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English Literature & Composition

ARMADA

By Ernest Cline

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming.

Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and video games he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.

But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.

And then he sees the flying saucer.

At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale Teac her’s Gu like nothing you’ve ever read before—one whose every page is infused Avai labl ide e with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.

Crown | HC | 978-0-8041-3725-6 | 368 pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy $13.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8041-3726-3

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Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-88744-3 | 384 pp. | $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00

GIRL AT WAR

A Novel

By Sara Novi´c

Girl at War is a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.

Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia’s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana’s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana’s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world.

New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she’s tried to move on from her past, she can’t escape her memories of war—secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country’s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before.

“Novi c´ ’s important debut brings painfully home the jarring fact that what happens in today’s headlines on a daily basis—the atrocities of wars in Africa and the Mideast—is neither new nor even particularly the worst that humankind can commit. . . . Thanks to Novi´c’s considerable skill, Ana’s return visit to her homeland and her past is nearly as cathartic for the reader as it is for Ana.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9634-0 | 336 pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy $13.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8129-9635-7

A Novel

By Anthony Marra New York Times Notable Book of the Year • Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year • Winner of the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize

In 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.

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A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA

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, Sonja’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.

Hogarth | TR | 978-0-7704-3642-1 | 416 pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-7704-3641-4

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By Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

Selected testimonies to living history—

History & Social Science

VOICES OF A PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 10 ANNIVERSARY EDITION speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.

Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.

New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; and members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act. Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-592-0 | 704 pp. | $24.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy $12.50

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History & Social Science

THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS

By Max Brooks Illustrated by Caanan White

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 on—and off—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.

“Shattering.... A visceral evocation of the horrors of trench warfare.... A sharp reminder that venerating volunteer troops for their service is an ideal that has not always been a reality.” —Washington Post Author Max Brooks is available to SKYPE with classes that adopt The Harlem Hellfighters.

For more information, email highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com Watch Max Brooks discuss The Harlem Hellfighters at tinyurl.com/qzs6fyw Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-46497-2 | 272 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8041-4033-1 For more books by Max Brooks, please go to tinyurl.com/n7otkbs

UNBROKEN A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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By Laura Hillenbrand

In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had 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.

“Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.” —Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7449-2 | 528 pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-60375-7

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THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Lalu Nathoy’s father called his thirteenyear-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman’s fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

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“ [A] story of struggle and survival as a woman— and slave—in China and the American West . . .

Fast-paced and entertaining—packed with adventure, drama, and inspiration.” —Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, San Francisco Chronicle Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-8326-0 | 216 pp. | $15.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8070-9374-0

BOY 30529 A Memoir

By Felix Weinberg

In 1939 twelve-year-old Felix Weinberg fell into the hands of the Nazis. Imprisoned for most of his teenage life, Felix survived five concentration camps, including Terezin, Auschwitz, and Birkenau, barely surviving the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. After losing his mother and brother in the camps, he was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at seventeen with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together. Boy 30529 is an extraordinary memoir of the Holocaust, as well as a moving meditation on the nature of memory.

“Told with an honest, contemporary, sometimes wry viewpoint, Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting, as he searches the Web and historical archives to find out now what he did not know then, while it was happening to him: where he was marching, how many died. The dual perspective, then and now, and the blend of family intimacy (including occasional photos) with the gripping, authoritative historical overview make this an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-300-2 | 192 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-1-78168-301-9

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History & Social Science

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.

Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States provides an essential historical reference for all Americans. . . . The American Indians’ perspective has been absent from colonial histories for too long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for sovereignty and human rights.” —Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5783-4 | 312 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8070-0041-0

DEAD WAKE The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. William Thomas Turner, Captain of the Lusitania, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game.

It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.

“This enthralling and richly detailed account demonstrates that there was far more going on beneath the surface than is generally known.... Larson’s account [of the Lusitania’s sinking] is the most lucid and suspenseful yet written, and he finds genuine emotional power in the unlucky confluences of forces, ‘large and achingly small,’ that set the stage for the ship’s agonizing final moments.” —The Washington Post Crown | HC | 978-0-307-40886-0 | 448 pp. | $28.00/$32.50 Can. | Exam Copy $14.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-553-44675-3

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Science

THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared Diamond Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time.

Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies for violence and invention have led us to a crucial fork in our road. Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our species’ immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ future if we change?

“This is exactly the kind of book that should be a ‘set text’ for a reinvigorated science curriculum: engaging, thought-provoking and bang up to the minute. If your teachers aren’t recommending books like this—go out and get them anyway.” —Guy Claxton, author of What’s the Point of School?

Triangle Square | TR | 978-1-60980-611-8 | 368 pp. | $17.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-1-60980-523-4

HEADSTRONG

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52 Women Who Changed Science— and the World

By Rachel Swaby

In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary—and consequent outcry— prompted were, Who are the role models for today’s female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light? “[W]omen just don’t get the encouragement they need and deserve to pursue careers in science. Here’s a handy book to help encourage young women to put themselves on the scitech path, with profiles of 52 women from Nobel Prize winners to major innovators and more who have made a difference in science.” —Library Journal Broadway | TR | 978-0-553-44679-1 | 288 pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-553-44680-7

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U.S. Government & Political Science

THE WORK My Search for a Life that Matters

By Wes Moore

The Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his life’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 way—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.

An intimate narrative about finding meaning in a volatile age, The Work will inspire readers to see how we can each find our own path to purpose and help create a better world.

“An intriguing follow-up to his bestselling The Other Wes Moore. . . . Moore makes a convincing case that work has the most value if it’s built on a foundation of service, selflessness, courage, and risk-taking.” —Publishers Weekly Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8384-5 | 272 pp. | $16.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-64601-3 For more books by Wes Moore, please go to tinyurl.com/lynn92v

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

A bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer).

In the years since the end of the Civil War and the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: It is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country’s foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up, and killed in our streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all—regardless of race—honestly reckon with our country’s fraught racial history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, this book offers a powerful new framework for understanding America’s history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.

For a free advance reader’s copy of this book, please email highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9354-7 | 176 pp. | $24.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy $12.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-64598-6 For more books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, please go to tinyurl.com/l2q6yly

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A True Story of Murder in America

By Jill Leovy

Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder—a “ghettoside” killing, one young black man slaying another—and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fastpaced 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 cities—and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped. “[Jill Leovy writes] with grace and artistry, and controlled—but bone-deep—outrage in her new book. . . .

Ghettoside, if there’s any justice, will be the most important book about urban violence in a generation.”

—David M. Kennedy, The Washington Post

U.S. Government & Political Science

GHETTOSIDE

“Masterful. . . . gritty reporting that matches the police work behind it.” —Los Angeles Times Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52998-3 | 384 pp. | $28.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy $14.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-385-53000-2

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JUST MERCY

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A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson A New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction | Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Reviews Prize | An American Library Association Notable Book A Top Common Reading Selection at Colleges/Universities

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.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’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.

“Every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields.” —David Cole, The New York Review of Books Do Not Order Before 8/18/2015 Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8496-5 | 368 pp. | $16.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00 Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8129-9453-7 To view Bryan Stevenson discussing Just Mercy, go to tinyurl.com/oldkuzx

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