Random House Academic First-Year and Common Reading 2015

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Dear Common Reading Director: Within these pages, you will find a broad selection of engaging fiction and nonfiction to initiate reflection and discussion among your students, helping them form their own opinions, explore social issues, and develop into better citizens of the world. As your students prepare to discuss the stories of others, they will ultimately become more comfortable with sharing their own.

Whatever your needs and interests, we are confident that you will be able to find the ideal book for your program. If you are a professor or a member of a common reading program, you may order examination copies of any of these titles. Simply follow the instructions on our examination copy page: www.randomhouse.com/acmart/requests.

Many of our authors are also available to visit college campuses as part of a first-year program.

Please email me at mgentile@penguinrandomhouse.com for more information.

Sincerely,

Michael D. Gentile Director, Academic Marketing Penguin Random House Tel. (212) 782-8387 ) mgentile@penguinrandomhouse.com

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P.S.: We invite you to stay connected with us by linking to any one of our social media channels or downloading our app (see bottom of facing page).

We often give away free books through these outlets—so you will want to stay connected and check in often.

Photos from the 2014 First-Year ExperienceÂŽ Random House Author Event The Penguin Random House Common Reading Advisory Board was launched in 2010. Comprised of your colleagues from across the country, the Board has been instrumental in guiding our outreach to you, the common reading program director. In fact, the catalog you now hold in your hands is a result of their efforts. Please visit tinyurl.com/l3o9zde to read more about the board.

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Contents Life Stories—Memoir, Biography & Autobiography.....................................................................................10 Fiction to Talk About........................................................................................................................................32 Inspiration & Guidance ....................................................................................................................................52 History & Society ..............................................................................................................................................56 Life & College Guides .......................................................................................................................................86 Environmental Studies & Health Sciences.....................................................................................................98 Social Action ....................................................................................................................................................102 Index .................................................................................................................................................................108 Order Form ......................................................................................................................................................111

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

6:00–7:00PM Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (Trinity Ballroom Salon 8)

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The 11th Annual Random House Authors Luncheon

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Bryan Stevenson

Max Brooks

Anthony Marra

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Monday, February 9, 2015

11:30–1:15PM Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (Dallas Ballroom Salon G)

Please RSVP at www.randomhouse.com/acmart/invite or visit Random House Booths #59/60 If reserving for others please include their full name and school affiliation.

Speakers to get your students talking Hosting an author on campus gives students a chance to meet some of the most brilliant minds who are shaping the national conversation. No matter the format, author visits ignite conversations, ideas, and debates beyond the lecture hall—and the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau is here to help you make it happen. We represent bestselling authors, award-winning journalists, international business leaders, science and innovation experts, and thought leaders from the fields of history, medicine, and law, among many others.

What venues are saying about our speakers:

Dr. Sheri Fink

Bryan Stevenson

“Dr. Fink’s presentation was eye-opening on the experiences endured and the difficult choices hospital officials had to make during their respective hurricanes. Dr. Fink is an engaging and insightful presenter and her engagement with attendees was delightful.”

“Bryan Stevenson was spectacular—just as we expected! He held our audience spellbound—you could hear a pin drop as he spoke. He’s a compelling person, that’s for sure! It was a memorable and meaningful day at the Town Hall Forum.”

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–MARYLAND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Gary Shteyngart

Jenny Nordberg

“Gary Shteyngart is sincere to the point of bravery when discussing his experience of growing up a poor Russian immigrant in America. From his own formative experiences, to globalization, to Stalinism, and much more, Shteyngart tackles serious issues in a movingly vulnerable voice that had us cracking up at every turn. Living artists of this caliber are rare creatures.”

–COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON

“Jenny Nordberg’s book, The Underground Girls of Kabul, fills the gap in what is too often an unnoticed topic, and to have Jenny as a primary-source expert here to talk about it was a special opportunity. Both her book and her lecture were eloquent and researched, and her passion and investment in sharing her work with others could not be any clearer.”

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electing the right title is only the ďŹ rst step toward making your First-Year Reading program a success; publisher support is also essential. The Penguin Random House Academic Marketing Department is here to ensure that your program runs smoothly

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WE ARE PLEASED TO HELP YOU WITH THE FOLLOWING:

AUTHOR APPEARANCES We’ll promptly channel your author requests to the appropriate speaker’s bureau or lecture agency to ensure they are attended to quickly.

ANCILLARY MATERIALS Should you need author photos or additional content and materials, we will research the available options and assist you as best as we can.

DISCUSSION GUIDES We continue to develop and make available discussion guides, which may be used as tools by your discussion leaders. Many of these free guides are available in print, and all may be easily downloaded from our website.

DESK COPIES Depending upon the method of your order, you are entitled to one complimentary copy of a book per twenty student copies ordered. These complimentary copies are often allocated to group discussion leaders.

CUSTOMIZED COPIES Want to include a letter from your dean or college president?

Imprint the cover with a specialized seal? Or modify the book in some other way? We will connect you to our Premium Sales Department to process your request. (Please note these orders are not for resale.)

ORDERING Although Penguin Random House does not sell directly to schools or libraries, we will assist you in placing your order, whether through your bookstore, a local wholesaler, or our in-house Premium Sales Department.

QUESTIONS? MICHAEL D. GENTILE Director, Academic Marketing

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Book Post-Adoption

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This timeline provides a helpful outline of the steps that compose a successful common reading program

BOOK IS SELECTED

BOOK PURCHASE

Students will purchase their own copy of book

How do students obtain the book?

Contact your campus bookstore/distributor to order directly.

What is the estimated length of time between order and delivery?

Allow 3–4 weeks for delivery.

PROGRAMMING

University is purchasing books as gifts to students (e.g., during Orientation)

Will you need a custom version? We can print customized editions with your college logo and/or letter from your president.

No customization

Who should the institution contact to obtain a price quote?

Contact jlipman@penguinrandomhouse.com or 1.800.800.3246 for a price quote. Have available the book title, ISBN, quantity, delivery date, and “ship to� information.

How much time does customization take? Normal delivery time for custom editions is 6–8 weeks from order to delivery.

What is the estimated length of time between order and delivery?

Allow 2–4 weeks for delivery of regular editions.

Author visit?

Many of our authors are represented by the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. To request an author, contact 212.572.2013 or speakers@ penguinrandomhouse. com. When contacting the PRH Speakers Bureau, please know your available budget, desired date of visit, audience size and type, program description, and if there will be book signing opportunities.

Other programming ideas (see our Best Practices and Programming Ideas on pages 6–7)

Visit www.commonreads.com to access an online version of this timeline

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BEST PRACTICES AND Tips from the Penguin Random House LAUNCHING A PROGRAM Relax, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Take advantage of the many resources available to learn about other reading programs. A good starting point is a monograph published by the National Resource Center for the First-Year ExperienceŽ and Students in Transition, Common Reading Programs: Going Beyond the Book. In addition, there are a number of campuses with well-established and successful reading programs, and the professionals who run these programs are usually very happy to share advice and tips (as well as opinions on books they have used in the past).

When starting a program, it’s important to include various stakeholders on campus. When it is time to select a book, you will most likely want some type of campus selection committee. The committee should comprise members of a variety of constituencies, including faculty, student services, and academic affairs administrators as well as students.

Think carefully about the scope, mission, learning outcomes, and assessment of your program. For example, will the program be a first-year/new student reading program or a campus-wide (common) reading program? What will be the purpose of the program? This may influence the type of books you will be considering. How will you inform students about the program, and when will they be expected to read the book? Again, take advantage of the numerous resources available to help answer these questions.

SELECTING A BOOK Think about the following questions when considering eligible books for your program: Does the book tell a good story?

Is the book accessible? Will a variety of students at different reading levels and with different interests be able to engage with the book? To this point, consider page count. A good rule of thumb is the “300 Rule�: if possible, choose a book with 300 pages or less.

Does it feature a protagonist students can relate to? They might be the same age or be dealing with similar life situations (change, challenge, adversity).

Does the book touch on teachable themes, such as inclusiveness/diversity, global engagement, etc.?

Do the themes of the book correspond to your university’s strategic mission? Campus engagement and resources will be easier to secure if you make this relationship clear.

If having the book’s author speak is part of the plan for your reading program, it is important to consider author availability during the book selection process. Speaking fees and availability can vary considerably. You don’t want to go through all the work to select a book, only to find out that the author’s speaking fee will not work for your budget, or s/he is not available to speak on the dates you need!

ENGAGING STUDENTS Use digital and social media to your advantage. Use your university’s existing social media webpage or account (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or create a dedicated page for your common reading program to build a community around the book selection, author visit, and other programming activities. Many authors, publishers, and lecture agencies have existing material that can be posted to your community page.

Get students prepared. Consider introducing the book during the spring or summer prior to the next academic year.

For example, if first-year students receive the book during Orientation, the Orientation Leaders and various speakers can advertise the program and build a feeling of community around the reading of the text. Also, think about having students turn in questions for the author as part of an assignment, and have a moderator pose the questions to the author. This will incentivize students to come up with more original questions, will save on time during the Q&A, and will avoid dreaded “dead air.� Make the questions a contest, such as: “Can you stump the author?�

Have students create materials in advance of the author’s visit. Essay collections are a great idea. You may also consider multimedia approaches—such as blogs, videos, or a website. Students tend to share more on a personal level when they are not in an open forum and the medium can be anonymous. Another idea is to have students autograph and annotate the author’s book. In addition to brief messages to the author, annotations can call attention to the passages of the book students find most compelling or personally resonant. Authors appreciate different perspectives on and reactions to their work, and they can take home the annotated book as a memento to commemorate the event!

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PROGRAMMING IDEAS Common Reading Advisory Board Organize campus-wide discussion groups. Some campuses use faculty, some use upper-class students, and some use a combination of faculty, staff, and students to facilitate these discussions. Again, this is a good way for the first-year student to feel that they are a part of the university community.

Link the book to as much existing campus programming as possible. Can the Film Studies department co-sponsor a viewing of a film related to your book? Are there plays, arts exhibits, or other speakers coming to campus that you could tie into? Perhaps Student Activities can help as well? Reach out to faculty who teach courses relevant to your book selection, provide them with review copies of the book, invite them to events, and ask them to embed the book in their syllabi and courses. Your book selection committee will be a great resource in making these connections.

HOSTING AN AUTHOR Is the author represented by an agency or speaker’s bureau? Most authors will have an agent, and that will be the person to contact about speaking fees and availability. We also have an in-house speakers bureau that can help you with any of your speaker needs—they can be reached at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com.

Encourage as many faculty and students as possible to read the book in advance of the author’s visit. In addition to having more enthusiastic readers on campus to help you spread the good word about the book and your program, folks who have already read the book will have more interesting questions for the author, making for a more intelligent and productive discussion.

Assign a faculty member or administrator to host the author. While one of the benefits of an author visit is for students to engage with the author, it is important to have a faculty member or administrator act as the dedicated host, someone who has the authority to assertively manage appearances—to turn down requests or move an author to the next location, for example.

Sharing is caring! Encourage university departments and divisions to coordinate in advance. Perhaps events may be co-sponsored so the author isn’t pulled in too many directions, and departments can share space, time, money, and other resources.

Consider having one large campus talk that is required of all students. This makes the best use of both your programming time and the author’s time on campus. Many authors say that different departments and disciplines actually tend to have questions that are more similar in nature than they are different. Even if that is not the case, a diversity of questions is a good thing; it offers a richer conversation when different interests come together, and students learn more.

Mix up the formats of events. The most successful visits offer the author and participants a variety of events to keep things fresh and engaging. Have the author speak at a podium for one event, do an on-stage sit-down Q&A at another, and participate in a group interview with faculty at a third.

When hosting an author Q&A, it’s important to appoint a moderator to move the discussion along. The moderator can address basic factual questions upfront, to allow for a more in-depth exchange during the Q&A. The moderator can also be the person who introduces the author.

Following a large campus-wide talk, arrange for smaller, more intimate discussions with faculty and students, in which the author and participants can delve more deeply into topics mentioned in the campus-wide talk. All participants should have attended the larger campus talk so that they come to the breakout sessions with at least a basic knowledge of the book.

Give authors “a break� (or two)! In order to provide your participants with the best experience possible, foster an environment that makes the author comfortable, and one that allows them to put their best foot forward. Schedule breaks in between sessions and offer some meals “off.� Arrange to have snacks, water, coffee, and meals available as appropriate. If the author is the key attraction at a meal, make sure he or she has ample time to eat.

Don’t take it personally. When negotiating your author’s visit to campus, there may be many requirements on the part of the agency for travel, lodging, and “down time.� These are based on the agency’s standard contractual obligations designed to cover a wide variety of celebrities, athletes, and other speakers. However, most agencies and authors understand that you have state and university policies that may constrain what you can offer, and will work with you to meet your needs.

Schedule ample time for planning and negotiation. You should also verify with the author’s agent whether events or speaking engagements may be videotaped or recorded. They often have provisions for what is allowable.

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Audiobooks For many years, educational leaders have been making the link between listening to audiobooks and developing enhanced literacy skills such as fluency, comprehension, and increased vocabulary. Astute educators and librarians have been integrating audiobooks into their lesson plans to help engage non-readers, level the playing field for English language learners, and slow down those voracious readers who don’t read carefully enough for thorough comprehension.

With the growth and development of the common reading experience, professors and administrators now have the opportunity to increase participation by adding the audiobook option to their programming, both to better engage non-readers or to simply enhance the reading experience.

Audiobook Stats According to the Audio Publishers Association’s annual sales & consumer surveys: H Audiobook listeners are more voracious readers of print books than non-listeners.

H Use is primarily in the car, but listeners are increasingly using audiobooks during exercise, cooking, gardening, and at work.

H Digital downloads now account for 60% of sales through retail channels.

H The younger generation of listeners has a strong preference for downloads.

H The unabridged format continues to dominate with 90% of audios sold.

Why Audiobooks?

H 30% of people are auditory learners—processing information best through listening.

H 85% of what we learn, we learn by listening . . . For students, listening is THE dominant learning medium, fundamental to grasping all other language arts: reading, writing, and speaking.

H Audiobooks promote a sense of intimacy and human connection—we listened to stories long before we read them. Audiobooks reinforce good storytelling, an important tradition in human history.

Consider the power of the spoken word to energize

Making the link between listening and the First-Year/Common Reading Experience Twenty-first “ century students have

H Movies are adaptations of the text; audiobooks are word-for-word oral versions of the text.

H The accessibility of audiobooks makes them a great choice for international students and non-readers, who want to join the discussion, but face some challenges.

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Bring Audiobooks into Your Evaluation Process: Examination copies are available (in most cases) on CD, and always as digital downloads. Please contact commonreads@penguinrandomhouse.com with your request.

Site Licenses Are Available: Audiobook files can be delivered to students via a download link on a school’s website or intranet. Contact Maren McCamley at mmccamley@penguinrandomhouse.com for more information.

are comfortable and attracted to devices in their learning space.

Audiobooks are a satisfying combination

Share an Audiobook Clip: Clips are available for ALL of our titles at randomhouseaudio. com. From the website, you can download the clips as mp3 files, as well as embed or share them. For example, you can include clips in your newsletters, post them on your website, and insert them into presentations. Contact cherman@ penguinrandomhouse.com for special clip requests.

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LIFE STORIES—MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

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A NOTE TO EDUCATORS

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure many of you can remember the first time you read Maya Angelouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Perhaps it was assigned to you in class, recommended to you for summer reading, or maybe you simply chose to read it on your own. Whatever your path, I have no doubt that this powerful memoir stayed with you long after you finished reading, much as it has with me.

Reading the trials and triumphs of an unforgettable heroineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a young black girl in the South who suffered unspeakable violence at an early ageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; was an extraordinarily profound literary experience for me. Angelou shone a light on the hardships of the rural South with vivid prose that captured the very dust of the landscape and the deepest despair of residents victimized

by Jim Crow-era oppression. And yet, against this backdrop, she explored the depth of family strength and wisdomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the very essence of her own perseverance and transcendenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through the words of her grandmother (Momma), her brother (Bailey), and her mother (Lady)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;all larger than life figures whose characters impressed not only the young Maya, but so many of us reading their words on the page.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a groundbreaking testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. And with its exploration of the power of each individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, its celebration of our collective strength, and its dynamic portrayal of an extraordinary womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life, Caged Bird is as relevant to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students as ever.

As Random House celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of our literary icon and dear friend, Maya Angelou, we feel our most meaningful tribute will be to introduce new generations to her workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;most especially I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We are inviting you, the educators, to join us in this initiative.

While a light has gone out at Random House, Dr. Angelou was truly an inspiration to all. We are proud and honored to have known her and to be part of the devoted team that publishes her work. And while we will deeply miss her soothing voice and magnanimous spirit, we are confident her work, her wisdom, and her legacy will continue to live on.

Thank you for partnering with us to further that phenomenal legacy.

