hopes for a paradise much more beautiful Noah. But the Greenfelds had another son, a child than his homeland, Lac found out that the American named Karl. Now, for the first time, he speaks out Dream was not all it was cracked up to be. Living in about growing up in the shadow of his autistic squalid conditions and barely making ends meet, his brother and reveals the mix of rage, confusion, and family struggled to forge its identity in a cultural mix love that defined his childhood. In Boy Alone, he that often invited more trouble than solace. Soon seamlessly weaves together the social history of enough, Lac’s search for love and acceptance led him autism and autism research—as his family lived to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to through it and struggled to find a treatment for tear his life apart. Heart-wrenching and ultimately Noah—with the deeply affecting story of two very uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People is a memoir different boys growing up side by side. at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that Harper: 368 pp. countless immigrants have faced in their pursuit of a 2009 • 978-0-06-113666-5 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN) better life.

Harper Perennial: 368 pp. Harper Perennial: 272 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-113667-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-154366-1 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Paperback available in May 2010

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Highest Duty In Hanuman’s Hands My Search for What Really Matters A Memoir Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger with Jeffrey Cheeni Rao Zaslow Hitting rock bottom as a homeless drug addict, On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed one of Cheeni Rao returns to his family to find the door the most remarkable emergency landings in history locked. Behind it he hears his Indian immigrant when Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger skillfully mother sobbing, “I can do nothing for you. You are glided U.S. Airways Flight 1549 onto the surface of now in Hanuman’s hands.” Hanuman, the Hindu the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 monkey god, is his last resort. In Hanuman’s Hands is passengers and crew aboard. His cool actions not a gritty, hauntingly beautiful memoir by Cheeni Rao, only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an a young man born to a long line of Indian Hindu inspiration worldwide. To Sullenberger, a calm, priests, who faced with the freedoms and steady pilot with forty years of flying experience temptations of life on an elite New England college who is also a safety consulting expert, the landing campus, spirals down into a hedonistic nightmare of was not a miracle but rather the result of years of drugs, sex and crime. On his long journey to practice and training—wisdom he gained in the recovery and rehabilitation, he is magically guided cockpit of U.S. Air Force jets and in his Texas by visions of Hanuman, the trickster monkey god of childhood. Born to a dentist father and elementary the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana. Bringing India school teacher mother, Sullenberger fell in love with wholeheartedly into America, Rao weaves his own planes as a young boy. While his father encouraged him, he also imparted stern advice the future story of Western culture clash with mythic stories of his Hindu ancestors who served in the pilot took to heart: a commander is responsible for everyone in his care—words that have shaped ancestral temples of Kali. life and work and continue to guide him today. Highest Duty reveals the important lessons “This lyrical, haunting book is much more than just an account of Mr. Rao’s descent into crack-cocaine Sullenberger learned through childhood, in his military service, and on the job today. addiction, criminality and homelessness on the streets of Chicago. Remarkably, he also weaves into his William Morrow: 352 pp. story fully realized visions of his Hindu ancestry. . . . In Hanuman’s Hands beguiles.”—Wall Street Journal 2009 • 978-0-06-192468-2 • hc • $25.99 ($29.99/CAN) HarperOne: 416 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-073662-0 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Marley & Me The Sky Isn’t Visible from Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog Here John Grogan A Memoir

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a Felicia C. Sullivan family in the making and the wondrously neurotic Felicia Sullivan’s mother disappeared on the night dog who taught them what really matters in life. Sullivan graduated from college and has not been John and Jenny Grogan were just beginning their life seen or heard from since. Sullivan, who grew up on together. They were young and in love, with a the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, looks perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then back on her childhood—lived among drug dealers, they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball users, substitute fathers, and a host of unsavory of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley characters—in The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here. Ever quickly grew into a barreling, 97-pound steamroller the responsible child, Sullivan became her mother’s of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. Just as keeper, taking her to the hospital when she he joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his overdosed, withstanding her narcissistic rages, love and loyalty were boundless, too. Through it all, succumbing to the abuse or indifference of so-called he remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even stepfathers, and always wondering why her mother when his family as at its wit’s end. Unconditional would never reveal the truth about the father she’d love, they would learn, comes in many forms. Is it never met. But then, Sullivan’s volatile, beautiful, possible for humans to discover the key to deceitful, drug-addicted mother altered the truth in happiness through a bigger than life, bad-boy dog? In Marley & Me your students will find out many cruel ways. A book about secrets and forgiveness, The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here is also the the answer. story of a young woman unraveling—and then putting her life back together again. Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. “Sullivan’s prose is surprising . . . [and] vivid. . . . This is a book worth encountering.”—Washington Post 2008 • 978-0-06-081709-1 • pb • $13.95 ($14.95/CAN) Book World

Harper Perennial: 288 pp. 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-176532-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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In His Sights Slow Motion One Woman’s Stalking Nightmare A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy Kate Brennan Dani Shapiro

The line between love and obsession is explored in Dani Shapiro was a young woman from a deeply this harrowing true story. Kate Brennan was like a religious home who became the girlfriend of a lot of women: hesitant to love for fear of being hurt. famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best Only her fears proved to be warranted, and the friend’s stepfather. The moment this man entered collateral damage she has suffered was far more her life, everything changed: she dropped out of devastating than a broken heart. This powerful, college, began drinking, and neglected her friends visceral memoir lays bare not only the mind of a and family. But then came a phone call—an accident stalker, but also the way an ordinary woman falls on a snowy road had left her parents critically prey to a warped and powerful man with the money injured. Forced to reconsider her life, Shapiro and connections to keep her under his watchful eye. learned to re-enter the world she had left. Telling of Both frightening and illuminating, In His Sights is a a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then gripping tale of one woman’s descent into the dark saved, Shapiro’s memoir Slow Motion is a portrayal side of love and how she fought—and still of how a life gone terribly wrong can be rescued struggles—to free herself. through tragedy.

