Freshman Year Reading 2008

BANTAM DELL

Bantam Classics Delacorte Press Delta Dial Press DTP Island Spectra CROWN

Bell Tower Clarkson Potter Crown Business Harmony Shaye Areheart Three Rivers Press DOUBLEDAY BROADWAY

Currency Doubleday Religion Harlem Moon Image Nan A. Talese Spiegel & Grau Three Leaves Press WaterBrook/Shaw HATHERLEIGH PRESS KUPERARD PUBLISHING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS OSPREY PUBLISHING RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO

Listening Library Audible

RECOMMENDED TITLES

Books on Tape RANDOM HOUSE VALUE PUBLISHING RANDOM HOUSE INFORMATION GROUP

Living Language Princeton Review RH Reference RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP

Ballantine Del Rey Fawcett Ivy Modern Library One World Presidio Press RH Trade Paperbacks Strivers Row Villard RIZZOLI SHAMBHALA STEERFORTH PRESS TAUNTON PRESS TITAN BOOKS VERTICAL BOOKS WELCOME BOOKS WIZARDS OF THE COAST

Random House, Inc.

Random House, Inc. • Academic Dept., 5-4 • 1745 Broadway • New York, NY 10019 e-mail: rhacademic@randomhouse.com • tel.: 212-782-8482 • Visit our website at: www.randomhouse.com/academic

Dear Freshman Year Reading Director: Another new year is upon us and we at Random House are delighted to present you with yet another exciting list of new books—and classics—appropriate for your common reading program.

New books include: the Booker Award Finalist Mister Pip, a slim novel that reinforces the force of literature to guide and change lives; Thank You For Arguing—a fascinating, humorous and much-needed book to get your students talking—and arguing—in the right way; The Translator—a short yet powerful memoir of the ongoing genocide in Darfur; and Making the Impossible Possible, an inspirational account of one man’s role in changing young lives.

Also, finally in paperback are: Barack Obama’s bestselling The Audacity of Hope, John Bul Dau’s personal and harrowing account of the Lost Boys of Sudan God Grew Tired of Us, and Mary Doria Russell’s provocative and touching novel The Sparrow.

Whatever your needs and interests, I am confident that you will be able to find the right book for your program within the pages that follow.

So please, go forward, browse our offerings, and don’t forget to use the exam copy order form at the back of this catalog to begin ordering your review copies today!

Sincerely,

Michael D. Gentile Director, Academic Marketing Random House, Inc. 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Tel. (212) 782-8387 Fax (212) 940-7381 e-mail: mgentile@randomhouse.com P.S.: Please do not hesitate to phone or e-mail me directly.

To find out more about how Random House, Inc. can help you once you’ve made your decision, please turn to the inside back page of the catalog.

Table of Contents INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE......................1 LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography......................................4 HISTORY AND SOCIETY................................20 FICTION TO TALK ABOUT ............................ 43 DISCUSSING CLASSICS................................58 LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES ..............................62 INDEX ..............................................................65 ORDER FORM ..................................................68

Examination Copies Examination copies are available to college professors, instructors, or administrators seeking titles to review for adoption consideration. The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off the retail price for all hardcovers and paperbacks priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to ten per teacher per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

To order, use the order form on the back of this catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid with a check, or money order made payable to Random House, Inc. Offer only valid in the United States. All requests are subject to approval and availability. Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.

Special Symbols Author Available

This author is available to speak at select events Contact rhacademic@randomhouse.com

Audio CD and/or Download Version Available e-Book

Electronic Format Available Free Freshman Year Discussion Guide Available

HC

Hardcover

Tr. Pbk

Trade Paperback

Mass Mkt

Mass Market

NCR

No Canadian Rights

Printed in the U.S.A.

WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson

by Po Bronson

by Mitch Albom A National Bestseller and Top Adoption Title

After learning of his former professor’s terminal illness, Mitch Albom flew to Brandeis University, reunited with his old friend, and returned every Tuesday thereafter to visit with him. Morrie Schwartz turned these visits into one final “class:” a lesson in how to live. This book is a magical chronicle of Mitch and Morrie’s time together.

A Reader’s Guide is available.

State University of New York—New Paltz, University of Buffalo, University of North Dakota, among other colleges, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0592-3 • 208 pp. $12.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE BUTTERFLY HUNTER Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way Off the Beaten Path

Author Available

“What should I do with my life?” Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book—an inspiring exploration of how people successfully transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves. With humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson probes the depths of people who learned how to hear the whisper and overcame fear and confusion to find larger truths about their lives. This book includes nine new stories not included in the hardcover.

“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the book will support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk without force-feeding them pat solutions.”

—Publishers Weekly Rutgers College has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75898-0 • 432 pp. $14.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Chris Ballard Now in Paperback

Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-48592-2 • 464 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Do we each have a dream job that we are, by nature or nurture, uniquely meant for? To answer this question, Chris Ballard set out to talk to people who found work they love way off the beaten path.

The Butterfly Hunter is a rollicking narrative of what he discovered, and reveals insights the rest of us can use to find passion in our work.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1869-5 • 272 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE

INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE

e-Book

e-Book

WHEN THINGS FALL APART Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chödrön

Chödrön’s insightful work, grounded in the Zen Buddhism she studied under master Chögyam Trunpa Rinpoche, offers words of wisdom, grace and comfort to alleviate the pain of difficult times.

Her writing is warm and accessible, and her guidance is relevant to minor stresses and major crises alike.

Shambhala • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-57062-344-8 • 160 pp. $12.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Shambhala • Mass Mkt • 978-1-59030-226-2 • 208 pp. $6.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

This author is available to speak at select events Contact rhacademic@randomhouse.com

Audio CD and/or Download version Available e-Book

Electronic Format Available

Free Freshman Year Discussion Guide Available

www.randomhouse/academic

1

Coles explains how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in homes, schools, communities, and the nation. With eloquent prose and compelling anecdotes, Coles explores how each student can and should engage in a continual process of personal and national leadership development.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75835-5 • 272 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

Author Available

by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell

An uplifting true account of an idealistic twentythree-year-old teacher assigned to a room of ‘unreachable, at-risk’ students, The Freedom Writers Diary details a life-changing journey through ignorance and misunderstanding, and includes powerful excerpts from the students’ own diaries.

This book is not only inspiring; it offers timely social commentary as well.

Main Street Books • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-49422-9 • 304 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

ROADTRIP NATION A Guide to Discovering Your Path In Life

Author Available

What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

r

INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE

by Robert Coles

Author Available

igail Seymou

Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference

THANK YOU FOR ARGUING

Ab

LIVES OF MORAL LEADERSHIP

©

INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE, cont’d

by Jay Heinrichs NEW

Rhetoric—the art and science of persuasion— is not just an important skill but, according to journalist/author Jay Heinrichs, it is the essential skill. For centuries, society recognized rhetoric’s importance, teaching its elite how to speak and write persuasively, produce something to say on every occasion, and make people like them when they spoke. Yet the art of rhetoric is sadly neglected in today’s world.

As a result, many young people are not only becoming blind to the ever-growing sea of persuasion that surrounds them but they have also become increasingly unable to wield language to their advantage.

Using contemporary examples to illustrate classical rhetorical strategies, Heinrichs demonstrates that the art of persuasion is as critical as ever. His approach is not only accessible but is also fresh, itself an example of how presentation and delivery can often be just as important as the message that is being delivered.

“Clever, passionate, erudite.... A useful primer.”—Publishers Weekly

by Nathan Gebhard, Mike Marriner and Joanne Gordon

Visit www.thankyouforarguing.com for video demonstrations, author information, and more.

In this engaging career guide, two recent college graduates travel the U.S. in an RV, in search of something other than a standard career path. From learning how to make cold calls to formulating stimulating interview questions, Roadtrip Nation gives readers practical advice on finding the vocation that works for them. This book, which includes interviews with 140 people who offer their own candid career stories, is ideal for students as they embark on their studies and prepare for their future occupations.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-34144-0 • 336 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-49638-6 • 272 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

GUIDING LIGHTS How to Mentor—and Find Life’s Purpose

by Eric Liu Now in Paperback

We all need people to help us find the way. In this stirring new book, acclaimed author and educator Eric Liu takes us on a quest for those guiding lights.

He shares invaluable lessons from people whose “classrooms” are boardrooms, arenas, concert halls, theaters, kitchens, and places of worship—and in the process, he reveals a surprising path to purpose.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76102-7 • 240 pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

2

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7445-4 336 pp. • $15.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE GOOD GOOD PIG The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

e-Book

Author Available

by Sy Montgomery Now in Paperback

“Montgomery writes with extraordinary lucidity, candor, and grace about what this good, good pig taught her and others about life, love, happiness, and all that we share with our fellow species on this precious planet.”—Booklist, starred review Adopted for Wynne High School “Pig Out On Books” Week.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-49609-6 • 256 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE BACKDOOR TO ENLIGHTENMENT Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing Your World

by Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck NEW

Za Rinpoche introduces six qualities—generosity, morality, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom—that all of us must understand and incorporate into our everyday lives in order to live happier, more balanced existences. Blending centuries-old texts with contemporary wisdom, he shows readers of any faith how to use these qualities to bypass the traps and limitations of modern life and achieve lasting peace every day.

Three Leaves • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-2740-6 • 272 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

©

In Character Is Destiny, John McCain and Mark Salter show us why, by telling the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit. He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity, and sacrifice for a cause greater than selfinterest.

Author Available

icha el Ray

by John McCain with Mark Salter

MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE

M

Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE

CHARACTER IS DESTINY

One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary

by Bill Strickland and Vince Rause NEW

“Success is the point where your most authentic talents, passion, values, and experiences intersect with the chance to contribute to some greater good.”—Bill Strickland Over the past thirty years, Bill Strickland has been transforming the lives of thousands of people through the creation of Manchester Bidwell, a jobs training center and community arts program. Working with corporations, community leaders, and schools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adults the opportunities and tools they need to envision and built a better, brighter future.

Through lessons from his own life experiences, and those of countless others who have overcome their circumstances and turned their lives around, MacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner Bill Strickland’s Make the Impossible Possible shows how all of us can build on our passions and strengths, dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success and help mentor and inspire the lives of others.

Currency • HC • 978-0-385-52054-6 • 240 pp. $23.95/$29.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

e-Book

THE LIGHT OF CONSCIENCE How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life

by Bill Shore

In this inspirational meditation on the power of conscience, Shore—director of the antipoverty organization Share Our Strength—shows how a simple act and moment of purpose can change lives, communities, and the world.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7363-1 • 288 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

3

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography ESCAPE FROM SADDAM The Incredible True Story of One Man’s Journey to Freedom

ALICIA

by Alicia Appleman Author Available

by Lewis Alsamari NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

Born in Iraq but raised in England, twelve-year-old Lewis Alsamari accompanied his father to Iraq for what was supposed to be a one-month vacation. Six years later, Lewis was still trapped in Iraq and, worse yet, had been conscripted to Saddam Hussein’s military. Risking his life, he escaped across the desert to Jordan, where he saved for passage back to England.

However, his story was not over there. After reestablishing himself in England, he received notice that the family he’d left behind in Iraq was being imprisoned, beaten, and tortured for his desertion, and he had to embark on another dangerous journey to free them. Escape from Saddam is a remarkable story of heroism sure to inform and inspire.

Do not order before 3/18/2008.

Crown • HC • 978-0-307-39401-9 • 320 pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

e-Book

Author Available

by Maya Angelou

“Students [...] find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the midst of troubled and sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit and strength a wellspring of pride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book as writers themselves and learned much about the memoir craft.”—Constance Berman, Director of Professional Studies, Southern Vermont College Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Berry College.

Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-27937-5 • 304 pp. $6.99/$9.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38001-9 • 304 pp. $15.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

4

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

Appleman’s tale is a shocking but uplifting story of true-life heroism during the Holocaust, unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank’s diary. Alicia endured separation from her family and even the sight of her own mother’s brutal murder to rescue Jews from the Nazis, and swore on her brother’s grave that if she survived, she would speak for her silenced family. She did, and this book is the eloquent fulfillment of that oath.

Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-28218-4 • 448 pp. $7.50/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

AMERICAN CHICA Two Worlds, One Childhood

Author Available

by Marie Arana 2001 National Book Award Finalist—Non-Fiction Library Journal Best Books of 2001—Non-Fiction A New York Times Nonfiction Notable Book

Written in the tradition of Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, this is an informative and resonant portrait of a child coming to terms with her bicultural identity. Throughout, Arana provides an unforgettable look at her two worlds: the diverse terrain of Peru, redolent with ghosts of Incan history and mythology; and the vast prairie lands of Wyoming.

“The top rank of memoir... Arana’s writing skills elevate the book to outright lyricism in chapter after chapter.”—The Denver Post Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-31963-8 • 320 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Available in a Spanish edition Random House Español • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-0199-6 • 352 pp. $16.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by Marie Arana, see page 43.

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

by Peter Balakian A New York Times Notable Book

Author Available

Black Dog of Fate is the memoir of a first-generation American, his immigrant family still reeling from the horrific Armenian genocide of 1915. In describing the intense—and occasionally comic— collision of his family’s ancient Near Eastern traditions and the American pop culture of the ‘50s and ‘60s, author Balakian moves with grace from childhood memory to history, from his ancestors’ lives to the story of a poet’s coming of age.

Balakian’s powerful work is at once tragic, warm and moving.

“An essential American story.... A rare work of seasoned introspection... and high moral seriousness.”—Kirkus Reviews Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0254-0 • 304 pp. $15.95/$21.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SLAVES IN THE FAMILY

by Edward Ball Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Author Available

Slaves in the Family is the story of one man’s exploration of his family’s slave-owning past and his search for descendants of the people his ancestors kept as slaves.

“Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book.... Like Alex Haley’s Roots, through which African-American history came into national focus... Slaves in the Family has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind....

The book is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest.”

—San Francisco Chronicle Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-43105-9 • 544 pp. $16.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

WAR TORN The Personal Experiences of Women Reporters in the Vietnam War

by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer and Ann Mariano

“Some of us went on to cover other wars, but there was never any other quite like Vietnam. We are writing about Vietnam now because we feel it is important to keep those agonizing yet strangely exhilarating days alive, those dark days that changed us in ways we are still trying to understand. Many younger Americans know Vietnam only as an abstraction—a few paragraphs in a textbook, a documentary on the History Channel, or as thousands of names on a black granite wall in Washington, D.C. But for those who served and those who suffered, for those who fought and those who watched it unfold on television, Vietnam will always be a part of us.”—from War Torn For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict until the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon in 1975. A unique and important perspective on an infamous war.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75782-2 • 320 pp. $14.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

BLACK DOG OF FATE

e-Book

THOMAS JEFFERSON TRAVELS Selected Writings, 1784–1789 Edited by Anthony Brandt Now in Paperback

Editor Anthony Brandt has sifted through the myriad of writings from this rich period of Jefferson’s career to present not only the politician and diplomat but Thomas Jefferson the lover, the father, the farmer, the architect, the man about town, the scientist, and the visionary. Jefferson emerges at the end a fully dimensional man, with all his virtues, his flaws, and his extraordinary brilliance fleshed out, standing vividly before us.

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4262-0058-8 416 pp. • $15.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

5

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography, cont’d

THE GOLDFISH WENT ON VACATION

THE SHORT SWEET DREAM OF EDUARDO GUTIERREZ

by Patty Dann Afterword by Sallie Sanborn Now in Paperback

A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It)

Author Available

by Jimmy Breslin

From one of America’s most respected journalists, this is a work of conscience that travels from San Matias Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This exposé chronicles the life and tragic death of an undocumented worker, along with broader issues of municipal corruption and America’s controversial and sometimes deadly border policy.

“Breslin’s research is thorough, his writing seasoned and heartfelt—at times nothing short of poetic.”—Publishers Weekly Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-4682-9 • 224 pp. $12.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SOUL ON ICE

by Eldridge Cleaver

Originally published in 1968, Soul on Ice shocked, outraged, and ultimately challenged the way America saw the Civil Rights movement and the Black experience.

“A remarkable book... beautifully written...

Eldridge Cleaver makes you twist and flinch... he throws light on the dark areas that we wish he would leave alone.”—The Nation

Sooner or later, all parents face the question of how to talk to their children about death. For Patty Dann it was harder still: her husband, still in his forties, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

He had one year to live, two at the most. In this spirited and startlingly honest memoir, Dann takes us on her journey with her three-year-old son—a journey that cycles through grief and anger, but also through humor, joy, empowerment, and ultimately acceptance.

“Patty Dann writes about love and loss in a way that is stirring and important. Like Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, this book takes readers through experiences they might be frightened to imagine, and it does so with poise, wit, and originality.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position and Surrender, Dorothy Trumpeter • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-564-5 • 176 pp. $11.95/$14.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33379-5 • 256 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

GOD GREW TIRED OF US: A Memoir

by John Bul Dau and Michael Sweeney Now in Paperback

Author Available

This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. One of the uprooted youngsters known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, John Bul Dau was 12 years old when civil war ravaged his village and shattered its age-old society, a life of herding and agriculture marked by dignity, respect, and the simple virtues of Dinka tribal tradition. As tracer bullets split the night and mortar shells exploded around him, John fled into the darkness—the first terrified moments of a journey that would lead him thousands of miles into an exile that was to last many years.

John’s memoir of his Dinka childhood shows African life and values at their best, while his searing account of hardship, famine, and war also testifies to human resilience and kindness.

“This earnest, heart-on-the-sleeve memoir reinforces the preciousness of all human life and should serve as a reality check for the rest of the world.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Cazenovia College has adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Program.

6

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4262-0212-4 • 304 pp. • $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

BURNT BREAD AND CHUTNEY

The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years

Growing Up Between Cultures— A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood

The Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women with over a hundred shared years of living side by side.Their sharp memories re-create the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T.Washington; Harlem’s Golden Age and Langston Hughes,W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. And their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our understanding of this period of American history.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-31252-3 • 256 pp. $16.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Carmit Delman A School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults

“This elegant memoir provides readers with glimpses of an unusual cross-cultural childhood....

Writing in a lively style with rich details, Delman’s debut brims with intelligence and insight and should appeal not only to Jews and Indians but to anyone compelled by the mingling of cultural identities.”—Publishers Weekly One World/Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-44594-0 • 304 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

e ss eph anie Rau

by Firoozeh Dumas

St

FUNNY IN FARSI: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

©

by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany

Author Available

Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Iranian-born Firoozeh Dumas’s wonderfully engaging family as they grapple with American English, American r traditions, and American culture.This is a story of identity, discovery, and the power of familial bonds.

“Funny with Farsi captivated our campus as the book choice for our inaugural New Student Reader Program. Its message of shared humanity, resonated with everyone, regardless of age, background or color.

Firoozeh Dumas not only educated our students she entertained them as well as our Fall Convocation speaker. I highly recommend it for any First Year Experience reading program.”—Lawanda DockinsGordy, Director New Student Experience and Guerrieri University Center, Salisbury University “What was really impressive, and what will stay with us always, was Firoozeh’s incredible engagement with a wide range of students, faculty and staff. She’s a skilled and funny speaker, as we know. But we didn’t realize just how powerful she is in small groups. She fielded questions from our fairly sophisticated journalism students (and had a fascinating discussion about humor in Farsi, humor in American Sign Language) as well as from some African students who are new to American culture and to higher education. She questioned just about every student who came to the book signing—she wanted to know their stories. A couple of my students spent some time with her, and later wrote in their journals how she’d inspired them with her simple message—everyone has a story! They expected an author to be unapproachable, and they were just thrilled at what a ‘regular person’ she was with them! In short, Firoozeh was her usual amazing self.”—Judy Termini, Interim Director of First Year Experience Programs, Gallaudet University

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

HAVING OUR SAY

Gallaudet University, Sage College and Salisbury University have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6837-8 • 208 pp. • $12.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas

Author Available

NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

Whether describing her Iranian family’s wonder at her French husband’s Christmas traditions, or what it’s like to live in the International House college dorm when you’re an American after all, Firoozeh Dumas’s wit, warmth, and insight illuminate the universality of the human condition, and show how our differences can become our bonds Do not order before 4/29/2008.