Gina Centrello, President & Publisher, Random House Group

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#*-- ":&34 is the author of the acclaimed and controversial memoir Fugitive Days and many books on education, including To Teach, Teaching Toward Freedom, and A Kind and Just Parent. He lives in Hyde Park, Chicago.

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n this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flaunted â&#x20AC;&#x153;domestic terrorist,â&#x20AC;? a â&#x20AC;&#x153;public enemy.â&#x20AC;?

Labeled a â&#x20AC;&#x153;domestic terroristâ&#x20AC;? by the McCain campaign in 2008 and used by the radical right in an attempt to castigate Obama for â&#x20AC;&#x153;pallinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; around with terrorists,â&#x20AC;? Bill Ayers is in fact a dedicated teacher, father, and social justice advocate with a sharp memory and even sharper wit.

Public Enemy tells his story from the moment he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, emerged from years on the run and rebuilt their lives as public figures, often celebrated for their community work and much hated by the radical right.

In the face of defamation by conservative media, including a multimillion-dollar campaign aimed solely at demonizing Ayers, and in spite of frequent death threats, Bill and Bernardine stay true to their core beliefs in the power of protest, demonstration, and deep commitment. Ayers reveals how he has navigated the challenges and triumphs of this public life with steadfastness and a dash of good humorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the red carpet at the Oscars, to prison vigils and airports (where he is often detained and where he finally â&#x20AC;&#x153;confessesâ&#x20AC;? that he did write Dreams from My Father), and ultimately on the ground at Grant Park in 2008 and again in 2012.

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Public Enemy is a memoir, neither a manifesto nor a history. As in any worthwhile memoir, this is the story of a character that wakes up in a time and circumstance not of his choosing, but must nonetheless make his wobbly way through the landscape of his life without the benefit of hindsight. He is fated, but he is also free.

He opens his eyes; he is astonished at both the beauty and the ecstasy in every direction, but also at the unnecessary pain and suffering all around; he decides to try to live a life that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a mockery of his values, and so he speaks out and acts up. He must in time learn the practice of questioning his own orthodoxyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the power of doubt. My memoir tries to capture those moments for readers, especially for youth.

Your students have finally sailed off from the safe haven of their childhood homes; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in your care in college now, grown up (more or less), and floating more-or-less happily toward a distant and hazily imagined shore. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some anxiety to be sure, but mostly eager anticipation. The wide, wide world beckons, and conditions are mostly favorable with the wind strong at their backs. They need guidance, of course, but they also need the strongest encouragement to think and act independently.

They may study the rebels of the pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jane Addams and W.E.B. DuBois, John Brown and Harriet Tubman, Ella Baker and Martin Luther King, Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but have we suggested to these newly formed citizens of ours that dissent, rebellion, and fiercely independent thought are essential parts of their education and of their future in society?

Upheaval. Argument. Disagreement and debate. Important elements (though by no means the only ones) of a strong education.

Public Enemy affords the faculty and the administration an opportunity to engage students in serious discussion about the role of a free university in a free society, and to model what it means to be fearless in the pursuit of understanding.

I hope you will consider the memoir. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be pleased to speak with your students about it.

Bill Ayers

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n boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand.

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-"63" )*--&/#3"/% is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, and Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, landed on more than 15 best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She is serving as a consultant on the Universal Pictures feature film based on Unbroken. Hillenbrandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Yorker article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Sudden Illness,â&#x20AC;? won the National Magazine Award. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She and actor Gary Sinise were the cofounders of Operation International Children, a charity that provided school supplies to children through American troops.

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BOOK EXCERPT Chapter One THE ONE-BOY INSURGENCY In the predawn darkness of August 26, 1929, in the back bedroom of a small house in Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. There was a sound coming from outside, growing ever louder. It was a huge, heavy rush, suggesting immensity, a great parting of air. It was coming from directly above the house. The boy swung his legs off his bed, raced down the stairs, slapped open the back door, and loped onto the grass. The yard was otherworldly, smothered in unnatural darkness, shivering with sound. The boy stood on the lawn beside his older brother, head thrown back, spellbound.

The sky had disappeared. An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. It was longer than two and a half football fields and as tall as a city. It was putting out the stars.

What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin. At nearly 800 feet long and 110 feet high, it was the largest flying machine ever crafted. More luxurious than the finest airplane, gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left spectators gasping, it was, in the summer of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;29, the wonder of the world.

The airship was three days from completing a sensational feat of aeronautics, circumnavigation of the globe. The journey had begun on August 7, when the Zeppelin had slipped its tethers in Lakehurst, New Jersey, lifted up with a long, slow sigh, and headed for Manhattan.

On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building. At Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3. On Wall Street, stock prices were racing toward an all-time high.

After a slow glide around the Statue of Liberty, the Zeppelin banked north, then turned out over the Atlantic. In time, land came below again: France, Switzerland, Germany. The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide. Then it flew east of Frankfurt, where a Jewish woman named Edith Frank was caring for her newborn, a girl named Anne. Sailing northeast, the Zeppelin crossed over Russia. Siberian villagers, so isolated that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never even seen a train, fell to their knees at the sight of it.

On August 19, as some four million Japanese waved handkerchiefs and shouted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banzai!â&#x20AC;? the Zeppelin circled Tokyo and sank onto a landing field. Four days later, as the German and Japanese anthems played, the ship rose into the grasp of a typhoon that whisked it over the Pacific at breathtaking speed, toward America. Passengers gazing from the windows saw only the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shadow, following it along the clouds â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a huge shark swimming alongside.â&#x20AC;? When the clouds parted, the passengers glimpsed giant creatures, turning in the sea, that looked like monsters.

On August 25, the Zeppelin reached San Francisco. After being cheered down the California coast, it slid through sunset, into darkness and silence, and across midnight. As slow as the drifting wind, it passed over Torrance, where its only audience was a scattering of drowsy souls, among them the boy in his pajamas behind the house on Gramercy Avenue.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR In the early 1990s, I was a graduate from an elite womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s college, a little lost and very much looking for adventure and finding it in an unlikely criminal underworld. In 2004, I was a successful professional standing at the gates of a federal womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prison, about to start serving time for a ten-year-old drug offense. My book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prison, details my plunge into the hidden world of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enormous prison system, the women and men I met there, and the profound effect that incarceration has on individuals and communities around the country. The book was adapted into the hit Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.

Women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison populationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the number of women incarcerated in the U.S. has grown by 800% in recent decadesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so the person wearing the emblematic orange prison jumpsuit is more and more likely to be female. In 1980, there were approximately 500,000 people in prison in the United States; today there are 2.3 million. According to the 2008 U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are more than 7 million people on parole, on probation, or locked up. America represents 5% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population but incarcerates 25% of all prisoners globally. In just one generation an enormous prison system has become entrenched and continues to grow, even as crime rates remain at historic lows.

Intense fascination with the story of my year in prison comes from many quarters: criminal justice and law students, those in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and gender studies, sociologists, and of course the people who live and work within our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prisons and jails. While I was wearing prison khakis, I often fielded the sly question â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the all-American girl doing here?â&#x20AC;? I found myself part of a remarkable community of women, a handful from a middle-class background like me, the vast majority from this countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest rural and urban communities. Prison is a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies among prisoners, determined by both them and the correctional system. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where humor and resilience coexist with despair and the threat of violence, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.

Since the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release in the spring of 2010, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve traveled around the country, talking with readers, students, prisoners, probation officers, public defenders, and advocates. The book has been selected for One Book and Community Reads programs, spurring vigorous debates among the groups who read and discuss the story. College students and seasoned correctional professionals are fascinated to hear about the perspective of a prisoner and the crosscurrents of race and class, motherhood, gender and power, family, and even friendships that shape the experience of incarceration. A first-person narrative offers a view of the experience of life in prison that even the best-researched and -reported academic works cannot capture with the same vividness and immediacy. Since the release of the Netflix series, the response of young people has been overwhelming, as they are moved to delve deeper behind the screen characters who have captured their imaginations.

My story is a personal story. I was compelled to write the book in the hopes of offering a more complex and complete picture of who is in prison in this country, why they are there, and what happens to them there. In the U.S. prison life, economy and culture have metastasized in a short time span; we have invested heavily in prisons, while the public institutions that actually prevent crime and strengthen communitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;schools, hospitals, libraries and museums, community centersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;go without. I wanted to capture this reality by telling not just my own story but also the stories of the other women I met along my journey through the criminal justice system. As a longtime communications professional, it was important to me to present my story in a way that was accessible and engaging, even mixing harsh realities with sometimes surprising humor, as a way to draw many different types of readers into the world of prisons and jails. My talks and appearances on television and radio always spur spirited discussions about transgression, punishment, inequality, rehabilitation, and redemption. My schedule of public speaking engagements can be found at www.piperkerman.com, along with resources for people interested in finding out more and in creating change in the criminal justice system.

Piper Kerman

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he Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lessons he learned from people he met along the wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the brave Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight, to the resilient young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the true meaning of grit, to his late grandfather, who taught him to find grace in service.

Moore also tells the stories of other twenty-first-century change-makers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve inspired him in his search, from Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, to Esther Benjamin, a Sri Lankan immigrant who rose to help lead the Peace Corps. What their livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and his own misadventures and moments of illuminationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;reveal is that our truest work happens when we serve others, at the intersection between our gifts and our broken world. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we find the work that lasts.

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BOOK EXCERPT The idea that we want to do our partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but are unsure of exactly how to do itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is not unusual. We start off our adult lives full of ideas about how we want to live, how we want to contribute to the greater goodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how we want to do our partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but are immediately presented with the thorny puzzle of figuring out how to marry our instincts to action.

When we are children our lives are relentlessly pacedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;someone tells us when to get up, when to go to bed, when to eat, when to study. I have two beautiful children under the age of four and their calendars are already stuffed with activities. But something important shifts in the way we live almost from the moment we leave school. Our adult lives begin with a first moment of stillness. We leave school and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no next grade to go to, no one to tell us how to spend our timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we are faced with an intimidating absence of inevitable next steps. Possibilities and choices suddenly abound. And for a lot of us itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrifying.

There was once a clear answer to this terror. It used to be that we could extend childhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe rhythms by burrowing deep into large institutionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the military or a corporation or a university or the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and moving up the ranks, like a kid getting passed from grade to grade. This brought a measure of security, but it required submerging yourself in an institution and letting that institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logic guide the most productive moments of your life. This was in many ways the contract I was brought up to believe in.

But my generation was among the last raised to believe there was a way to cheat the blank future by burrowing ourselves in paternal institutions and following the traditional paths. We are now confronted by a world where those institutions are in crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and where the old model of work has been thrown open, not only because so many forces (robotics, the Web, big data, a global labor market) are conspiring to eliminate jobs and even whole industries, but because many of the jobs that remain can feel unsatisfying on a personal level. David Graeber, an anthropologist and activist, recently wrote this about the contemporary state of work: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. . . . How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job should not exist?â&#x20AC;?

This has created a great deal of angst for all of us whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to live through these shifts. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also created a greater sense of urgency around the task of designing our own lives to tap into our own specific ideals, talents, and resourcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to find ways of not just working to live, but finding the work of our lives.

The people whose stories I tell in this book have done just that, whether it was Michael Hancock, who found his impact in the place he spent much of his life running away from, or Joe Manko learning that change happens one hug at a time. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also discovered that the great work we have in this life is really to take care of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether it was John Galina and Dale Beatty showing that service is a path to healing the scars of war, or Cara, Darr, and Tom Aley showing that capitalism doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be a zero-sum blood sport but can be channeled as a creative force for good.

For all of themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and for meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;finding the work of their lives came back to that idea of doing our part.

Success and service are increasingly intertwined. To be clear, service doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily mean running for office, suiting up in a military uniform, or volunteering at a charityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although it might. Service simply means we embrace the possibility of living for more than ourselves. After talking with thousands of people across this country over the last few yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hearing their stories and joining many of them in their service projectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m convinced that most of the time, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the voice inside of us is telling us to do. To live for more than ourselves. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the truth that hunts us down, our common calling. And when we answer that call, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find that the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge and our own work inevitably meet. &YDFSQUFE GSPN 5IF 8PSL CZ 8FT .PPSF $PQZSJHIU ÂŞ CZ 8FT .PPSF &YDFSQUFE CZ QFSNJTTJPO PG 4QJFHFM (SBV B EJWJTJPO PG 1FOHVJO 3BOEPN )PVTF "MM SJHIUT SFTFSWFE /P QBSU PG UIJT FYDFSQU NBZ CF SFQSPEVDFE PS SFQSJOUFE XJUIPVU QFSNJTTJPO JO XSJUJOH GSPN UIF QVCMJTIFS

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LIFE STORIESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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By Shahan Mufti

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More than a personal history, The Faithful Scribe captures the larger story of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Islamic democracy, and explains how the state that once promised to bridge Islam and the West is now threatening to crumble under historical and political pressure, and why Pakistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s destiny matters to us all.

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As a writer of literary nonfiction, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always searching for the most compelling characters to carry the story. In the years that I covered war as an American journalist on the front lines in Pakistan, there was never a shortage of options. There were always plenty of violent, bloodthirsty villains to choose from, and then there were those larger-than-life heroes, capable of compassion and goodness that can only be drawn from the madness of war.

But most of the characters I found myself drawn to lived seemingly ordinary lives while navigating the landscape of war: the real estate agent who finds that war attracts speculative buyers, which allows him to make a profit of his nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misery, or the curator whose collection of ancient artifacts bleeds out of his museum and he witnesses his culture sapped of meaning. War, I found through the lives of such characters, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always about choosing between life and death. For most people war is about being transformed, finding ways to adapt and survive.

In writing The Faithful Scribe, I set out to make Pakistan, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest-running political experiment in Islam and democracy, more comprehensible for my reader. I knew that the only way I could tell the story of this war-torn country and its complex relationship with America was through characters that were, like many of my readers, living ordinary lives in extraordinary times. And it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long to recognize that my own family had exactly the kinds of characters that I was always drawn to in my writing.

My parents had shuttled between the U.S. and Pakistan for decades. I was born in Ohio and I have split my life equally between the two countriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m â&#x20AC;&#x153;100 percent American and 100 percent Pakistani,â&#x20AC;? as I write in the prologue of my book. Within the extensive network of my relatives spread over many Pakistani cities and towns, I found civil engineers and university professors and small-claims court judges. None of them real power players, but neither were they destitute. These were mostly ordinary folk, placed perfectly on the peripheries of power, where their lives and beliefs could be molded in the most profound ways by the violence and war of their time.

My grandfather, for example, was pulled up the professional ranks after the Second World War, when the partition of the subcontinent into Pakistan and India led to the largest migration in human history, and created fortuitous vacuums in the bureaucracy of his new country. My father was forced to leave his teaching job at a university in Lahore and flee to America 30 years later, after literally dodging a bullet shot by a member of an Islamic political student group in the 1970s. My cousin, a soldier in the Pakistan Army, died in 1988 alongside the Pakistani military president and the U.S. ambassador, when their aircraft mysteriously exploded in the sky.

In the end, naked violence, the absurdity of human suffering, the superhuman strength of a few will always make the headlines of war. But decades and centuries of political and religious conflict also seep into the tiniest crevices of human society and culture. This cancer of war can alter the very DNA of nations, and there is often no going back. Since this bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, I have traveled with it and met with people all over the country who share similar stories of how a decade and more of American war has molded their lives in the most subtle and profound ways. And such conversations only strengthen my essential thought behind this book: that people who live through war on any side can recognize themselves in each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences.

Shahan Mufti

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Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world.

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("3: 4)5&:/("35 was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than 40 news journals and magazines around the world; Absurdistan, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutanteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handbook, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Travel + Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications and has been translated into 26 languages.

Shteyngart lives in New York City.

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BOOK EXCERPT

1. THE CHURCH AND THE HELICOPTER A year after graduating college, I worked downtown in the immense shadows of the World Trade Center, and as part of my freewheeling, four-hour daily lunch break I would eat and drink my way past these two giants, up Broadway, down Fulton Street and over to the Strand Annex bookstore. In 1996, people still read books and the city could support an extra branch of the legendary Strand in the financial district, which is to say that stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

In the previous year I had tried being a paralegal for a civil rights law firm but that did not work out well. The paralegaling involved a lot of detail, way more detail than a nervous young man with a ponytail, a small substance abuse problem, and a hemp pin on his cardboard tie could handle. This was as close as I would ever come to fulfilling my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dreams of becoming a lawyer. Like most Soviet Jews, like most immigrants from communist nations, my parents were deeply conservative and they never thought much of the four years I had spent at my liberal alma mater, Oberlin College, studying Marxist politics and book-writing. On his first visit to Oberlin my father stood on a giant vagina painted in the middle of the quad by the campus Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual organization, oblivious to the rising tide of hissing and camp around him, as he enumerated to me the differences between laser jet and ink jet printers, specifically the price points of the cartridges. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not mistaken, he thought he was standing on a peach.