“Compelling. . . . [Brennan] conveys her own fear and “A candid memoir of a misspent life resurrected from the mounting sense of physical discomfort so well that we ruins of a devastating tragedy. . . . Shapiro does not feel it, too. We also feel her inner strength, the resilience that allows her to endure what seemed an sugarcoat her life; she writes with an eviscerating, raw honesty about the wrong turns and mistakes she eternity of looking over her shoulder without losing her sense of self. . . . A remarkable and very powerful made.”—Boston Globe story.”—Booklist (starred review) Harper Perennial: 272 pp. Harper Perennial: 304 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-182669-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-145162-1 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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Either You’re In or You’re The House at the End In the Way of the Road Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One The Story of Three Generations of an Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Interracial Family in the American South Their Father W. Ralph Eubanks Logan & Noah Miller In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, When identical twin brothers Logan and Noah around 1914 a young white man named James Miller’s homeless father died alone in a jail cell, they Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black vowed come hell or high water that their film, woman named Edna Howell. Eventually, together Touching Home, would be made as a dedication to they built a house at the dead end of a road in a their love for him. Either You’re In or You’re In the black community in rural south Alabama. Jim and Way is the amazing story of how—without a dime to Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubanks’s their names nor a single meaningful contact in grandparents. In The House at the End of the Road Hollywood—they managed to write, produce, act, Eubanks takes students on a journey to where he and direct a feature film in under a year starring reconstructs their life and times and seeks lessons four-time Academy Award®-nominated actor Ed for America’s multiracial future. In a past filled with Harris (and a cast and crew with 11 Academy tightly conscribed formulas for racial identity and Awards® and 26 nominations) that premiered at the laws that prohibited interracial marriage, making it coveted San Francisco International Film Festival. punishable with up to seven years of hard labor, The Miller brothers’ incredible story is essential reading for students looking for a fast-paced, thrill Eubanks seeks to understand the common humanity Jim and Edna Richardson were trying to ride of heartbreak and redemption. embrace through the way they lived their lives.

“A tour de force of laugh out loud wit, determination, and triumph. With Either You’re In or You’re In the Smithsonian: 224 pp. Way the Miller Brothers have grabbed the American dream by the tail. . . . This book deserves every 2009 • 978-0-06-137573-6 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN) accolade.”—Tess Uriza Holthe, author of When the Elephants Dance and The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes

Harper: 304 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-176314-4 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN)

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Scratch Beginnings Red, White, and Muslim Me, $25, and the Search for the American My Story of Belief Dream Asma Gull Hasan Adam Shepard For Asma Gull Hasan, a young American-born Adam Shepard graduated from college disillusioned Muslim, woman journalist, and lawyer, being a 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 something out of nothing, he set out to prove her misogynistic, oppressive belief system of common theory wrong that those who start at the bottom perception, but a faith tradition that has many stay at the bottom, and to see if the American varied interpretations of Christianity. She Dream can still be a reality. With no concrete plan articulates a vision of Islam that is ethically diverse, and nothing but $25 and a backpack, Shepard got tolerant of others, and supportive of the rights of off a train in Charleston, South Carolina, and spent women. Red, White, and Muslim is a paradigm- 70 days in a homeless shelter, with the goal of shifting glimpse into the life of a young American having $2,500, a car, and a place to live by the end Muslim woman who argues that you do not have to of the year. Earnest and passionate, Scratch give up your Islamic faith in order to be a strong, Beginnings is a story that will not only inspire independent American woman. students, but also remind them that success can “Hasan will rock your stereotypes about Islam in this come to anyone who is willing to work hard—and that America is still one of the most hopeful and refreshing book.”—Fareed Zakaria, author of The inspiring countries in the world. Post-American World Harper paperbacks: 240 pp. HarperOne: 208 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-171427-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) 2009 • 978-0-06-167375-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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Standing Alone In the Sanctuary of Outcasts An American Woman’s Struggle for the A Memoir Soul of Islam Neil White Asra Q. Nomani In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is the incredibly Standing Alone in Mecca retells the story of the hajj emotional true story of crime, redemption, vanity, through the eyes of women pilgrims and takes and ultimately, spirituality. Neil White was an students on a journey that reveals how the seeds of ordinary guy who measured worth by appearance: this important pilgrimage began with a single expensive cars, nice homes, fashionable clothing. woman. Nomani shows how many of the freedoms Generous with his heart and with his bank account, enjoyed centuries ago have been rewritten by the his exquisite tastes exceeded his income and soon conservative brand of Islam practiced today in the he was kiting checks. Eventually, White was caught, heartland of the religion, Saudi Arabia, and spread convicted of fraud, and sent to prison, but he was throughout the world, giving the West an image of not sentenced to an ordinary lockup. For the man Muslim women in veils and purdah. This is a modern whom appearance was supreme was going to serve woman’s jihad, offering for Westerners a never- out his sentence in the last leper colony in the before-seen look inside the heart of Islam and the continental United States—known today as The emerging role of Muslim women. Long Center, located in southeastern Louisiana on a short spit of land where the Mississippi River runs “Engrossing overview of Islam’s internal debates as seen north. through the eyes of a young single mother wrestling with her faith.”—Washington Post It was here, in this unlikely place rich in history that goes back more than 150 years, among an unlikely mix of white-collar criminals and leprosy patients, that White gained perspective and HarperOne: 352 pp. 2006 • 978-0-06-083297-1 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) 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

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WORLD FICTION A Golden Age The Septembers of Shiraz A Novel A Novel Tahmima Anam Dalia Sofer

Rehana Haque, a young widow transplanted to the Set in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 city of Dhaka in East Pakistan, is fiercely devoted to revolution, The Septembers of Shiraz follows the her adolescent children, Maya and Sohail. Both Amin family as they cope with the father’s false become fervent nationalists in the violent political imprisonment for being a spy, watch their formerly turmoil, which in 1971 transforms a brutal Pakistani peaceful world collapse, and flee their homeland. civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi “[A] richly evocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a independence. Fair-minded and intensely prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the protective of her family, but not at all political, revolution . . . it’s impossible to predict whether Sofer’s Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself. novel will become a classic, but it certainly stands a A story of passion and revolution, of family, chance . . . the book’s simple plot is immediately friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age engaging. . . . Sofer writes beautifully . . . and she tells depicts the chaos of an era and the choices her characters’ stories with deceptive simplicity . . . The everyone—from student protesters to the country’s Septembers of Shiraz is miraculously light in its touch, as leaders, from rickshaw wallahs to the army’s beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can soldiers—must make. be.”—Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review “Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, Harper Perennial: 368 pp. giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment while lyrically depicting the way in which the struggle 2008 P.S. • 978-0-06-113041-0 • pb • $13.95 ($14.95/CAN) for freedom allows Rehana to discover both her strength and her heart.”—The New Yorker