Villard • HC • 978-0-345-49956-1 • 240 pp. • $22.00/$25.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

7

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography, cont’d

THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

IRAN AWAKENING

by Olaudah Equiano Edited by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni Now in Paperback

This is the moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work.

“The safety and freedom of citizens in democracies is irretrievably bound with the safety and freedom of people like Shirin Ebadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievements of mankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible.”—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7528-4 • 256 pp. $14.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

HAVE YOU FOUND HER A Memoir

e-Book

Author Available

by Janice Erlbaum NEW

Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else—someone like the girl she’d once been. Written with startling candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life—and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.

Villard Books • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7457-7 • 368 pp. $14.00/$16.50 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. In his introduction to the volume, Robert Reid-Pharr maintains that: “[Equiano] alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76115-7 • 336 pp. $10.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

DAUGHTER OF PERSIA A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution

by Sattareh Farman Farmaian and Dona Munker

The daughter of a once powerful and wealthy prince, Sattareh Farman Farmaian tells the story of growing up in a harem compound in Tehran, and of her break with Moslem tradition to study social work in America. When originally published in 1992, Daughter of Persia was the first memoir by a Middle Eastern woman written for a general American audience, and it received remarkable reviews from major papers including the Washington Post which asserted that it was “a book Americans should read.”

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-33974-4 • 432 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

AFTER LONG SILENCE

by Helen Fremont

Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; and about lies people use, foolish or wise, to protect themselves and their loved ones. A fascinating story about the seductive and damaging power of secrets.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33370-2 • 368 pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

8

www.randomhouse/academic

THE TRANSLATOR

An African Childhood

A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

by Alexandra Fuller

by Daoud Hari NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

Original and affecting, Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of a childhood dominated by the Rhodesian civil war of 1971–1979 captures the fascinating life of a white family living in one of the remotest regions of Africa. “[A] gripping memoir... much like the early fiction of Nadine Gordimer, gives the reader an intimate sense of what daily life was like in a segregated and racist society and its insidious emotional fallout on children and grownups alike...

Ms. Fuller conjures up a tactile sense of the landscape she loves.”—The New York Times Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75899-7 • 336 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

e-Book

Author Available

by Roya Hakakian

This memoir of a young Iranian-American poet and journalist is the story of one deeply intelligent young girl’s attempt to find an authentic voice of her own during a time of familial and national upheaval.

“Poet and documentary filmmaker Hakakian presents a lyrically poignant account of her comingof-age years in revolution-beset Iran.... Reflecting on growing up both Jewish and female in an increasingly restrictive environment, she is able to offer a unique perspective on the search for spiritual sustenance in a rapidly constricting society. It is both a joy and a privilege to bear witness to one young girl’s remarkable emotional and artistic metamorphosis within a stunningly repressive culture.”—Booklist SUNY Potsdam has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-81030-9 • 256 pp. $13.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

The young life of Daoud Ibarahaem Hari—his friends call him David—has been one of non-stop bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide underway in Darfur.

Most of the reporting on the great tragedies of our day have been written by journalists, and after-thefact. Rarely, in a conflict of this magnitude, has there been an eyewitness voice to the events as they are still happening. Daoud Hari is that voice.

The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person can make a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time.

Because he chose language and storytelling as his weapons—while others around him were taking up arms—he has given us a true and necessary portrait of a deeply troubled region of our world.

Do not order before 3/18/2008.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6744-2 • 240 pp. $23.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $11.50

ROCKET BOYS

e-Book

Author Available

by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT

“As a community college, many students come to us underprepared and lacking in selfconfidence, and October Sky offers encouragement in a way that teachers can’t. Not only are the students reading good prose, but knowing it is a true story brings alive their own hopes and dreams.

When writing about it, some identify with Homer, but others with Quentin, Roy Lee, Sherman, O’Dell, and Billy. I heartily recommend the book to teachers.”—Moselle Ford, professor, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Murray State University and the University of South Florida have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33321-4 • 384 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

9

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: TRACY KIDDER MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Author Available

by Tracy Kidder A National Bestseller and Top Adoption Title An ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable book

ulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of eccentric medical genius Paul Farmer, an “American male Mother Teresa,” and shows how one person can effect global progress against seemingly impossible problems— TB, AIDS, poverty—with creativity, knowledge and determination.

Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity”—a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. “[A] skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, writes clearly and engagingly.... This book is being widely used in freshman seminars at colleges across the United States, and it will likely stire debates on such wideranging issues as the politics of health care, the role of government funding, and ethics. Highly recommended.”—Choice (American Library Association) “Dr. Farmer does not have anywhere near the name recognition of, say, Albert Schweitzer or Mother Teresa. But if any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer.”—The New York Times “Mountains Beyond Mountains is inspiring, disturbing, daring and completely absorbing. It will rattle our complacency; it will prick our conscience. One senses that Farmer’s life and work has affected Kidder, and it is a measure of Kidder’s honesty that he is willing to reveal this to the reader.”—The New York Times Sunday Book Review

P

Adopted by over 35 schools, colleges and universities, including: Augustana College, Barton College, Boise State University, Boston College, Brandeis University, Butler University, Dartmouth College, Dean College, Duke University, Fordham University Law School, Goucher College, Keene State College, Louisiana State University, San Diego State University, St. Joseph’s University, Stanford University, State University at Oswego, Syracuse University, Tulane University, University at Albany, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Texas at Tyler, University of Washington, Valparaiso University, Western New England College, among other colleges, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY; California State University, Chico; Carleton College, Catawba College, Fort Lewis College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lenoir-Rhyne College, New Mexico State University, Pellissippi State, St. Ambrose University, Skidmore College.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7301-3 • 336 pp. • $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

MY DETACHMENT A Memoir

e-Book

Author Available

by Tracy Kidder

My Detachment is a unique and moving war story, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself.

This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic.

“With a terrible beauty—[MyDetachment] tells an old story—the illusions of war—in a new and compelling way.”—USA Today Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7616-8 • 208 pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

10

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

LITTLE HEATHENS

TWENTYSOMETHING ESSAYS BY TWENTYSOMETHING WRITERS Edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint

Author Available

Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, “20 by 20” is a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to

by Mildred Armstrong Kalish political, by the newest, brightest young writers you NEW haven’t heard of... yet.

Little Heathens is Mildred Kalish’s story of growing With grace, wit, humor, and urgency, these writers up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths invite us into their lives and into their heads. of the Great Depression. With her father banished Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers is a from the household for mysterious transgressions, rich, provocative read as well as a bold statement five-year-old Mildred and her family could easily from a generation just now coming into its own. have been overwhelmed by the challenge of simply Selected as part of the One Book, One College: trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of Common Reading Program at Lasell College (MA). suffering. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7566-6 • 304 pp. with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp.”

HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH “Little Heathens is an enchanting but thoroughly 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in unsentimental look at rural life in the Great Language and Life Depression. In clear clean prose we are offered the

by Tom Miller grit, struggle, and also the joy of hard work on a NEW farm. I cherish this book for its quite naked honesty Every new English-speaker has a tale to tell: an and quiet lyricism about a time which makes our immigrant yearning to assimilate and achieve, or a current problems nearly childish. This is a fine political exile suddenly far from home and alone, or a book.”—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall child who just wants to fit in. Their fears and A Reader’s Guide is available. triumphs will resonate with everyone who has shared Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80495-9 • 304 pp. this exasperating, exhilarating experience, whether e-Book $22.00/$28.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.00 last year or a lifetime ago. This wonderful, eclectic Paperback coming April 2008. Do not order before 4/29/2008. inviting collection speaks to—and for—all of them, Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38424-6 • 304 pp. and goes directly to the heart of the national debate $12.00/$15.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 on language and immigration.

Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4262-0097-7 • 288 pp. $16.95/$21.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE WORLD I LIVE IN

by Helen Keller

Out of print for nearly a century, this is a personal and deeply spiritual work in which Helen Keller, a prenaturally gifted—and deaf and blind—young woman, closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination. This new edition also includes her early essay “Optimism,” written when she was just twelve.

NYRB Classics • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59017-067-0 • 224 pp. $12.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Also available

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

by Helen Keller Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21387-4 • 240 pp. $4.95/$6.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography, cont’d

e-Book

GOAT: A Memoir

by Brad Land

“With a uniquely hip narrative style, gritty with plenty of heart, Land recounts what it’s like to pledge a fraternity in order to gain his peer’s respect and admiration.... Immensely readable, Land’s tough yet tender book speaks to the fears and isolation of young alienated adults with compelling power, candor, and compassion.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Coastal Carolina University (SC).

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6968-9 • 224 pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

11

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography, cont’d A Life Rediscovered

by Patrick Lane

At age sixty-five, poet Patrick Lane emerged from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home, tending his garden, where he cast his mind back over his life, searching now for the memories he’d tried to drown in vodka.

In this powerful and beautifully written book, Lane offers readers an unflinching and unsentimental account of coming to one’s senses in the presence of nature.

Trumpeter • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-389-4 • 272 pp. $14.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

PASSING

by Nella Larsen

First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen’s prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing—an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York—together with a new Introduction by the Obie Award-winning playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange.

Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75813-3 • 304 pp. $9.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

Author Available

by Kate Clifford Larson

This is the first full-scale, extensively researched biography of Harriet Tubman in nearly sixty years.

Drawing on hundreds of new documents and sources as well as genealogical research, Bound for the Promised Land presents an entirely new and historically accurate picture of one of the most important figures in American history. This book is an essential resource for discussions of slavery and civil rights, as well as a long-overdue examination of an important African-American woman.

One World/Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-45628-1 • 432 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

12

www.randomhouse/academic

Stories

by Yiyun Li Nominee 2006—Orange Prize for New Writers

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER

BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND

A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.

“Self-effacing maternal love, extreme societal pressures, betrayal, and peculiar convictions all make for provocative and memorable fiction that is simultaneously culturally specific and universal.”

—Booklist Mills College has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7333-4 • 240 pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT

by Roma Ligocka and Iris Von Finckenstein Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo

As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore: a beacon in a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” and instantly recognized herself as “the girl in the red coat,” the only splash of color in the film. Thus begins a harrowing journey into the past, as Ligocka seeks to reclaim her life and unite the pieces of a shattered childhood.

“This is not only a Holocaust memoir but also a story of one woman’s quest for contentment.”

—Booklist, (American Library Association) Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33740-3 • 304 pp. $13.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

POLITE LIES

As Told to Alex Haley

On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

by Malcolm X

This autobiography, now an established classic of modern American literature, is unparalleled in its unsparing portrait of race and racism in America.

The result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, it is the life story of an activist whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page. “[...an] excellent source for learning about the diverse center of America.”—Professor Syble Simon, English Dept., Houston Community College-Central Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-35068-8 • 496 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

A Life Backwards

In this powerful and exquisitely crafted book, notable author Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare look at two profoundly different societies. Mori thoughtfully examines the very different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women’s lives.

“Mori’s exquisite language leads readers to an understanding of a civilization as highly developed as ours but one that has developed much differently in the area of human relations.”—Booklist

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN Author Available

by Alexander Masters

When Alexander Masters first met Stuart Shorter, he was an American living in Cambridge, England, and Stuart was—by his own admission—a person with problems who had spent half his life in prison and the other half on the streets. Thus began the unlikeliest of friendships and the most powerfully original of biographies.

Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer’s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life—even the most chaotic and disreputable—is a story worthy of being told.

“One of the most extraordinary books I have ever read.”—Independent on Sunday (UK) Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34088-5 • 320 pp. $12.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Kyoko Mori

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-449-00428-9 • 272 pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-37671-8 • 544 pp. $15.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

STUART

Author Available

e-Book

A Memoir in Books

Author Available

by Azar Nafisi

Reading Lolita in Tehran flashes back to the early days of the Iranian revolution, when Nafisi first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid a swirl of protests and demonstrations. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s story offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion, written with a startlingly original voice.

“A memoir about teaching Western literature in revolutionary Iran, with profound and fascinating insights into both. A masterpiece.”—Bernard Lewis, author of What Went Wrong?

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X

Austin College and Mount Holyoke College, among others, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7106-4 384 pp. • $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

13

© William Regensburger

ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

Author Available

by Sonia Nazario Now in Paperback A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

hen Enrique was just five years old, his mother Lourdes, seeing no other way out of their poverty in Honduras, decided to make the hazardous trek north. Enrique and his siblings struggled without their mother, until he finally made his way from the rough streets of Tegucigalpa through Mexico and across the dangerous Texan border. Nazario’s expert reporting allows students to encounter each setback alongside Enrique, and the result is as suspenseful and harrowing as it is informative. Enrique’s Journey is a timely account of one anguished family’s experience with an issue of international scope and urgency—illegal immigration—but it is also a timeless, mythic story of a dangerous journey undertaken to make a broken family whole.

“This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to reshape American conversations about immigration.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Teacher’s Guide is Available.

W

College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Indiana University, Kokomo and Valparaiso University have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7178-1 • 336 pp. • $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

© Nancy Crampton

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: SONIA NAZARIO

e-Book

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: RON SUSKIND A HOPE IN THE UNSEEN An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Author Available

by Ron Suskind

his is the story of Cedric Jennings, an African-American teenager who is ferociously determined to study his way out of the inner city and capture a piece of the American Dream. Suskind follows Jennings from his early years in high school through his first year at Brown University.

“Ron Suskind takes us on an unforgettable, peculiarly American journey—a journey which exposes the fault lines of race and class, and yet gives one reason for hope. This is a tale of fierce power—and one which stayed with me long after finishing the book.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River “Suskind uses his reporter skills brilliantly, portraying Cedric’s outer and inner life and making an eloquent though unstated plea for affirmative action.

Essential reading that provides some small hope for our social ills.”—Library Journal (starred review) “The drama of the story is in the mediations Cedric learns to make between the inherited and the chosen, yet ‘unseen’ parts of his life.”—Kirkus Reviews A Reader’s Guide is available.

T

Carleton College, Florida State University, Kent State University, Marquette University, Marymount University, Sacred Heart University, St. Bonaventure University, and Utah State University, among other colleges, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Texas Tech University.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0126-0 • 384 pp. • $15.95/$23.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

14

www.randomhouse/academic

© Deborah Feingold

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama Now in Paperback

government that truly represents these Americans—that truly serves these Americans—will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for the darker aspects of our past. We will need to understand just how we got to this place, this land of warring factions and tribal hatreds. And we’ll need to remind ourselves, despite all our differences, just how much we share: common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break.”—from The Audacity of Hope In his follow-up to the bestseller Dreams from My Father, the rising Democratic draws on his experience as a senator and lawyer, a professor and father, a Christian and a skeptic, to illuminate the greatness of America’s original ideals—and to remind us how vital it is to keep them before us. Along the way he explores such charged topics as globalization, the notion of American exceptionalism, the function of religion in public life, and the struggle to find a shared language in a nation torn by differences. While sharing his personal views on family, faith, and values, he argues that our very survival depends on finding common ground. “[Barack Obama] is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and genuinely about himself.... In these pages he often speaks to the reader as if he were an old friend from back in the day, salting policy recommendations with colorful asides about the absurdities of political life... [He] strives in these pages to ground his policy thinking in simple common sense...while articulating these venomous pre-election days, but also in these increasingly polarized and polarizing times.”—Michiko Katutani, New York Times

“A

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at New York Institute of Technology. e-Book

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-23770-5 • 384 pp. • $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: BARACK OBAMA

reams from My Father is the best-selling book by prominent national figure Barack Obama. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.

“Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.”—The Washington Post Book World

D

Boston College and University of Illinois at Chicago have adopted this title for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-8277-3 • 480 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

15

LIFE STORIES—Memoir Biography, and Autobiography

IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE

Author Available

Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

by Tim O’Brien

Before his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien wrote this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam.

“O’Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier’s daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war.... Tim O’Brien writes with...care and eloquence.... A personal document of aching clarity.... A beautiful, painful book.”—The New York Times Book Review Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0443-8 • 224 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by Tim O’Brien, see pages 59 and 60.

MIRACLE IN THE ANDES

Author Available

72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

by Nando Parrado Now in Paperback

e-Book

FRAGILE INNOCENCE A Father’s Memoir of His Daughter’s Courageous Journey

by James Reston, Jr.

Fragile Innocence is the story of a child devastated by pure chance. This moving narrative of a father’s journey to understand and accept the profound changes in his daughter’s life is at once memoir, biography, mystery, and drama, all centered around one remarkable young woman who cannot talk or read or understand language, but who has touched almost everyone she has ever met. By critically acclaimed author James Reston, this book also addresses some controversial social issues of our day, including stem cell research, animal organ transplants, and reproductive and therapeutic cloning.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-8244-5 • 272 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

16

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

Author Available

My Life with Asperger's

by John Elder Robison NEW

According to author John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye is about “growing up with Asperger’s syndrome—a high functioning form of autism— overcoming my limitations, and ultimately becoming a successful adult.”

“John Robison’s book is an immensely affecting account of a life lived according to his gifts rather than his limitations. His story provides ample evidence for my belief that individuals on the autistic spectrum are just as capable of rich and productive lives as anyone else.”—Daniel Tammet, author of Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Crown • HC • 978-0-307-39598-6 • 304 pp. $25.95/$34.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

HUNGER OF MEMORY

For the first time, Nando Parrado, the hero of the international bestseller Alive, offers his own harrowing account of the 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for 72 days.

Thirty years after the disaster, Nando tells his story: an unflinching look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.

“It is an amazing story of bravery and courage.”

—Booklist Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-9769-2 304 pp. • $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

LOOK ME IN THE EYE

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

e-Book

Author Available

by Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory is the fascinating autobiography of a Mexican-American student who pays the price for social assimilation and academic success with painful alienation from his past, his parents, and his culture.

“His story is extraordinarily sensitive and compassionate, yet disarmingly objective, a genuine act of human and religious faith. Few have presented with such skill the indestructible intimacy of family love and its resilience under the stress of change. This book provides new understanding of the dynamism of language in establishing a person’s private and public identity.”—Prof. Walter J. Ong, St. Louis University “Superb autobiographical essay... Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, its loneliness, but also its triumph.”

—The New York Times Book Review Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38251-8 • 224 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-27293-2 • 208 pp. $6.99/$9.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

NABEEL’S SONG

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

A Family Story of Survival in Iraq

by Alice Schroeder NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

by Jo Tatchell Shortlisted for The Costa Biography Award 2006 Long-listed for The Samuel Johnson Prize 2007

For the first time in his life, after years of refusing offers from publishers, Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in history, has agreed to cooperate on a book about himself: one that is both a history of his ideas and the lively biography of the man himself. By giving biographer Alice Schroeder unprecedented access, he has enabled her to write a book resonant with the practical wisdom, human insight, unparalleled business strategies, and variegated experiences of a richly lived life.

Do not order before 4/28/2008.

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80509-3 • 544 pp. $30.00/$34.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $15.00

e-Book

THE SOUVENIR A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War

Author Available

by Louise Steinman NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

The Souvenir is the true story of Louise Steinman, who, after her parents’ deaths, discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written to her mother during his service in the Pacific War and a Japanese flag mysteriously inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Setting out to determine the identity of Shimizu and the origins of the flag, Steinman discovered the unexpected: a hidden side of her father.

The Souvenir is ultimately an evocative testament to the ways in which war changes one generation and shapes another.

Penn State has adopted this title for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Do not order before 3/18/2008.

North Atlantic Books • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-55643-701-4 • 300 pp. $15.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

Author Available

Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s, Nabeel’s Song is the gripping story of a family and its fateful encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of his family’s rebellion against Saddam’s regime, Nabeel’s Song is an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a culture devastated by political repression and war.