I graduated summa cum laude and this improved my profile with Mama and Papa, but when I spoke to them it was understood that I was still a disappointment. Because I was often sick and runny-nosed as a child (and as an adult) my father called me soplyak, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snotty.â&#x20AC;? My mother was developing an interesting fusion of English and Russian and, all by herself, had worked out the term failurchka, or Little Failure. That term made it from her lips into the overblown manuscript of a novel I was typing up in my spare time, one whose opening chapter was about to be rejected by the important writing program at the University of Iowa, letting me know that my parents werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only ones to think that I was nothing.

Realizing that I was never going to amount to much, my mother, working her connections as only a Soviet Jewish mama can, got me a job as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;staff writerâ&#x20AC;? at an immigrant resettlement agency downtown, which involved maybe thirty minutes of work per year, mostly proofing brochures teaching newly arrived Russians the wonders of deodorant, the dangers of AIDS, and the subtle satisfaction of not getting totally drunk at some American party.

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LIFE STORIESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Imperfect "O *NQSPCBCMF -JGF

By Jim Abbott and Tim Brown

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For reasons that remain a medical mystery, Jim Abbott was born without a right hand. Years later, from atop the mound at Yankee Stadium, he became the 234th Major League baseball pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Tracing Abbottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s improbable and inspiring trajectory, Imperfect is a tale about overcoming daunting odds and pursuing your dreams. i)POFTU UPVDIJOH BOE CFBVUJGVMMZ SFOEFSFE 'BS NPSF UIBO B CPPL BCPVU CBTFCBMM JU JT B EFFQMZ GFMU TUPSZ PG USJVNQI BOE GBJMVSF ESFBNT BOE EJTBQQPJOUNFOUT +JN "CCPUU IBT IVSMFE BOPUIFS HFN w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man

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By Albert Espinosa At thirteen, Espinosa was diagnosed with cancer, and he spent the next ten years in and out of hospitals, undergoing one daunting procedure after another, starting with the amputation of his left leg. After going on to lose a lung and half of his liver, he was finally declared cancer-free. Only then did he realize that the one thing sadder than dying is not knowing how to live. In this rich and rewarding book, Espinosa takes us into what he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the yellow world,â&#x20AC;? a place where fear loses its meaning; where strangers become, for a moment, your greatest allies; and where the lessons you learn will nourish you for the rest of your life. #BMMBOUJOF #PPLT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT 'BNJMZ 3FMBUJPOTIJQT t *OTQJSBUJPO t 1FSTFWFSBODF 1FSTPOBM 4USFOHUI

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Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part of those decisions, you might not like what they decide, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no one to blame but yourself.â&#x20AC;? Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the senator, wife, and mother of two recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to reach beyond their busy lives and make a meaningful difference in the world around them. #BMMBOUJOF #PPLT ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT -FBEFSTIJQ .PUJWBUJPO t (FOEFS *TTVFT

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By Daisy HernĂĄndez In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy HernĂĄndez chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. These lessons define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life. i%VSJOH B UJNF JO IJTUPSZ XIFO TP NVDI JT TBJE BCPVU XPNFO PG DPMPS XPSLJOH DMBTT GPMLT JNNJHSBOUT -BUJOBT QPPS QFPQMF BOE MPT EFQSFDJBEPT CVU TFMEPN GSPN UIFN )FSOĂ&#x2C6;OEF[ XSJUFT XJUI IPOFTUZ JOUFMMJHFODF UFOEFSOFTT BOE MPWF * CPX EFFQMZ JO BENJSBUJPO BOE HSBUJUVEF w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street #FBDPO 1SFTT ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT $PNJOH PG "HF t (FOEFS *TTVFT t *EFOUJUZ t -(#5

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Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan Ibrahimovic learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s household was engulfed in chaos.

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he epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,â&#x20AC;? has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby Bell finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy.

Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage.

This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Juke, to Celia Jenningsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.

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Chapter One WISHBONE Ruby Bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high. The people of Liberty Township wove her into cautionary tales of the wages of sin and travel. They called her buck-crazy. Howling, half-naked mad. The fact that she had come back from New York City made this some-what understandable to the town. She wore gray like rain clouds and wandered the red roads in bared feet.

Calluses thick as boot leather. Hair caked with mud. Blackened nails as if she had scratched the slate of night. Her acres of legs carrying her, arms swaying like a loose screen. Her eyes the ink of sky, just before the storm. That is how Ruby walked when she lived in the splintered house that Papa Bell had built before he passed. When she dug into the East Texas soil under moonlight and wailed like a distant train. In those years, after her return, people let Ruby be. They walked a curved path to avoid her door. And so it was more than strange when someone walked the length of Liberty and brought a covered cake to the Bellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; front porch. Ephram Jennings had seen the gray woman passing like a haint through the center of town since sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d returned to Bell land in 1963. All of Liberty had. He had seen her wipe the spittle from her jerking lips, run her still beautiful hands over the crust of her hair each day before sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d turned the corner in view of the town. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen her walking like she had some place she ought to have been, then five steps away from P & K Market, stand pillar still, her rain cloud body shaking. Ephram had seen Miss P, the proprietor of the store, walk nonchalantly out of her door and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honey, can you see if I got the rise in these rolls right?â&#x20AC;?Ephram watched Ruby stare past her but take the brown sack filled with steaming yeast bread. Take it and walk away with her acres of legs carrying her, while Miss P said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You come on back tomorrow, Ruby Bell, and help me out if you get the chance.â&#x20AC;? Ephram Jennings had watched this for eleven years. Seen her black-bottomed foot kick a swirl of dust in its wake. Every day he wanted nothing more than to put each tired sole in his wide wooden tub, brush them both in warm soapy water, cream them with sweet oil and lanolin and then slip her feet, one by one into a pair of red-heel socks.

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rom bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regimentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Harlem Hellfighters.

In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other American unit, never losing a foot of ground to the enemy or a man to capture, and winning countless decorations. Though they returned as heroes, this African-American unit faced tremendous discrimination, even from their own government. The Harlem Hellfighters, as the Germans called them, fought courageously onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and offâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the battlefield to make Europe, and America, safe for democracy.

In The Harlem Hellfighters, bestselling author Max Brooks and acclaimed illustrator Caanan White bring this history to life. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the trenches in France, they tell the heroic story of the 369th in an action-packed and powerful tale of honor and heart.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR I first learned of the Harlem Hellfighters from an Anglo-Rhodesian named Michael Furmanovsky when I was 11. Michael was working for my parents while getting his MFA in history from UCLA. He taught me about the British Empire, the Falklands War, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and a host of other topics not covered in my fifthgrade western civilization class. Of all his after-school lessons, the one that left the deepest impression was the story of a unit of American soldiers who werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to fight for their country because of the color of their skin. To a white, privileged kid growing up on the west side of L.A. in the 1980s, that kind of prejudice was just inconceivable. When I confessed that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about them, he assured me that I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone.

Ten years later I was an exchange student at the University of the Virgin Islands. The experience brought me back into the orbit of the Hellfighters when, while walking through an old cemetery, I noticed some graves from 1918. I wondered if they might be casualties of the Great War, maybe even members of the 369th. I decided to ask my professor of Virgin Islands history. He was an African-American from the mainland, and to call him passionate would be a laughable understatement. With his beard and spectacles and flaring dashiki, he would rail against the historical crimes committed by white men of Europe and North America. Most heinous was the erasure of black accomplishments by white historians. Colonization, he would tell us, begins with the mind, and the best (or worst) way to colonize a people is to bury their past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were no black soldiers in World War I.â&#x20AC;? That was his dismissive answer to my question about the graves from 1918. When I started to argue, even bringing up the name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harlem Hellfighters,â&#x20AC;? he assured me that I must have been confused with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. I was shocked. Here was a scholar, a crusader, a thoughtful, driven man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d made it his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission to trumpet the glory of Africa and her diaspora, and HE didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about the Harlem Hellfighters. I wish I could say that I decided then and there to write their story, but that would have to wait for nearly another decade.

In 2006, I began collaborating with Avatar Press on a graphic companion to my first book, The Zombie Survival Guide. I learned very quickly how different comic book writing was from prose, but how similar it could be to movie scripts. I also realized that comics presented a forum for telling very visual stories without the cumbersome budget of movies or television. It seemed the ideal medium for telling the story of the Harlem Hellfighters. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now been close to six years since I began working with William Christensen of Avatar Press and the amazingly talented artist Caanan White.

And now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to share this heroic regimentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of courage, honor, and heart. I hope that you and your students are as captivated by it as I have been.

Max Brooks

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fter the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they quickly began persecuting anyone who was Jewish. Millions were shoved into ghettos and forced to live under the swastika. Death camps were built and something called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Operation Reinhardâ&#x20AC;? was set into motion. Its goal? To murder all the Jews of Poland.

The Commandant of Lubizec is a harrowing account of a death camp that never actually existed but easily could have in the Nazi state. It is a sensitive, accurate retelling of a place that went about the business of genocide. Told as a historical account in a documentary style, it explores the atmosphere of a death camp. It describes what it was like to watch the trains roll in, and it probes into the mind of its commandant, Hans-Peter Guth. How could he murder thousands of people each day and then go home to laugh with his children? This is not only an unflinching portrayal of the machinery of the gas chambers, it is also the story of how prisoners burned the camp to the ground and fled into the woods. It is a story of rebellion and survival. It is a story of life amid death.

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His work has appeared in some of the most vital literary journals in America, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, and many others. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, been a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition, and the Gival Press Novel Award. He has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award as well as a number of grants, including ones from the Bush Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College and also a faculty member in the lowresidency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College. The author lives in Sioux Falls, SD.

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A few years ago I was teaching a course on the Holocaust to a group of first-year college students, and I started off with a simple question: â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many of you have heard of Auschwitz?â&#x20AC;? As expected, all of their hands went up. And then I asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many of you have heard of Treblinka?â&#x20AC;? Only three or four hands went up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;BeĹ&#x201A;Ĺźec?â&#x20AC;? Not one hand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SobibĂłr?â&#x20AC;? Again, not a single hand. In talking to them further, I began to realize they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know much about the Nazi death camps, and this disturbed me. Deeply.

Shortly after this I sat down and began to write The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard. I did this because I hoped to cast a little more illumination on one of the darkest chapters in history. Maybe there were others who also didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know much about these killing centers? As I wrote, I imagined a class of college students. I imagined the questions Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like them to consider.

Between the years 1941-1943, the Operation Reinhard camps of Treblinka, SobibĂłr, and BeĹ&#x201A;Ĺźec murdered at least 1.6 million people at a breathtaking speed. It was industrialized genocide on a scale the world had never seen before. And yet, today, few people know about these camps. This has something to do with the lack of survivorship from these places (they were death camps, after all) and this means we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough stories to make them seem real. While I was writing The Commandant of Lubizec, I was hoping to bring voice to the voiceless and lift these death camps out of the pages of history. In order to get the history correct though, I did three separate research trips to Poland where I visited not only Krakow, Lublin, and Warsaw, but also the former Nazi camps as well. I also spent considerable time researching the former Jewish communities, talking to curators, guides, historians, and conducting interviews with survivors. My fictitious camp, Lubizec, is an aggregate of the real life Operation Reinhard camps. That is to say, I use fiction to make history come alive in the readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagination. The victims in my book have stories and they become realâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just abstract numbers. My book helps students to see the victims as people who had fully formed lives that were cut short.

Since the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spoken to readers at colleges and universities all across the country. The response has been overwhelming and I cannot tell you how many emails Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received from strangers who have been moved by the book. One person called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;un-putdown-ableâ&#x20AC;? and many have mentioned they read it straight through the night. Professors have said similar things about students reading it in one or two sittings. Others have commented on the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power to get a whole class talking, even the quiet students. The director of at least one Holocaust center is currently working on a Teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to help other centers across the nation use the text for course adoption and, to my great delight, my novel was recently chosen for National Reading Group Month. All of this is incredibly humbling and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful to see the narrative impacting so many people. My book certainly cracks open discussion about the Holocaust, but it also ask questions about memory, history, how we record the past, justice, human nature, kindness, psychology, and ethics. What is the role of the citizen and the state? How do we think critically about society? These are vital questions for incoming college students, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so pleased my book nudges them to consider such weighty issues.

One of the great delights of writing this novel has been meeting with students and hearing how it has challenged them to think of their world in new ways. As a writer and a college professor, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for anything more.

Patrick Hicks

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of four friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Liarsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

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& -0$,)"35 is the author of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and the Ruby Oliver quartet (The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends), as well as Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, and How to Be Bad (the last with Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle). Her novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of a Cybils Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once upon a time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters.â&#x20AC;?

Many tales begin that way, or with a variation on that age-old theme: a patriarch whose girls are in competition with one another for his favor. For example, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and the tales called Cap Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; Rushes and As Meat Loves Salt.

Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King Lear has a similar premise: an impaired monarch bent on choosing between his three daughtersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the toxic competition that choice forces upon the women.

I studied fairy tales and Victorian literature for my doctorate at Columbia University, and We Were Liars is a highly referential novel that builds on this universal theme of sibling rivalryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a thriller, an amnesia novel, a love story, and a first-person account of an emotional breakdown.

I wanted to explore that fairy tale premise in a modern setting. A windswept, privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts is the summer home to entitled WASP sexagenarian Harris Sinclair, his three beautiful daughters, and a crew of grandchildren who suffer as pawns in the games being played as their mothers compete for Sinclairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affectionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and his estate. The novel is narrated by Cadence Sinclair Eastman, the eldest grandchild and the probable heiress to the family fortune.

She has a tight bond with her cousins of similar age, and with an outsider boy of Indian heritage, Gat Patil, who summers with the family but is never fully embraced by them.

Gat acts as a catalyst for the political awakening of Cadence and her cousins. He is an ardent, intellectual, outspoken boy, and when he and Cadence fall in love, the Sinclair familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unspoken racism comes to the surface. Like Emily BrontĂŤâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wuthering Heights (and hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Victorian novel influence from my grad school days), We Were Liars tells the story of a poor boy of color brought into a wealthy white family, his illfated love affair with one member of that family, and the way the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disdain of him pushes him and them to monstrous deeds.

All children overhear their adults fight. In some families, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loud. In others, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whispered. In some families, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s every day. In others, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare. Universally, though, children are disempowered, frustrated, and even frightened when adults argueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and in writing We Were Liars, I wanted to find a way to heighten and dramatize that experience of disempowerment, and likewise to dramatize the moment in growing up when you realize your parents might be deeply and profoundly wrong about how you should live your life.

After publication, I learned that We Were Liars is a book people argue about.

It inspires disagreements and discussion, laments and anger. People reread it and understand it differently the second time though. Sometimes they curse me, sometimes they write me love letters. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more pleased, either way.

E. Lockhart

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n a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.

For Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise.

Weary and overburdened, she has no desire to take on additional risk and responsibility. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonjaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weaves together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and unexpectedly decides their fate. A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance.

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"/5)0/: ."33" is the winner of a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena won the 2014 National Book Critics Circleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural John Leonard Prize and the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural 2014 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award.

Marraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a shortlist selection for the FlahertyDunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is his first novel.

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My interest in Chechnya began when I was in college. I spent a semester of my junior year in St. Petersburg, where I lived down the street from a Russian military academy. Sixteenand seventeen-year-old cadets, dressed in sky-blue uniforms, marched in formation around the neighborhood each afternoon. Several blocks away, outside a metro station, men a few years older than the cadets gathered to panhandle at rush hour. These men also wore military uniforms, though theirs werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as clean or so neatly pressed. A number had lost their legs and wore hemmed trousers. These men were Russian veterans of the Chechen conflict that the cadets might one day join. When the cadets marched passed, they stared at the veterans as if peering into their own uncertain futures, while the veterans looked back with pity.

What was it, besides a few years and a few feet of concrete, that separated these two groups of young men? The answer was Chechnya, a place that I went on to research, travel through, and write about in my novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

Most present-day first-year students learned to read the newspaper around the same time that religious extremism and its attendant acts of terror and war became headline news across the country. But for all we know about the combatants and ideologues, we rarely glimpse the lives of the civilians populating the landscapes where much of this violence unfolds. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it like to be an ordinary civilian, neither overly religious nor overly political, caught between the gears of history? How do we differentiate between right and wrong when the moral compass is recalibrated to point to survival? How can you change your life and your country when you are among those furthest from the source of political power but closest to its consequences?

These are some of the questions posed in A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. When I began working on the book, I doubted a novel set in Chechnya would find much of a readership.

So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a surprise and privilege to see it taken up by readers across the country, taught in colleges and universities, and even purchased by President Obama.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received kind and generous notes from survivors of the Chechen conflict, from journalists, and from Americans who have never been abroad. The most common reaction Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received from readers has been a variation on: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I would recognize myself in characters whose lives are so vastly different from mine.â&#x20AC;? This is one of the main reasons I believe my novel would make a good candidate for a first-year/common reading program.