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The Space Between Us Secret Daughter A Novel A Novel Thrity Umrigar Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The Space Between Us is a novel based on the On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian intersection of gender and class portraying how the village, Kavita gives birth to Asha. But in a culture lives of women from the working class and the that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her middle class seem at once so connected and so newborn daughter’s life is to give her away. It is a removed from each other. Set in contemporary decision that will haunt her and her husband for the Bombay, the novel tells the story of Sera Dubash, an rest of their lives, even after the arrival of their upper-middle-class Parsi housewife, and Bhima, the cherished son. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an woman who works as a domestic servant in her American doctor, decides to adopt a child after home. Despite their class differences, the two making the wrenching discovery that she will never women are bound by the bonds of gender and have one of her own. When she and her husband shared life experiences, including marriages that Krishnan see a photo of baby Asha from a Mumbai start out with great promise but end up as orphanage, they are overwhelmed with emotion for disappointments. Sera’s daughter, more socially her. Somer knows life will change with the adoption, aware than the generation before, looks to Bhima as but is convinced that the love they already feel will a second mother, openly tries to alter the overcome all obstacles. Interweaving the stories of relationship between these two women. Ultimately Kavita, Somer, and Asha, Secret Daughter poignantly Sera must chose between what her society deems proper and what her heart tells her is wrong. explores issues of culture and belonging.

“What makes The Space Between Us so engrossing is its ability to make readers feel empathy for its subjects. William Morrow: 352 pp. . . . To read Umrigar’s novel is to catch a glimpse of a foreign culture, for better and for worse.” 2010 • 978-0-06-192231-2 • hc • $23.99 ($31.50/CAN) —San Francisco Chronicle Available in March 2010

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FICTION Beasts of No Nation The Monkey Wrench Gang A Novel Edward Abbey Uzodinma Iweala With an Introduction by Douglas Brinkley

• Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Audacious, controversial, and hilarious, The Monkey American Academy of Arts and Letters Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey’s masterpiece—a big, • The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award boisterous, and unforgettable novel about a motley for First Fiction group of renegades whose freedom and commitment helped to ignite the flames of This short but enormously powerful debut novel is environmental activism. told in the voice of Agu, a young boy in an unnamed 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 Freshman Common Book: Erskine College, Montana State produced a harrowing, inventive, and deeply University at Bozeman

affecting novel. For students, here is a chance to Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 480 pp. explore current issues with a deeply human voice as 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-112976-6 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) their guide.

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

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

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The Alchemist Love Medicine A Novel A Novel Paulo Coelho Louise Erdrich

Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel is short and easy to • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award read—and it holds hidden treasures. The story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring Love Medicine, set on and around a North Dakota wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy reservation in the years 1934–1984, tells the story named Santiago who travels from his homeland in of the intertwined fates of two families. Black Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into buried in the Pyramids. betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods marry the elements together into a tightly woven turns into a discovery of self—and students will whole that pulses with the drama of life. witness the transforming power of dreams, learn to As they read the novel—told in the voices of recognize the wisdom in others, and discover the Chippewa men and women—students will think importance of listening to their hearts and heeding about the love-hate relationships that often occur their instincts. between family members, the nature of families, “Beneath this novel’s compelling story and the the impact of the non-Indian world (for instance, shimmering elegance with which it’s told lies a bedrock Catholicism, alcohol, intermarriages, Capitalism, the of wisdom about following one’s heart.”—Booklist 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 at 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. 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-178742-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Plague of Doves Tracks A Novel A Novel Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich

The mesmerizing The Plague of Doves centers on a Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth years, as tribal land and trust between people erode transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink reservation and shape the passions of both of their endurance—yet their pride and humor communities for the next generation. The prohibit surrender. Students will experience shock descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their and pleasure in encountering a group of characters lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of that are compelling and rich in their vigor, clarity, mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past and indomitable vitality. continues to play in their lives. Erdrich’s narrators “The author captures the passions, fears, myths, and unravel the stories of different generations and doom of a living people, and she does it with an ease families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by that leaves the reader breathless.”—The New Yorker love, torn by history, the two communities’ collective stories finally come together in a Freshman Enrichment & Composition: Iona College wrenching truth revealed in the novel’s final pages. Harper Perennial: 256 pp. 2004 • 978-0-06-097245-5 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) “Writing in prose that combines the magical sleight of hand of Gabriel García Márquez with the earthy, American rhythms of Faulkner, Ms. Erdrich traces the connections between these characters and their many friends and relatives with sympathy, humor and the unsentimental ardor. . . . With The Plague of Doves, she has written what is arguably her most ambitious—and in many ways, her most deeply affecting—work yet.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Harper Perennial: 352 pp. 2009 P.S. • 978-0-06-051513-3 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

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The Known World Animal Dreams A Novel Barbara Kingsolver Edward P. Jones “Animals dream about the things they do in the day • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” So says Loyd In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a returns to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully black farmer and former slave who is now a slave out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her owner in Manchester County, Virginia. Making rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the runs his affairs with unusual discipline. In a daring finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental and ambitious novel, Jones weaves a footnote of catastrophe, some startling clues to her own history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at identity, and a man whose view of the world could slavery in all of its moral complexities. change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, “A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American dreams, and Native American legends, Animal literary canon.”—Time Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life’s largest commitments. Freshman Common Book: Kalamazoo College, Nebraska Methodist College “Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal

Harper paperbacks: 432 pp. talent . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, 2004 • 978-0-06-055755-3 • pb • $14.95 ($18.95/CAN) bravely challenging book.”—Chicago Tribune

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

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The Bean Trees The Poisonwood Bible A Novel A Novel Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver

The wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, tell their sides when she heads west with high hopes and a barely of the story. They carry with them everything they functioning car, she meets the human condition believe they will need from home, but soon find that head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is Arizona, she has acquired a child: a three-year-old transformed on African soil. Cherokee girl named Turtle, and must somehow “An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed come to terms with both motherhood and the by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable necessity of putting down roots. determination of living creatures to keep on being “So wry and wise we wish it would never end. . . . The alive.”—The New Yorker chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver’s Freshman Common Book: Augsburg College remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page.” —San Francisco Chronicle Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 576 pp. 2005 P.S. • 978-0-06-078650-2 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) Freshman Common Book: Nebraska Methodist College