“Jo Tatchell’s moving narrative, from Nabeel’s mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and the courage of a loving, close-knit family oppressed by tyranny and war. Behind the deadly statistics and political rhetoric, voices such as his inspire us to pity and pride.”—The Times (London) Doubleday • HC • 978-0-385-52121-5 • 368 pp. $23.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $12.00

e-Book

Paperback forthcoming June 2008 and renamed The Poet of Baghdad.

Do not order paperback before 6/3/2008.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-2697-3 • 384 pp. $14.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

THE SNOWBALL

DANCING UNDER THE RED STAR The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin’s Gulag

by Karl Tobien

Dancing Under the Red Star is the shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia.

Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families—Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret—and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.

Written by her son, Karl Tobien, Dancing Under the Red Star is Margaret’s unforgettable true story: an inspiring chronicle of faith, defiance, and personal triumph.

WaterBrook Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-7078-7 • 384 pp. $14.99/$20.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

17

LIFE STORIES—Memoir Biography, and Autobiography

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography, cont’d

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE

LOVE IN THE DRIEST SEASON A Family Memoir

by Neely Tucker

Translator Available

The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

by Dang Thuy Tram Translated by Andrew X. Pham NEW

“Last night, I dreamed that Peace was established...”

—Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnam, June 4, 1968 Written from 1968–1970, this diary of a young, idealistic Vietnamese doctor describes the horrors of war and her devotion to family, country, and the Communist party. Her last entry was made the day before she died protecting her hospital.

Fred Whitehurst, an American intelligence soldier in charge of burning all personal documents, was given the diary by a translator who told him not to burn it: “It has fire in it already.” Against regulations, he preserved the diary and kept it for thirty-five years.

At times raw, at times lyrical and youthfully sentimental, Tram’s voice speaks across cultures of her humanity, dignity, and compassion.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Harmony • HC • 978-0-307-34737-4 • 256 pp. $19.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $10.00

e-Book

Also available:

THE EAVES OF HEAVEN A Life in Three Wars

Author Available

by Andrew X. Pham NEW—Forthcoming June 2008

From Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, a son’s memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.

Do not order before 6/3/2008.

Harmony • HC • 978-0-307-38120-0 • 256 pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

18

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

e-Book

“Washington Post writer Tucker has written an affecting, powerful memoir of his struggles to adopt a baby girl in Zimbabwe, where the adoption laws are extremely strict. Tucker, a white man from Mississippi, and his wife Vita, an African American woman from Detroit, settle in Zimbabwe in 1997 and decide that they want to adopt a child. Tucker knows he’s found the one when he holds Chipo, an infant abandoned in a field shortly after her birth.”

—Booklist, starred review “This is a gorgeous mix of family memoir and reportage that traverses the big issues of politics, racism and war.”—Publishers Weekly Boston College has adopted this title for a Common Reading Program.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-8160-8 256 pp. • $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

EDITH’S STORY The True Story of a Young Girl’s Courage and Survival During World War II

by Edith Velmans

Edith’s Story is the extraordinary true story of the author’s courage and survival during WWII. This significant Holocaust memoir has already been compared to Anne Frank’s diary. Like Anne Frank, Edith was a Jewish teenager when the Germans invade Holland in 1940; both girls went into hiding during the same month. However, unlike Frank, Edith was hidden in plain sight by a courageous Christian family, who took her in as one of their own. Velmans’ candid story casts new light on the plight of Jews who survived the war hidden in plain sight.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38110-8 • 256 pp. $15.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THURGOOD MARSHALL

by Kurt Vonnegut Now in Paperback

American Revolutionary

In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age—or any age—holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America to his formative war experiences to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself.

Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions. “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”—Los Angeles Times Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7736-3 • 160 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For a complete listing of titles by Kurt Vonnegut, please go to: www.randomhouse.com/academic

ENOUGH

by Juan Williams A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From the acclaimed author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the Supreme Court Justice and great architect of American race relations. Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thurgood Marshall is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life, a descendant of slaves who became a true hero for all people.

The University of Maryland has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-3299-7 • 504 pp. $16.00/$24.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Travel & Adventure Writing

WORLDS TO EXPLORE Author Available

The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It

by Juan Williams

One of America’s best-known and most-respected black journalists attacks the failure of the post-Civil Rights generation of African Americans to build upon the gains of that historic movement.

Reinforcing his incisive observations with solid research and alarming statistical data, Williams offers a concrete plan for overcoming the obstacles that now stand in the way of African Americans’ full participation in the nation’s freedom and prosperity.

Certain to be widely discussed and vehemently debated, Enough is a bold, perceptive, solution-based look at African American life, culture, and politics today.

“Written in the tradition of DuBois and King, Enough is an impressively powerful and courageous book. Williams delivers a blunt and bracing challenge to black America.”—David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross and Senior Fellow at Cambridge University Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-33824-2 • 256 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

e-Book

Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic Edited by Mark Jenkins Introduction by Simon Winchester Now in Paperback

Capturing an era when world travel involved tramp steamers, long letters home, and the occasional camel caravan, Worlds to Explore offers fifty classic tales of exotic locales and high adventure selected to showcase the spirit of wonder and discovery of the explorers who traversed the globe before the age of cell phones and polar fleece.

LIFE STORIES—Memoir, Biography, and Autobiography

A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4262-0044-1 • 464 pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Introduction by Anthony Brandt

Illustrated and with sketches and maps from the original journals, this is the classic, first-hand account of Lewis and Clark’s epic journey through the unknown territory of the American West, newly abridged into a landmark single-volume edition.

Featuring an expedition map, an introduction that describes America at the start of this amazing journey, and an afterword that assesses the historical significance of the mission, this new edition brings to life the epic grandeur of one of the greatest adventures in American history.

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7922-6921-2 • 600 pp. $16.00/$25.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

19

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION

Author Available

A Biography

by Akhil Reed Amar Now in Paperback

Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.

“I was about to describe America’s Constitution as the best biography ever written about the U.S. Constitution—until it occurred to me that it’s the only real biography of that remarkable document.

[M]any have written about some part of the Constitution or its history, or about the Constitution as seen from the perspective of one branch (usually, the judiciary), but only Yale Law School’s justly legendary Akhil Amar has undertaken to tell the story of the Constitution as a whole.”

—Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7272-6 • 672 pp. $16.95/$22.95 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Introduction by Pauline Maier

Here, in one economical volume, are the two fundamental documents of U.S. history. The introduction is by Pauline Maier, author of American Scripture, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times and hailed as “the freshest, bestinformed historian’s reading of the Declaration of Independence and its context that we have ever had.”—Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut.

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21482-6 • 112 pp. $2.95/$3.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

DECISION IN PHILADELPHIA The Constitutional Convention of 1787

by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier

Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change the world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor, and including a complete copy of the Constitution.

“The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available.”—Library Journal

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Inscribed and Illustrated by Sam Fink

A newly inscribed and illustrated edition of the document on which America’s liberties and its continued existence as a nation depend.

Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-34652-0 • 448 pp. $7.99/$11.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Welcome Books • HC 978-0-941807-99-9 • 136 pp. $29.95/$39.95 Can. Exam Copy: $15.00

U.S. CONSTITUTION TEACHER’S GUIDE & POSTER: To receive a complimentary copy of this guide/poster, please email us at rhacademic@randomhouse.com with the subject line “U.S. CONSTITUTION Teacher’s Guide.”

Please be sure to provide your full college mailing address.

20

www.randomhouse/academic

WOMEN EMPOWERED

The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes

Inspiring Change in the Emerging World Contribution by Isabel Allende and Madeleine Albright Photographed by Phil Borges

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton

A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers In Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st “Black Panthers,” the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. While most combat troops fought on the front for a week or two before being rotated back, the men of the 761st served heroically for more than six months. The racism that shadowed them during the war and the prejudice they faced upon their return home is an indelible part of their story, and Abdul-Jabbar and Walton illuminate this tragic face of the war, while also allowing the bravery, dignity, and patriotism of the soldiers to shine through.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0913-6 • 336 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

The accomplishments of ordinary women in developing and war-ravaged countries who have broken through the barriers of oppression to make a positive difference in their communities is brilliantly told through radiant photography and riveting profiles. The heroic examples set by these women, whose bravery and determination enabled them to move beyond victimization to leadership, speak to the universal themes of courage, empowerment, and human rights. Women Empowered reveals how determined women of all ages have effectively turned their struggles into triumphs.

Rizzoli • HC • 978-0-8478-2927-9 • 112 pp. $29.95/$37.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $15.00

THE BATTLE FOR GOD THE MERCURY 13

A History of Fundamentalism

Author Available

by Karen Armstrong

The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

by Martha Ackmann Foreword by Lynn Sherr

In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope in the face of adversity.

Eastern Kentucky University and University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, among other colleges, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75893-5 • 280 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

HISTORY & SOCIETY

BROTHERS IN ARMS

e-Book

Armstrong focuses here on three fundamentalist movements—Protestant fundamentalism in America, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran— exploring how each has developed its own unique way of combating the “assaults” of modernity.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-39169-8 • 480 pp. $15.95/$23.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

ISLAM

Author Available

A Short History

by Karen Armstrong

Includes a new Epilogue by the author and a new pronunciation guide. In this compact volume, Armstrong offers a thoughtful and engaging history of Islam, currently the world’s fastest-growing faith.

Islam is an informative and provocative exploration of a history, a religion and a culture which will inspire and inform discussions of current and historical events.

“A valuable corrective to the hostile caricatures of Islam that circulate in the English-speaking world.... Engaging and provocative.”—The New York Times A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6618-3 • 272 pp. $14.95/$21.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

21

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

JERUSALEM One City, Three Faiths

FIELDS OF HONOR Pivotal Battles of the Civil War Author Available

by Karen Armstrong

In this fascinating study, Karen Armstrong traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years. Jerusalem is an ideal companion to discussions of contemporary religious controversies and Mid-Eastern conflicts.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-39168-1 • 496 pp. $17.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SUPER CRUNCHERS Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Author Available

by Ian Ayres NEW

“In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Times have changed. Today, the name of the game is data. Ian Ayres shows us how and why in this groundbreaking book Super Crunchers. Not only is it fun to read, it just may change the way you think.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics “Yale Law School professor and econometrician Ayres argues in this lively and enjoyable book that the recent creation of huge data sets allows knowledgeable individuals to make previously impossible predictions.... Ayres skillfully demonstrates the importance that statistical literacy can play in our lives, especially now that technology permits it to occur on a scale never before imagined.”—Publishers Weekly Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80540-6 • 272 pp. $25.00/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

e-Book

by Edwin C. Bearss With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson

In Fields of Honor, Bearss, hailed as the “Homer of the Civil War,” shares his encyclopedic knowledge in print for the first time. Culled from recordings of his widely popular battlefield tours, Bearss recounts twenty of the war’s most significant battles in lively, detailed prose. Illustrated with exhaustive battlefield maps and fascinating historical images—and published in conjunction with the 140th anniversary of the end of the Civil War—this volume will engage students with one of the most important periods in America’s history.

“Ed Bearss is the most valuable living treasure that students of the Civil War have.”—Jim Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Preservation Trust National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4262-0093-9 • 448 pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

by Douglas A. Blackmon NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

From the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and with no means to pay these “debts,” required to work them off. Slavery by Another Name is an account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of white racism that reverberates today.

Do not order before 3/25/2008.

Doubleday • HC • 978-0-385-50625-0 • 304 pp. $26.00/$30.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

The titles found in this catalog will help to instigate reflection and discussion among your incoming first-year students.

Your students will begin their academic life with a shared experience, ready to discuss the stories of others and thus ready to share their own as well.

22

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

e-Book

Americans Talk About Their Jobs

Author Available

Edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter

Composed of more than 120 monologues Gig allows disparate people—from a wide variety of occupations and locations—to describe their day to day experiences in the office, on the street corner, or whereever their occupation places them. The jobs covered are sometimes outside of the mainstream and sometimes out of reach of all but a few, but, taken as a whole, they create a fascinating and unique portrait of employment in America that is devoid of agenda, abstraction, and theory.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-80707-1 • 688 pp. $16.00/$25.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

by James Bradley with Ron Powers ALEX Award Winner (American Library Association)

Authors Available

HISTORY & SOCIETY

GIG

Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.

The new movie tie-in edition features a new foreword by James Bradley and new art from the Clint-Eastwood directed film.

MOVIE TIE-IN EDITIONS NOBODIES Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

Author Available

Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-58934-4 • 576 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by John Bowe NEW

REGULAR EDITIONS

In Nobodies, John Bowe travels from the agricultural quagmires of Florida to the factories and brothels of Saipan, filing a first-hand report on the working conditions that our government and our corporations depend on but are trying their best to ignore. Bowe delivers a sobering look at the moral costs of the cheap goods—from orange juice to cut-rate fashions—to which our economy has grown so accustomed.

This is rich and vibrant reporting—not a polemic but a presentation of things as they are on the underside of American commerce.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6209-6 • 336 pp. $25.95/$34.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38415-4 • 400 pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-11133-0 • 384 pp. $27.00/$36.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.75 Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38029-3 • 400 pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-58908-5 576 pp. • $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE FEMALE BRAIN

by Louann Brizendine, M.D. Now in Paperback

e-Book

Author Available

Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.

Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom they’ll love.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-2010-0 • 304 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

23

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

ECOTOPIA

by Ernest Callenbach

BOOM! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ‘60s and Today

by Tom Brokaw NEW

With The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw defined for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in BOOM!, the veteran newsman and bestselling author brings us into the tumultuous decade of the 1960s, to explore how famous people, ordinary citizens, and the national mindset were all affected by an unforgettable time of turbulence and change.

Random House • HC 978-1-4000-6457-1 • 688 pp. $28.95/$34.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $14.50

e-Book

THE GREATEST GENERATION

by Tom Brokaw

In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell the story of the “greatest generation,” through the experiences of individual men and women who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. This generation was united, Brokaw argues, not only by a common purpose, but also by common values—duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. The Greatest Generation offers a valuable perspective on America’s citizens, past and present.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7529-1 • 464 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-34847-7 • 192 pp. $16.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

OPERATION HOMECOMING Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families Edited by Andrew Carroll

The first book of its kind, Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases and inspire U.S. Marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen and their families to record their wartime experiences.

Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Mark Bowden, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front. Taken together, these almost one hundred never-before-published eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, letters, and other personal writings become a dramatic narrative that shows the human side of warfare.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6562-2 • 416 pp. $26.95/$35.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.50

THE WORKING LIFE The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

by Joanne B. Ciulla

Also of Interest:

THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS Letters and Reflections Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7530-7 • 272 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

In the tradition of Huxley, Orwell and Verne, Callenbach’s controversial and thought-provoking novel describes a future in which the West Coast states have seceded to form Ecotopia, their own environmentally-sound nation.

“Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive, positive vision of an ecologically sustainable world.

Essential reading for all who care about the earth’s future.”—Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point

e-Book

Joanne Ciulla, a philosopher and academic (a Fellow at Harvard and Wharton, and a visiting scholar at Oxford), traces the philosophical and cultural conceptions of work and workers over the years. In this critique of work in America, Ciulla explores such topics as the relationships among various kinds of work, the roles of consumption and leisure, and beliefs about what constitutes meaningful work, a meaningful life, and happiness.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-80737-8 • 288 pp. $13.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

24

www.randomhouse/academic

IRAN AWAKENING

by Christopher de Bellaigue

One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country

Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists?

Bellaigue addresses these and other questions in this essential guide to a nation that is certain to be in the headlines for some time to come.

New York Review Books • HC • 978-1-59017-238-4 • 224pp. $22.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $11.50

by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni Now in Paperback Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7528-4 • 256 pp. $14.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

For full description, see page 8.

SPELLBOUND The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling

FIXED IDEAS

HISTORY & SOCIETY

THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAN

Author Available

by James Essinger NEW

American Since 9/11

by Joan Didion Preface by Frank Rich

Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America—a “New Unilateralism”—and how, in many parts of America, there is now a “disconnect” between the government and citizens.

NYRB Collections • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59017-073-1 • 44 pp. $7.95/$10.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

STEALING GOD’S THUNDER Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

This insightful and luminous book chronicles the fascinating history of English spelling, including insights about the vast number of words English has borrowed from other languages (“orange,” “vanilla,” and “ketchup,” to name a few), and how their meanings differ from country to country. Featuring a lively cast of characters ranging from the fictional to the historically noteworthy (Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Shakespeare, Bill Gates), this affectionate tribute to English spelling shows why our whimsical, capricious common language continues to hold us spellbound.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34084-7 • 336 pp. $13.00/$17.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

by Philip Dray

Stealing God’s Thunder is a concise, richly detailed biography of Benjamin Franklin, viewed through the lens of his scientific inquiry and its ramifications for American democracy. Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science but, in fact, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work, especially his experiments with lightning and electricity. Pulitzer Prize-finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6810-1 • 288 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

FAREWELL, MY SUBARU An Epic Adventure in Local Living

Author Available

by Doug Fine NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

Did you know it takes more water to sustain a vegetable crop in New Mexico for a year than it would to sustain a Bangladeshi village of 500?

Did you know almost all components of a solarpowered water pump are made in Japan or Denmark? Did you know it takes 16,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly an organic banana from Honduras to Silver City, NM? Neither did Doug Fine. Farewell, My Subaru is the hilarious and inspirational account of a Long Island suburbanite’s attempt to go green —extreme green—in the middle of nowhere New Mexico.

Do not order before 3/28/2008.

Villard Books • HC • 978-1-4000-6644-5 • 224 pp. $24.00/$28.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

25

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

THE THIRTEEN AMERICAN ARGUMENTS

OUT OF THE BLUE Author Available

Enduring Debates That Inspire and Define Our Country

by Howard Fineman NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

Journalist Howard Fineman illustrates that there are 13 main American arguments—and every debate we have had in the political arena from our founding to today has evolved from one of these 13 arguments. If you understand these arguments, you will understand every political, social, and cultural debate that arises in America today—what it means, where it comes from, and how we can form our own views of the issues.

Do not order before 4/15/2008.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6544-8 • 256 pp. $25.00/$28.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

PLANETWALKER 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.

e-Book

Author Available

by John Francis NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

After witnessing the devastating effects of a 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis began a solitary pilgrimage—through 22 years of walking and 17 years of silence—to instill in himself and others a deeper environmental consciousness and sense of responsibility.

Planetwalker is an inspirational story of a young man’s call to public service and his decision to make a difference in the world.

Do not order before 4/8/2008.

National Geographic • HC • 978-1-4262-0275-9 312 pp. • $26.00/$30.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

e-Book

A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival

by John Friedman NEW—Forthcoming May 2008

Lightning has provoked fear and fascination in mankind for thousands of years. In Out of the Blue, John S. Friedman delivers a moving, riveting, and entertaining scientific and cultural history of this spectacular and dangerous force of nature. Friedman traces beliefs about lightning throughout history and explores the famous experiments of Ben Franklin to Charles Steinmetz, who produced lightning—like bolts in a lab. Friedman also reveals the experiences of dozens of people who have been hit by lightning.

Combining captivating fact with thrilling personal stories, Out of the Blue is a unique and fascinating read about a natural—and cultural— phenomenon.

Do not order before 5/20/2008.

Delacorte Press • HC • 978-0-385-34115-8 • 336 pp. $24.00/$28.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

OUTRAGE, PASSION, AND UNCOMMON SENSE How Editorial Writers Have Taken On and Helped Shape the Great American Issues of the Past 150 Years

by Michael Gartner

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history through the nation’s editorial pages. Approximately fifty editorials are reprinted here on topics ranging from suffrage and race to war and politics, with probing analysis by Gartner.

National Geographic • HC • 978-0-7922-4197-3 • 224 pp. $30.00/$41.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $15.00

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

26

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

THE INNOCENT MAN

The Fourth Great Western Religion

by John Grisham Now in Paperback

by David Gelernter NEW

What does it mean to “believe” in America? Why do we always speak of our country as having a mission or purpose that is higher than other nations? In Americanism David Gelerntner presents a startlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America and why it is loved—and hated—with so much passion at home and abroad.