If adopted, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena would ask students to empathize with geopolitically and culturally remote characters who struggle with the same fundamental moral questions we all face. While rooted in Chechnya, the themes and concerns that grow from the novel are universal.

When I was in St. Petersburg, I remember leaving particularly good classes feeling as if the professor had tugged on the margins of my vision, making the world I saw larger, more complex, more mysterious. I deeply hope you will finish A Constellation of Vital Phenomena with a similar feeling.

Anthony Marra

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rom a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power to subsume all things, including the sacred.

Foreign Gods, Inc. tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery.

Ikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American college, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. Forced to eke out a living as a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental AfricanAmerican bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support.

When he turns to gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes.

And so he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue, where he has to deal with old friends, family, and a mounting conflict between those in the village who worship the deity and those who practice Christianity.

A meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America; the nature and impact of religious conflicts; an examination of the ways in which modern culture creates or heightens infatuation with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;exotic,â&#x20AC;? including the desire to own strange objects and hanker after ineffable illusions; and an exploration of the shifting nature of memory, Foreign Gods, Inc. is a brilliant work of fiction that illuminates our globally interconnected world like no other. i0LFZ /EJCF T 'PSFJHO (PET *OD JT POF PG UIF NPTU JNQSFTTJWF "GSJDBO OPWFMT UIBU * IBWF SFBE JO ZFBST $PNJD TBEÂ&#x2030;FWFO USBHJDÂ&#x2030;/EJCF JT B NBTUFS DSBGUTNBO XFBWJOH IJT OBSSBUJWF XJUI FUIOJD NBUFSJBMT BOE TVSQSJTFT BOE B QSPGVOEJUZ UIBU XJMM TUBSUMF ZPV CZ UIF FOE PG UIF TUPSZ $MFBSMZ UIJT JT POF XSJUFS UP XBUDI .PSFPWFS IJT JOTJHIUT JOUP CPUI "NFSJDB BOE /JHFSJB XJMM UBLF ZPVS CSFBUI BXBZ w Â&#x2030;$IBSMFT 3 -BSTPO &NFSJUVT 1SPGFTTPS PG -JUFSBUVSF BU "NFSJDBO 6OJWFSTJUZ JO 8BTIJOHUPO % $ i3B[PS TIBSQ .S /EJCF JOWFTUT IJT TUPSZ XJUI FOPVHI EBSL DPNFEZ UP NBLF /HFOF BO PEPSJGFSPVT QSFTFODF JO IJT PXO SJHIU BOE DFSUBJOMZ OPU UIF LJOE PG QPMJUF FYPUJD SBSJUZ UIBU BSU DPMMFDUPST BSF VTFE UP *O .S /EJCF T BHJMF IBOET IF T CPUI B TPVSDF PG TBUJSF BOE BO FNCPEJNFOU PG QVSF UFSSPS w Â&#x2030;+BOFU .BTMJO 5IF /FX :PSL 5JNFT i5IJT PSJHJOBM <OPWFM> JT QBDLFE XJUI EBSLMZ IVNPSPVT SFGMFDUJPOT PO "GSJDB T PCTFTTJPO XJUI UIF 8FTU BOE UIF 8FTU T PCTFTTJPO XJUI BMM UIJOHT FYPUJD w Â&#x2030;%BJMZ .BJM 6,

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He lives in West Hartford, CT, with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.

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Why Read Foreign Gods, Inc.?

A significant and growing percentage of freshmen and students at American universities are immigrants or children of recent immigrants from different parts of the world. Even those students whose parents have lived in the U.S. for several generations are quite familiar with more recent comers, and often deeply curious about the shape of their inner lives, their motivations, dreams, and anxieties.

The U.S. remains the favorite destination of immigrants, drawn by the grand narrative of American opportunity, a certain democratic impulse that rewards the enterprising and exceptionally creative. It was this ideal that drew me to the U.S. 27 years ago when the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe invited me to be the founding editor of a general interest magazine he and some academic colleagues wished to set up in America.

The essence of that idea is this: that if an immigrant works hard, refrains from cutting corners, applies inventive acumen, and takes his moral vitamin, s/heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bound to excel.

On the one hand, this narrative is borne out by the impressive profiles of immigrants who started, it seemed, from nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and yet became high achievers, in the process transforming their lives and society at once. On the other hand, there is the large number of hard-working immigrants, sticklers by the rules, who nevertheless failed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;make it.â&#x20AC;? On the whole, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the former group that is rendered visible, hardly the latterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except in simplistic, sometimes hysterical, media accounts of â&#x20AC;&#x153;illegal aliensâ&#x20AC;? driving up crime rates and exploiting social welfare benefits.

Foreign Gods, Inc. centers on the experiences, choices and exploits of its protagonist Ike Uzondu, a Nigerian immigrant whose story is, for me, both unique and powerfully resonant.

Like many a freshman, Ike arrived in the U.S. as a student, earning a cum laude in economics from Amherst College. He looks forward to getting a high-paying corporate job to enable him to live out his dreams, which include taking care of his widowed mother and poor sister. My dramatization of the impediments in the protagonistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way soon becomes an occasion to write a novel that touches on various themes that are central to the concerns of freshmen.

Despite its germination as an immigrant story, Foreign Gods, Inc. became for me a shapeshifting narrative that I used to examine such subjects as the fascinating ways in which globalization is reshaping cultural tastes and spawning new fantasies; the uses and abuses of religion; the nature and implications of religious conflict; an obsession with materialism that often culminates in the commercialization of the sacred; the nature, power and consequences of greed; the role of language in forming or eroding identity; the competing notions of knowledge; the whimsical factors that determine whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in and whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out in the mysterious lottery of American opportunity; and the role of gender in American and African settings.

I hope freshmen will find my novel an entertaining book that strikes at ideas and themes that are deeply pertinent to their experience. I am confident that the novel will challenge them, enlarge their perspectives, and provoke lively, engaged conversations.

Okey Ndibe

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urtis Sittenfeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.

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Ultimately, Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.

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When Prep was published in 2005, I was thrilled that it resonated with so many people. Countless readers sought me out to tell me that it captured their own feelings of awkwardness, insecurity, and excitement when they left home for the first time. What I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anticipated was that, in most cases, they were referring to their experiences not at boarding school but in college. Although my protagonist, Lee, is fourteen when she travels to Massachusetts to enroll in the elite Ault School, her adventures and misadventures actually reflect those of many college freshmen: her exposure to other students whose intelligence and sophistication impress and intimidate her and whose families are either far wealthier or far poorer than hers; her shifting relationship with her own family at home; the intimacy of dorm life, where she might find herself brushing her teeth next to someone sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never spoken to; and the confusion and joy of early sexual experimentation.

Lee is not a role model; at times, she acts selfishly, reveals prejudices, and tells lies.

The most common reactions Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve encountered when visiting book clubs or classes whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read Prep fall into two categories: People either say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I identified more strongly with Lee than I ever have with a fictional character, and yet I thought I was the only one who felt this way,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was incredibly frustrated by Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foolish choices, and I wondered if there was something wrong with her.â&#x20AC;? These diverging viewpoints make for impassioned discussions, and they often prompt participants to reflect on and share personal experiences. For people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t identify with Lee, it can be eyeopening to realize how many of their peers are quietly gripped by social anxiety.

Among the places Prep has been taught are the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; a boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prep school in Dallas, Texas; and at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. People have told me that they read the book so many times that they memorized passages. In fact, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pasting a link below to an article from the website Bustle titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Read Curtis Sittenfeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Prepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; At Least Ten Times, and Why I Might Not Read It Again.â&#x20AC;? It includes the line, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I followed Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story and return to it time and time again because the writing is great, but I have this morbid longing to see who I was and who I am, and I feel like some of the answers are hiding underneath that grosgrain book cover.â&#x20AC;? I am very proud of how many readers have been moved, frustrated, entertained, and enlightened by Prep.

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Ladydi was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In Guerrero, Mexico, drug lords are kings. Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than mere survival, finding humor, solidarity, and fun in the face of tragedy. A portrait of women in rural Mexico and an exploration of the hidden consequences of an unjust war, Prayers for the Stolen is a story of friendship, family, and determination. i.PWJOH 5ISPVHI B CFBVUJGVMMZ SFOEFSFE QPFUJD SIZUIN BMM IFS PXO $MFNFOU UFMMT B TUPSZ PG UIF â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kirkus Reviews PGUFO GPSHPUUFO XPNFO XIP DBSSZ PO UISPVHI UIF ESVH XBST w )PHBSUI ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT 'JDUJPO -JUFSBUVSF t $PNJOH PG "HF t 3FMBUJPOTIJQT

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By Jamie Ford Twelve-year-old William Eng currently resides at Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacred Heart Orphanage. On a birthday outing to the movies, he catches a glimpse of an actress named Willow Frost.

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Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pushing family farms to the brink, Little Wolves features the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife (and washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.

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In 1970s New York, against the backdrop of Philippe Petitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, disparate characters seek solace and redemption.

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Hailed as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiercely original talentâ&#x20AC;? (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. i*O .D$BOO T XJTF BOE FMFHJBD OPWFM PG PSJHJOT BOE DPOTFRVFODFT FBDI PG IJT GJOFMZ ESBXO VOFYQFDUFEMZ DPOOFDUFE DIBSBDUFST CBMBODFT BCPWF BO BCZTT FWJODJOH HSFBU DPVSBHF XJUI FWFSZ TUFQ w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Booklist (starred review)

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The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Daneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see. Lucy is haunted by the two lost girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the mother she never knew and the friend she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save.

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The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction.

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Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still.

Years later, startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers.

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At just 25, Noa P. Singleton was confined to death row, awaiting execution for the murder of her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pregnant girlfriend. As the months pass and her execution date gets closer, Noa is visited by the mother of her victim, a high-powered attorney, who has other plans for her.

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Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Nice, What Is? capture this side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award. In each of these talks Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so.

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,635 70//&(65 (1922â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2007) was among the few grandmasters of late 20th-century American letters.

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Wakefield is the author of the memoirs New York in the Fifties and Returning: A Spiritual Journey. His novel Going All the Way was made into a movie starring Ben Affleck. Wakefield also created the NBC prime time series, James at Fifteen. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How to Make Money and Find Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fredonia College, May 20, 1978 Your class spokesperson has just said that she is sick and tired of hearing people say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a young person these days.â&#x20AC;? All I can say is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a young person these days.â&#x20AC;?

Your collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president wished to exclude all negative thinking from his farewell to you, and so has asked me to make this announcement: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All persons who still owe parking fees are to pay up before leaving the property, or there will be monkey business with their transcripts.â&#x20AC;?

When I was a boy in Indianapolis, there was a humorist there named Kin Hubbard. He wrote a few lines for The Indianapolis News every day. Indianapolis needs all the humorists it can get. He was often as witty as Oscar Wilde. He said, for instance, that prohibition was better than no liquor at all. He said that whoever named near-beer was a poor judge of distance.

I assume that the really important stuff has been spread out over your four years here and that you have no need of anything much from me. This is lucky for me. I have only this to say, basically: This is the endâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this is childhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end for certain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sorry about that,â&#x20AC;? as they used to say in the Vietnam War. Perhaps you have read the novel Childhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s End by Arthur C. Clarke, one of the few masterpieces in the field of science fiction. All of the others were written by me. In Clarkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel, the characters undergo spectacular evolutionary change. The children become very different from the parents, less physical, more spiritualâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one day they form up into a sort of column of light which spirals out into the universe, its mission unknown. The book ends there. You seniors, however, look a great deal like your parents, and I doubt that you will go radiantly into space as soon as you have your diplomas in hand. It is far more likely that you will go to Buffalo or Rochester or East Quogueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or Cohoes.

And I suppose you will all want money and true love, among other things. I will tell you how to make money: Work very hard. I will tell you how to win love: Wear nice clothing and smile all the time. Learn the words to all the latest songs.

What other advice can I give you? Eat lots of bran to provide necessary bulk in your diet.

The only advice my father ever gave me was this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never stick anything in your ear.â&#x20AC;? The tiniest bones in your body are inside your ears, you knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and your sense of balance, too. If you mess around with your ears, you could not only become deaf, but you could also start falling down all the time. So just leave your ears completely alone. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fine, just the way they are.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t murder anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even though New York State does not use the death penalty.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about it.

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Nearly all philosophical questions stem from one great queryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how do you live? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a question continually contemplated by many Renaissance writers, none more than Michel de Montaigne. In Sarah Bakewellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spirited biography, students will delve into Montaigneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life through close examination of the inquiries he posed and the answers he explored. i5IJT DIBSNJOH CJPHSBQIZ TIVGGMFT JODJEFOUT GSPN .POUBJHOF T MJGF BOE FTTBZT JOUP UXFOUZ UIFNBUJD DIBQUFST #BLFXFMM DMFBSMZ SFMJTIFT UIF BOUISPQPMPHJDBM BOFDEPUFT UIBU FOMJWFO .POUBJHOF T XPSL CVU TIF IBOEMFT FRVBMMZ XFMM CPUI IJT QIJMPTPQIJDBM JOGMVFODFT BOE UIF SFBEFST BOE JOUFSQSFUFST XIP IBWF HVJEFE UIF SFDFQUJPO PG UIF FTTBZT w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The New Yorker 0UIFS 1SFTT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] /$3 ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] /$3 5IFNFT &UIJDT %FDJTJPO .BLJOH t .PSBMJUZ t 1IJMPTPQIZ

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By Robert Benson In this masterful blend of the practical and the spiritual, Robert Benson invites you into the work and rewards of a writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. More than a primer on effective writing, Dancing on the Head of a Pen is a winsome guide to the place in the heart where the life of the spirit meets the life of art. i8JUI EFDFQUJWF TJNQMJDJUZ BOE BO BMNPTU TFEVDUJWF FBTJOFTT JO IJT WPJDF #FOTPO MBZT PQFO CFGPSF VT UIF GJMJHSFFE NZTUJRVF PG UIF XSJUJOH MJGF JO BMM JUT CFBVUZ JUT VONJUJHBUFE BOHTU BOE JUT JOFTDBQBCMF â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Phyllis Tickle, author of numerous books, including The Divine Hours WPDBUJPO w 8BUFS#SPPL 1SFTT ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT $SFBUJWF 8SJUJOH t 4QJSJUVBMJUZ

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Straight from the front line of urban America, this is Erin Gruwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom Writersâ&#x20AC;? movement was born in 1994 from her simple notion: inspire young, underprivileged students to pick up pens instead of guns. Since then, the Freedom Writers Foundation has evolved into a renowned charitable organization led by Gruwell, with the unwavering support of the original Freedom Writers.

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By Susan Katz Miller

Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish.

Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is one of the growing number of Americans who are boldly electing to raise children with both faiths. In Being Both, Miller draws on original surveys and interviews, as well as on her own journey, to chronicle this controversial grassroots movement. #FBDPO 1SFTT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT 'BNJMZ 3FMBUJPOTIJQT t *EFOUJUZ t 1IJMPTPQIZ

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By George Saunders

Most convocation addresses are delivered and quickly forgotten. Not so with George Saundersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 speech at Syracuse University. After the transcript was posted by The New York Times, the address went viral. Saundersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful message about living with kindness struck an immediate chord with students. Congratulations, by the Way, which is full of the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark wit, offers an expanded version of this highly lauded speech.

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By Edward Slingerland Why is it always so hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or to be relaxed on a first date? In every case, striving seems to backfire. In Trying Not to Try, Edward Slingerland explores the power of spontaneityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an ancient Chinese virtue that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential to the well-being of both individuals and society. i5SZJOH /PU UP 5SZ OBWJHBUFT UIF DPOGMVFODF PG UXP NJHIUZ SJWFST UIF CVSHFPOJOH TDJFODF PG UIF NJOE BOE UIF DMBTTJD XJTEPN PG $IJOB T 5BPJTU BOE $POGVDJBO USBEJUJPOT 5IJT JT B UIPVHIUGVM HSPVOEFE CPPL BCPVU USBEJUJPOT UIBU TIPVME CF CFUUFS LOPXOÂ&#x2030;BOE NPSF PGUFO QVU JOUP QSBDUJDFÂ&#x2030;JO UIF 8FTU w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human #SPBEXBZ #PPLT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] ] &YBN DPQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT &BTUFSO 1IJMPTPQIZ t *OUFSQFSTPOBM 3FMBUJPOTIJQT

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Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning, and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taped confession, or a simple word choice or gesture during a cross-examination. In Unfair, law professor Adam Benforado shines a light on this troubling new research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. In fact, over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awarenessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Benforado argues 'PSUIDPNJOH +VOF %P OPU PSEFS CFGPSF $SPXO ] )$ ] ] QQ $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO

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that until we address these hidden biases head-on, the social inequality we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to exploit the weaknesses in our legal system.

Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court casesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger caseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weakest members, convicting the innocent while letting dangerous criminals go free. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the problem and proposes a wealth of reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law.

"%". #&/'03"%0 is an associate professor of law at Drexel University. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, he served as a federal appellate law clerk and an attorney at Jenner & Block. He has published numerous scholarly articles, and his op-eds and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Legal Times. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

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The death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and his killerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subsequent acquittal, led many to condemn our criminal justice system as fundamentally broken. And in the wake of high-profile cases in New York, Cleveland, and Ferguson, questions about how the law reflectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and exacerbatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;racial and economic disparities have continued to dominate the national conversation. As a society, we are desperately trying to make sense of rampant gun violence, police brutality, overcrowded prisons, and widening inequality.

Indeed, crime and the responses to crime define our livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the paths we walk, the rules we follow, the taxes we pay, the novels we read. And there is something about criminal law stories that hold us by the edge of our seat, whether we are listening to a Serial podcast or watching True Detective. The cases I explore in Unfair have all the drama of Law & Order or CSI, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re real, and they raise compelling questions: What could lead an otherwise upstanding attorney to conceal a critical piece of evidence from the other side? Why would a person confess to a crime she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit? Is it possible to tell whether someone is guilty by looking at a scan of his brain?

Emerging evidence from psychology and neuroscience is beginning to provide answers. Drawing on my own empirical research and the studies I teach at the graduate level, Unfair reveals the hidden forces that distort our criminal justice system and cause people to lose faith in its power to safeguard our fundamental freedoms.

With an interdisciplinary approachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bringing together history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, ethics, public policy, neuroscience, and lawâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the book is a perfect choice for the orientation experience, introducing students to fields they may wish to pursue in the years to come.

But my broader aim is to provide readersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and students, in particularâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a new, more sophisticated perspective on societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most pressing problems. I wrote Unfair to encourage civic engagement and active citizenshipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to prompt people to think about how to reform our legal system so that it lives up to our ideals. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always excited when I speak about my work to see how readily people see the connections to other fields outside of lawâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from business to public health to education. Hearing about this behavioral research inevitably leads people to think about ways it can be applied.

Many of the dynamics I discussâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the origins of dishonesty to the benefits of diversity to the biases people bring to reviewing evidenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are of special interest to universities.

I would love to help students navigate these critical issues. And as an experienced teacher and lecturer, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m well positioned to do so. One of my greatest joys is showing young people how to look at topics they think they know with new eyes. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what college is all about. If you have any questions about the book or about me, please contact me through my website, adambenforado.com.

Adam Benforado

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n this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fortune beyond countingâ&#x20AC;? in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Annawadiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;most-everything girlâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call â&#x20AC;&#x153;the full enjoy.â&#x20AC;?

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.

As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.

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She is the winner of a MacArthur â&#x20AC;&#x153;genius grant,â&#x20AC;? a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the Pulitzer Prize. She has divided her time between the U.S. and India for 10 years.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate into a world where economic instability and social inequality are increasing and geographic boundaries matter less and less. Unfortunately, globalization and social inequality remain two of the most over-theorized, under-reported issues of our age. My book is an intimate investigative account of how this volatile new reality affects the young people of an Indian slum called Annawadi.

Like young people elsewhere, the Annawadians are trying to figure out their place in a world where temp jobs are becoming the norm, adaptability is everything, and bewildering change is the one abiding constant.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers took me three hard years to report, and one thought that sustained me was that I had a unique opportunity to show American readers that the distance between themselves and, say, a teenaged boy in Mumbai who finds an entrepreneurial niche in other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garbage, is not nearly as great as they might think. In the two decades Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent writing about poverty and how people get out of it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to believe, viscerally, that there are deep connections among individuals that transcend specificities of geography, culture, religion, or class. The problem is that, in a time of high walls and security gates, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting harder for people of means to grasp the struggles of less privileged people.

Behind one such high wall, near the increasingly glamorous Mumbai airport, a sensitive girl is studying Othello in a makeshift hut by a vast sewage lake and dreading an arranged marriage that might send her to a rural village. A convention-defying disabled woman is longing to be acknowledged as a valid human being. A smart teenaged boy named Mirchi is resisting the garbage-recycling work that is his family trade. Instead he dreams of being a waiter at a fancy hotel, sticking toothpicks into cubes of cheese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watch me,â&#x20AC;? he snaps at his mother one day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a bathroom as big as this hut!â&#x20AC;? Over the course of time, as Mirchi and the other residents of the slum apply their imaginations to overcoming corruption and injustice and making better lives for themselves, the broader contours of the market-global age are gradually revealed.

Although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m elated when readers join me in thinking about how to build a fairer world for people, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider didactic lectures an effective way to engage peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in questions about fairness and justice. Nor do I think young people want mawkishly sentimental or sensationalized nonfiction. Stereotypes put them off, and they know when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being manipulated. What they want, in my experience, is good, concrete information from which they can work out what they think for themselves.

With a combination of extensive observation and documents-based reporting, I try to pull the reader in close to the lives and dilemmas of the poor while unfolding a story that is powerful and honest enough to keep readers turning the pages. By the last page, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to believe that some young readers will also find themselves wrestling with essential questions of our time: about how opportunity is distributed across the world; about what an individual should be willing to give up to get ahead; about the interconnections between, say, the collapse of investment banks in Manhattan and the price Mumbai waste-pickers receive for their empty plastic water bottles; about whether it is possible to be good and moral in a society that is not good and moral; and about the ultimate value of a human life.

Katherine Boo

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t least one-third of the people we encounter are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled â&#x20AC;&#x153;quiet,â&#x20AC;? it is to introverts we owe many of the great contributions to societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from Van Goghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.

Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal over the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how it influences everything from how parishioners worship to who excels at Harvard Business School. And she draws on cutting-edge research on the biology and psychology of temperament to reveal how introverts can modulate their personalities according to circumstance, how to empower an introverted child, and how companies can harness the natural talents of introverts. This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts, and, equally important, how they see themselves. i$BJO T JOUFMMJHFODF SFTQFDU GPS SFTFBSDI BOE WJCSBOU QSPTF QVU 2VJFU JO BO FMJUF DMBTT XJUI UIF CFTU CPPLT GSPN .BMDPMN (MBEXFMM %BOJFM 1JOL BOE PUIFS NBTUFST PG QTZDIPMPHJDBM OPO GJDUJPO w Â&#x2030;5FSFTB "NBCJMF 1SPGFTTPS )BSWBSE #VTJOFTT 4DIPPM i4VTBO $BJO T 2VJFU JT TVQFSC #BTFE PO NFUJDVMPVT SFTFBSDI JU JT B DPNQFMMJOH SFGMFDUJPO PO IPX UIF &YUSPWFSU *EFBM TIBQFT PVS MJWFT BOE XIZ UIJT JT EFFQMZ VOTFUUMJOH *U XJMM PQFO VQ B OFX BOE EJGGFSFOU DPOWFSTBUJPO PO IPX UIF QFSTPOBM JT QPMJUJDBM w Â&#x2030;#SJBO 3 -JUUMF 1I % %JTUJOHVJTIFE 4DIPMBS %FQBSUNFOU PG 4PDJBM BOE %FWFMPQNFOUBM 1TZDIPMPHZ $BNCSJEHF 6OJWFSTJUZ i5IF UBML 4VTBO $BJO HBWF BU PVS TDIPPM XBT UIF CFTU UIBU * IBWF IFBSE JO NZ GJGUFFO ZFBST BT %FBO PG UXP MFBEJOH CVTJOFTT TDIPPMT 4IF BMTP ESFX B SFDPSE OVNCFS PG BUUFOEFFT * IBWF VTFE 2VJFU JO BMM UIF DMBTTFT * UFBDI BOE POF ZFBS JO NZ HSBEVBUJPO SFNBSLT BT XFMM *U JT BMTP GSFRVFOUMZ SFGFSFODFE CZ OFBSMZ BMM UIF NFNCFST PG PVS BENJOJTUSBUJWF UFBN w Â&#x2030;.BSL ;VQBO %FBO PG 4JNPO (SBEVBUF 4DIPPM PG #VTJOFTT BU UIF 6OJWFSTJUZ PG 3PDIFTUFS

464"/ $"*/ is a writer whose articles on introversion and shyness have appeared in the New York Times; The Atlantic; on Time.com; and on PsychologyToday.com. Her 2012 TED talk has been viewed more than ten million times. Cain graduated with honors from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. For Cainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TED talk, go to tiny.cc/qpi4qw.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR I first thought about the powers and challenges of introversion some 26 years ago, when I began my freshman year at Princeton University.

From the minute I set foot on campus, I saw that college could be an extraordinary place for introverts and extroverts alike. A place where you were expected to spend your time reading and writing. A place where it was cool to talk about ideas. A place where you could create your own brand of social life. If you were an introvert, you could find friends with common interests and enjoy their company one-on-one or in small groups; if you were an extrovert, the social possibilities were endless, just the way extroverts like them.

I was an introvert, and I thrived.

Not that it was always easy. At Princeton, as on many campuses, many social and academic structures seemed designed for extroverts. I wondered why the cafeteria was arranged so that the large circular tables, where the most gregarious students sat, were located near the sunny windows, while the booths for quieter chats were off in the shadowy margins of the room. I wondered whether any of my classmates longed to munch on a sandwich behind a newspaper as I did, instead of being expected to participate in a social free-for-all three times a day. I learned to participate in Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent seminars, but privately I preferred lectures where you could soak up knowledge and think your own thoughts instead of having to perform them out loud.

Today, after interviewing hundreds of current and former college students, I know I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only one who felt this way. Not by a long shot.

Did you know that one-third to one-half of the population is introverted? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one out of every two or three students on campus. But most schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are organized with extroverts in mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even though many of the achievements that have propelled society, from the theory of evolution to The Cat in the Hat, came from people who were quiet, cerebral, and sensitive.

Even in less obviously introverted occupations, like finance, politics, and activism, some of the greatest leaps forward were made by introverts: Eleanor Roosevelt. Al Gore. Warren Buffett. Gandhi.

This is no coincidence. There are specific physiological and psychological advantages to being an introvert and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll share them with your students through the lens of my book, Quiet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell your students how we can all learn from the introverts among us, including how to be more creative, think more carefully, love more gently, and organize our schools and workplaces more productively.

Quiet also challenges contemporary myths of human nature, including the belief that creativity is fundamentally collaborative, and our preference for charismatic leaders.

But Quiet offers insights and advice for extroverts too, and it gives all students the license to talk about a social dynamic theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been living and breathing but have never given voice to. Introversion/ extroversion is as fundamental a difference between people as gender, yet until now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lacked the vocabularyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the cultural permissionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to talk about it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never presented the ideas in Quiet without getting people buzzing about whether they and their friends are introverts or extroverts, and what that means for their relationships, career choices, and life paths. Quiet is sure to spark animated discussions across campus, from the psychology and social-science classroom to the dorm room and dining hall.

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I look forward to continuing these discussions around campuses nationwide, as part of your Freshman Experience Programs. Please contact me through my blog, ThePowerofIntroverts.com, to discuss opportunities.

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n the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory todayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and how we can apply it to our own lives.

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital. But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong? And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort?

In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Careyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and less of a chore.

BOOK EXCERPT

BROADEN THE MARGINS I was a grind.

That was the word for it back in the day: the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A striver, a grade-hog, a worker beeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that kidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I can see him clearly now, almost 40 years later, bent over a textbook, squinting in the glow of a cheap desk lamp.

I can see him early in the morning, too, up and studying at 5 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock: sophomore year, high school, his stomach on low boil because he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite masterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what? The quadratic formula? The terms of the Louisiana Purchase? The Lend-Lease policy, the mean value theorem, Eliotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of irony as a metaphor for . . . some damn thing?

Never mind.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long gone, the entire curriculum. All that remains is the dread. Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running out, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much to learn, and some of it is probably beyond reach. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something else in there, too, a lowerfrequency signal that takes a while to pick up, like a dripping faucet in a downstairs bathroom: doubt.

The nagging sense of having strayed off the trail when the gifted students were arriving at the lodge, without breaking a sweat. Like so many others, I grew up believing that learning was all self-discipline: a hard, lonely climb up the sheer rock face of knowledge to where the smart people lived. I was driven more by a fear of falling than by anything like curiosity or wonder.

That fear made for an odd species of student. To my siblings, I was Mr. Perfect, the serious older brother who got (almost) all As. To my classmates, I was the Invisible Man, too unsure of my grasp of the material I was studying to speak up. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame my young self, my parents or my teachers for this split personality. How could I? The only strategy any of us knew for deepening learningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;drive yourself like a sled dogâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;works, to some extent; effort is the single most important factor in academic success.

Yet that was the strategy I was already using. I needed something more, something differentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I felt it had to exist.

The first hint of that it did, for me, came in the form of other students, those two or three kids in algebra or history who hadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what was it?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a cool head, an ability to do their best without that hunted-animal look. It was as if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been told it was OK not to understand everything right away; that it would come in time; that their doubt was itself a valuable instrument. But the real conversion experience for me came later, when applying for college. College was the mission all along, of course.

And it failed; I failed. I sent out a dozen applications and got shut down. All those years laboring before the mast and, in the end, I had nothing to show for it but a handful of thin envelopes and one spot on a waiting-listâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to a college I attended for a year, before dropping out.

What went wrong?

I had no idea. I aimed too high, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfect enough, I choked on the SATs. No matter. I was too busy feeling rejected to think about it. No, worse than rejected. I felt like a chump. Like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been scammed by some bogus self-improvement cult, paid dues to a guru who split with the money. So, after dropping out, I made an attitude adjustment. I loosened my grip. I stopped sprinting. Broadened the margins, to paraphrase Thoreau. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much a grand strategyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I was a teenager, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see more than three feet in front of my faceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as a simple instinct to pick my head up and look around.

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n the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.

After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.

In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disastersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR Memorial Medical was surrounded by floodwaters after the levees failed in New Orleans in 2005, drowning one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great cities. Within hours, all power would fail. The heat rose. Rescue helicopters began arriving. They transported one or two patients at a time, but there were around 250 patients and 2,000 staff and family members. Who should be rescued first?

Five Days at Memorial is about what happens when disaster strikes and the systems our lives depend on fail at the moment we need them the most. It is a call to learn from the past and do better next timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and there are no readers more capable of implementing these lessons than young people.

This book transports students into the heart of a disaster scenario and makes them ask themselves: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would I do?â&#x20AC;? They grapple with triage and end-of-life dilemmas, and face profound questions: Do exceptional times allow us to make exceptions to moral rulesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or does a time of crisis call for an even deeper commitment to our fundamental values?

The first half of the book recreates the events moment by moment from a variety of perspectives. The second half examines how the legal system and society adjudicates potentially criminal actionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in this case, the intentional hastening of patient deathsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when they take place outside of a normal context. As a teaching tool, Five Days at Memorial contains vital preparedness points for careers in health care, criminal justice, the law, journalism, business administration, environmental science, engineering, and sociology, among others.

It reads quickly because of the strong narrative and novelistic pull. Extensive endnotes offer jumping-off points for students to expand their research, building on cross-disciplinary themes including ethical decision making, disaster preparedness, resilience, leadership, and the history of American race relations.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a physician and neuroscientist by training. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve delivered humanitarian aid in disasters and conflict zones around the world. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned in every disaster is that what matters most in the immediate crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when the systems fail, as they almost inevitably doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are the decisions and actions of regular people. Five Days at Memorial tells the story of one of the most gripping and fascinating real-life events Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever reported on, but it also carries an important message: We all have a role to play in preparing for and responding to crises.

Thinking through these decisions in advance will better prepare students for making tough choices in reality.

When invited to campuses, I work hard to tailor my presentations to fit unique interests and needs. I love meeting with students and faculty. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be thrilled for Five Days at Memorial to be considered for your reading project, and would be excited to brainstorm ways to involve the campus and community in discussions.

Visiting your school and engaging with your students as part of your Freshman Experience Program and course adoptions would be a great honor. Please contact me through my website, sherifink.net, to get things started.

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n investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as â&#x20AC;&#x153;dressed up like a boyâ&#x20AC;?) is a third kind of childâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

The Underground Girls of Kabul is anchored by vivid characters who bring this remarkable story to life: Azita, a female parliamentarian who sees no other choice but to turn her fourth daughter Mehran into a boy; Zahra, the tomboy teenager who struggles with puberty and refuses her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attempts to turn her back into a girl; Shukria, now a married mother of three after living for twenty years as a man; and Nader, who prays with Shahed, the undercover female police officer, as they both remain in male disguise as adults.