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

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In Country Monster A Novel Walter Dean Myers Bobbie Ann Mason Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes murder. A Harlem drugstore owner has been shot home to Samantha Hughes, whose father was killed and killed during a robbery, and word is that Steve there before she was born. All she has is a picture of served as the lookout. He’s been called a monster, him as a young soldier, and as Sam begins to grapple and worse. To cope with the horrific events that with the challenges of her own adolescent years, she entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides also finds herself confronting the desire and need to to transcribe his trial into a movie script. But know more about her father and what happened to despite his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no him and the other American soldiers who served in longer tell who he is or what is the truth. Monster is Vietnam. a provocative coming of age story that deals with such topical issues as prejudice and racism. Today’s students will relate to Sam and her desire to leave her small town for the bigger world versus the Amistad: 320 pp. pull of a loving boyfriend and family. Her need to 2004 • 978-0-06-440731-1 • pb • $8.99 ($9.99/CAN) confront the controversies and horrors of war and its impact on soldiers and the families they leave behind makes In Country a meaningful book for the current generation of students.

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

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

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

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Four Spirits The Bell Jar A Novel Sylvia Plath Sena Jeter Naslund The Bell Jar chronicles the nervous breakdown of Four Spirits is set in the turbulent world of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s. A young, white, talented and successful, but slowly going under. college student, Stella, watches from a distance the Sylvia Plath masterfully draws students into Esther’s civil rights marches organized by Reverend breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s insanity Shuttlesworth and a visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes completely real and even rational, as But as she watches she cannot remain untouched by probable and accessible an experience as going to what she sees. Stella plunges into the midst of the the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark conflict by volunteering to teach an all-black adult and harrowing corners of the psyche is an night school. Two of her fellow teachers are black extraordinary accomplishment and has made The women, and the three of them, along with Stella’s Bell Jar a haunting and enduring American classic. friend Cat, forge an unlikely band of resistance. Four “As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.” Spirits is a stunning novel that is rich in historical —New York Times detail that goes beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph. Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 288 pp. 2005 P.S. • 978-0-06-083702-0 • pb • $13.95 (N/C) “Vital and moving. . . . Naslund consistently displays a fine feel for the nearly inaudible drama of the psyche. . . . It’s as if Virginia Woolf went down to Birmingham to cover the civil rights struggle.” —New York Times Book Review

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Bel Canto Run A Novel A Novel Ann Patchett Ann Patchett

• Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows • Winner of the Orange Prize students how worlds of privilege and poverty can 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 with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band “[E]ngaging, surprising, provocative and moving. . . . of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party A thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life- drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching threatening scenario slowly evolves into something us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, quite different, a moment of great beauty, as family.”—Washington Post terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and Harper Perennial: 320 pp. people from different continents become 2008 P.S. • 978-0-06-134064-2 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) 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 at Lincoln

Harper Perennial: 352 pp. 2005 P.S. • 978-0-06-083872-0 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)

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The Body of Serena Christopher Creed A Novel Ron Rash Carol Plum-Ucci The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena When Christopher Creed, the class freak and Pemberton arrive in the mountains of North Carolina whipping boy, suddenly disappears without a trace, from Boston to create a timber empire. Although first his fellow students, then all the citizens of George has already lived in the camp long enough to Steepleton join to speculate on what could have father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the happened to him. As fingers begin pointing, the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of town starts to fall apart and several lives are any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, changed forever. Innovative and intense, The Body even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness. of Christopher Creed will fascinate students until its Together, they ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall chilling conclusion. out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will Hyperion: 336 pp. never bear a child, she sets out to kill the son 2001 • 978-0-786-81641-5 • pb • $6.99 (N/C) George had without her. Mother and child begin a

Freshman Common Book: Western Michigan University struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pemberton’s intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

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

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

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The Art of Racing in the Rain The Writing on My Forehead A Novel A Novel Garth Stein Nafisa Haji

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a From childhood, Saira Qader broke the boundaries philosopher with a nearly human soul. He has between her family’s traditions and her desire for educated himself by watching extensive television, independence. A free-spirited and rebellious and by listening very closely to the words of his Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, she master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming racecar rejected constricting notions of family, duty, driver. On the eve of his death, Enzo relates all that obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a he and his family have been through: the sacrifices journalist, the world her home. Five years later, Denny has made to succeed in his chosen profession; tragedy strikes, throwing Saira’s life into turmoil. the loss of Eve, Denny’s wife, who dies suddenly of Now the woman who chased the world to uncover a brain tumor; the three-year custody battle for the details of other lives must confront the truths of their daughter, Zoë, whose maternal grandparents her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the have pulled strings, fabricated evidence, and stories of those who came before—her grandparents, manipulated situations in order to defeat Denny. In a beloved aunt, her mother and her father. the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, “A moving meditation on the meaning of family, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift tradition, and the ties that bind. The Writing on My family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny Forehead is lyrical and touching.”—Khaled Hosseini will go on to be a racing champion with his daughter at his side. William Morrow: 320 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-149385-0 • hc • $24.99 ($32.99/CAN) “I savored Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain for many reasons: a dog who speaks, the thrill of Harper Perennial: 336 pp. competitive racing, a heart-tugging storyline, and—best of all—the fact that it is a meditation on humility 2010 • 978-0-06-149386-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) and hope in the face of despair.”—Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True Paperback available in March 2010 Harper paperbacks: 336 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-153796-7 • pb • $14.99 (N/C)

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CLASSIC FICTION Ask the Dust One Hundred Years of John Fante Solitude

John Fante’s Ask the Dust details the adventures of Gabriel García Márquez his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Los Gabriel García Márquez’s finest and most famous Angeles in the late 1930s. Struggling to succeed, work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Bandini falls in love with the elusive, mocking, Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Yet just life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendía as fortune looms on the horizon with the publication generations—from José Arcadio and Úrsula, of his first novel, everything falls apart when through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendía Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears— (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers propelling Bandini to reject the writer’s life. eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 192 pp. additional José Arcadios, through Remedios the 2006 • 978-0-06-082255-2 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union. As babies are born and the world’s “great inventions” are introduced into Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and more subject to the workings of the outside world, to its politics and progress, and to history itself. And the Buendías and their fellow Macondons advance in years, experience, and wealth . . . until madness, corruption, and death enter their homes. Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy—a tapestry in which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind’s inescapable potential and reality.