Doubleday • HC • 978-0-385-51312-8 • 240 pp. $24.95/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

COUNTERCULTURE THROUGH THE AGES

e-Book

Author Available

From Abraham to Acid House

by Ken Goffman and Dan Joy

In Counterculture Through the Ages, countercultural pundits Ken Goffman and Dan Joy demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, illustrating its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures.

HISTORY & SOCIETY

AMERICANISM

In 1982, a 21-year-old waitress in Ada, Oklahoma named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected former local baseball star Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz, whom they wound up charging with capital murder.

With the prosecution’s case built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts, Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence, and Williamson was sent to death row.

This book is a disturbing account of the very real flaws in the criminal justice system and a must-read for those interested in law, justice, and bureaucracy.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Greensboro College.

Dell • Mass Mkt. • 978-0-440-24383-0 • 448 pp. $7.99/$11.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34091-5 • 400 pp. $16.00/$20.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Villard • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7475-1 • 432 pp. $15.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

by Daniel Goleman New in Paperback

Author Available © Peter

The New Science of Human Relationships

Si

m on In his follow-up to the hugely successful Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect” and that our relationships have a surprisingly deep impact on every aspect of our lives.

In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connects us brain to brain with those around us.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38449-9 • 416 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Also by Daniel Goleman:

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Why It Can Matter More Than IQ 10th Anniversary Edition

Author Available

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38371-3 • 384 pp. • $17.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

27

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

GANDHI & CHURCHILL The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Author Available

by Arthur Herman NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill were locked in a tense struggle for the hearts and minds of the British public and world opinion for more than forty years. Although they met only once, their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an empire. A masterpiece of narrative history, Gandhi & Churchill will change the way we think about both men, and about the impact of their lives and ideas on the modern world.

Do not order before 4/29/2008.

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80463-8 • 688 pp. $30.00/$34.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $15.00

A TRIBE APART A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

www.randomhouse/academic

by Brad Hirschfield NEW

Grounded in biblical scholarship and interwoven with personal stories, You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right provides a pragmatic path to peace, understanding, and hope that appeals to the common wisdom of all religions. Pointing the way through the continuum of conflict, Hirschfield addresses the ways faith has many faces; how justice can coexist with forgiveness and mercy; how unity does not necessitate uniformity; and the ways we can learn to disagree without disconnecting.

Harmony • HC • 978-0-307-38297-9 • 288 pp. $24.95/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

e-Book

Author Available

by Jed Horne Author Available

Author Patricia Hersch journeyed deep inside the hearts, minds, and lives of eight “average” teenagers from the suburban community of Reston, Virginia, spending three years immersed in the teenage subculture to show us how American youth have fashioned a culture of their own. As Hersch clearly shows in her compelling book, it is a culture of unequaled freedom and baffling complexity, with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency—in every sense, “a tribe apart.” This book is fascinating reading for all ages; it is particularly resonant, especially for college students who have only recently left the world Hersch describes.

28

Author Available

Finding Faith Without Fanaticism

BREACH OF FAITH e-Book

by Patricia Hersch

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-43594-1 • 416 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE WRONG FOR ME TO BE RIGHT

Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city’s collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive. “...[A] splendid mix of reporting and commentary.... Horne, with a sure grasp of local politics and culture, provides a [clear] sense of why things fell apart so completely in New Orleans.”

—New York Times Book Review Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Louisianna State University.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6552-3 • 432 pp. $25.95/$34.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

e-Book

THE BLACK WEST

The Redemption of Criminal Youth

A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States

by John Hubner A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Now in Paperback

by William Katz

A powerful, bracing, and deeply spiritual look at intensely troubled youth, Last Chance In Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.

“Their emotional stories—poignant, shocking, and sometimes difficult to read—are interlaced with fascinating insights into the criminal justice system.

Readers of this eye-opening account will find themselves reflecting on their own attitudes about juvenile justice as it’s administered today.”—Booklist Random House • HC • 978-0-375-50809-7 • 304 pp. $25.95/$35.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

Paperback forthcoming April 2008. Do not order paperback before 4/29/2008.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 8 978-0-375-75998-7 • 304 pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

UNSPUN Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

Author Available

This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as a revised and expanded text that will deepen students’ understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America’s early frontiers. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers, told through captivating narratives and compelling photographs. From slave runaways during the colonial era, to the journeys of Lewis and Clark, to the charge at San Juan Hill, Katz vividly recounts the crucial contributions African Americans made during scores of frontier encounters, thereby adding a rich new dimension to familiar stories of the West.

Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1231-0 • 336 pp. $17.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR

by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson NEW

Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. Written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, founders of the acclaimed FactCheck.org, unSpun reveals the secrets of separating facts from disinformation, such as the warning signs of spin, hype, and bogus news; common tricks used to deceive us; and finding trustworthy and objective sources of information.

With this book and a healthy dose of skepticism, anyone can cut through the haze of biased media reportage to be a savvier consumer and a betterinformed citizen.

“Just in time for the 2008 campaign, Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have written a citizen’s guide to avoiding the malarkey of partisan politics.”—Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-6566-0 • 208 pp. $12.95/$16.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

HISTORY & SOCIETY

LAST CHANCE IN TEXAS

e-Book

How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

Author Available

by Andrew Keen NEW

In The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen exposes the consequences of Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens the innovation and creativity that forms the very fabric of American achievement.

America’s cultural institutions, Keen warns— professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. He argues that advertising revenue is being lost, television networks are suffering, and file sharing and digital piracy have devastated the music business. Worse yet, this “cutand-paste” online culture threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights.

Keen urges us to consider the consequences of supporting a culture that he believes endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions.

Currency • HC • 978-0-385-52080-5 • 240 pp. $22.95/$29.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.50

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

29

HISTORY & SOCIETY

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: JONATHAN KOZOL LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER

by Jonathan Kozol NEW

Author Available

n this collection of his letters to Francesca, a first-year teacher in a Boston elementary school, Jonathan Kozol reflects on what he calls the “beautiful profession” she has chosen while he also tries to guide her through the unexpected challenges she encounters.

Together they confront the disheartening resegregation of our schools and the obsessive testing mania that is turning many schools into little more than test-prep factories. But they also share the happiness of teaching children, celebrating the many moments of sheer jubilation in Francesca’s class as her students begin to flourish in the hands of their hardworking teacher.

Letters to a Young Teacher is an enticing invitation to the classroom and bound to become a classic among educators. e-Book

I

Crown • HC • 978-0-307-39371-5 • 304 pp. • $19.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $10.00

THE SHAME OF THE NATION The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Author Available

by Jonathan Kozol Now in Paperback

he nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”—The Shame of the Nation Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly sixty public schools. Virtually everywhere, he has found that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the fifteen years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. In The Shame of the Nation, Kozol makes a powerful and persuasive argument that America needs to finally face the ongoing problems with its urban schools. Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting.

“The Shame of the Nation is a national wake-up call.... It should be required reading.”—Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder, Children’s Defense Fund “The Shame of the Nation reveals the disparity in our schools as dramatically as Hurricane Katrina revealed the disparity in our society.”—Howard Gardner, Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of Frames of Mind and Changing Minds “Segregation is back, and only a writer of Jonathon Kozol’s wisdom and passion can assess its terrible price, one child at a time. It isn’t easy, but before we can craft a solution, we have to feel the shame.”

—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed e-Book

“T

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-5245-5 • 432 pp. • $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN Homeless Families in America

Author Available

by Jonathan Kozol Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

irst published in 1988 and based on the months the author spent among America’s homeless, Rachel and Her Children is an unforgettable record of the desperate voices of men, women, and especially children caught up in a nightmarish situation that tears at the hearts of readers. With record numbers of homeless children and adults flooding the nation’s shelters, Rachel and Her Children offers a look at homelessness that resonates even louder today.

“A searing indictment of a society that has largely chosen to look the other way.”—The New York Times

F

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-34589-9 • 320 pp. • $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

30

www.randomhouse/academic

HISTORY & SOCIETY

THE BONE WOMAN

OIL ON THE BRAIN

A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank

by Clea Koff

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.

“I selected Oil on the Brain as the summer reading for the incoming Class of 2011 at Dartmouth. This informative and engaging multidisciplinary analysis of oil—where it comes from and what happens as it gets to the end user—will serve as the starting point for a discussion of our dependence on fossil fuel and some impacts of its extraction and use. She was great one-on-one, in the classroom with undergraduates, with faculty in an informal session and in her keynote speech that led off a conference on energy.”—Andrew J. Friedland, The Richard and Jane Pearl Professor in Environmental Studies Chair, Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-threeyear-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff ’s grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century.

A tale of science in the service of human rights, The Bone Woman is Koff ’s riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda; even more profoundly, it is a story of hope and enduring moral principles.

by Lisa Margonelli NEW

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6885-9 • 304 pp. $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Dartmouth College.

SIX DEGREES

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1697-4 • 352 pp. $14.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas NEW

In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earth’s climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming—and what we can do about it now.

“Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now... Six Degrees is a rousing and vivid plea to choose a different future.”—London Daily Mail National Geographic • HC • 978-1-4262-0213-1 • 336 pp. $26.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $13.00

THE MUCH TOO PROMISED LAND America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace

Author Available

by Aaron David Miller NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

Having participated in every peace negotiation between Israel and the Arabs from Bush 41 to Clinton to Bush 43, and having served as a key advisor to six secretaries of state, Miller has a unique and incomparable understanding of the Arab-Israeli peace process and America’s place in it.

Now, using his own experience and new exclusive interviews with world leaders, he reflects on America’s role in the historic peace process and offers practical solutions for the future.

Do not order before 3/25/2008.

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80490-4 • 416 pp. $26.00/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

31

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

THE DEEP DARK

INHERITING THE HOLY LAND

Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine

An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East

by Jennifer Miller

Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her groundbreaking perspective on the conflict is presented through interviews with young Israelis and Palestinians and conversations with some of the most influential officials involved in the Middle East, including Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, James Baker, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Ehud Barak, and Mahmoud Abbas. This book will open eyes, open hearts, and open minds.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-46925-0 • 320 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

LOST HISTORY The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists

by Michael H. Morgan NEW

In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world.

Essential reading for any student seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing modern society, Lost History fills an important void.

Michael H. Morgan, an award-winning author and former diplomat with extensive experience in the Muslim world, reminds us that inspired leaders from Muhammad to Suleiman the Magnificent and beyond championed religious tolerance, encouraged intellectual inquiry, and sponsored artistic, architectural, and literary works that still dazzle us with their brilliance.

National Geographic • HC • 978-1-4262-0092-2 • 320 pp. $26.00/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

Author Available

by Gregg Olsen

An intense and haunting account of one of the most tragic episodes in working-class America—the 1972 Sunshine Mining disaster in Kellogg, Idaho.

Boise State University has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-23877-1 • 416pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

COMMUNISM: A History

by Richard Pipes

With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.

“It would be a good thing if every high school or college student in America were required to read this singularly compelling book....[Pipes] has summarized his vast learning in a short, lucidly written book.”

—Terry Teachout, The Baltimore Sun Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6864-4 • 192 pp. $11.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE BOTANY OF DESIRE A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

e-Book

Author Available

by Michael Pollan

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires— sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings, simultaneously questioning common assumptions about human needs, desires, and our relationship to nature.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Assumption College and Bellevue Community College have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76039-6 304 pp. • $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

32

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

A Muslim Cleric on the Power of His Faith, the Struggle Against Prejudice, and the Future of Islam and America

Author Available

In this inspiring narrative, one of this country’s most important Muslim leaders reveals the story of his life and his faith, and why Islam is good for America. At once a fascinating personal story and a heartfelt plea to integrate Islamic teachings into the tolerant traditions of America, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of all those who live among us, at a time when it matters most.

PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

e-Book

Author Available

by Jessica Queller NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

Author Available

Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs.

“Few writers can match Bill Rhoden as a commentator on the vexing subject of race and sports in America.”—Arnold Rampersad, author of Jackie Robinson: A Biography and, with Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace: A Memoir Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-35314-6 • 304 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL

In Pretty Is What Changes, Jessica Queller journeys to the place where the cutting edge of biotechnology meets real life and real patients.

Eleven months after her mother succumbed to cancer, Queller had herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results came back virulently positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime.

Thirty-five, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, she faced an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative—a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality.

Do not order before 4/8/2008.

Spiegel & Grau • HC • 978-0-385-52040-9 • 256 pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

by William C. Rhoden Now in Paperback

by Imam Hassan Qazwini and Brad Crawford NEW

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6454-0 • 304 pp. $26.95/$32.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.50

FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES

HISTORY & SOCIETY

AMERICAN CRESCENT

e-Book

An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil

Author Available

by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson Now in Paperback

Soon after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation.

With the help of corporate and international sponsors, Rodriguez founded the Kabul Beauty School and welcomed the first class in 2003. She stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families’ breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup.

Kabul Beauty School is the remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who came together to learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7673-1 • 320 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

33

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

WASHINGTON’S SPIES The Story of America’s First Spy Ring

THE KORAN

by Alexander Rose Now in Paperback

Translated by John Medows Rodwell

The Koran is considered by the world’s Muslims to be the actual word of God. It is also an immensely important book for anyone interested in studying Islam and the world’s monotheistic religions. Like the Torah and the Bible, the influence of the Koran on world culture and thought is incalculable.

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-58752-4 • 480 pp. $6.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Ivy Books • Mass Mkt • 978-0-8041-1125-6 • 416 pp. $7.99/$11.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE GREEN BOOK The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time

e-Book

Author Available

by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen NEW

“It’s exciting to have a book like this where you can flip through and go see what you can do, what you can do instead of what you should have done....”—Cameron Diaz With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of everday environmental solutions, pinpointing the tiniest adjustments that have the biggest impact upon the health of our great green globe. Perfect for younger readers. With celebrity contributions from: Justin Timberlake, Tiki Barber, Tyra Banks, Owen Wilson, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Ellen DeGeneres, Will Ferrell, and many others.

For more details, visit http://www.readthegreenbook.com/ Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-38135-4 • 224 pp. $12.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

34

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

Drawing upon new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, unmasking the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors, including the spymaster at the heart of it all.

“After working on Washington, I knew there was a story to tell about his reliance on spies during the Revolutionary War. But I believed the story could never be told because the evidence did not exist.

Well, I was wrong, and Alexander Rose tells this important story with style and wit.”—Joseph Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38329-4 • 384 pp. $16.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope

by Zainab Salbi

With stunning images by award-winning photographers Susan Meiselas, Lekha Singh, and Sylvia Plachy, Salbi presents a riveting collection of letters and first-person narratives by amazing women who survived war’s devastation and now must find the strength to rebuild families and communities.

Overviews by the author explain how each nation’s history led to violent conflict; then, with searing eloquence, the women tell their stories—of horror, cruelty, and suffering but also of profound inspiration as they work toward renewal and toward the day their fierce determination is rewarded with productivity, prosperity, and lasting joy.

National Geographic • HC • 978-0-7922-6211-4 • 256 pp. $28.00/$37.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $14.00

PLENTY

Author Available

What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Emerging Science of Sex Differences Year of Eating Locally

by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

A noted physician and psychologist looks at the controversial question of biologically-based gender differences, arguing compellingly that these variations are a biological reality and that they play a key role in the development of personality traits.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1625-7 • 336 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

CRADLE & CRUCIBLE History and Faith in the Middle East Introduction by Daniel Schorr

This book details the historical, political, cultural, and religious forces that have shaped the region and unravels for readers the enigma that is the Middle East. Beginning with the prehistoric civilizations of the fertile crescent and continuing through the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, the first section of the book distills the Middle East’s sweeping, often turbulent history. From the Hittites to Alexander the Great, from the Romans to the Crusaders, from the Ottomans to the Imperialists, the Middle East’s rich tapestry of influences and identities is described with new critical insights. The book’s second section is devoted to the Middle East’s three great faiths, examining in depth the impact of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian beliefs on history and daily life in the Middle East.

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7922-6597-9 • 224 pp. $16.00/$25.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

AGAINST THE MACHINE Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

Author Available

by Lee Siegel NEW

From Lee Siegel comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet.

Siegel’s argument isn’t a Luddite intervention against the Internet itself but rather a bracing appeal for us to contend with how it is transforming us all.

Dazzlingly erudite, full of startlingly original insights, and buoyed by sharp wit, Against the Machine will force you to see our culture—for better and worse— in an entirely new way.

Spiegel & Grau • HC • 978-0-385-52265-6 • 192 pp. $22.95/$25.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.50

HISTORY & SOCIETY

WHY GENDER MATTERS

by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon NEW

The remarkable, amusing, and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. Using this foodfocused experiment as a way to think about globalization, monoculture, the oil economy, environmental collapse, and community, the authors reveal a meaningful way to relate to the very essence of human survival: the food we eat.

One Book, One Community Choice in Alliance, OH Harmony • HC • 978-0-307-34732-9 • 272 pp. $24.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $12.00

Paperback forthcoming April 2008. Do not order paperback before 4/22/2008.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-34733-6 • 272 pp. e-Book $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER

Author Available

A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania

by Warren St. John A Chronicle of Higher Education Top 10 Best CollegeSports Books Ever

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is a cultural anthropology of fandom that goes a long way toward demystifying the universal urge to achieve victory—albeit vicariously.

“St. John offers an unsurpassed blend of scholarly heft (he’s gathered all of the scattered research on sports fandom), superb reporting...and gemlike writing (St. John knew Alabama would beat Vanderbilt on a brutally hot day as soon as he saw Vandy’s ‘photon-slurping black jerseys’).”—The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Review Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-80713-2 288 pp.• $12.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

35

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

THE GREAT DERANGEMENT A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II Author Available

by Matt Taibbi NEW—Forthcoming May 2008

Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi set out for Washington in 2005 to find out how laws are made in twenty-first-century America, but soon realized there are two sides to this story: on one side, the Pit, a frivolous and isolated Congress where the laws are made; on the other, the howling madness of the rest of America, where the effects of our politics-of-the-absurd play out in real lives.

Perfect for an election year, and bound to provoke controversy, this is a scathingly funny, audaciously reported, and genuinely illuminating narrative of what America has become at the end of the Bush Era, from a major new voice in political journalism.

Do not order before 5/6/2008.

Spiegel & Grau • HC • 978-0-385-52034-8 • 272 pp. $24.00/$28.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

AMERICAN-MADE: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work

e-Book

Author Available

by Nick Taylor NEW—Forthcoming February 2008

On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed.

Within four years, twelve million workers—one quarter of the United States’s adult workforce— were jobless. Thirty-six million family members who depended on them were equally destitute.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933, he promised the country a “New Deal.” And from this promise grew a presidential act creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA), headed by the visionary Harry Hopkins and guided by his unstinting ethic.

Exhaustively researched, compellingly told, filled with enthralling period photographs, American-Made documents for the first time in one volume the complete story of the WPA—ultimately one of the most enduring, humane, and controversial economic programs ever launched by the government.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Do not order before 2/26/2008.

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80235-1 • 640 pp. $27.00/$33.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.50

36

www.randomhouse/academic

e-Book

by Alexis De Tocqueville Translated by Henry Reeve and with an Introduction by Joseph Epstein

From America’s call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America—first published in 1835—enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. For today’s readers, de Tocqueville’s concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. This edition contains the complete texts of Volumes I and II. Includes notes and a suggested reading list.

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21464-2 • 976 pp. $7.95/$11.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

CONFLUENCE A River, Politics, the Environment, and the Fate of All Humanity

e-Book

Author Available

by Nathaniel Tripp Foreword by Howard Dean

In a literal sense, humans and rivers are inextricably connected: we carry the same pesticides and heavy metals, antibiotics and estrogen in our bloodstreams.