At the heart of this emotional narrative is a new perspective on the extreme sacrifices of Afghan women and girls against the violent backdrop of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest war. Divided into four parts, the book follows those born as the unwanted sex in Afghanistan, but who live as the socially favored gender through childhood and puberty, only to later be forced into marriage and childbirth. The Underground Girls of Kabul charts their dramatic life cycles, while examining our own history and the parallels to subversive actions of people who live under oppression everywhere. i5ISPVHI FYUFOTJWF JOUFSWJFXT XJUI GPSNFS CBDIB QPTI PCTFSWBUJPO PG QSFTFOU POFT BOE DPOWFSTBUJPOT XJUI EPDUPST BOE UFBDIFST /PSECFSH VOFBSUIT EFUBJMT PG B EZOBNJD UIBU POF TVTQFDUT XJMM CF OFXT UP UIF BSNJFT PG BJE XPSLFST BOE HFOEFS FYQFSUT JO QPTU JOWBTJPO "GHIBOJTUBO w Â&#x2030;/FX :PSL 5JNFT #PPL 3FWJFX

+&//: /03%#&3( is an award-winning journalist based in New York. A correspondent and columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, she has a long record of investigative reports for, among others, The New York Times, where she also contributed to a series that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 2010, she was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism for a television documentary on Afghan women. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR Bacha posh, the practice of dressing a girl like a boy, offers a window into a system of severe gender apartheidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a system that exists not only in Afghanistan, but in many countries where women are oppressed. The Underground Girls of Kabul is about disguising oneself to survive in such a place.

Resistance to this kind of patriarchy has occurred throughout history when women were excluded from education and unable to freely choose who they married, or whether to have children. Many girls and women beyond Afghanistan, and in our own history, have had to pretend to be boys and men to reach for rights that society dictated were not theirs.

I wanted this book to be urgent. Because I am, frankly, angry that my own education did not include a conversation about why women have historically been seen as less valuable and less important than menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nor where these ideas come from. It was always presented as an accepted, unexamined fact. In my book, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve searched for the roots of these beliefs, in religion, biology and culture.

Some extremely brave Afghan women revealed their most intimate secrets to me.

They spoke about what it feels like to have tasted life â&#x20AC;&#x153;on the other sideâ&#x20AC;? and to then be forced to let go of the privilege they found there. They have all infiltrated the world of men and boys in a real-life nature versus nurture experiment that question binary gender definitions, and whether we as humans can exist along a broader spectrum.

Their stories constitute a defiant piece of history that I hope will spur conversations about the discrimination that still remains in our part of the world and the culture of honor, which often requires girls and women to be pure and modest, while men are asked to be strong and protective. I also hope this book will provoke hard questions about why we go to war and whether we really are so different from those we fight.

Trying to be someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;else has always been a way for those of a marginalized gender, skin color, religion or sexuality to escape discrimination. But what does it really do to you to deny who you are? And why should anyone ever have to do it?

So what is the difference between men and women? I have asked many Afghan women that and their answers often come back as a single word: freedom. One gender has it, the other does not. And those with pants always come first.

From that point, my story begins. And so, I hope, do your own questions. I would love to be part of your conversations, in classrooms and in chat rooms and wherever they take place. You can find me at @nordbergj and bachaposh.com. I am very curious to know who else lives in disguise, and what that has been likeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I know there are so many of us out there.

Jenny Nordberg

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n her surprising, entertaining, and persuasive new book, awardwinning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-toface contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience, and longevity.

From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other human beings. Face-to-face contact matters: tight bonds of friendship and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives, and make us happy. Looser in-person bonds matter, too, combining with our close relationships to form a personal â&#x20AC;&#x153;villageâ&#x20AC;? around us, one that exerts unique effects. Not just any social networks will do: We need the real, in-the-flesh encounters that tie human families, groups of friends, and communities together.

Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience with gripping human stories, Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-toface contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain village, from classroom to workplace, from love to marriage to divorce.

Her results are enlightening and enlivening, and they challenge many of our assumptions. Most of us have left the literal village behind and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to give up our new technologies to go back there. But, as Pinker writes so compellingly, we need close social bonds and uninterrupted face-time with our friends and families in order to thriveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even to survive. Creating our own â&#x20AC;&#x153;village effectâ&#x20AC;? makes us happier. It can also save our lives.

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BOOK EXCERPT Chapter 1 Swimming Through the School of Hard Knocks How Social Bonds Can Rejig the Outcome of Chronic Disease When Sylvie La Fontaine was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 1999, she had just competed with her team in the Canadian Masters national swimming championships.

Five foot ten, with rectangular tortoiseshell glasses and pixie-cut hair, Sylvie favored snug wraparound tops she sewed herself, worn over leggings and boots; she hardly looked the part of a grandmother of three. A real estate agent and interior designer, she was the de facto hub of several intense face-to-face social networks, including her swim team. Its president for seven years by that time, she fielded a multitude of personal and training questions from its 150 members, including but not limited to their health issues, reproductive concerns and sports injuries, marital flare-ups and child-rearing doubts, thoughts on the poolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water quality and the coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest endurance workout. She was even a shoulder to cry on when a memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved pet had to be put down. She sustained this role with bemused equanimity until a teammate blasted herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and not for the first timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about some insignificant mishap at a competition. The attack penetrated her usual defenses and really stung. Given her recent cancer diagnosis, Sylvie wondered whether she should pull back from the team in order to conserve her emotional resources.

But she found that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that simple for her to withdraw. Not only did people keep seeking her out for advice, Sylvie couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist getting involved when there was work to be done. Along with being swim team president, she was also president of a rural homeowners association that had recently planted 60,000 trees to naturalize communally owned farmland; she had planted 15,000 of them herself. She unwittingly drew confidences from people she barely knewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which puzzled her, as she tended to keep her own counsel. I was just one of what seemed like several hundred swim buddies, colleagues, and neighbors who considered Sylvie a friend. And that was just her middle social layer: she had many closer friends too.

Sylvie and her husband had formed strong bonds with several Navy couples while he was enlisted and their kids were young. Closer still were three couples she had met through the swim team; they now dined and traveled together whenever they got the chance. When Gary, one of these close swim friends, found out he had colon cancer, the same week Sylvie received her diagnosis, she competed alongside him at the national championships, then threw herself into his care, organizing tag teams to drive him to the hospital and helping to coordinate his treatment regimen. Supporting Gary as he fought his six-month survival estimate became her most pressing project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sick. He was,â&#x20AC;? she flatly retorted when I asked why she talked about Gary when I asked about her own health. (Gary outlived his initial prognosis by threeand-a-half years.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really need anything at the time. Breast cancer is not something that hurts, you know. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very mental.â&#x20AC;?

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ur personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.

For centuries, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers.

In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook â&#x20AC;&#x153;likesâ&#x20AC;? can predict, with surprising accuracy, a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel?

(Hint: They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible.

Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR My fellow first-years and I were the first incoming class at Harvard to get official email addresses from the school. I remember thinking, what nerd is going to send me an electronic letter? Who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just call me? What is this garbage? It was 1993. That fall, I used my roommateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mosaic browser to look up guitar tab for a Steve Miller song and then, my curiosity about â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jokerâ&#x20AC;? well satisfied, pretty much forgot about the Internet.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve since reconsidered my relationship to technology (and to musicâ&#x20AC;Ś). In 2003, I started what has become one of the biggest dating sites in the country, OkCupid, and last year I wrote a book about the data my site and others, like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, have collected about our millions of users. But instead of hammering away at the economic potential of data (a potential thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inarguably very potent), I wanted to explore another side of the Internet. That huffy part of me never really went awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fundamentally, what is this garbage? has followed me for decades. Now I have my answer: I believe the Internet, through data weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all given to it, will offer an unprecedented look at what makes humanity work. Dataclysm is the first draft of a new social science.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Information Ageâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just about the Information coming in. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about you, as Information, going out. Anytime you open Facebook, click in Instagram, or fire off a Tweet, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re offering up a tiny piece of your life to a database. Dataclysm aggregates all those pieces, from all those lives, back into a collective story about attraction, sexuality, race, politics, identity, and perception. In short, it shows what all our information adds up to. How do men and women view beauty differently? How do bisexuals typically describe themselves? How fast can rage explode? It answers all these and more. 1 But if Dataclysm answers some questions, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designed to leave the reader with many more. How does being observed change who I am? How does my behavior contribute to a whole? The more time you spend with social data, the more it can seem to confirm what you already know. But the specificity and transparency that data gives to social phenomena allows us to access and discuss them in a new way. If racism is statistically pervasive and universalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as the book showsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what does that say about affirmative action? What does it say about white privilege? What does it say about the 84% of people who claim to be racially color-blind?

Because the book is built on the data of everyday people, the story it tells is ultimately our storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yours and mineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both the ugly and the hopeful. And it will help everyone to understand the implications of their digital lives, to know what they show the world, each time they open their phone.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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I first learned about HeLa cells, and the woman behind them, as a teenager sitting in a freshman biology class. I knew only fragments of Henriettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story, but those fragments inspired me to start asking questionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about science and mortality, bioethics, and how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d feel if my own cells were used in research. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet know that her cells had launched a multibillion-dollar industry while her children lived in poverty, or that the cells had devastating consequences for the family.

Henriettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story captures the imagination of students in any number of disciplines, including the sciences, medicine, African-American studies, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism, and creative writing. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spoken about HeLa at schools around the country, where students are transfixed by the story. I tell them that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown on a scale they would weigh more than one hundred Empire State Buildings, and that HeLa has been fused with mouse cells to create Henrietta-mouse hybrid cells. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the stuff of science fiction, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, and students love it. Combine that with the story of Henriettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a tale about science, religion, race, and classâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reactions are powerful.

During Q&As, the first question is usually: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it illegal to take her cells and use them in research without asking?â&#x20AC;? The answer is noâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not in 1951, and not in 2011. Today, most Americans have their tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And since the late sixties, when testing newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each baby born in the United States has had blood taken, and those samples are often stored and used by scientists. This means that the majority of college students in this country have tissues of their own being used in research, and neither they nor their parents likely realize it.

As a college professor, I always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields that students will study throughout their careers and that allow them to explore the realworld consequences of intellectual discoveries. Other professors tell me The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks does just that, bringing together health, community, family, ethics, religion, science, storytelling, history, business, law, and humanity.

Since spring 2010, I have talked about my book at more than one hundred schools nationwide. As a regular guest lecturer whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also worked as a correspondent for radio and television, I understand the importance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;moving and engaging of both the heart and mind.â&#x20AC;? You can visit the events page of my website at RebeccaSkloot.com to see if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be speaking at your school, and you can contact me through the site. I look forward to visiting even more schools as part of their Freshman Experience Programs.

As a college biology major, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have imagined that Henriettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story would lead me to become a writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no telling what effect this story could have on students. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to find out.

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powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.

One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanshipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming-of-age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s, and the legacy of slavery very much shaped her and the things she would say to me. When I visited my grandmother, she would hug me so tightly I could barely breathe. After a little while, she would ask me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bryan, do you still feel me hugging you?â&#x20AC;? If I said yes, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d let me be; if I said no, she would assault me again. I said no a lot because it made me happy to be wrapped in her formidable arms. She never tired of pulling me to her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,â&#x20AC;? she told me all the time.

This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that continues to mark the lives of millions of Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of all races, ages, and sexesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the American psyche as a whole. The prison population in America has grown from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.3 million people today. The United States now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have condemned thousands of children, some as young as 13, to die in prison with life imprisonment without parole sentences. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve executed over 1,400 people with a death penalty system that has proved remarkably unreliable. Over 150 people condemned to execution have been proved innocent, exonerated and released.

In 1983, I was a 23-year-old student at Harvard Law School working in Georgia on an internship, eager and inexperienced, and worried that I was in over my head. When I learned that I would be visiting a death row prisoner alone, with no lawyer accompanying me, I tried not to let my panic show. When I signed up for this internship, I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given much thought to the fact that I would actually be meeting condemned prisoners. To be honest, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know if I wanted to be a lawyer. The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. I could not have known that proximity to the condemned, to people unfairly judged, would guide me back to something that felt like home. I document my journey and some remarkable people I represented, including an innocent man named Walter McMillian who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Monroeville, Alabama, the home of Harper Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

In this book, you will learn the story of Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, which taught me about our systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions. Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience taught me the ways our system traumatizes and victimizes people when we exercise our power to convict and condemn irresponsiblyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just the accused but also their families, their communities, and even the victims of crime. But Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case also taught me something else: that there is light within this darkness.

My work has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. I believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhapsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

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Horizontal progress, he says, yields only incremental improvements and short-term profits that are quickly competed away. To create the lasting, sustainable value that a prosperous future requires, we must strive for vertical progress: what he calls going from zero to one.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE CO-AUTHOR

What important truth do very few people agree with you on? It sounds like an easy question. It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Wrestle with it for a few moments and you may be tempted to give up, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Every great businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;indeed, every way in which the future will be different and better than the presentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is rooted in a good answer to this question. Contrarian truths may be hard to find, but in a world in which so much of what we do is to simply repeat whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been done before, creating new value means thinking from first principles, not following the crowd.

Why read Zero to One in school? The book itself stems from a course that storied investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel taught at Stanford in 2012. I was a student in that class. Peter told us everything heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d learned about innovation and building new things. I posted detailed course notes online and, for a while, reading those notes was the best way to learn what Peter knows about the world and how to change it. But while the notes captured the excitement in the room, the future wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just happen at Stanford or in Silicon Valley. To start a wider conversation, Peter and I have refined and expanded on the best ideas from the class to make a richer, fresher, more readable text.

Equal parts practical business advice and big-picture insights on the future of technology and innovation, Zero to One is structured as a series of answers to contrarian questions. Progress comes in two forms: vertical and horizontal.

Horizontal progress means copying or iterating on products, ideas, and solutions that already exist; vertical progress is building new ones from the ground up. Thiel urges innovators not to compete on well-trodden paths but rather to find a new frontier. Zero to One shares powerful insights, through both philosophy and practical business advice, on why and how the most valuable organizations in the world are the ones that solve problems in new ways.

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Of the roughly twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came here as children. They grow up here, going to elementary, middle, and high school, and then the country they call home wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t (in most states) offer them financial aid for college, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unable to be legally employed. In 2001, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin introduced the DREAM Act to Congress, an initiative that would allow these young people to become legal residents if they met certain requirements. More than a decade later, in the face of congressional inertia and furious opposition from some, the DREAM Act has yet to be passed. In recent years, this young generation of Dreamers has begun organizing, and with their rallying cry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid,â&#x20AC;? they are the newest face of the human rights movement. In Dreamers, Eileen Truax illuminates the stories of these young men and women, who are living proof of a complex and sometimes hidden political reality that calls into question what it truly means to be American.

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When President Obama made the announcement in November 2014 to, in his words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;fix our broken immigration system,â&#x20AC;? through executive action, I immediately thought about the many Dreamers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met through the years. I first heard about them in 2005, having recently arrived in the United States, and was working at a Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles, La OpiniĂłn.

My assignment editor asked for a story about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raza Graduationâ&#x20AC;?, an event where Latino students thank their parents for sending them to college. I assumed it would be just another â&#x20AC;&#x153;Latino prideâ&#x20AC;? event, but ended up being profoundly moved. I especially remember a young man I talked to, Mario, who had earned his degree in engineering that semester, honoring the tremendous sacrifice that his parents made for him and his siblings. Although his parents brought him to the United States when he was five years old, and although this was the country he called home, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eligible for financial aid because he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a Social Security number and he had no way of obtaining a green card. He wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even be able to find employment despite his degree, intelligence, or strong work ethic because of his undocumented status.

This story shook me to the core, and I became committed to finding out more about undocumented students. I learned about the DREAM Act, the legislative bill presented in Congress in 2001 by Senators Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch. That progressive bill would have allowed young students who came to the country with no documentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;due to a decision made by their parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to get a Social Security number and a work permit, and would also provide a path to citizenship. Tragically, that bill has now been languishing for 13 years.

In the years that followed, I started covering stories about the Dreamers. I traveled across the country speaking to young people who were trying to organize their peers, from California to New York. I was struck by their activism, determination and also their acts of civil disobedience. In 2010, for instance, a group held a civil disobedience act in Los Angeles shouting â&#x20AC;&#x153;undocumented and unafraid,â&#x20AC;? knowingly risking arrest and deportation. They were arrested, but, fortunately, not deported, and when I think about how much courage participating in this took, I am awed.

And I realize that so much of what we hear about immigration is presented in strictly numerical termsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;11 million undocumented immigrants in the country; 4.2 million of whom will benefit from President Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive actionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but what I know is this: the only way to truly understand the issue is through the stories of the people that every morning have to face the world with the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;illegalâ&#x20AC;? hanging over them, living with the constant fear of possibly not returning to their families that night if they happen to get arrested and deported that day. My book is about seeing the undocumented people in all their humanity, not as numbers, as statistics or through politics or partisanship.