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

Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 448 pp. 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-088328-7 • pb • $16.99 ($21.95/CAN)

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Their Eyes Were Brave New World Watching God A Novel A Novel Aldous Huxley

Zora Neale Hurston The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally Foreword by Edwidge Danticat published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of the future of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and “There is no book more important to me than this one.” psychological engineering, people are genetically —Alice Walker designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of One of the most important works of 20th-century speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is most enduring masterpiece. an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the A P.S. section includes information on Huxley’s captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in upbringing and childhood years, reviews and letters sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, during the initial publication, an essay on the it is the story of fiercely independent Janie contemporary response to Brave New World, a letter to Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three George Orwell from Aldous Huxley, and a marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, chronological and comprehensive list of Huxley’s and purpose. works.

The P.S. section contains two essays by Valerie Boyd, Hurston’s biographer. A short biography of Freshman Common Book: Dartmouth College Zora Neale Hurston entitled “She Was the Party,” and “A Protofeminist Postcard from Haiti” gives Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 288 pp. students candid insights into the writing of this acclaimed novel. 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-085052-4 • pb • $14.95 (N/C) Also available: Freshman Common Book: Albion College Brave New World Revisited Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 256 pp. Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 144 pp. 2005 P.S. • 978-0-06-083867-6 • pb • $13.95 ($18.95/CAN) 2006 P.S. • 978-0-06-089852-6 • pb • $11.99 (N/C)

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The Odyssey of Homer The Bridge of San Luis Rey A Novel Richard Lattimore Thornton Wilder “In this Odyssey, Professor Lattimore has achieved his chef d’oeuvre as a translator. . . . A dazzling and Foreword by Russell Banks well-nigh flawless performance. . . . Here is a master in “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest perfect control of his medium. . . . A landmark in the bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five history of modern translation. . . . It would be a crime to travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in with which Professor Lattimore has reanimated Homer American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and for this generation, and perhaps for other generations a novel still read throughout the world. to come.”—Times Literary Supplement By chance, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 400 pp. 2007 P.S. • 978-0-06-124418-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) witnesses the tragedy. He then embarks on a six-year-long quest to determine whether it was divine intervention or happenstance that led to the deaths of the five victims. Brother Juniper’s search for answers leads him to more questions, and, ultimately, to his own death. “There are a hundred ways of wondering at circumstance,” Wilder writes, challenging students to question and to wonder about a story that novelist Russell Banks says in his Foreword is “as close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.”

Freshman Common Book: Carleton College

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

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RELI G ION Native Son The World’s Religions A Novel Our Great Wisdom Traditions Richard Wright Huston Smith

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been In honor of its 50th anniversary comes a special headed for jail. It could have been for assault or edition of Huston Smith’s masterpiece The World’s petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Religions, the classic exploration of the essential Native Son tells the story of this young black man elements and teachings of the world’s predominant caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young faiths. Emphasizing the inner—rather than the white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in institutional—dimensions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is an Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of Islam, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, indigenous religions and across the country and of what it means to be black the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the in America. unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and “This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key imagination. This special edition includes an essay line in the key scene is restored to the great good by Smith which provides an overview of his life fortune of American letters. The scene as we now have it spent “exploring the world’s religious frontiers.” is central both to an ongoing conversation among African-American writers and critics and to the “This is one book on world religions I can’t do without. consciousness among all American readers of what it means to live in a multi-racial society in which power I return to it often—and always with reward.” —Bill Moyers splits along racial lines.”—Los Angeles Times HarperOne: 448 pp. Freshman Common Book: Gustavus Adolphus College 2009 • 978-0-06-166018-4 • pb • $16.99 ($21.99/CAN)

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Tales of Wonder Have a Little Faith Adventures Chasing the Divine A True Story An Autobiography Mitch Albom Huston Smith with Jeffery Paine Many students may know Mitch Albom’s first book, Foreword by Pico Iyer the worldwide bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, In his autobiography Tales of Wonder Huston Smith’s which chronicled his relationship with his Brandeis tells of his fascinating experiences of historic University sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as turning points and encounters with many of the Schwartz was dying with Lou Gehrig’s disease. In people that shaped the 20th-century, including this new work—his first nonfiction title since Mother Teresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Morrie—Albom takes a timely, moving, and inspiring Leary, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, look at faith: not just who believes, but why. Thomas Merton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Krishnamurti, Students of all faiths will find much to ponder in this Aldous Huxley, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam book—the things that pull us apart about faith, as Chomsky, Robert Graves, Saul Bellow, Pete Seeger, well as the universal beliefs that pull us together: and Bill Moyers. Smith has lived an amazing life, and God, heaven, doubt, war, atheism, intermarriage, his great stories of adventure and wonder serve as a the “us” versus “them” of religion. travelogue, a popular history of a century of monumental changes, and an inspirational memoir “Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are for students. still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of “finding faith” in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. [Albom] explores some of life’s greatest “In his lush new memoir, the religious scholar Huston Smith rattles off a list of fond remembrances: mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self reflection.”—Jim Wallis, CEO and dancing among the whirling dervishes in Iran, camping with the Aborigines in Australia, sharing a chuckle founder of Sojourners and author of The Great Awakening with a gaggle of Masai warriors on the darkening Serengeti plains. Each anecdote offers up Smith’s sense Hyperion: 208 pp. of marvel at the strange bounty of the world.”—Washington Post Book World 2009 • 978-0-7868-6872-8 • hc • $23.99 ($29.99/CAN) HarperOne: 240 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-115426-3 • hc • $25.99 ($33.99/CAN)

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Religious Literacy Freedom in Exile What Every American Needs to Know— The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama And Doesn’t Dalai Lama Stephen Prothero Some believe him to be a living reincarnation of the Are your students ready to confront the domestic Buddha; some despise him as a and foreign challenges facing our country? counterrevolutionary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and the heads of nations, while fearlessly Stephen Prothero, chair of the religion department speaking the truth to power. He packs arenas with at Boston University, says, “We have a major civic followers who want to learn from his words and are crisis on our hands.” Although the United States is a inspired by his life. Freedom in Exile covers his deeply religious nation, many Americans— even the amazing life from his discovery at age four as the most devout—are shockingly ignorant about fourteenth Dalai Lama when he was whisked away religion. Yet, much of our public debate is rooted in from his home, through his unconventional training religious rhetoric. and education, political turmoil with China, his Prothero offers a practical solution: a Dictionary of dangerous escape to India in 1959, his diplomatic Religious Literacy—key terms, beliefs, characters, efforts on behalf of Tibet, his Nobel Peace Prize in and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions 1989, his personal spirituality, and his continuing that every student needs to understand. popularity.