Nathaniel Tripp, currently a member of the Connecticut River Joint Commission, draws on his extensive experience with rivers to outline some of the most disturbing environmental developments of the present age, arguing for a long-term, large-scale and comprehensive approach to environmental planning and globalism. A multi-faceted and compelling call for awareness and activism.

Steerforth • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-58642-106-9 • 176 pp. $12.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE TIMES WERE A CHANGIN’ The Sixties Reader

by Debi Unger and Irwin Unger

This is an anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and has had a more direct impact on the way we have navigated the profound changes that swept over the country in the following three decades.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-80337-0 • 368 pp. $16.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time

Author Available

by David Vise and Mark Malseed

The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38366-9 • 336 pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

MEDICAL APARTHEID The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington Now in Paperback

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations.

“Sweeping and powerful.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1547-2 • 512 pp. $15.95/$20.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

A True Story

e-Book

Author Available

by Timothy B. Tyson Winner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007* A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Public Library Book to Remember

us

BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME

Author Available

HISTORY & SOCIETY

THE GOOGLE STORY

© Ia n L

ek

In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience. Tim Tyson’s riveting narrative of a fiery summer of racial conflict and one family’s struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction is a complex rendering of a true story, in which violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to powerful effect.

“Admirable and unexpected... a riveting story that will have his readers weeping with both laughter and sorrow.”—Chicago Tribune “Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer “Southern storyteller Tim Tyson put his heart and experience into a book you can’t put down. Tim Tyson the professional historian shows you where the story came from. He’s right: we have to face our history squarely—all of it—before we can get things right today.”—Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University and author of Southern History Across the Color Line *On December 1, 2006, Timothy B. Tyson received the Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007 from officials at the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Selected for Furman University, Queens University of Charlotte, and Villanova University’s One Book Program. University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill and University of Wisconsin at Richland have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-8311-4 • 368 pp. • $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

37

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

BEATS RHYMES & LIFE What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop

MINDLESS EATING

Author Available

Why We Eat More Than We Think

by Brian Wansink NEW

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why we may not realize how much we’re eating, what we’re eating—or why we’re even eating at all. Wansink has spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden cues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious and clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. He explains how packaging influences how much we eat, why most diets are doomed to fail, and how we can use the “mindless margin” to lose—instead of gain—ten to twenty pounds over the span of one year.

Mindless Eating will change the way we look at food, and will provide the facts we need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38448-2 • 304 pp. $12.00/$16.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

FOREVER A SOLDIER Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service

by Tom Wiener Now in Paperback

Forever a Soldier—drawn from the national collection of the Library of Congress “Veterans History Project”—illustrates how American soldiers have answered the call to duty with a singular spirit of patriotism, and how military service has transformed their lives. Culled from the letters, diaries, and oral histories of soldiers, sailors, marines, and supporting citizens, these fifty stories constitute an astonishing historical record, a powerful tribute to those who fought, and a celebration of the enduring power of the words of few to speak for many. Forever a Soldier captures the personal perspective of war that is all too often lost in news reports and government statements. It is an indispensable contribution to understanding war and its impact on us all.

National Geographic • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7922-6207-7 • 352 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

38

www.randomhouse/academic

by Ytasha Womack Edited by Kenji Jasper Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson NEW

From the “Boogie Down Bronx” to the heartland, hip-hop culture’s influence is major. But has the movement taken a wrong turn?

In Beats Rhymes and Life, journalists Kenji Jasper and Ytasha Womack have focused on what they consider to be the most prominent symbols of the genre: the fan, the turntable, the shell casing, and the coffin—to name just a few. Each is the focus of an essay by a journalist who skillfully dissects what their chosen symbol means to them and to the hiphop community. The collection also features many original interviews with some of rap’s biggest stars.

In this daring book, Jasper and Womack present an innovative look at the current state of the hip-hop nation.

Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1977-7 • 320 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION A History

by Gordon S. Wood

America’s highest ideals and aspirations—namely, its commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people and equality— emerged from the Revolutionary era. However, the Revolution demands more than just this simple telling; it requires careful critical consideration.

How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences?

In The American Revolution, historian Gordon Wood addresses the good, the bad, and the unknown—ultimately offering a full, nuanced, and expert analysis of what the revolution meant to Americans over two hundred years ago, and what it means for all Americans today.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7041-8 • 224 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

by Behzad Yaghmaian Now in Paperback

Author Available

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, IranianAmerican Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to do—as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in the West.

“Like Günter Walraff and other practitioners of the dying craft of investigative journalism, Yaghmaian has given a voice to people whose tales have not been told before. In doing so, he has written one of the essential documents of our times and shown once again what journalism can do when it chooses to speak for the powerless, instead of reproducing the lies and fantasies of the powerful.”—Race & Class Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38294-5 • 368 pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

COVERING The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

e-Book

Author Available

by Kenji Yoshino Winner, 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award

In Covering, one of the country’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 our authentic selves is a harm from which the law should sometimes protect us. More profoundly, he claims that law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of authenticity. A moving memoir and a penetrating analysis of today’s cultural mores, Yoshino’s lucid prose is accessible and thoughtprovoking.

“Yoshino argues convincingly in this book that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation’s courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic America.”—San Francisco Chronicle One of Several Freshman Common Reading Titles at Yale University Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76021-1 • 304 pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE LUCIFER EFFECT Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Author Available

HISTORY & SOCIETY

EMBRACING THE INFIDEL

by Philip Zimbardo Now in Paperback

In The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo—creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment—tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of collegestudent volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.

Illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to the abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib. He presents an engrossing study of how situational forces and group dynamics can make monsters out of decent men and women.

“If there has been a more important and compelling book written in the last twenty-five years, I’ve not encountered it. Informed by social science, history, intelligence, experience, and selfexamination, Phil Zimbardo’s engaging and beautifully written tour de force uncovers the sources of evil—big and small. The Lucifer Effect accomplishes more than simply making the darkness visible; it also helps to make lightness possible. It is crucial reading for everyone.”—Professor Jon D Hanson, Harvard University Law School Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7444-7 • 576 pp. $18.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

FREE HISTORY CATALOG AVAILABLE This catalog highlights titles appropriate for use in undergraduate and graduate-level history courses. Also contains examination copy ordering information for professors who would like to review books for adoption purposes.

To request a copy, email us at rhacademic@randomhouse.com. www.randomhouse/academic

39

© Evangelos Dousmanis

HISTORY & SOCIETY

SPOTLIGHT: EVOLUTION & SCIENCE IN SOCIETY rom colleges and universities to high schools around the country, the debate over the inclusion of intelligent design in the science curriculum has been catapulted to the forefront of national discussion. Random House, Inc. publishes a broad range of titles examining the history of the theory of evolution, its related developments, and its controversies. Many of these books address the larger historical, political, scientific, and religious questions at the heart of the debate, and will be of use to any campus-wide programs addressing this topic.

F

EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

Author Available

by David Sloan Wilson NEW

his is a book of tall claims about evolution: that it can be uncontroversial; that the basic principles are easy to learn; that everyone should want to learn them, once their implications are understood; that evolution and religion...can be brought harmoniously together.”—From Evolution for Everyone Polls show that more than half of all Americans don’t believe in evolution.

And most people who do accept evolution don’t appreciate its relevance to the world today. Debates over evolution continue to heighten on America’s college campuses and in its High School classrooms.

In lively prose, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson explodes the great misconceptions that have made the theory of evolution seem daunting, irrelevant, or even dangerous. And he shows how evolutionary principles can be applied to almost every aspect of human life—from crime to laughter, from politics to pregnancy—providing a wealth of insights both intriguing and useful.

Evolution for Everyone cuts through the rhetoric to present a simply revolutionary way of thinking about human beings and their place in the world. It is an ideal selection for colleges wanting to set a proper context for debate about this landmark scientific theory with such important social ramifications.

“T

Praise for Evolution for Everyone...

“In this age of mounting mistrust between science and religion in American society—especially in America’s classrooms—David Sloan Wilson’s Evolution for Everyone comes as a breath of fresh air....

Evolution for Everyone fills a gap in understanding evolution, and will help in the much-needed bridge building across the divide that has threatened educational values in recent years.”

—Niles Eldredge, Division of Paleontology, The American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34092-2 • 400 pp. • $15.00/$20.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Please visit www.randomhouse.com/acmart/evolution for a full listing of titles available on and about the theory of Evolution and surrounding social, political, and legal debates.

40

www.randomhouse/academic

Author

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Available

by Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, is a landmark volume in scientific writing. In an engaging voice, Hawking addresses and explains compelling, fascinating subjects such as: the nature of space and time; the role of God in creation; and the history and future of the universe.

But it is also true that, in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book’s most important concepts.

This difficulty is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time. Here, Hawking makes his masterpiece’s content even more accessible to readers, and updates it with the latest scientific observations and findings.

Darwin’s classic, controversial and highly influential work about evolutionary processes and their role in shaping the origin of all species. Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859.

Based largely on Darwin’s experience as a naturalist while on a five-year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of evolution and natural selection that challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the immutability of species.

Selected as 2006 Common Reading Title at University of California—Berkeley Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80436-2 • 176 pp. $25.00/$35.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

Also by Stephen Hawking:

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

by Charles Darwin

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21463-5 • 432 pp. $5.95/$8.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Also available:

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

by Charles Darwin Gramercy • HC • 978-0-517-12320-1 • 544 pp. $7.99/$10.98 Can. • Exam Copy: $4.00

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

by Charles Darwin

Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-10953-5 • 224 pp. $27.95/$36.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $14.00

This edition also includes an introductory sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75146-2 • 720 pp. $8.95/$12.50 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38016-3 • 224 pp. $18.00/$26.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE ILLUSTRATED A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-10374-8 • 256 pp. $39.95/$59.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $20.00

BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES AND OTHER ESSAYS Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-37411-7 • 192 pp. $18.00/$24.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL Bantam • HC • 978-0-553-80202-3 • 224 pp. $35.00/$53.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $17.50

HISTORY & SOCIETY

A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME

THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World

by Charles Darwin Introduction by Steve Jones

The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin’s five-year journey around the world to the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. It was while traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens that Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. A fascinating adventure story in its own right, Darwin’s work is newly relevant to the evolution debates of contemporary times.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75680-1 • 496 pp. $12.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

41

HISTORY & SOCIETY

HISTORY & SOCIETY, cont’d

THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE

by Charles Darwin White Star • HC • 978-88-544-0176-1 • 398 pp. $12.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $6.50

THE SCIENTIST AS REBEL

by Freeman Dyson

In the view of the prize-winning physicist Freeman J. Dyson, science, wherever it practiced, is characterized by its rebellion against the restrictions of local cultures. Like art and poetry, it resists authority. The scientist is thus by nature a rebel, loyal not to social demands but only to reason and the imagination.

This collection, by a renowned scientist who is also a lively and distinguished writer, offers fresh and often unexpected perspectives on the history, methods, and ethics of science, as well as informative and accessible ways of thinking about contentious current debates on the relations between science, religion, literature, and society.

New York Review Books • HC • 978-1-59017-216-2 • 400 pp. $27.95/$36.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $14.00

INHERIT THE WIND

THE GOSPEL OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER

by Bobby Henderson

“If Intelligent Design is taught in schools, equal time should be given to the FSM theory and the non-FSM theory.”—Professor Douglas Shaw, Ph.D. It all began in June 2005 when Bobby Henderson of Oregon wrote an open letter to the Kansas School Board proposing a third alternative to the teaching of evolution and intelligent design: the teachings of The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM).

What would be comical if it weren’t conceived as a real challenge to the decision to teach Intelligent Design alongside the scientific theory of evolution, Bobby’s letter and “movement” sparked real worldwide interest and ignited academics and Kansas School Board members alike to write in with words of support. Students also began “proselytizing” across campuses nation-wide, and it was all-too-clear that there needed to be a book to lay out the FSM scripture, rites and observances, proofs, and answers to the Big Questions. So here is that book: a humorous and tongue-in-cheek read albeit a serious, and Intelligent, subtext.

Villard • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7656-4 • 192 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

EVOLUTION

A dramatization of the 1922 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in which a Tennessee school teacher was brought to court for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution, Inherit the Wind is a riveting account of a perennially controversial topic. This classic is ideal for discussions of religious, artistic and scientific freedoms.

The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Saint Joseph's University.

Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-46627-3 • 144 pp. $6.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Edward J. Larson One of Library Journal’s “Best Sci-Tech Picks for 2004”

In this lively, deeply erudite work, Pulitzer Prizewinning science historian Edward J. Larson takes us on a guided tour of Darwin’s “dangerous idea,” from its theoretical antecedents in the early nineteenth century to Watson and Crick’s stunning discovery of the DNA double helix to cultural reception of the theory today. Replete with fresh material and new insights, Evolution is an expert, taut, and comprehensive history of a controversial and important scientific theory.

“Larson has written a brilliant introduction to the history of evolution, equally sensitive to scientific, religious, and social factors. It is, hands down, the most readable and reliable account available.”— Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine.

Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6849-1 • 368 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

42

www.randomhouse/academic

TROPICAL FISH

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS

by Doreen Baingana Now in Paperback Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Africa region Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award Series in Short Fiction Winner of the Washington Writing Prize for Short Fiction Finalist for the Caine Prize in African Writing

by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family: their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times.

“Nothing short of astonishing....In The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende has indeed shown us the relationships between past and present, family and nation, city and country, spiritual and political values. She has done so with enormous imagination, sensitivity, and compassion.”

—San Francisco Chronicle Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38380-5 • 448 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-27391-5 • 448 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

CELLOPHANE

Author

Available

by Marie Arana Winner 2006—Booklist Top 10 First Novel Winner 2006—A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Now in Paperback

Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true— until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. That’s when strange things tart to happen, a hilarious plague of truth consequently descends on the once well-behaved Sobrevillas.

“Exuberant and virtuosic.... Conflict takes on a teeming array of forms in Cellophane: whites versus natives, religion versus magic, feudalism versus revolution. It’s a vision of the rain forest as a place where every strain of human drama grows as tangled as the encroaching vines—and in depicting this, Arana has wound her themes together with an energetic, subtly controlled wildness.”—San Francisco Chronicle Books A Reader’s Guide is available.

Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33665-9 • 480 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by Marie Arana, see page 4.

Author Available

Tales From Entebbe

e-Book

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin’s dictatorship.

As the Mugishas cope with Uganda’s collapsing infrastructure, they also contend with the universal themes of family cohesion, sex and relationships, disease, betrayal, and spirituality.

“Baingana looks at contemporary Uganda in a way comparable to Edwidge Danticat’s approach to Haiti’s recent history. Tropical Fish makes the debut of a similarly unflinching, graceful new voice.”

—David Anthony Durham, author of Gabriel’s Story and Walk Through Darkness Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-2510-5 • 208 pp. $10.95/$14.50 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE LAW OF DREAMS A Novel

by Peter Behrens Now in Paperback

This book tells the story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847.

On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,” Fergus is initiated to the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets an unforgettable generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls—all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7800-1 • 416 pp. $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

43

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT, cont’d

THE GUARDIANS: A Novel

THE POET OF TOLSTOY PARK

by Ana Castillo NEW

Author Available

A Novel

by Sonny Brewer

“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’être. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel based on the true story of Stuart’s life, which he reclaimed and renewed after learning of his doctor’s belief that he would not live another year.

The Poet of Tolstoy Park is a moving and irresistible story, a guidebook of the mind and spirit which grips the heart.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-47632-6 • 288 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

WORLD WAR Z

Author Available

An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks Now in Paperback

“Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast.”

—Dallas Morning News World War Z is the haunting oral history of the hellish epoch known as The Zombie War. Max Brooks demonstrates writing par excellence: a flawless balance of imagination with very real depictions of human horror, urgency, and resistance.

Frightening and captivating, World War Z is a roman a clef for all our present-day fears.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-307-34661-2 352 pp. • $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE PALACE THIEF Stories

by Ethan Canin

“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus—and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken.

A remarkable achievement by one of America’s finest writers, this brilliant volume reveals the moments of insight that illuminate everyday lives.

The College of New Jersey has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7617-5 • 224 pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

44

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

“Timely and highly readable.... Castillo’s most important accomplishment in The Guardians is to give a unique literary voice to questions about what makes up a ‘family,’ Mexican-American or otherwise, where an independent soul can find redemption, particularly in a hostile world, and how we can realistically find ‘faith,’ if we can find it at all, after we have suffered through our personal and political histories, and are still standing on this earth. This is a wonderful novel that does justice to life on the Mexican-American border.”—El Paso Times Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6500-4 • 224 pp. $24.95/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

BROTHERS: A Novel

by Da Chen Now in Paperback

Author Available

Brothers, by bestselling memoirist Da Chen, is a sprawling, dynamic family saga, complete with assassinations, love affairs, narrowly missed opportunities, and the ineluctable fulfillment of destiny.

“From Shaolin to the sugarloaf mountains of Gwangdong to Tiananmen Square and the skyscrapers of New York: an epic novel that neatly distills modern Chinese history. Da Chen’s elegantly written novel ends on the promise of redemption...”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-9729-6 • 448 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FINN: A Novel

by Jon Clinch Now in Paperback

Author Available

In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own.

“Finn is as dark, as brutal, as ambivalent, and as insane as the history and legacy of American racial slavery. It is also graceful, imaginative, and relentlessly intelligent.”—Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7714-1 • 320 pp. $14.00/$16.50 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

APRIL MORNING

by Vincent O. Carter

by Howard Fast

Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ‘30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones.

This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community. It is a unique work of American fiction, a literary triumph, and a must-read for anyone deeply interested in our nation’s social history and cultural heritage.

“A rousing, inspired work, keenly observed and soulful...a rich addition to our literary understanding of the 20th-century African-American experience.”—The Boston Globe “For those of us who are used to handling manuscripts—sometimes to examine them line by line, more often to flip through the pages—it’s a privileged moment indeed when we realize that we are dealing with a text destined for that small shelf of memorable literature certain to be printed and reprinted over the years. The telltale signs, for me, are trembling hands, eyeglasses clouding over—the psychological equivalent of a thunderclap. The book you have in hand now provided all of these emotions.”

—From The Foreword By Herbert R. Lottman

This eloquent novel captures the terror and joy of a young man involved in his first battle—the battle for American independence.

“Invites comparison with Crane’s Red Badge of Courage [...] I think this is an even better book.”

—The New York Times

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

SUCH SWEET THUNDER: A Novel

Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-27322-9 • 208 pp. $7.50/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

VEIL OF ROSES

Author Available

by Laura Fitzgerald NEW

This compelling debut follows one spirited young woman from the confines of Iran to the intoxicating freedom of America—where she discovers not only an enticing new country but the roots of her own independence.

“A gorgeously authentic voice. Fitzgerald’s narrative is infused with wit, warmth and compassion.”

—Kavita Daswani, author of Salaam, Paris A Reader’s Guide is available.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38388-1 • 320 pp. $12.00/$15.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Zoland Books • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-58195-217-9 • 440 pp. $16.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author

ka An a nd Div a

un i

r

Available

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni New Author is the Winner of the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the South Asia Literary Association for her contribution to South Asian literature

©

THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS: A Novel

A re-imagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.

“Divakaruni’s book shines… in its examination of the subtle, extrasensory connections between mothers and daughters that continue to develop even after death divides them.”—Los Angeles Times “Magical… In lyrical, poetic prose, Divakaruni manages to be hopeful without offering false reassurances, showing how identity—both individual and communal—is equally shaped by loss and creation.”—San Francisco Chronicle Doubleday • HC • 978-0-385-51599-3 • 384 pp. • $23.95/$27.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

45

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: E.L. DOCTOROW

Author Available

THE BOOK OF DANIEL

THE MARCH: A Novel

THE WATERWORKS

Nominated for a National Book Award

Now in Paperback Winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of The Pen/Faulkner Award

One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.

Rich in characters, from elderly grandmothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pentagon, this is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life after World War II and examines the nature of Left politics in this country.

Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7817-9 • 320 pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

CREATIONISTS Selected Essays, 1993–2006 Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7564-2 • 192 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00

LOON LAKE: A Novel The hero of this dazzling novel

by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression whose fate will play out in this powerful story of ambition, aggression, and identity.

“Powerful... [a] complex and haunting meditation on modern American history.”—The New York Times Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7821-6 • 272 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The great march in E. L. Doctorow’s hands becomes an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7615-1 • 384 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00

RAGTIME Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7818-6 • 336 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by E.L. Doctorow, visit our website at www.randomhouse.com/academic

Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7819-3 • 272 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

WELCOME TO HARD TIMES: A Novel Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.

“A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”—The Washington Post Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7822-3 • 224 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

WORLD’S FAIR Winner of the National Book Award

The astonishing novel of a young boy’s life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World’s Fair.

Random House • Tr. Pbk. 978-0-8129-7820-9 • 304 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

46

www.randomhouse/academic

AFTER: A Novel

A Novel

by Marita Golden

by Leo Furey Now in Paperback

In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.

The story of an African-American police officer who shoots an innocent black man during a routine traffic stop, After is a penetrating work of discovery about a man whose life careens more than once off the edge of disaster.

From a hill above town, the Mount Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on the small city of St. John’s, Newfoundland. The year is 1960. The orphanage is always cold, there is never enough to eat, and the Catholic Brothers who run the home are heavy-handed in their religious discourses and harsh in their discipline. Here, a group of boys manages to look out for each other and live by their own set of rules.

Trumpeter • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-528-7 • 384 pp. $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

A Novel

by Amitav Ghosh

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterful novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. Rich in historical and cultural detail, The Glass Palace challenges assumptions about race, class, and the ramifications of political dominance.

“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland—a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

THE SYRINGA TREE: A Novel

by Pamela Gien NEW

e-Book

Author Available

In this heartrending and inspiring novel set against the gorgeous, vast landscape of South Africa under apartheid, award-winning playwright Pamela Gien tells the story of two families—one black, one white—separated by racism, connected by love. The narrator is Elizabeth Grace, who is six years old when the novel opens. This compelling story, which traces the political upheavals in the 1960s and onward through Elizabeth’s eyes,reveals the healing of the heart of a young woman and the soul of a sundered nation.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75910-9 • 288 pp. $13.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1778-0 • 256 pp. $12.95/$16.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

INTUITION

by Allegra Goodman Winner 2006—A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Now in Paperback

THE GLASS PALACE

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75877-5 • 512 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

THE LONG RUN

e-Book

Author Available

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by The New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With extraordinary insight, Allegra Goodman brilliantly explores the intricate mixture of workplace intrigue, scientific ardor, and the moral consequences of a rush to judgment.

A Reader’s Guide is available.

Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33610-9 • 400 pp. $13.00/$16.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

BOMBINGHAM

by Anthony Grooms

e-Book

Author Available

From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by its personal chaos. As young African-American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence in Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil rights movement meant nothing more than being sent into a battlefield of another kind.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Marquette University and SUNY Oswego.

One World/Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-45293-1 • 320 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

www.randomhouse/academic

47

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT, cont’d

THE CHANGELING A Novel

DE NIRO’S GAME

by Kate Horsley

by Rawi Hage NEW

De Niro’s Game plunges readers into the timely story of two young men caught in Lebanon’s civil war.

Bassam and George, best friends in childhood, have grown to adulthood in war-torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. De Niro’s Game is ultimately an explosive portrait of life in a war zone, and a powerful meditation on what comes after.

Steerforth • HC • 978-1-58195-223-0 • 280 pp. $23.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $12.00

INTO THE FOREST

by Jean Hegland

Author Available

Into the Forest follows two young sisters struggling to make sense of their world when their near-future society collapses. Hegland’s exploration of the sisters’ relationship as they go deeper into the forest reveals the full dimension of their bond, and what it means to be human and alive in this new world.

Bowling Green State University has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-37961-7 • 256 pp. $15.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

BLACK ELK IN PARIS: A Novel

by Kate Horsley Now in Paperback

Author Available

The award-winning author Kate Horsley spins an imaginative story, narrated by Philippe, a modest, likeable Parisian physician. While attending a Wild West show that is touring Europe, the youngest daughter of the family he attends, Madou, is strangely drawn to Black Elk, a Native American Indian, with whom she gradually falls in love. Black Elk— seen as an oddity by French society—is poised and uncannily intuitive, but desperately homesick.

Philippe and Madou, oppressed in their own ways by the same French culture that rejects Black Elk, try to help him, but it is ultimately he who transforms the lives of all those around him. A thought-provoking, moving look at cultural assimilation and personal change.

Trumpeter • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-420-4 • 224 pp. $11.95/$14.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

48

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

In The Changeling, acclaimed author Kate Horsley takes us to fourteenth-century Ireland for a strange and luminous tale of the elusive nature of identity and of triumph over adversity. The Changeling is the story of Grey, a peasant girl who is raised as a boy, and who, until adolescence, never doubts herself to be male. The revelation of her womanhood marks the beginning of her journey through a succession of changing identities—including son, wife, warrior, and mother—each of which brings its own special wisdom, but none of which, she discovers, can ultimately define her.

“Middlesex in the Middle Ages? Almost. In this complex, intelligent novel... Horsley raises thoughtprovoking questions of religion and identity. Told with rich detail, warmth, and wry wit.”—Publishers Weekly Shambhala • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-194-4 • 352 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

CLAY’S QUILT

by Silas House

Author Available

House gives us the narrative of four-yearold orphan Clay Sizemore, abandoned in a small Appalachian mining town called Free Creek. The diverse group of eccentric inhabitants who become Clay’s surrogate family work through poverty, tragedy and isolation to imbue the youngster with a unique sense of belonging.

“A young writer of immense gifts.... One of the best books I have ever read about contemporary life in the mountains of southern Appalachia.”—Lee Smith Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-45069-2 • 320 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

MISTER PIP

by Lloyd Jones Winner 2007—Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in the UK Shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize NEW

n a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.

So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.

“One of the best books of the year! Poetic, heartbreaking, surprising. Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel Great Expectations.

Storytelling, imagination, courage, beauty, memories and sudden violence are the main elements of this extraordinary book.”—Isabel Allende, author of The House of Spirits “Mister Pip is sheer magic, a story about stories and their power to transcend the limits of imagination and reside in the deep heart’s core. Lloyd Jones is a brave and fierce writer, and he has given us Dickens brand new again.”—Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child “Mister Pip is a powerful and touching story about one man’s role in transforming the lives of young people. Although these children live on an island left behind by the modern world, their plight reminded me of the challenges my very own students faced in the inner-city. This novel demands we take note of the sheer power of education and literature to transform the lives of young people—whatever their circumstances and wherever in the world they may be.”—Erin Gruwell, author of he Freedom Writers Diary A Teacher’s Guide is available.

I

Dial Press • HC • 978-0-385-34106-6 • 272 pp. • $20.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $10.00

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: LLOYD JONES

e-Book

Paperback forthcoming May 2008. Do not order paperback before 5/20/2008.

Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34107-3 • 272 pp. • $12.00/NCR. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Examination Copies Examination copies are available to college professors, instructors, or administrators seeking titles to review for adoption consideration. The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off the retail price for all hardcovers and paperbacks priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to ten per teacher per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

To order, use the order form on the back of this catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid with a check, or money order made payable to Random House, Inc. Offer only valid in the United States. All requests are subject to approval and availability. Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.

www.randomhouse/academic

49

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT, cont’d

THE STALIN FRONT A Novel of World War II

INDECISION: A Novel

by Benjamin Kunkel

by Gert Ledig New Translation and Introduction by Michael Hoffman

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, this brilliantly comic debut novel rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation. “[B]lends astute and whimsical observation with cerebral gymnastics and tortuously modest, wistful introspection. Kunkel has a masterly ear [....]”

—The New York Times

A newly discovered masterpiece of world literature, The Stalin Front is a realistic and frightening story of combat. Set in 1942, at the Eastern Front, Ledig’s novel, comparable to masterpieces of war literature like Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, is a harrowing description of violence and devastation.

Switching between the German and Russian lines, Ledig vividly depicts both sides of the conflict, showing readers the unforgiving reality of total war.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7375-4 256 pp. • $12.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

GIFTED: A Novel

by Nikita Lalwani NEW

IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN Author Available

“A triumph... fluid, original, clever, glitteringly vivid, funny.... All the conventional pieties and forms of Indian immigrant identity and trauma are so wittily preempted, and yet there’s a sure grasp, at the serious core of the novel, of the deep reverberations of politics and history. I couldn’t bear it when it ended.”—Tessa Hadley, author of The Master Bedroom Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6648-3 • 288 pp. $23.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $12.00

AMERICAN YOUTH A Novel

Author Available

by Phil LaMarche Now in Paperback

American Youth is the powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the admiration of a sinister gang of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions—an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers—this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7740-0 • 256 pp. $14.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

50

www.randomhouse/academic

NYRB Classics • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59017-164-6 • 200 pp. $14.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

by Hisham Matar Winner 2007—Commonwealth Writers’ Prize of Europe and South Asia Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now in Paperback

In the Country of Men is the story of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best friend’s father disappears and is next seen on state television at a public execution; where a mysterious man sits outside the house all day and asks strange questions; where his mother burns all their books when it seems his father has finally disappeared for good. Soon the whispers and fears, secrets and lies will become so intense that Suleiman can bear them no longer, and, in his terrified effort to save his family, he may end up betraying his friends, his parents and ultimately himself.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Dial Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-34043-4 • 256 pp. $12.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

BLACK SWAN GREEN A Novel Kaplan

Author Available

A Novel

L.

by Adam Mansbach

From the acclaimed author of w © Matthe Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity. “...[A] revelation, a wise and funny riff on hip hop and the racial divide that has always plagued America. I found that [Angry White Black Boy] could get a class talking, at the deepest level, about hardest issues, with a common language of youth culture.

Mansbach’s writing is masterful, his references are erudite but accessible, and his vision is unflinching.”—Rick Ayers, Berkeley High School, co-author, Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher’s Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives “Whether the subject is critical race studies, whiteness, hip hop, literature, or the race novel tradition, Angry Black White Boy makes an excellent teaching tool. Savvy, provocative, and rich with allusions, Mansbach’s text provides plenty of material for discussion and debate.”—Wayne Marshall, Ethnomusicologist, Harvard University Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-5487-9 • 352 pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE END OF THE JEWS A Novel

Author Available

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.

Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date.

A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7401-0 304 pp. • $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE SPEED OF DARK

Author Available

by Elizabeth Moon Winner, 2004 Nebula Award

The Speed of Dark is an exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world... and the very essence of who he is. A fascinating work of fiction ideal for discussions about choice and its consequences.

Ohio State University and State University of New York Oswego have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-44754-8 • 368 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Adam Mansbach NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

From the author of Angry Black White Boy, this is an ambitious and affecting family drama elevated by Mansbach’s imaginative storytelling techniques and deep empathy for his characters. Boldly reworking the story of Jewish assimilation around the tale of a family of fierce individuals, this is the story of anyone willing to fight for love, art, and a place in the world.

Do not order before 3/18/2008.

Spiegel & Grau • HC • 978-0-385-52044-7 • 304 pp. $23.95/$27.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.00

by David Mitchell Now in Paperback

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY

e-Book

Del Rey • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-48139-9 • 384 pp. • $6.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

www.randomhouse/academic

51

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: SUSAN CAROL MCCARTHY LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS

Author

Available

by Susan Carol McCarthy Awards & Honors: 2003 Chautauqua South Fiction Award 2003 San Diego Magazine’s Book Award for Fiction 2002 Deadly Pleasures’ Best U.S. First Novel Past and Forthcoming Addresses: 2009 Michigan State Reading Conference 2007 California Reading Association, 2006 Florida Library Association keynote 2005 Florida Council of Teachers of English 2004 Florida Council of Language Arts Supervisors Notable Item: • Core text in State of South Carolina’s English II “With Justice for All” curriculum, developed by renowned literacy consultant Dr. Janet Allen.

nspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a novel that tackles race politics in the pre-Civil Rights South unlike any other book in recent memory.

I

A wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extraordinary act of courage, the book is told from the point of view of a little girl who is witness to the extraordinary turn of events that begins with the lynching of a black man. From the arrival of noteworthy figures such as Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP, and Mr. Hoover’s FBI, to the expressed opinions and actions of the everyday town citizen, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands will give students a solid sense of the events, people, and national mood of this volatile and chaotic period in American history.

“Reminiscent of To Kill A Mockingbird, McCarthy’s debut novel is an engrossing story of one girl’s coming of age during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement”—Library Journal “The best fiction always bears a strong resemblance to real life... McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace.”—The Washington Post “[E]vocative... Reesa is an engaging narrator, obsessed with the murder of her friend Marvin, slowly becoming aware of the virulent hatred and bigotry that coexists with their neighbors’ generosity, good manners and Baptist spiritual fervor.”—Publishers Weekly A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Selected for Several Common Reading Programs: • 2008 One Book—One School, East Lansing High School and Rock Ledge High School, central Michigan • 2008 First-ever One Book program for Niceville-Okaloosa County Libraries in the Florida Panhandle • 2007 Michigan State University and East Lansing Reads • 2007 St. Augustine-St. Johns County Reads • 2005 Tampa-Hillsborough Reads Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38103-0 • 288 pp. • $13.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

TRUE FIRES

Author Available

by Susan Carol McCarthy

nspired by true events in Central, Florida, 1954, this is the moving story of a family exiled from school and community by discriminatory segregation laws. A gripping read, True Fires plumbs the depths of small-town prejudices and politics and exposes one of the grimmest faces of injustice. This book is excellent for discussions of American history, segregation, and civil rights.

“In McCarthy's insightful, fervent second novel... flawless dialogue, warm characters and compassionate wit service a moving story about the powers of love and justice.”—Publishers Weekly A Teacher’s Guide is available.

I

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38104-7 • 320 pp. • $13.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

52

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

ISHMAEL

A Novel

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

by Thomas Mullen Now in Paperback

by Daniel Quinn

Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced— the 1918 flu epidemic—Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. A chance encounter, and the shots that are fired as a result, will have deafening reverberations throughout the town of Commonwealth, escalating until every human value—love, patriotism, community, family, friendship—not to mention the town’s very survival, is imperiled.

A Teacher’s Guide is available. e-Book Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7592-5 432 pp. • $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

THE PERFECT MAN: A Novel

Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Ishmael is a Platonic dialogue in the form of a novel of ideas. The narrator is a truth seeker who answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla. Ishmael, the gorilla, is a creature of immense wisdom, and his story extends backward and forward over the life span of the Earth, from the birth of time to a future there is still time to save.

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

Author Available

THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH

The International School of the Americas has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-37540-4 • 272 pp. $17.00/$24.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Author Available

by Naeem Murr NEW

MY ISHMAEL

“[The Perfect Man] takes place chiefly in Pisgah, MO., the small town where Rajiv Travers, a halfIndian, half-English boy, comes of age in the 1950s.

This ‘Our Town’-ish locale is an ideal showcase for Murr’s impressive talents... Murr, a bracingly straightforward writer whose flourishes are rare and subtle, dexterously advances multiple story lines, overlapping them now and then with rich results....

Well-wrought characters and refreshingly clear prose.”—The New York Times Book Review e-Book

Raising new issues and entirely new approaches to old problems, My Ishmael continues the visionary journey begun in Ishmael. This time, Ishmael’s student is feisty, strong-willed Julie, and Ishmael’s first reaction is to send her home to grow up.

However, her concerns about the future of the world are legitimate and compelling, and even Ishmael cannot refute her arguments. Ishmael soon realizes that adopting new methods means adopting new goals; the result is a far different journey for Julie.

by Daniel Quinn

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7701-1 • 464 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-37965-5 • 304 pp. $17.00/$24.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE GOLDEN COMPASS

by Philip Pullman Winner, The Carnegie Medal ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Philip Pullman’s intiguing and haunting His Dark Materials trilogy sends readers on an incredible journey through other worlds where they meet mysterious creatures and the brave and extraordinary Lyra Belacqua, who has the power to seek truth.

In this first novel, Lyra journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by evil scientists.

Knopf • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-82345-9 • 416 pp. $11.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $6.00 Laurel-Leaf • Mass Mkt • 978-0-440-23813-3 368 pp. • $7.50/$9.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House is willing and able to support your program in a variety of ways.

Please turn to the inside back cover for more details.

e-Book

For more titles in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, visit www.randomhouse.com/academic

www.randomhouse/academic

53

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT, cont’d

MY JIM A Novel

A THREAD OF GRACE Author Available

by Nancy Rawles ALEX Award Winner (American Library Association) A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn’s Jim. Written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage. To help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. A nuanced critique and reinvention of Twain’s great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.

“In a spare, naturalistic style that’s reminiscent of oral history... Rawles covers territory Twain did not: Jim’s early life in captivity, his seemingly endless struggle for freedom, his love for his wife and children, his impossible anguish upon separation.”

—The New York Times Book Review A Teacher’s Guide is available.

Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-5401-5 • 192 pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE SPARROW A Novel

54

Author Available

by Mary Doria Russell

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war’s final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel about ordinary people taking heroic risks in the face of a powerful evil.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-449-00413-5 • 464 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN

by Lisa See A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most profound human relationships: friendship. A moving exploration of the power of memory, the dangers of oppression, and the redemptive powers of language.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-6806-4 288 pp. • $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

TO THE LAST MAN

“If you have to send a group of people to a newly discovered planet to contact a totally unknown species, whom would you choose? How about four Jesuit priests, a young astronomer, a physician, her engineer husband, and a child prostitute-turnedcomputer-expert? That’s who Mary Doria Russell sends in her new novel, The Sparrow. This motley combination of agnostics, true believers, and misfits becomes the first to explore the Alpha Centuri world of Rakhat with both enlightening and disastrous results.... Vivid and engaging...”

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A Novel of the First World War

e-Book

Author Available

by Jeff Shaara

This new novel carries readers to the heart of one of the greatest conflicts in human history and puts them face-to-face with the characters who made a lasting impact on the world.

“Jeff Shaara’s To the Last Man lets you live WWI in the air, in the mud, and in the councils of government in a way that makes you understand how the participants experienced it. Von Richtofen, Lufbery, Ludendorff, and Pershing come alive and their collective experience makes you wish you been there to watch it, but glad you didn’t!”—John S. Grinalds, Major General, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), President, The Citadel Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-46136-0 • 672 pp. $15.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

A Novel

by Mary Doria Russell

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-449-91255-3 • 448 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Author Available

A Novel

e-Book

© Rossano B. Maniscalchi

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: SALMAN RUSHDIE

FURY

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

SHALIMAR THE CLOWN

A Novel Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitchblack comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force.

A Novel Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India’s independence, and finds himself mysteriously “handcuffed to history” by this coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent—it is their privilege and their curse to be both masters and victims of their times. In what is often regarded as Rushdie’s best novel, he explores issues of personal and national identity in his trademark style.

A Novel Spanning the globe and darting through history, this narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age.

“Shalimar the Clown is a powerful parable about the willing and unwilling subversion of multiculturalism.”—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk 978-0-679-78350-3 • 272 pp. $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

GRIMUS A Novel “Grimus is science fiction in the best sense of the word. It is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of the form outward.”—Los Angeles Times Modern Library • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-6999-3 • 328 pp. $13.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE JAGUAR SMILE A Nicaraguan Journey New—Forthcoming March 2008

Rushdie’s first work of nonfiction, a critically acclaimed, highly original and personal narrative of Nicaragua at a critical time in its history and in the history of American intervention.

Do not order before 3/11/2008.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7672-4 • 160 pp. $14.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7653-3 • 624 pp. $14.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE SATANIC VERSES A Novel New—Forthcoming March 2008

A new edition of Booker Prizewinning author Salman Rushdie's fifth and best-known novel, as relevant as ever: the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in a hijacking over the English Channel.