Today I believe the Dreamers are the kindest and most honest face of our undocumented immigrant communities. They could have made the perfect victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after all, they are in these circumstances because of a decision their parents made, not themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but instead of being passive, they assume responsibility for their lives, striving to build a better future. I would like everyone to see immigration through their eyes, the eyes of one of the bravest, most passionate, smartest generations that we have ever had in this country. A generation who decided to build their future using all the tools the country they love may be willing to give them.

After all, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing more American than fighting for a dream with all your heart.

Eileen Truax

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By Reza Aslan Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most influential individual in the history of mankind. Yet, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still so much mystery surrounding his life. Reza Aslan sheds great insight on this charismatic preacher by placing him within the context of his time and thoroughly analyzing the testimonies of those who knew him bestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his disciples. i"TMBO EFWFMPQT B DPOWJODJOH BOE DPIFSFOU TUPSZ PG IPX UIF $ISJTUJBO DIVSDI BOE JO QBSUJDVMBS 1BVM SFTIBQFE $ISJTUJBOJUZ T FTTFODF PCTDVSJOH UIF WFSZ SFBM NBO XIP XBT +FTVT PG /B[BSFUI $PNQVMTJWFMZ SFBEBCMF BOE XSJUUFO BU B QPQVMBS MFWFM UIJT TVQFSC XPSL JT IJHIMZ SFDPNNFOEFE w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Publishers Weekly 3BOEPN )PVTF ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT "ODJFOU )JTUPSZ t 1IJMPTPQIZ t 5IFPMPHZ

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By Joe Brewster, M.D. and Michèle Stephenson, with Hilary Beard Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the â&#x20AC;&#x153;achievement gapâ&#x20AC;?: a divide that shows up not only in their test scores, but in their social and emotional development, their physical well-being, and their outlook on life.

Joe Brewster, M.D. and Michèle Stephenson, the directors of the award-winning documentary American Promise, have written this unprecedented guide to helping black boys achieve success at every stage of their livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at home, at school, and in the world.

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The Road to CHARACTER

By David Brooks In his most eye-opening and deeply personal book yet, David Brooksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;New York Times bestselling author of The Social Animalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral depth. In a society that emphasizes success and external achievement, The Road to Character is a book about inner worth.

Forthcoming April 2015. Do not order before 4/21/2015.

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By Barbara Demick

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American journalist Barbara Demick interviewed six North Koreans who attempted to build careers, relationships, and lives in North Korea, only to defect when they realized the extent of the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deception and abuse of its own citizens. Never before has such a penetrating view of contemporary North Korea been published. Readers will be amazed by this insiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most isolated state. i%FNJDL T QPUFOU CMFOE PG QFSTPOBM OBSSBUJWFT BOE QJFSDJOH KPVSOBMJTN WJWJEMZ BOE FWPDBUJWFMZ QPSUSBZT DPVSBHFPVT JOEJWJEVBMT BOE B UZSBOOJ[FE TUBUF XJUIJO B TBHB PG VOGBUIPNBCMF TVGGFSJOH QVODUVBUFE CZ GBJOU HMJNNFST PG IPQF w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Booklist (starred review) 4QJFHFM (SBV ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT %JTDPWFSJOH %iffFSFODFT t )VNBO 3JHIUT t 3FHJPOBM /PSUI ,PSFB "TJB

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster. i8JUI B OBSSBUJWF BT TNPPUI BT UIF UJUVMBS QBTTFOHFS MJOFS -BSTPO EFMJWFST B SJWFUJOH BDDPVOU PG POF PG UIF NPTU USBHJD FWFOUT PG 88* " CMVOU SFNJOEFS UIBU XBS JT BU JUT NPTU CBTJD B NBUUFS PG MJGF BOE EFBUI w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Publishers Weekly Forthcoming March 2015. Do not order before 3/10/2015.

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In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were awash in blood and terror. i#Z GBS IJT CFTU BOE NPTU FOUISBMMJOH XPSL PG OPWFMJTUJD IJTUPSZ 1PXFSGVM QPJHOBOU â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The New York Times B USBOTQPSUJOHMZ USVF TUPSZ w #SPBEXBZ ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT &UIJDT t (FOPDJEF t 1FSTFWFSBODF 1FSTPOBM 4USFOHUI t 88**

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The new front in the War on Terror is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;homegrown enemy,â&#x20AC;? domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroomedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least 100,000 Muslims in America have been secretly under scrutiny. Based on several years of research and reportage, in locations as disparate as Texas, New York, and Yorkshire, England and written in engrossing, precise prose, this is the first comprehensive critique of counterradicalization strategies.

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Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in our citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped. i(IFUUPTJEF JT B CSJMMJBOU UBYPOPNJD JOWFTUJHBUJPO JOUP UIF "NFSJDBO WJPMFODF FQJEFNJD EJTHVJTFE BT B IJHIMZ FOUFSUBJOJOH USVF DSJNF CPPL w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Matt Taibbi, author of The Divide 4QJFHFM (SBV ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO t "MTP BWBJMBCMF GSPN 3BOEPN )PVTF "VEJP 5IFNFT "GSJDBO "NFSJDBO *OUFSFTU t 4PDJBM +VTUJDF

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By Bruce Levine In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. i5IJT CPPL MJNOT UIF SFMBUJPOTIJQ CFUXFFO TMBWFSZ BOE UIF SJTF BOE GBMM PG UIF $POGFEFSBDZ NPSF DMFBSMZ BOE TUBSLMZ UIBO BOZ PUIFS TUVEZ (FOFSBM SFBEFST BOE TFBTPOFE TDIPMBST BMJLF XJMM GJOE OFX JOGPSNBUJPO BOE JOTJHIUT JO UIJT FZF PQFOJOH BDDPVOU w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom 3BOEPN )PVTF ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT "NFSJDBO )JTUPSZ t 3FHJPOBM "NFSJDBO 4PVUI

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Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an AfricanAmerican sharecropperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son from Mississippi and the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black carrier pilot.

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Every day, Americans ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here. i<.JDIBFM> .PTT IBT XSJUUFO B 'BTU 'PPE /BUJPO GPS UIF QSPDFTTFE GPPE JOEVTUSZ #VSSPXJOH EFFQ JOTJEF UIF CJH GPPE NBOVGBDUVSFST IF EJTDPWFSFE IPX KVOL GPPE JT GPSNVMBUFE UP NBLF VT FBU NPSF PG JU BOE IF BSHVFT QFSTVBTJWFMZ BDUVBMMZ UP BEEJDU VT w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael Pollan

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By Elizabeth Norman In the winter of 1941, as Japanese bombs began falling on Luzon, American Army and Navy nurses found themselves in the thick of a nightmarish war. Amidst raining shells and shrapnel they tended to devastating injuries. However, when Bataan and Corregidor fell, a handful of nurses were sent to internment camps. We Band of Angels chronicles their suffering and heroism in equal measure. i(SJQQJOH B XBS TUPSZ JO XIJDI UIF NBJO DIBSBDUFST OFWFS LJMM POF PG UIF FOFNZ PS FWFO TIPPU BU IJN CVU BSF OFWFSUIFMFTT IFSPFT "NFSJDBOT UPEBZ TIPVME UIBOL (PE XF IBE TVDI XPNFO w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Stephen E. Ambrose 3BOEPN )PVTF ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT *OTQJSBUJPO t 1FSTFWFSBODF 1FSTPOBM 4USFOHUI t 8PNFO T 4UVEJFT t 8PSME )JTUPSZ

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In Sacred Ground, author and renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel says prejudice post 9-11 is not just a problem for Muslims but a challenge to the very idea of America. Patel shows us that Americans from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;interfaith leaders,â&#x20AC;? illustrating how the forces of pluralism in America have time and again defeated the forces of prejudice. i*OUFSGBJUI DPPQFSBUJPO JT POF PG "NFSJDB T GPVOEJOH JEFBMT *U TUJMM TFUT VT BQBSU GSPN NVDI PG UIF XPSME &CPP 1BUFM IBT MJWFE UIBU WBMVF BOE JO UIJT CPPL TQSFBET UIBU HPPE XPSE 6QMJGUJOH BOE JOWBMVBCMF 4BDSFE (SPVOE JT FTTFOUJBM SFBEJOH GPS PVS QPMBSJ[FE FSB w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin #FBDPO 1SFTT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT %JTDPWFSJOH %iffFSFODFT t *ODMVTJWFOFTT t :PVUI "DUJWJTN

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Acts of Faith 5IF 4UPSZ PG BO "NFSJDBO .VTMJN UIF 4USVHHMF GPS UIF 4PVM PG B (FOFSBUJPO Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States.

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By Margaret Regan The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at an unprecedented rate. Thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from their families, sometimes for years. Many of the deported have lived here for years and have U.S.-citizen children; despite the possibly dire consequences, many cross the border again.

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From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Black president, and it draws on Danny Schechterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forty-year relationship with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madiba,â&#x20AC;? as Nelson Mandela is known in his native South Africa. i)FSF JT TUPSZUFMMJOH UIBU JT VOJRVF SFGSFTIJOH BOE SFWFBMJOH BOE UIF /FMTPO .BOEFMB XIP FNFSHFTÂ&#x2030;NPSF OVBODFE UIBO * FWFS VOEFSTUPPE BOE FWFO NPSF BENJSBCMFÂ&#x2030;JT TPNFPOF ZPV XJMM XBOU UP LOPX :PV XJMM CF CPUI TVSQSJTFE CZ .BOEFMB T QSPGPVOEMZ DPNQMFY QFSTPOBMJUZ BOE HSBUFGVM â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bill Moyers GPS %BOOZ 4DIFDIUFS T DSFBUJWF KPVSOBMJTN w 4FWFO 4UPSJFT 1SFTT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT "OUJ "QBSUIFJE .PWFNFOU t $JWJM 3JHIUT t *OFRVBMJUZ t 1PWFSUZ t 3FHJPOBM 4PVUI "GSJDB

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Not since Thomas L. Friedmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.

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By James Wallman Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for â&#x20AC;&#x153;experientialâ&#x20AC;? living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.

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In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African-American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. i" GBTDJOBUJOH FYQMPSBUJPO PG UIF CMBDL QSPQIFUJD HFOJVT BOE GJSF PG %PVHMBTT %V #PJT ,JOH &MMB #BLFS .BMDPMN 9 BOE *EB # 8FMMT UIJT CPPL SFNJOET VT XIBU USVF MFBEFSTIJQ TBDSJGJDF BOE DPVSBHFPVT JOTQJSBUJPOBM USVUI UFMMJOH MPPLT MJLF BOE XIZ JU JT TP VSHFOUMZ OFFEFE JO UIF RVFTU GPS KVTUJDF UPEBZ w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow #FBDPO 1SFTT ] )$ ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT "GSJDBO "NFSJDBO 4UVEJFT t *OTQJSBUJPO

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Fight the Power!, a nonfiction graphic novel, chronicles the history of subjugated people asserting their rights. From the Irish Rebellion and the Boston Police Strike to Rosa Parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bus boycott and the Occupy Wall Street movement, the book expertly connects these various protests and argues that there is purpose in fighting the good fight. i"O BDDFTTJCMF BOE FOHBHJOH JOUSPEVDUJPO UP QSPUFTUPST JO IJTUPSZ *G ZPV DBSF BCPVU TPDJBM DIBOHF SFBE JU w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mary Talbot, author of Dotter of Her Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eyes (Costa Biography Award winner) 4FWFO 4UPSJFT 1SFTT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT $POGMJ U 4UVEJFT t 4PDJBM +VTUJDF

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In Covering, one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most brilliant young legal scholars fashions a new paradigm of civil rights. Drawing on his experiences as a gay Japanese American, Yale law professor Kenji Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of authentic selves is a harm from which the law should sometimes protect people. More profoundly, he also claims that law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of authenticity.

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LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES

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rianna Huffingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editorin-chief of the Huffington Post Media Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of the fastest-growing media companies in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;celebrated as one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like?

As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of successâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;money and powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward.

In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to topple over. We need a third legâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a third metric for defining successâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving.

Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives. i*O 5ISJWF "SJBOOB VSHFT BMM PG VT UP HFU JO UPVDI XJUI XIP XF SFBMMZ BSF TP UIBU XF DBO MJWF MJGF PO PVS PXO UFSNT 'SPN UIF JNQPSUBODF PG TMFFQ UP UIF JNQFSBUJWF UP MJTUFO UP PVS PXO JOOFS WPJDF GPS XBZT UP EFBM XJUI UIF EBJMZ UJNF DSVODIFT XF BMM GFFM UIJT CPPL MBZT PVU B QBUI GPS FBDI PG VT UP MPPL XJUIJO BOE NBLF PVS MJWFT NPSF BVUIFOUJD BOE GVMGJMMJOH w Â&#x2030;4IFSZM 4BOECFSH 'BDFCPPL $00 BOE BVUIPS PG -FBO *O i"U PODF JOUJNBUF BOE GPSNJEBCMF UIJT CPPL JT "SJBOOB )VGGJOHUPO BU IFS QFSTVBTJWF CFTU 5ISJWF JT B DMBSJPO DBMM B NFEJUBUJPO BOE B QSBDUJDBM SFTQPOTF UP UIF RVFTUJPO PG IPX UP MJWF w Â&#x2030;4VTBO $BJO BVUIPS PG /FX :PSL 5JNFT CFTUTFMMFS 2VJFU 5IF 1PXFS PG *OUSPWFSUT JO B 8PSME 5IBU $BO U 4UPQ 5BMLJOH

"3*"//" )6''*/(50/ is the cofounder, president, and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most influential news and information brands. She is the author of fourteen books, including Third World America and On Becoming Fearless, and the mother of two daughters, Christina and Isabella.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

Since Thrive was published, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spoken at a lot of colleges. And, when asked for advice, I always say that the first thing to do is begin defining success for yourselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by being clear about what you want, what you value and what you are about. But before we can do that, we need to clear away the noise of the world to be able to truly listen to ourselves. And to do that, we need to abandon, or at least mitigate, some of the worst practices of the adult world that many students are already mired in: burnout, sleep deprivation, stress, and anxiety. And from that place of greater wisdom and perspective, students will be infinitely more effective at all the things they want to master: overcoming fears, taking risks, improving confidence, networking effectively, getting the job they want, getting a higher salary, etc.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are few signposts encouraging a culture of well-being and taking care of our human capital.

Among those 18 to 29 years old, nearly half donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the amount of sleep they need.

We know that lack of sleep increases stress, but then stress also makes it hard to sleep.

And according to the Journal of Adolescent Health, stress keeps 68 percent of students up at night.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vicious cycle that has made millennials our most stressed demographic, according to the American Psychological Association. And nearly 40 percent of millennials reported their stress increasing in the year before the 2012 study. But only 17 percent said they get â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot or a great dealâ&#x20AC;? of help in dealing with their stress.

Thrive can get that conversation started. For far too long, too many of us have been operating under the collective delusion that burning out is the necessary price for accomplishment and success. Recent scientific findings make it clear that this couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be less true. Not only is there no tradeoff between living a well-rounded life and high performance, performance is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal, wisdom, wonder, and giving.

What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in the last year is that the desire for change is strongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially among millennials. We may have hit the snooze button a few times, but that wake-up call is gradually being heard. And today, in addition to having the will, we have the toolsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tools that are both timely and timeless. As I explain in the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduction, Thrive is structured to fix our broken definition of success. And there is no better time for college students to start than today.

Arianna Huffington

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Gretchen Rubinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.

So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits?

Better than Before answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and to change them for good. Infused with Rubinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, Better than Before explains the (sometimes counterintuitive) core principles of habit formation.

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Happier at home: ,JTT .PSF +VNQ .PSF "CBOEPO 4FMG $POUSPM BOE .Z 0UIFS &YQFSJNFOUT JO &WFSZEBZ -JGF In Happier At Home, author Gretchen Rubins works out what factors matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. Each month, Rubin tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete, manageable resolutionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions.

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(3&5$)&/ 36#*/ is the author of several books, including the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project. Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

College is a profound transition, and therefore a time of tremendous rewardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and riskâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for habits. Better Than Before will help students see how to master their habits as they begin this crucial new chapter in their lives.

As freshmen, students shed their familiar habits from home: when and whether to study and attend class, when and what to eat, how much to spend or exercise or shower or sleep. Often, however, students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize that they need to rebuild these habits.

Better Than Before explores the 21 strategies that people use to master their habits, and can show freshmen how to build healthy and fruitful lives on campus.

The strategies of First Steps and Clean Slate will be particularly useful for students because they learn that any beginning (like college) offers a terrific opportunity. Come to college as a smoker? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great time to quit. Want to focus in class? Sit near the front on the first day. The first semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or even the first weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;offers a window of opportunity to establish good habits.

The Strategy of Scheduling shows students the power of finding a specific spot on the calendar for a desirable activity. Monitoring explains the value of simply monitoring what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.