“In this book, the author combines a lively history of the “A simple and powerful autobiography. The Dalai Lama’s rise and fall of American religious literacy with a set of proposed remedies. . . . He also includes a useful story of exile must serve, of course, as a vital historical witness, not only to inhumanity but to compassion multicultural glossary of religious definitions and allusions, in which religious illiterates can find the as well, not only to betrayal and treachery but to generosity and faithfulness.”—Los Angeles Times Book prodigal son, the Promised Land, the Quakers and the Koran.”—Washington Post Book World Review

Freshman Common Book: Oakland University HarperOne: 320 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-098701-5 • pb • $15.99 ($19.99/CAN) HarperOne: 384 pp. 2008 • 978-0-06-085952-7 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN)

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Abraham Walking the Bible A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses Bruce Feiler Bruce Feiler At a time in history when the world is asking “Can the religions get along?” author Bruce Feiler’s Walking the Bible is Bruce Feiler’s engrossing 10,000 Abraham is his attempt to discover the man who is mile spiritual and archaeological odyssey—by foot, the common patriarch at the heart of the world’s jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the Holy Land to three monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, visit actual places referenced in the Bible, including and Islam. Featured on the cover of Time magazine, Mount Ararat, where it is believed that Noah’s Ark this phenomenal bestseller touched a nation and landed after the flood, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, inspired an unprecedented international the site of the burning bush where Moses first heard conversation in academia on the unifying power of the words of God, and Mount Nebo, where Moses faith in our time. overlooked the Promised Land.

With Bruce Feiler as their guide, your students will “Feiler’s accomplishment, and it’s a profound one, is travel in war zones, climb through caves and ancient to confront his idea of God as spoken to him by the shrines filled with faithful worshippers from Bible. . . . His trek through biblical history evolves into different—and not always harmonious—religions, something far more fundamental, an intellectual and and meet with religious leaders from all three spiritual crusade to find common bond with the lands denominations. They will discover the untold story of his forebears.”—San Francisco Chronicle

of Abraham, the man who all three religions call “God’s Friend.” Harper Perennial: 496 pp.; index; illustration “A winning mix of insight, passion, and historical research . . . provides a basis for fostering genuine 2005 P.S. • 978-0-06-083863-8 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN) communication.”—Christian Science Monitor

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Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis

Named one of the best religious books of the This engaging correspondence between two devils 20th-century by Christianity Today, C. S. Lewis’s is one of C. S. Lewis’s brilliant imaginative creations. forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief Here, Lewis delves into moral questions about good is also one of the most popular introductions to versus evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Christianity. Through this wonderful tale, students will emerge with a better knowledge of what it means to live a “He has quite a unique power for making theology an 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 2009 • 978-0-06-065293-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

Freshman Common Book: Eastern University

HarperOne: 256 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-065292-0 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

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A Civilization of Love Amazing Grace What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform William Wilberforce and the Heroic the World Campaign to End Slavery Carl Anderson Eric Metaxas

Carl Anderson and the Knights of Columbus How can one man’s faith and determination change organization want to tell students about the the world? Before William Wilberforce, few thought exciting and history-changing ideas introduced by slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most Pope John Paul II. Through embracing the culture of societies in the world came to see it as a great moral life and standing with those most marginalized and wrong. deemed “useless” or a “burden” by modern society, Amazing Grace is the biography of William Christians can change the tone and direction of our Wilberforce, a British statesman and reformer from culture. In A Civilization of Love Anderson the early part of the 19th-century. It chronicles the demonstrates that not everyone has to agree on the development of his religious beliefs and his fundamental questions of life in order to come extraordinary 20-year fight to abolish the British together on the centrality of loving and caring for slave trade, which he won in 1807. others. He brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a clash of civilizations and provides a “A fine and important book.”—Chicago Sun-Times roadmap for helping Christians understand their HarperOne: 320 pp. role in the world. 2007 • 978-0-06-117388-2 • pb • $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)

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The Heart of Islam Simply Christian Enduring Values for Humanity Why Christianity Makes Sense Seyyed Hossein Nasr N. T. Wright

As the specter of religious extremism has become a Simply Christian walks students through the fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow Christian faith step-by-step and question-by- the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to question. With simple yet exciting and accessible stand for the values of an entire tradition. In the prose, Wright challenges skeptics by offering case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion explanations for even the toughest doubt-filled in the Western world centered on distorted dilemmas, leaving believers with a reason for portrayals of its core values. Born of ignorance, such renewed faith. For anyone who wants to travel confusion feeds the very problem at hand. What is beyond the controversies that can obscure what the needed is a clear exposition of the true values of Christian faith really stands for, this accessible book Islam by someone steeped in the peaceful and is the perfect vehicle for that journey. humane center of the tradition that is also fluent in “Simply Christian is simply outstanding. It will confirm, the ways of the West. challenge, and deepen your grasp of Christian faith and In The Heart of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers a practice.”—Christianity Today

timely presentation of the core spiritual and social HarperOne: 256 pp. values of Islam, such as peace, compassion, social 2006: • 978-0-06-050715-2, • hc • $23.95 ($31.50/CAN) justice, tolerance, and the like. Each chapter shows the roots of these values in Islamic scripture, teaching, and tradition, and shows parallels with their counterparts in Jewish and Christian traditions. Nasr calls the followers of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) to a new future of mutual respect and common global purpose, as he portrays the beauty and appeal of the heart of the faith of 1.2 billion people.