Vassar College has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-679-78348-0 • 416 pp. $14.95/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

SHAME A Novel New—Forthcoming March 2008

Shame is a “sort of modern fairy tale” set in “not quite Pakistan,” a satirical, mythical, political novel that showcases Rushdie’s characteristic prowess and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Do not order before 3/11/2008.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7670-0 • 320 pp. $15.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

Do not order before 3/11/2008.

Random House • Tr. Pbk 978-0-8129-7671-7 • 576 pp. $16.00/NCR • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by Salman Rushdie, visit our website at www.randomhouse.com/academic

www.randomhouse/academic

55

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT, cont’d

THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER

by Amy Tan

THE KILLER ANGELS

by Michael Shaara

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a unique, sweeping, and unforgettable dramatic re-creation of the battle at Gettysburg—a battle that would ultimately shape America’s destiny.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-40727-6 • 400 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-34810-4 • 384 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

PREP: A Novel

by Curtis Sittenfeld A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Author Available

Curtis Sittenfeld’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. After leaving her family in South Bend, Indiana for the Ault School in Massachusetts, Lee’s experiences— 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 a painful and thrilling adolescence recognizable to us all.

Random House • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-8129-7235-1 • 448 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

ORAL HISTORY

by Lee Smith

“A novel as dark, winding, complicated as the hill country itself.... You could make comparisons to Faulkner and Carson McCullers, to The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Wuthering Heights. You could employ all those familiar ringing terms of praise: ‘rare,’ ‘brilliant,’ ‘unforgettable.’ But Lee Smith and Oral History make you wish all those phrases were fresh and new, that all those comparisons had never before been made. For this is a novel deserving of unique praise.”—The Village Voice “Deft and assured.... She is clearly drunk on the language of Appalachia, on its stories and its people.... She is nothing less than masterly.”—The New York Times Book Review Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-41028-3 • 320 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

56

www.randomhouse/academic

A Chinese-American woman discovers her tormented mother’s memoirs of life as a girl in China, and uncovers family secrets long kept hidden.

“The Bonesetter’s Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth.... A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.”

—Los Angeles Times “The Bonesetter’s Daughter tells a compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol.”—The Denver Post Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-45737-0 • 400 pp. $14.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-8041-1498-1 • 416 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

TERRORIST A Novel

by John Updike Now in Paperback

John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur’an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. Neither the world-weary guidance counselor at his high school nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen succeeds in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-49391-0 • 320 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE BOOK THIEF

by John Williams

by Markus Zusak Now in Paperback

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, a young man from a proper eastern family drops out of Harvard to go west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town that is, as its name suggests, nothing more than somewhere between here and there. In other words, nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for a way to make money or a way to waste it, and before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them. He regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, and he convinces him to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing the buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing, to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

John Williams’s fiercely intelligent, beautifully written Western is a harrowing confrontation with the American dream.

Author Available

It’s just a small story really, about, among other things, a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery....

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night. It seems poised to become a classic.”—USA Today

FICTION TO TALK ABOUT

BUTCHER’S CROSSING

Knopf Books for Young Readers • Tr. Pbk 978-0-375-84220-7 • 576 pp. $11.99/$15.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

NYRB Classics • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59017-198-1 • 256 pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FREE LITERATURE CATALOG AVAILABLE This catalog highlights titles appropriate for use in undergraduate and graduate-level literature courses.

Also contains examination copy ordering information for professors who would like to review books for adoption purposes.

To request a copy, email us at rhacademic@randomhouse.com

www.randomhouse/academic

57

DISCUSSING CLASSICS

DISCUSSING CLASSICS

THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE

INFERNO

by W.E.B. Du Bois Introduction by Arnold Rampersad, cognizant dean for humanities at Stanford University.

A Novel

by Dante Alligheri Translated by Allen Mandelbaum Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21339-3 432 pp. • $6.50/$9.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

For more titles by Dante Aligheri, visit our website at www.randomhouse.com/academic

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

by James Baldwin Laurel • Mass Mkt • 978-0-440-33007-3 • 224 pp. $7.50/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FAHRENHEIT 451

by Ray Bradbury Winner of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

In the tradition of other incendiary novels that explore market forces at the turn of the century, such as Frank Norris’s The Pit and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was seen as an “economic study” by Du Bois, yet it is also a romantic and otherwordly saga, loosely based on the Greek myth from which it takes its name. Using literary conventions to expose and oppose America’s views on race, Du Bois presents a sprawling and provocative work that continues to engage readers and inspire debate among literary scholars today.

Harlem Moon • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1845-9 • 400 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Internationally acclaimed, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s landmark novel of a future society where books are outlawed and only one man awakens to the evils of censorship.

“Frightening in its implications... Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.”

—The New York Times A Teacher’s Guide is available.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Illinois Central College and Randolf-Macon College.

Bantam • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-26357-2 • 272 pp. $6.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-41001-6 • 192 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE METAMORPHOSIS

Del Rey • Mass Mkt • 978-0-345-34296-6 • 208 pp. $6.99/$8.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing— though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has become one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

by Stephen Crane Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21011-8 • 160 pp. $3.95/$5.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK

by W.E.B. Du Bois Modern Library • HC • 978-0-375-50911-7 • 320 pp. $15.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $6.50

by Ernest J. Gaines

From the author of A Lesson Before Dying comes a “fictional autobiography” of a black woman, born into slavery, who lives for more than one hundred years to see the second emancipation of her race.

“Grand, robust, rich.”—The New York Times Book Review

by Franz Kafka

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21369-0 • 224 pp. $5.95/$8.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

58

www.randomhouse/academic

COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI

THE METAMORPHOSIS

by Anne Moody

Adapted by Peter Kuper

(Graphic Novel) Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-4000-5299-8 • 80 pp. $10.00/$15.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE BHAGAVAD-GITA A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell Three Rivers Press • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-609-81034-7 • 224 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

A widely hailed and adopted social and historical commentary, this contemporary classic is the autobiography of a young black girl growing up in the Deep South. Moody details the suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge the stereotypes she encountered.

“I use this memoir because it engages students’ attention on an emotional as well as an intellectual level, and involves them intimately in an important aspect of our history. Most of them find it a revelation, and for some it has been a transforming experience.”—Professor Stephanie L. O’Neal, History Department, Southwest Missouri State University

DISCUSSING CLASSICS

Also available:

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Indiana University Southeast.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33781-6 • 432 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Laurel • Mass Mkt • 978-0-440-31488-2 • 384 pp. $6.99/$8.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

by Tim O’Brien Winner of France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Finalist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age A Booklist Best of the Best

Author Available

Winner of a National Book Award in 1979 for Going After Cacciato, O’Brien again shows his literary mettle with this brilliant collection of short stories, many of which have won literary recognition. Each of the twenty-two tales relates the exploits and personalities of a fictional platoon of American soldiers in Vietnam.

“Not since Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five has the American soldier been portrayed with such poignancy and sincerity.”—Library Journal Appalachian State University, Bowling Green State University, Gustavus Adolphus College, James Madison University, Miami University (Ohio), Pacific University, University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh, Pacific University (OR), SUNY Stony Brook University, Texas State University, Valparaiso University, Whittier College, Yeshiva University, among other colleges, have adopted this book for their Freshman Year Reading Programs.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at California State University, Northridge; Hamline University, and University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0289-2 • 272 pp. • $14.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

For more titles by Tim O’Brien, see page 16 and 60.

www.randomhouse/academic

59

DISCUSSING CLASSICS

DISCUSSING CLASSICS, cont’d

GOING AFTER CACCIATO

by Tim O’Brien

OTHELLO Author Available

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked the Vietnam War. Reality and fantasy merge in O’Brien’s fictional account of one private’s sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic foot journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris.

In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of war, the novel stands as a masterful description of the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of everyone.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-0442-1 • 352 pp. $14.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE CHOSEN

by Chaim Potok

The Chosen is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. The Chosen is an unforgettable meditation on religious faith, youth and maturity.

“Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal.”—The Wall Street Journal Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-449-91154-9 • 304 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Fawcett • Mass Mkt • 978-0-449-21344-5 • 304 pp. $7.99/$10.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

by Erich Maria Remarque

This is the classic anti-war novel about young German soldiers during World War I. Twenty-year old Paul Baumer’s world of work, duty, culture, and progress is shattered with the first bombardment in the trenches, and he vows to fight against the principle of hate that pits young men of the same generation against each other. Few other books have ever achieved such dramatic acclaim or enduring success.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at St. Louis Community College.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-449-91149-5 • 304 pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine • Mass Mkt • 978-0-449-21394-0 • 304 pp. $6.99/$9.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

60

www.randomhouse/academic

by William Shakespeare Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan

This great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor.

The doomed marriage of Desdemona to the Moor Othello is the focus of a storm of tension, incited by the consummately evil villain Iago, that culminates in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at Northwestern University.

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21302-7 • 352 pp. $4.99/$6.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FRANKENSTEIN or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Introduction by Wendy Steiner

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century Gothicism.

While staying in the Swiss Alps in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary, then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity. Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the corrupting influence of science. Packed with allusions and literary references, it is also one of the best thrillers ever written.

Selected as part of the One Book, One College: Common Reading Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75341-1 352 pp. • $7.95/$10.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

Also Available: Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-21247-1 256 pp.• $4.95/$6.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

THE ART OF WAR Complete Texts and Commentaries

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Translated by Thomas Cleary

A common carpenter, Ivan Denisovich is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia.

Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This powerful novel is a scathing indictment of tyranny and an eloquent affirmation of the human spirit.

Shambhala • Tr. Pbk • 978-1-59030-054-1 • 474 pp. $22.95/$32.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.50

Bantam Classics • Mass Mkt • 978-0-553-24777-0 • 224 pp. $5.99/$7.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE ART OF WAR

DISCUSSING CLASSICS

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-33384-9 • 288 pp. $14.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00 Laurel • Mass Mkt • 978-0-440-18029-6 • 224 pp. $7.99/$11.99 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

by Sun Tzu

Compiled over two thousand years ago, The Art of War is possibly the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. Its treatment of a timeless issue—conflict—is uniquely applicable to both historical and contemporary studies, and is sure to inspire lively debate on current events.

Delta • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-385-29985-5 • 96 pp. $12.95/$19.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

by Edith Wharton Introduction by Diane Johnson

In what is perhaps Edith Wharton’s most controversial novel, the author challenges prevailing social mores and traditional views of femininity.

Undine Spragg, the ambitious and mercenary anti-heroine, serves as the focus for Wharton’s thought-provoking commentary, which is rendered throughout in her trademark sparklingly acerbic prose.

Modern Library • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-75807-2 • 400 pp. $11.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

FREE CLASSICS LITERATURE CATALOG AVAILABLE This catalog highlights “classic” and canonized titles appropriate for use in undergraduate and graduatelevel literature courses. Also contains examination copy ordering information for professors who would like to review books for adoption purposes.

To request a copy, email us at rhacademic@randomhouse.com

www.randomhouse/academic

61

LIFE AND COLLEGE GUIDES

LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES

BASIC BLACK

or a more extensive listing of such titles, please write to rhacademic@randomhouse.com with the subject line “Guidance Counselor’s Catalog.” Please include your full college/university mailing address in the body of the email.

F

THE IDENTITY CODE The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World

by Larry Ackerman

In this passionate and provocative book, Larry Ackerman shows students how to discover their true purpose in life by better understanding their own identities. Ackerman’s solution takes the form of eight penetrating questions, which allow students to carefully consider their own personalities, beliefs and goals. The questions are accompanied by engaging stories and concrete exercises to guide students in their introspection.

Manchester College has adopted this book for its Freshman Year Reading Program.

Random House • HC • 978-1-4000-6417-5 • 208 pp. $21.95/$29.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $11.00

THE BUTTERFLY HUNTER Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way Off the Beaten Path

e-Book

Author Available

by Chris Ballard

Do we each have a dream job that we are, by nature or nurture, uniquely meant for? To answer this question, Chris Ballard set out to talk to people who found work they love way off the beaten path.

The Butterfly Hunter is a rollicking narrative of what he discovered, and reveals insights the rest of us can use to find passion in our work.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1869-5 • 272 pp. $14.00/$18.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)

by Cathie Black NEW

From Cathie Black, former president of thenstartup USA Today and current president of Hearst Magazines, comes Basic Black, an indispensable and intimate career guide for anyone trying to land her dream job, ace her interview, or nail her project. In the anecdotal, exuberant, down-to-earth voice that is her trademark, Cathie Black explains how she achieved “the 360° life”—a blend of professional accomplishment and personal contentment.

“Cathie Black is exactly the kind of mentor every woman needs: a talented executive at the top of her game willing to tell it like it really is.

Imagine having a private lunch with one of the most powerful women in business, and then feast on her wonderful book. Basic Black is among the very best insider accounts of how to succeed as a leader.”

—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of Confidence and America the Principled Crown Business • HC • 978-0-307-35110-4 304 pp. • $24.95/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

ON BECOMING AN ARTIST Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

www.randomhouse/academic

Author Available

by Ellen J. Langer

Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows students that creativity is not a rare gift that only a special few are born with, but rather an integral part of everyone’s makeup. Everyone can express their creative impulses, she argues, and, in the process, enrich their lives. With the skill of a gifted logician, Langer demonstrates exactly how we undervalue ourselves and undermine our creativity. Her highspirited, challenging book sparkles with wit and intelligence and will inspire an infectious enthusiasm for artistic creation as an essential part of life.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-45630-4 • 288 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

62

e-Book

A Guide to the Coolest Jobs—and How to Get Them

Author Available

Despite majors that were selected because to prepare for a career in the real world, many seniors still have no idea what they want to do with their lives. They visit the campus career center and are introduced to a bevy of consulting and banking firms, Fortune 500 staples, and advertising and public relations agencies and not knowing what else to do, inevitably accept one.

But what if there was a way to discover the hidden road, the one that would lead to an exciting, unique, and fulfilling line of work? Based on the results of an online survey she conducted with over 500 twenty-and thirtysomething career expert Alexandra Levit profiles the 60 coolest jobs and more importantly, shows how to get them.

THE ZEN OF CREATIVITY Cultivating Your Artistic Life

e-Book

Author Available

by John Daido Loori

In The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori shows how to tap the principles of Zen as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence.

Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-46633-4 • 272 pp. $15.95/$22.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

IMPROV WISDOM Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up

The Joy of Discovering What You were Born to Do

by Thomas Moore NEW

by Alexandra Levit NEW—Forthcoming April 2008

Do not order before 4/18/2008.

Ballantine • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-345-49629-4 • 352 pp. $15.00/$17.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

A LIFE AT WORK

Author Available

by Patricia Ryan Madson

Improv Wisdom shows how to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life challenges— whether it’s dealing with a demanding boss, a tired child, or one of life’s unceasing surprises. Patricia Madson distills thirty years of experience into thirteen simple strategies, including “Say Yes,” “Start Anywhere,” “Face the Facts,” and “Make Mistakes, Please,” helping readers to loosen up, think on their feet, and take on everything life has to offer with skill, chutzpah, and a sense of humor.

In A Life at Work, Moore walks readers through the difficult and transformative process of discovering their deepest purpose in life. With his now-famous blend of spirituality and psychology, he explores the strong desire all of us have to feel fulfilled and satisfied by our work and careers.

LIFE AND COLLEGE GUIDES

HOW’D YOU SCORE THAT GIG?

Broadway • HC • 978-0-7679-2252-4 • 224 pp. $24.95/$32.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $12.50

HOW TO WIN AT COLLEGE Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students

Author Available

by Cal Newport

What does it take to be a star student? Every college has its share of enviable go-getters: students who manage to get straight A’s, win multiple awards, become the editor of the school paper, and still have time for friends and fun. How do they do it? Until now, such multitasking miracle workers were the envied enigmas on campus. But in How to Win at College, Dartmouth graduate and top scholar Cal Newport reveals their secrets of success.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-1787-2 • 208 pp. $11.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

e-Book

SUCCESS Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People Edited by Jena Pincott

Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all fields— including business, politics, entertainment, and the arts.

The high achievers quoted in the book share one crucial belief: success is possible as long as there’s passion. Students who know where they want to be—but not how to get there—will find an ideal guide in Success.

Random House Reference • HC • 978-0-375-42589-9 • 256 pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $7.50

Harmony/Bell Tower • HC • 978-1-4000-8188-2 • 160 pp. $16.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $8.00

www.randomhouse/academic

63

LIFE AND COLLEGE GUIDES

LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES, cont’d

THE GAY AND LESBIAN GUIDE TO COLLEGE LIFE

by Princeton Review NEW

For all students, college is a time of exploration, a time to find oneself and come to grips with one’s self-identity. The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life addresses the specific challenges that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students face during their college years.

Princeton Review • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76623-7 • 416 pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

GUIDE TO COLLEGE MAJORS, 2008 EDITION

by Princeton Review

Choosing an undergraduate major is a difficult decision that impacts a student’s college years and future career path. Guide to College Majors is fully revised and updated to include the most current information possible on more than 350 of the most popular majors.

Every profile of a major includes: · An overview of the major · Career options and salary potential information · Tips on the best high school prep work · Sample college curriculum for the major · Fun facts and interesting trivia Princeton Review • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-375-76637-4 • 848 pp. $21.00/$23.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $10.50

THE DOCTOR’S COMPLETE COLLEGE GIRLS’ HEALTH GUIDE

by Jennifer Wider, M.D.

This frank and friendly guide contains complete and up-to-date health information on a wide range of pertinent health and social issues ranging from the most serious to the most minor—from substance abuse, depression and eating disorders to colds and the flu.

University of Kentucky has adopted this title.

Bantam • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-553-38342-3 • 368 pp. $15.00/$21.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

64

www.randomhouse/academic

WHAT’S THAT JOB AND HOW THE HELL DO I GET IT? The Inside Scoop on More Than 50 Cool Jobs from People Who Actually Have Them

by David Rosen NEW—Forthcoming March 2008

This new book is a straightforward directory of more than fifty careers. David Rosen explains, in detail, what each job really entails—and then explains how to actually get it. Each chapter is based on insider knowledge gleaned from interviews with the cream of the crop in their fields—experts like Kate Spade on fashion design; Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries, on being an author; Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, and Eli Roth, Hostel, on directing films... and many more. By the end of each chapter, readers will know exactly what each career is, whether they want to pursue it, and exactly what it’s going to take to get it.

Do not order before 3/11/2008.

Broadway • Tr. Pbk • 978-0-7679-2612-6 • 320 pp. $14.95/$16.95 Can. • Exam Copy: $3.00

DARE TO PREPARE How to Win Before You Begin

Author Available

by Ronald M. Shapiro and Gregory Jordan NEW

It’s easy to cut corners when it comes to research and practice. But winging it isn’t always the way to go.

In Dare to Prepare, people from all walks of life (among them top trial lawyer Paul Sandler, pianist Leon Fleischer, and Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Fontenelli) share how they apply discipline in preparing for life-altering projects, meetings, and interviews. Ironman baseballer Cal Ripken prepared for each game as if it were his first. NPR host Liane Hansen goes into every interview armed with meticulous research every time. How will you get ready for your next momentous challenge? Prepare with the help of this practical guide filled with inspiring stories and guaranteed tips for succcess.