Safeguards examines how to safeguard good habitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and how to recover from a slip. Students will certainly benefit from understanding the Strategy of Other People, because while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re building their own habits, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also influenced by their roommates, fellow classmates, and professors.

These are just a few examples of how students can mindfully master the habits that will allow them to be energetic, happy, productive, and engaged. Many students struggle for monthsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to establish the habits needed to thrive in college.

Better Than Before will speed that process.

It also provides a common vocabulary for people to explore their habit differences, which is sure to spark spirited discussion from the classroom to the dining hall to the dorms.

I wish that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better understood how to shape my habits when I was a freshman at Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I hope that Better Than Before can be a valuable resource to your students.

For more information, downloadable resources, and discussion guides, please visit my website, GretchenRubin.com.

Gretchen Rubin

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Covering everything from credit scores and mortgages to student loans to planning for the future to helping aging parents, Financially Fearless contains stories of people who have overcome money struggles, as well as interactive worksheets and quizzes. Von Tobel also shows how to use simple online tools and apps to keep better track of spending and finances, with tips for integrating financial planning into a mobile, digital life.

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The LearnVest Program is redefining the traditional financial planning market with a dynamic, technology-enabled service.

Its 7-Step Action Program gives clients nationwide access to unbiased financial advice, straight from Certified Financial Plannersâ&#x201E;˘. Since launch, LearnVest has raised over $41 million and has been awarded numerous accolades, including a place on Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual list of â&#x20AC;&#x153;50 Best Websitesâ&#x20AC;? and more.

"-&9" 70/ 50#&- $'1ÂĽ is the founder and CEO of www.LearnVest.com, an award-winning financial planning site. A Certified Financial Plannerâ&#x201E;˘ who attended Harvard Business School, Alexa has been featured as a financial expert in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, InStyle, Glamour and on the Today show, Good Morning America, Anderson, Katie, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and more. Her speaking engagements include Maria Shriverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conference, SXSW, Fortune Most Powerful Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conference, and TEDxWallStreet, and she is a columnist for Cosmopolitan, Inc. Magazine, and Ladies Home Journal.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR If I really think back to the beginning, the story of Financially Fearless starts the year I graduated from college.

It was 2006. I was graduating from Harvard College and headed to a job on Wall Street.

I was lucky to have a top-notch education, and I was ready to put my years of education to work. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to set out into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;real world,â&#x20AC;? and dive right into my post-college life.

But there was a moment that gave me pause. I realized that despite the many valuable lessons I did learn in collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on topics ranging from the psychology of happiness to Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I had never learned the ins and outs of personal finance. Where was I supposed to go to learn the difference between a Roth and Traditional IRA? Or to figure out what factors went into my credit score?

I quickly realized that my friends were all in the same boat. It blew me away that no class Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever taken taught me how to budget, what to do for insurance, or the 411 on retirement, and the list went on. I realized that I was not aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and recognizing that gave me a big dream: to empower people across the country to take control of their money and live their richest lives.

So, I started LearnVest. Four years later, it has grown into an award-winning personal finance platform. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve raised over $41 million in venture financing, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve developed the LearnVest Action Program to give clients nationwide unbiased, affordable advice from our team of Certified Financial Plannersâ&#x201E;˘, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re spreading our mission and Program to thousands and thousands of people.

I was lucky enough to come to this realization about personal finance as I was graduating collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not ten years down the line after I had already made a few mistakes, as so many people do. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the reason why I wrote Financially Fearless: to make financial literacy available and accessible to all college students.

I know that choosing the right classes, participating in a variety of activities, and finding friends easily come before â&#x20AC;&#x153;budgetingâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;savingâ&#x20AC;? on a college freshmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to-do list. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to change that.

Shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t students know how to manage their money from day one at college, when they start making more independent financial decisions than ever before? All of a sudden, doing laundry costs $1.50 instead of just a shout out to your parent, and there is no one telling you what to buy, keeping you in check during shopping sprees, or stopping you from getting a late-night pizza delivery. And for some, student debt slowly but surely starts accumulating. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stressful. They need a game plan.

After reading Financially Fearless, college students will walk away educated on the tips and tricks of managing their finances, feeling more confident and prepared than ever before about their money. No student should ever graduate from college without basic knowledge and capabilities to manage their own finances, and Financially Fearless, with its easy-to-read style and workbook functions, will help students take command over their money lives.

Since starting LearnVest, I have heard from thousands of young men and women who have money worries and stress. Money is a universal concern, and it turns out that everyone has most of the same questions and fears. My dream is to see younger and younger generations grow up with a solid foundation, so that money never becomes an impediment from reaching their full potential. My goal is to see this happen in the very near future. So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help empower the classes of 2018 and beyond with the knowledge they need to succeed.

For more information, visit www.LearnVest.com/FinanciallyFearless.

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By Richard N. Bolles Resumes get an average of eight seconds of attention before going in the trashâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or getting on the shortlist. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles presents new research about resumes in a guide that summarizes everything students need to know about this essential tool.

This timely resource features the latest research on important resume topics such as key words, soft skills, scanning software, social media, and online posting. Bolles argues that on the basis of what we now know, we need to rethink what a resume isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and how it should be written.

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n this completely updated and revised edition, Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel continues to be one of the most widely praised food books of recent years.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.

To find out how things got to this point and what can be done about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrecked paddy fields and Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of South Korea.

What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.

Yet he also found great cause for hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

Why did I write Stuffed and Starved?

As first-year students just entering college, my friends and I were fired up by the big questionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;questions of inequity, questions of basic fairness. Why do some people have so much, while others have so little? Why do some people go hungry, while others are obese? Is there really not enough food to feed the world?

Trying to answer those questions has been driving my research, and my life, ever since. And finding real workable solutions seems more crucial now than ever. Globally, nearly a billion people are going hungry, while two billion are overweight.

When I was growing up, my parents said â&#x20AC;&#x153;eat upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are children starving in Africa.â&#x20AC;? So what do you think parents in Africa tell their children? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eat upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are children starving in India.â&#x20AC;? African parents have it right. India, the place where we imagine all the jobs have gone to people with Ph.D.s in computer science, is also a country with more hungry people than the entire continent of Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and more people with type 2 diabetes than anywhere in the world.

Back here in the U.S., we are one of the most overweight countries on earth, facing our own food-related problems. One in three kids born today will develop diabetesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and one in every two kids of color will. Yet fifty million Americans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough to eat, and we had our own wave of farmer suicides in the 1980s.

Trying to make sense out of these incongruities has taken me around the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; from the giant supermarkets of California to wrecked paddy fields in India and bankrupt coffee farms in Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and to some of the biggest issues of our day: the effects of climate change on food stability, a worldwide diabetes epidemic, dramatic new Chinese food policies, and something all governments fear: the return of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;food riot.â&#x20AC;?

Foodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;its availability, cost, quality, and quantityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is one of the biggest issues we face today. And though the stories and the statistics may be bleak, as I researched further I also found great cause for hope. People are working to create a more equitable food economy. There are things to be done, and people are doing them.

We can take real, profound steps to regain control over the global food system. We can go beyond small acts of ethical consumerism. Together, we can create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system.

I believe I have found some real answers to those early undergraduate questions, answers that go beyond the tired rhetoric of the news cycle, that have opened me up to worlds of science, letters, ideas, and action. If readers can take a fraction of the inspiration from Stuffed and Starved that I found in fields from Iowa to India, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be well on our way to ending both hunger and obesity, forever.

Raj Patel

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In The Young Activistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Building a Green Movement and Changing the World, author and activist Sharon J. Smith shares proven strategies and lessons learned from the winners of Earth Island Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brower Youth Awards, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top honor for young green leaders.

Here are all the tools environmental organizers needâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from planning a campaign and recruiting supporters to raising money and attracting media attention. The Guide also has tips on how students can boost the sustainability of their college campuses, with contributions by Earth Day Network, and tips on how to launch a career in the environmental movement.

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or the socially conscious reader of Blake Mycoskieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Start Something That Matters, Tony Hsiehâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delivering Happiness, and Howard Schultzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Onward comes an inspiring handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by the visionary CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.

When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004, he aimed to defy the conventional wisdom that snack bars could never be both tasty and healthy, convenient and wholesome. A decade later, the transformative power of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;ANDâ&#x20AC;? philosophy has resulted in an astonishing record of achievement. KIND has become the fastestgrowing purveyor of healthy snacks in the country. Meanwhile, the KIND Movementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social mission to make the world a little kinderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has sparked more than a million good deeds worldwide.

In Do the KIND Thing, Lubetzky shares the revolutionary principles that have shaped KINDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business model and led to its success, while offering an unfiltered and intensely personal look into the mind of a pioneering social entrepreneur. Inspired by his father, who survived the Holocaust thanks to the courageous kindness of strangers, Lubetzky began his career handselling a sun-dried tomato spread made collaboratively by Arabs and Jews in the war-torn Middle East. Despite early setbacks, he never lost his faith in his vision of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;not-only-forprofitâ&#x20AC;? businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one that sold great products and helped to make the world a better place.

While other companies let circumstances force them into choosing between two seemingly incompatible options, people at KIND say â&#x20AC;&#x153;AND.â&#x20AC;? At its core, this idea is about challenging assumptions and false compromises. It is about not settling for less and being willing to take greater risks, often financial. It is about learning to think boundlessly and critically, and choosing what at first may be the tougher path for later, greater rewards. By using illuminating anecdotes from his own career, and celebrating some past failures through the lessons learned from them, Lubetzky outlines his core tenets for building a successful business and a thriving social enterprise. He explores the value of staying true to your brand, highlights the importance of transparency and communication in the workplace, and explains why good intentions alone wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell products.

Engaging and inspirational, Do the KIND Thing shows how the power of AND worked wonders for one companyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and could empower the next generation of social entrepreneurs to improve their bottom line and change the world.

%"/*&- -6#&5;,: is a serial social entrepreneur known for integrating social objectives with sustainable market-driven forces to forge new business models. He is the CEO and Founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement. He is also founder of PeaceWorks Inc., and the OneVoice Movement, and co-founder of Maiyet. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.

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BOOK EXCERPT THINKING WITH AND An Introduction to Avoiding False Compromises It was May 1994. Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day was a week away, and I sat anxiously by the phone. Across New York City, small ads in neighborhood newspapers proclaimed the launch of my new venture, through which Arabs and Israelis cooperated to make skincare products like Dead Sea bath salts, hand-treatment creams, and mud masks that I had assembled into gift baskets. These would make the perfect gift for moms, the ads explained, sending a thoughtful message of peace through business.

Cramped studio apartment/corporate headquarters; narrow black IKEA desk; secondhand chair: I had set up my â&#x20AC;&#x153;officeâ&#x20AC;? in anticipation of a flood of orders. My biggest worry was how to process and fulfill them all.

I had been starting businesses since elementary school, beginning with the magic shows I put on for neighborhood kids in my native Mexico City. But, at age twenty-five, I had just thrown away the promise of a Wall Street legal career to start my own company, based on a new concept I thought could change the world: economic cooperation between conflict-torn peoples as a way to help them get to know one another, create an incentive to build a shared future, and achieve peace. Building bridges between people was my passion, and I wanted to use commerce to help nudge neighbors closer together.

I was convinced that it was possible to build a company that was â&#x20AC;&#x153;not-only-for-profitâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;one that sold great products and also did its small part toward making a better world. I believed I did not have to choose one or the other; our company could achieve both goals at the same time. First, though, I would have to get customers to buy the goods.

A week earlier, a delivery truck driver had rung up to apartment 8A, on the corner of Eighty-Fourth Street and Second Avenue, to announce the arrival of my Dead Sea cosmetics shipment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come on up,â&#x20AC;? I said over the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intercom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to understand,â&#x20AC;? he replied tersely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please come down.â&#x20AC;?

For my trial, I had asked my trading partners to produce a few hundred each of mineral-rich mud masks, hand-treatment creams with avocado oil, Dead Sea bath salts with various essential oils, and seven varieties of mud soaps. I had assumed it would all just fit in a corner of my tiny studio and would sell out quickly.

When I came down to the street, I saw that my order actually occupied an entire twenty-foot container truck. The driver and I hauled box after box up to a room already filled with samples of sundried tomato spreads made through cooperation among Israeli, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian trading partners, as well as packaging materials for the gift baskets. After stacking the boxes to the ceiling of my studio, I had to convince my landlord to rent me a windowless basement space next to the trash compactor to store the rest of the product. For the next two years, this crypt-like cubbyhole would become my new office.

The company had now officially taken over my life. When I lay on my futon bed, I stared up at a towering wall of boxes that threatened to fall on me any minute.

But it would all be worth it, I felt. The idea that Bedouins and Jews had partnered to make Dead Sea cosmetics would surely please any mom who cherished soft skin and peaceful cooperation. With such a fresh, novel concept, I thought, the challenge would be keeping up with all the incoming calls.

The week passed. Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day came and went. Not one customer bought a single gift basket. Zero consumer inquiries. Zero sales. Most of my savings were locked up in inventory I could not move. And the smell of essential oils was suffocating.

I felt depressed. Terrified. In addition to sensing my dream slip away, I had no idea how I was going to pay my rent.

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he Stop aims to revolutionize the way we combat hunger and poverty.

Since community worker Nick Saul became the executive director of The Stop in 1998, it has been transformed from a cramped food bank to a thriving, internationally respected community food center. The Stop has flourished with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; markets and a mission to revolutionize our food system. In a voice thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;never preachyâ&#x20AC;? (MacLeanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), Saul and Curtis share what The Stop could mean for the future of food, and argue that everyone deserves a dignified, healthy place at the table.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHORS

Why did we write this book?

When we were both in college (different cities, different schools, a few years apart), we each, separately, became fascinated by social history. We were thrilled to discover that history didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be the same old boring litany of unmemorizable dates and hard-to-pronounce names weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been spoon-fed through elementary and high school. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just stories told by and about the powerfulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;kings and courtiers, politicians, religious, and business leaders. (Almost all men, of course.) Instead, social historians were rediscovering the lives and contributions of women, of workers, of First Nations, of immigrants, of servants, and even of children. It was exciting, and part of what we each have done since in our working livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Andrea as a writer, Nick as a community workerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has been to surface those stories.

This book is no different. The Stop is about the power of food to transform individuals, communities, and the planet. But at its heart, it is also the untold story of the inspiring and innovative work of a community-based organization that serves a very low-income, marginalized neighborhood, and the trials and triumphs of the people who live there.

Throughout the book, there are the true, often-heartbreaking stories of people who come to The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto, folks living on welfare, struggling to get by on minimum wage jobs, and women fleeing abusive relationships who are forced to choose between feeding themselves or their kids. These are the kinds of stories that rarely get mentioned in newspapers and magazines, or on the radio, TV, or the Internet. Or if they are told, they are one-note wondersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bob the welfare recipient, Jennifer the single mom, Peter the alcoholic. We rarely get the whole pictureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the setbacks and plateaus, the nonlinear way all of us, whether weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rich, poor, or in between, live our lives.

The stories in The Stop of people finding an engaged, welcoming community where they can be fully themselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;welfare recipient and gardener, single mom and vocal advocate for increasing minimum wageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is, in our opinion, one of the most important parts of this book.

It is important because it gives space and dignity to these unheralded people. But it is also important because their storiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;warts and allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are full of hope.

We believe that one way we will begin to see change when it comes to hunger and poverty is when the real stories of low-income people and the struggles they face, the challenges they triumph over, the hard-won hope they forge are told. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to dismiss someone for their ideologically based ideasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;justâ&#x20AC;? ideas, after all. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less easy to dismiss a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life, their experience, and the intimate, difficult details of who they are, what they care about, and what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anyone who reads this book will dismiss the people who allowed their stories to be told here. We hope they understand, as we have come to believe, that telling stories will help to change the world.

Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis

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Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. But the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined. It was messy, chaotic, and difficultâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but she was hooked. i" IBSEFOFE JEFBMJTU T DIBMMFOHJOH MPPL BU UIF DPOUSBEJDUJPOT DPNQMJDBUJPOT BOE FOEVSJOH JNQPSUBODF PG IVNBOJUBSJBO BJE w â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Robert Calderisi, author of The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Working #SPBEXBZ #PPLT ] 53 ] ] QQ ] $BO ] &YBN $PQZ &# ] $BO 5IFNFT $POGMJ U t (FOPDJEF t )VNBO 3JHIUT t .PSBMJUZ t 1FSTPOBM 4USFOHUI 1FSTFWFSBODF t 4PDJBM +VTUJDF

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I Like Giving will show students how they can give in personal ways, face to face, and become part of the larger story of life change. In his book, Brad Formsma develops the concept of his website, ILikeGiving.com, which offers a fresh, simple, and practical angle to generosityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; making for a rewarding lifestyle that every student can adopt. He discusses the power of giving person to person and provides ideas for giving in the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own circles. Both prescriptive and story-based, I Like Giving is about experiencing the joy of giving.

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