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

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ORIENTATION RESOURCES Letting Go The Naked Truth Fifth Edition Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the Marvelyn Brown with Courtney E. Martin College Years Karen Levin Coburn & At 19, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white hospital bed at Tennessee Christian Medical Center, Madge Lawrence Treeger feeling hopeless. A former top track and basketball Based on real-life experience and recommended by athlete, she was in the best shape of her life, but colleges and universities around the country, Letting was battling a sudden illness in the intensive care Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the- unit. Doctors had no idea what was going on. It minute information to help parents with the never occurred to Brown that she might be HIV emotional and social changes of the college years. positive. Having unprotected sex with her boyfriend set into swift motion a set of circumstances that not The fifth edition features updated research on only landed her in the fight of her life, but also admissions and finances; identity and student alienated her from her community. But rather than development; student attitudes, including political give up, Brown found a reason to fight, and a reason and social views; health concerns and behaviors; use to live. The Naked Truth is an inspirational memoir and abuse of alcohol and other drugs; choices of of how an everyday teen refused to give up on majors and careers; and religious and spiritual herself, and a cautionary tale that every young adult beliefs and practices. This edition also includes should read. examples of new programs and practices on campus that address growing concerns about mental health; safety and security; sustainability; as well as Harper paperbacks: 240 pp.; illustration 2008 • 978-0-06-156239-6 • pb • $14.95 ($18.99/CAN) new opportunities for international study; undergraduate research; interdisciplinary majors; and increased interaction with faculty. All reference materials, including bibliography, websites and other resource information, have been thoroughly updated.

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

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The Vision Board I’ll Find a Way or Make One the Secret to an Extraordinary Life A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities Joyce Schwarz Foreword by Bob Proctor, Contributor to Juan Williams & Dwayne Ashley

The Secret I’ll Find a Way or Make One is a groundbreaking commemorative book that explores the history and Vision boards are colorful canvases that serve as cultural importance of America’s 108 Historically motivational life and career maps—highly Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through inspirational and personal in nature—comprised of photos, historical memoir, anecdotal information, photographs, collages, mementos, drawings, and archival and contemporary materials, and personal quotes, which create a visual layout of personal interviews. Stories abound about the abolishment aspirations. Each chapter in The Vision Board begins of slavery, but lesser known are the efforts—both with a brief interview from a celebrity who has prior to and after the Civil War—of African-American achieved success through vision boards, such as Jim and white abolitionists banding together to Carrey, Robert Downey Jr., and Jesse Jackson. Also formerly educate illiterate blacks. Through the included are examples of everyday lives influenced government, tireless work of black churches, white by vision boards as well as full color pictures of vision boards, and a three-step system to identify missionary organizations and philanthropists, HCBUs were established. The tales of how these exactly what you want in life and how to attain it. schools were created and the individuals who are linked to their histories are controversial, rich, Collins Design: 208 pp.; 75 illustrations and vast. HCBUs have come to be known as the backbone of and catalyst for the emergence of 2010 • 978-0-06-195638-6 • pb • $18.99 ($19.99/CAN) America’s black middle class, producing some of our country’s most impressive minds and leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Thurgood Marshall, Ed Bradley, and Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ll Find a Way or Make One reveals how the social and cultural atmosphere at these institutions ultimately played a major role in shaping modern day African-Americans.

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

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PostSecret The PostSecret Project Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives Frank Warren is the founder and curator of The PostSecret Project. For the project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a Frank Warren handmade postcard and mail it to him. The response was overwhelming, and the cards are William Morrow: 288 pp. astonishing in their honesty and creativity. Now spanning five volumes, these cards each bear an 2005 • 978-00-6089919-6 • hc • $28.99 ($36.99/CAN) intimate, powerful, or sometimes even chilling sentiment, told through handmade illustrations, photographs, collages, and other creative means. Writing teachers use these postcards as “writing prompts.” They’ve discovered that showing My Secret their students a postcard—and asking the to write a story about it—works well as both a class and A PostSecret Book homework assignment. Frank Warren “They [the postcards] are mini-works of art. Some are heartbreaking, some are hilarious, some are William Morrow: 144 pp. touching or thought-provoking or shocking or silly or repulsive. All of them are riveting. . . . PostSecret 2006 • 978-0-06-119668-3 • hc • $21.99 ($27.99/CAN) seems to prove three (at least) things: Lots of ordinary Americans are artistic, lots of them are poetic, and lots of them have something to hide.”—USA Today The Secret Lives of Men and Women A PostSecret Book Frank Warren

William Morrow: 144 pp. 2007 • 978-00-6119875-5 • hc • $21.99 ($27.99/CAN)

A Lifetime of Secrets A PostSecret Book Frank Warren

William Morrow: 288 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-123860-4 • hc • $28.99 ($36.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r P o s t S e c r e t PostSecret: Confessions on Life,

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Browse Inside The Secret Lives of Men and Women William Morrow: 288 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-185933-5 • hc • $22.99 ($29.50/CAN) Browse Inside A Lifetime of Secrets

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INSPIRATION/SELF-HELP The Success Principles™ Complete Confidence How to Get from Where You Are to Where A Handbook You Want to Be Becoming the Powerful Person You were born to be Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer Updated Edition The Success Principles™ will teach students how to Sheenah Hankin, Ph.D. increase their confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all their Renowned psychotherapist Dr. Sheenah Hankin ambitions. Not merely a collection of good ideas, points the way to a confident life free from this book spells out the 64 timeless principles used self-criticism, anxiety, and immature anger. Complete by successful men and women throughout history. Confidence teaches new ways of thinking and acting, And the fundamentals are the same for all people making one reorient their brain to manage emotions and all professions. It doesn’t matter if your goals and put their problems into perspective. Dr. Hankin are to be the top salesperson in your company, has helped hundreds of clients with what she dubs become a leading architect, score straight A’s in the Winning Hand of Comfort: a clear and concise school, lose weight, buy your dream home, or make prescription for dealing with everyday situations, millions of dollars—the principles and strategies are from resolving conflicts to ending unhealthy habits the same. like overeating, complaining, and procrastinating. These five simple steps show how one can calm down, Harper paperbacks: 512 pp.; index 2006 • 978-0-06-059489-3 • pb • $17.99 ($18.50/CAN) clarify thinking, challenge one’s blame habit, comfort negative feelings, and achieve confidence.

“Every now and then, a self-help book comes along that can truly deliver the results it promises. This is such a work. Its powerful advice is psychologically deep, grounded in a lifetime of experience, and expressed simply, with a personal touch.”—James K. Sebenius, director of the Negotiation Roundtable at Harvard Business School and coauthor of The Manager as Negotiator

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

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Start Where You Are What I Wish I Knew When Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are I Was 20 to Where You Want to Be A Crash Course On Making Your Place Chris Gardner & Mim E. Rivas in the World

Ever since the story of his transformation from Tina Seelig homeless, single and struggling father to When Tina Seelig realized that her seventeen-year- millionaire became known the world over, Chris old son would soon be out in the world, she panicked Gardner—whose life story both inspired the at the thought of missing a chance to impart movie The Pursuit of Happyness—has been important lessons before he left for college. She inundated with two questions: “How did you do started to make a list of things that she wished she it?” and “How can I do it too?” In Start Were You had known when she was a young adult—things that Are Gardner avoids any tilt toward magical would have made her more successful and much less thinking by staying with real issues and solutions anxious, things that she had learned through her impacting individuals in all walks of life. It impressive corporate career and through teaching the abounds with life lessons that offer hope and brightest students in the country. This list provide a road map for starting anew. This is also transformed into a dynamic lecture, which she has the book for anyone ready to launch a personal, now presented at various high-profile venues professional undertaking, or break generational including Stanford University and West Point Military cycles that harm individual potential. Academy, and is the inspiration for this book. The “Start Where You Are is a must-have, must-read guide to pursuing happiness in changing times. It’s not just span of topics covered in What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 range from ways to identify opportunities, about surviving as an individual or business in the current economic environment, but about thriving— balance priorities, work in teams, learn from failure, and how to squeeze the most juice out of life. personally, collectively, and globally.”—Quincy Jones HarperOne: 208 pp. Amistad: 320 pp. 2009 • 978-0-06-173519-6 • hc • $22.99 ($31.50/CAN) 2009 • 978-0-06-153711-0 • hc • $26.99 ($34.99/CAN)

Harper paperbacks: 336 pp. 2010 • 978-0-06-153712-7 • pb • $14.99 ($18.99/CAN)

Paperback available in April 2010

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STUDY RESOURCES Getting from College to Professors’ Guide to Getting Career Good Grades in College 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real Lynn F. Jacobs, Ph.D. & Jeremy S. Hyman, M.A. World Lindsey Pollak The Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College reveals insider secrets about how professors It’s the classic conundrum that faces college grade and gives practical tips designed to maximize students, recent graduates, and young student success in all kinds of courses. professionals: How do I get a job with no experience Organized around five “grade-bearing” moments, and how do I get experience without a job? In the Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in Getting from College to Career Lindsey Pollak College includes topics such as: presents 90 things to do to build a great resume and gain excellent experience. From volunteering to • How to pick courses with an eye to grades becoming an EMT to subscribing to a daily • Top 10 tips for taking excellent lecture notes newspaper, these insightful ideas will provide • Best test-preparation and test-taking strategies excellent guidance for recent graduates and those • Strategies for staying motivated new to the workforce. • How to get the most from your professor

Freshman Common Book: New York Institute of Technology, Fast-paced and easy to follow, the Professors’ Guide College Success Seminar to Getting Good Grades in College is a must-read for every college student. Harper paperbacks: 320 pp. 2007 • 978-0-06-114259-8 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) “The Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College deserves an A+. . . . Filled with concrete techniques and strategies for earning the best grades possible, students can become efficient learners, spending time on what is important.” —Dr. Eric R. White, Executive Director, Division of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean for Advising, Pennsylvania State University

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

Freshman Common Book: Mount Union College

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How to Read Literature Like How to Read Novels Like a Professor a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Between the Lines Favorite Literary Form Thomas C. Foster Thomas C. Foster

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a Out of all literary forms, the novel is arguably the journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden most discussed—and the most fretted over by rain shower? Too many students come to college students. In his follow-up to the wildly successful unprepared to read literature. They’ve only How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. skimmed the surface of a novel so they can pass a Foster provides a lively and entertaining guide to quiz or write a simple book report. Many don’t understanding and dissecting novels, showing understand that there is much more going on students how to make the everyday reading between the lines. experience more enriching, satisfying and fun.

Through this lively and entertaining guide to Harper paperbacks: 336 pp. literature, your students will start to get more out 2008 • 978-0-06-134040-6 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) of reading simply by learning to read literature with the eyes of the ultimate professional reader, you— the college professor.

“Tom Foster’s casual, unpretentious, yet brilliant How To Read Literature Like a Professor is a painless introduction to crucial—and sophisticated—skills of reading. What a sense of the comic! What a knowledge of modern literature! What good stories!”—Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; index 2003 • 978-0-06-000942-7 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN)

R e s o u r c e s f o r H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e L i k e a P r o f e s s o r R e s o u r c e s f o r H o w t o R e a d N o v e l s L i k e a P r o f e s s o r

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Reading Like a Writer On Writing Well A Guide for People Who Love Books and for The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction Those Who Want to Write Them 30th Anniversary Edition Francine Prose William Zinsser

Your students will never be good writers until they Expanded and updated, the 30th anniversary learn to read like a writer. Writers know that every edition of this favorite of both teachers and word matters. Structure matters. Francine Prose students now contains three new chapters, and tells students to slow down. She takes them many new passages that place new emphasis ont he through excerpts of many of the world’s greatest writer’s voice and on such fundamental values as literary works, pointing out the techniques of intention, character, and making decisions. writers such as Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, While still covering all of the basics, Zinsser includes Austen, Dickens, Woolf, and Chekhov. a new chapter entitled “Enjoyment, Fear, and In each chapter she quotes from authors whose Confidence,” urging students to convey zest for approach to various writing methods, such as what they are writing about and to overcome their dialogue and narration, are done in different and anxieties by trusting their general intelligence. interesting ways. Cleverly and ardently written, Another chapter, “The Tyranny of the Final Product,” Reading Like a Writer will inspire young writers to advises students not to visualize their completed return to reading literature with new zeal. article but to focus on all the prior decisions of selection, organization, and tone that will “A primer both for aspiring writers and for readers who’d like to increase their sensitivity to the elements eventually let them know what their piece is about. of the writer’s craft.”—New York Times Book Review “Not since Elements of Style has there been a guide to writing as well presented and readable as this one. Harper Perennial: 320 pp. 2007 P.S. • 978-0-06-077705-0 • pb • $13.99 ($17.99/CAN) A love and respect for the language is evident on every page.”—Library Journal “On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers.”—New York Times

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

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