Crown Business • HC • 978-0-307-38326-6 • 304 pp. $26.00/$30.00 Can. • Exam Copy: $13.00

e-Book

AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and Anthony Walton ..............................................................21 Ackerman, Laurence ........................................62 Ackmann, Martha ..............................................21 After Long Silence ..............................................8 After ....................................................................47 Against the Machine ........................................35 Albom, Mitch ........................................................1 Alicia ......................................................................4 All Quiet on the Western Front........................60 Allende, Isabel....................................................43 Alsamari, Lewis....................................................4 Amar, Akhil Reed ..............................................20 American Chica....................................................4 American Crescent............................................33 American Revolution, The ..............................38 American Youth..................................................50 Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion ............................................27 American-Made ................................................36 America’s Constitution......................................20 Angelou, Maya ....................................................4 Angry Black White Boy ....................................51 Appleman, Alicia..................................................4 April Morning......................................................45 Arana, Marie ..................................................4, 43 Armstrong, Karen ........................................21, 22 Art of War, The ..................................................61 Audacity of Hope, The ......................................15 Autobiography of Malcolm X ..........................13 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The....58 Ayres, Ian ............................................................22 Backdoor to Enlightenment, The ......................3 Baingana, Doreen..............................................43 Balakian, Peter ....................................................5 Baldwin, James..................................................58 Ball, Edward..........................................................5 Ballard, Chris..................................................1, 62 Bartimus, Tad, et. al ............................................5 Basic Black ........................................................62 Battle for God, The ............................................21 Bearss, Edwin C.................................................22 Beats Rhymes & Life ........................................38 Behrens, Peter ..................................................43 Bhagavad Gita....................................................59 Black Dog of Fate ................................................5 Black Elk in Paris ..............................................48 Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays ............................................41 Black Swan Green ............................................51 Black West, The ................................................29 Black, Cathie ......................................................62 Blackmon, Douglas A. ......................................22 Blood Done Sign My Name ............................37 Bombingham ......................................................47 Bone Woman, The ............................................31 Bonesetter’s Daughter, The ............................56 Book of Daniel, The ..........................................46 Book Thief, The ..................................................57 Boom! ..................................................................24

Borges, Phil, photographer..............................21 Botany of Desire, The ......................................32 Bound for the Promised Land..........................12 Bowe, John ........................................................23 Bowe, John, ed. ................................................23 Bradbury, Ray ....................................................58 Bradley, James ..................................................23 Brandt, Anthony, ed.............................................5 Breach of Faith ..................................................28 Breslin, Jimmy......................................................6 Brewer, Sonny....................................................44 Brief History of Time, A ....................................41 Briefer History of Time, A ................................41 Brizendine, Louann M.D. ..................................23 Brokaw, Tom ......................................................24 Bronson, Po ..........................................................1 Brooks, Max........................................................44 Brothers in Arms................................................21 Brothers ..............................................................44 Burnt Bread and Chutney ..................................7 Butcher’s Crossing ............................................57 Butterfly Hunter, The ....................................1, 62 Callenbach, Ernest ............................................24 Canin, Ethan........................................................44 Carroll, Andrew, ed. ..........................................24 Carter, Vincent O. ..............................................45 Castillo, Ana........................................................44 Cellophane ..........................................................43 Changeling, The ................................................48 Character Is Destiny ..........................................3 Chen, Da ..............................................................44 Chodron, Pema ....................................................1 Chosen, The ........................................................60 Ciulla, Joanne B.................................................24 Clay’s Quilt ..........................................................48 Cleary, Thomas, trans. by ................................61 Cleaver, Eldridge ..................................................6 Clinch, Jon ..........................................................44 Coles, Robert ........................................................2 Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier ................................................................20 Coming of Age in Mississippi ..........................59 Communism ........................................................32 Confluence..........................................................36 Constitution of the United States of America, The....................................................20 Counterculture Through the Ages ..................27 Covering ..............................................................39 Cradle & Crucible ..............................................35 Crane, Stephen ..................................................58 Creationists ........................................................46 Cult of the Amateur, The ..................................29 Custom of the Country, The..............................61 Dancing Under the Red Star............................17 Dann, Patty............................................................6 Dante....................................................................58 Dare to Prepare ................................................64 Darwin, Charles..................................................41 Dau, John Bul ......................................................6 Daughter of Persia ..............................................8

De Bellaigue, Christopher ................................25 De Niro’s Game ..................................................48 De Tocqueville, Alexis ......................................36 Decision in Philadelphia ..................................20 Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, The ........20 Deep Dark, The ..................................................32 Delany, Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany ......7 Delman, Carmit ....................................................7 Democracy in America ....................................36 Didion, Joan........................................................25 Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee ............................45 Doctorow, E.L. ....................................................46 Doctor’s Complete College Girls’ Health Guide, The ........................................................64 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight....................9 Dray, Philip ..........................................................25 Dreams from My Father....................................15 Du Bois, W.E.B. ..................................................58 Dumas, Firoozeh ..................................................7 Dyson, Freeman ................................................42 Eaves of Heaven, The ......................................18 Ebadi, Shirin....................................................8, 25 Ecotopia ..............................................................24 Edith’s Story ........................................................18 Embracing the Infidel........................................39 Emotional Intelligence ......................................27 End of the Jews, The ........................................51 Enough ................................................................19 Enrique’s Journey ..............................................14 Equiano, Olaudah ................................................8 Erlbaum, Janice ..................................................8 Escape from Saddam..........................................4 Essinger, James ................................................25 Evolution for Everyone......................................40 Evolution..............................................................42 Fahrenheit 451 ....................................................58 Farewell, My Subaru ........................................25 Farmaian, Sattareh Farman ..............................8 Fast, Howard ......................................................45 Female Brain, The..............................................23 Fields of Honor ..................................................22 Fine, Doug ..........................................................25 Fineman, Howard ..............................................26 Fink, Sam ............................................................20 Finn ......................................................................44 Fitzgerald, Laura ................................................45 Fixed Ideas..........................................................25 Flags of Our Fathers ..........................................23 Forever a Soldier ..............................................38 Forty Million Dollar Slaves ..............................33 Fragile Innocence..............................................16 Francis, John ......................................................26 Frankenstein ......................................................60 Freedom Writers Diary, The ..............................2 Fremont, Helen ....................................................8 Friedman, John ..................................................26 Fuller, Alexandra ..................................................9 Funny in Farsi ......................................................7 Furey, Leo ............................................................47

AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX Fury ......................................................................55 Gaines, Ernest J.................................................58 Gandhi & Churchill ............................................28 Gartner, Michael ................................................26 Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life, The ............................................................64 Gebhard, Nathan, et. al ......................................2 Gelernter, David ................................................27 Ghosh, Amitav ....................................................47 Gien, Pamela ......................................................47 Gifted....................................................................50 Gig ........................................................................23 Girl in the Red Coat, The ..................................12 Glass Palace, The..............................................47 Go Tell It on the Mountain................................58 Goat......................................................................11 God Grew Tired of Us..........................................6 Goffman, Ken and Dan Joy ..............................27 Going After Cacciato ........................................60 Golden Compass, The ......................................53 Golden, Marita....................................................47 Goldfish Went on Vacation, The ......................6 Goleman, Daniel ................................................27 Good Good Pig, The ............................................3 Goodman, Allegra ..............................................47 Google Story, The ..............................................37 Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, The....................................................42 Great Derangement, The..................................36 Greatest Generation, The ................................24 Greatest Generation Speaks, The ..................24 Green Book, The ................................................34 Grimus..................................................................55 Grisham, John ....................................................27 Grooms, Anthony ..............................................47 Guardians, The ..................................................44 Guide to College Majors, 2008 Edition ..........64 Guiding Lights ......................................................2 Hage, Rawi..........................................................48 Hakakian, Roya ....................................................9 Hari, Daoud ..........................................................9 Have You Found Her............................................8 Having Our Say ....................................................7 Hawking, Stephen..............................................41 Hegland, Jean ....................................................48 Heinrichs, Jay ......................................................2 Henderson, Bobby ............................................42 Herman, Arthur ..................................................28 Hersch, Patricia ................................................28 Hickam, Homer ....................................................9 Hirschfield, Brad ................................................28 Hope in the Unseen, A ......................................14 Horne, Jed ..........................................................28 Horsley, Kate ......................................................48 House of the Spirits, The ..................................43 House, Silas ........................................................48 How I Learned English......................................11 How to Win at College ......................................63 How’d You Score That Gig? ............................63 Hubner, John ......................................................29

Hunger of Memory ............................................16 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ..................4 Identity Code, The..............................................62 If I Die in a Combat Zone..................................16 Illustrated A Brief History of Time, The..........41 Improv Wisdom ..................................................63 In the Country of Men ......................................50 Indecision............................................................50 Inferno ................................................................58 Inherit the Wind ................................................42 Inheriting the Holy Land ..................................32 Innocent Man, The ............................................27 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The ......................................8 Into the Forest ....................................................48 Intuition................................................................47 Iran Awakening..............................................8, 25 Ishmael ................................................................53 Islam ....................................................................21 Jackson, Brooks ................................................29 Jaguar Smile, The..............................................55 Jasper, Kenji ......................................................38 Jenkins, Mark, ed. ............................................19 Jerusalem ..........................................................22 Jones, Lloyd........................................................49 Journals of Lewis and Clark ............................19 Journey from the Land of No ............................9 Kabul Beauty School ........................................33 Kafka, Franz ........................................................58 Kalish, Mildred Armstrong ..............................11 Katz, William ......................................................29 Keen, Andrew ....................................................29 Keller, Helen........................................................11 Kellogg, Matt and Jillian Quint, eds. ..............11 Kidder, Tracy ......................................................10 Killer Angels, The ..............................................56 Koff, Clea ............................................................31 Koran, The ..........................................................34 Kozol, Jonathan..................................................30 Kunkel, Benjamin ..............................................50 Kuper, Peter ........................................................59 Lalwani, Nikita....................................................50 LaMarche, Phil ..................................................50 Land, Brad ..........................................................11 Lane, Patrick ......................................................12 Langer, Ellen ......................................................62 Larsen, Nella ......................................................12 Larson, Edward J...............................................42 Larson, Kate Clifford..........................................12 Last Chance in Texas ........................................29 Last Night I Dreamed of Peace ......................18 Last Town on Earth, The ..................................53 Laughing Without an Accent ............................7 Law of Dreams, The ..........................................43 Lawrence, Jerome ............................................42 Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands........................52 Ledig, Gert ..........................................................50 Letters to a Young Teacher ..............................30 Levit, Alexandra ................................................63 Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark............19

Li, Yiyun................................................................12 Life at Work, A....................................................63 Light of Conscience, The....................................3 Ligocka, Roma ....................................................12 Little Heathens ..................................................11 Liu, Eric ..................................................................2 Lives of Moral Leadership..................................2 Long Run, The ....................................................47 Look Me in the Eye ............................................16 Loon Lake ............................................................46 Loori, John Daido ..............................................63 Lost History ........................................................32 Love in the Driest Season ................................18 Lucifer Effect, The ............................................39 Lynas, Mark ........................................................31 Madson, Patricia Ryan ....................................63 Maier, Pauline, intro. By ..................................20 Make the Impossible Possible ..........................3 Malcolm X ..........................................................13 Man Without Country, A ..................................19 Mansbach, Adam ..............................................51 March, The..........................................................46 Margonelli, Lisa..................................................31 Masters, Alexander ..........................................13 Matar, Hisham ....................................................50 McCain, John with Mark Salter ........................3 McCarthy, Susan Carol ....................................52 Medical Apartheid ............................................37 Mercury 13, The ................................................21 Metamorphosis, The ..................................58, 59 Midnight’s Children............................................55 Miller, Aaron David............................................31 Miller, Jennifer ..................................................32 Miller, Tom ..........................................................11 Mindless Eating..................................................38 Miracle in the Andes ........................................16 Mister Pip............................................................49 Mitchell, David ..................................................51 Mitchell, Stephen, trans. by ............................59 Montgomery, Sy ..................................................3 Moody, Anne ......................................................59 Moon, Elizabeth..................................................51 Moore, Thomas ..................................................63 Morgan, Michael H. ..........................................32 Mori, Kyoko ........................................................13 Mountains Beyond Mountains........................10 Much Too Promised Land, The........................31 Mullen, Thomas..................................................53 Murr, Naeem ......................................................53 My Detachment..................................................10 My Ishmael ........................................................53 My Jim ................................................................54 Nabeel’s Song ....................................................17 Nafisi, Azar..........................................................13 Nazario, Sonia ....................................................14 Newport, Cal ......................................................63 Nobodies ............................................................23 Obama, Barack ..................................................15 O’Brien, Tim ............................................16, 59, 60 Oil on the Brain ..................................................31

AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX Olsen, Gregg ......................................................32 On Becoming an Artist......................................62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich..........61 Operation Homecoming....................................24 Oral History ........................................................56 Origin of Species ..............................................41 Othello..................................................................60 Other Side of War, The ....................................34 Out of the Blue ..................................................26 Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense ....26 Palace of Illusions, The ....................................45 Palace Thief, The ..............................................44 Parrado, Nando..................................................16 Passing ................................................................12 Perfect Man, The ..............................................53 Pham, Andrew X. ..............................................18 Pincott, Jena ......................................................64 Pipes, Richard ....................................................32 Planetwalker ......................................................26 Plenty ..................................................................35 Poet of Baghdad, The ......................................17 Poet of Tolstoy Park, The..................................44 Polite Lies............................................................13 Pollan, Michael ..................................................32 Potok, Chaim ......................................................60 Prep......................................................................56 Pretty Is What Changes....................................33 Princeton Review ..............................................64 Pullman, Philip....................................................53 Qazwini, Hassan ................................................33 Queller, Jessica..................................................33 Quest of the Silver Fleece, The ......................58 Quinn, Daniel ......................................................53 Rachel and Her Children ..................................30 Ragtime................................................................46 Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer ..................35 Rawles, Nancy ..................................................54 Reading Lolita in Tehran ..................................13 Red Badge of Courage, The ............................58 Remarque, Erich Maria ....................................60 Reston, James Jr ..............................................16 Rhoden, William C. ............................................33 Rinpoche, Za and Ashley Nebelsieck ..............3 Roadtrip Nation ....................................................2 Robison, John Elder ..........................................16 Rocket Boys..........................................................9 Rodriguez, Deborah and Kristen Ohlson ......33 Rodriguez, Richard ............................................16 Rodwell, John Medows....................................34 Rogers, Elizabeth ..............................................34 Rose, Alexander ................................................34 Rushdie, Salman ................................................55 Russell, Mary Doria ..........................................54 Salbi, Zainab ......................................................34 Satanic Verses, The ..........................................55 Sax, Leonard M.D., Ph.D...................................35 Schorr, Daniel, intro. by ....................................35 Schroeder, Alice ................................................17 Scientist as Rebel, The ....................................42 See, Lisa ..............................................................54

Shaara, Jeff ........................................................54 Shaara, Michael ................................................56 Shakespeare, William ......................................60 Shalimar the Clown ..........................................55 Shame..................................................................55 Shame of the Nation, The ................................30 Shapiro, Ronald M.............................................64 Shelley, Mary......................................................60 Shore, Bill..............................................................3 Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, The ....................................................6 Siegel, Lee ..........................................................35 Sittenfeld, Curtis ................................................56 Six Degrees ........................................................31 Slaughterhouse-Five ........................................61 Slavery by Another Name ................................22 Slaves in the Family ............................................5 Smith, Alisa ........................................................35 Smith, Lee............................................................56 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ..................54 Snowball, The ....................................................17 Social Intelligence ............................................27 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander ..................................61 Soul on Ice............................................................6 Souls of Black Folk, The ..................................58 Souvenir, The......................................................17 Sparrow, The ......................................................54 Speed of Dark, The............................................51 Spellbound ..........................................................25 St. John, Warren................................................35 Stalin Front, The ................................................50 Stealing God’s Thunder ....................................25 Steinman, Louise................................................17 Story of My Life, The ........................................11 Strickland, Bill ......................................................3 Struggle for Iran, The........................................25 Stuart: A Life Backwards ................................13 Success ..............................................................64 Such Sweet Thunder ........................................45 Super Crunchers................................................22 Suskind, Ron ......................................................14 Syringa Tree, The ..............................................47 Taibbi, Matt ........................................................36 Tan, Amy..............................................................56 Tatchell, Jo..........................................................17 Taylor, Nick ........................................................36 Terrorist ..............................................................56 Thank You for Arguing ........................................2 The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell ..........2 Things They Carried, The ................................59 Thirteen American Arguments, The ..............26 Thomas Jefferson Travels..................................5 Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A ..............12 Thread of Grace, A ............................................54 Thurgood Marshall ............................................19 Times Were a Changin’, The............................36 To the Last Man ................................................54 Tobien, Karl ........................................................17 Tram, Dang Thuy ................................................18 Translator, The......................................................9

Tribe Apart, A......................................................28 Tripp, Nathaniel..................................................36 Tropical Fish........................................................43 True Fires ............................................................52 Tucker, Neely......................................................18 Tuesdays with Morrie ........................................1 Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers ............................11 Tyson, Timothy B. ..............................................37 Unger, Debi ........................................................36 Universe in a Nutshell, The..............................41 unSpun ................................................................29 Updike, John ......................................................56 Veil of Roses ......................................................45 Velmans, Edith....................................................18 Vise, David ..........................................................37 Vonnegut, Kurt....................................................19 Vonnegut, Kurt....................................................61 Voyage of the Beagle, The ..............................41 Wansink, Brian Ph.D. ........................................38 War Torn................................................................5 Washington, Harriet A. ....................................37 Washington’s Spies ..........................................34 Waterworks, The ..............................................46 Welcome to Hard Times ..................................46 Wharton, Edith....................................................61 What Should I Do with My Life? ......................1 What the Stones Remember............................12 When Things Fall Apart ......................................1 Why Gender Matters ........................................35 Wider, Jennifer M.D. ........................................64 Wiener, Tom ........................................................38 Williams, John....................................................57 Williams, Juan....................................................19 Wilson, David Sloan ..........................................40 Women Empowered..........................................21 Wood, Gordon S.................................................38 Working Life, The ..............................................24 World I Live In, The ..........................................11 World War Z ......................................................44 World’s Fair ........................................................46 Worlds to Explore ..............................................19 Yaghmaian, Behzad ..........................................39 Yoshino, Kenji ....................................................39 You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right ............................................................28 Zen of Creativity, The ........................................63 Zimbardo, Philip ................................................39 Zusak, Markus....................................................57

FRESHMAN YEAR READING ADOPTION TITLES, 2008 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM Examination copies are available to college professors, instructors, or First-Year administrators seeking titles to review for adoption consideration.

The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off the retail price for all hardcovers and paperbacks priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to ten per teacher per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

To order, use the order form on the back of this catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid with a check, or money order made payable to Random House, Inc. Offer only valid in the United States. All requests are subject to approval and availability. Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.

DESK COPIES: We are pleased to provide complimentary desk copies of adopted required reading books for instructors at accredited colleges and universities. One desk copy is available for every twenty copies ordered. All requests are subject to availability and approval.

NOTE: Due to the high volume of requests, desk copy requests are now accepted only via our online form. An order for student copies must be on file with your campus bookstore before the desk copy can be shipped. Visit our website at www.randomhouse.com/academic for more information.

o

Sign up for our e-newsletters: o History o African American Studies o Asian Studies o Latin American Studies o Literature o Middle Eastern Studies o Military History o Political Science o Religion o Sociology o Women’s Studies

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | E-mail address |____________________________________________________________________________ SHIP TO: School/College/University address only (books cannot be shipped to home addresses).

Please print clearly or attach business card here.

Name

|__________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Title |____________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | School/College/University |________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Department ______________________________________________________________________________________ Address

|________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | City/State/ZIP |____________________________________________________________________________________ SOURCE KEY

FYE08

ISBN

Author/Title

Exam Price *see individual titles for costs

|______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | |

|________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

|____________ | | | | |____________ | | | | |____________ | | | |

|______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

|____________ | | | | |____________ | | | |

|______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | | |______________________ | | | | | | | | | |

|________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

|____________ | | | | |____________ | | | | |____________ | | | | |____________ | | | | |____________ | | | |

TOTAL COST OF ALL BOOKS ORDERED (enclose payment*):

____________

MAIL WITH PAYMENT* TO:

RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

Examination Copy Department, Random House, Inc., Customer Service, 400 Hahn Road, Westminster, MD 21157 *Orders received without payment cannot be filled.

Queries: RHAcademic@randomhouse.com

RANDOM HOUSE, INC. WILL SUPPORT YOUR PROGRAM Selecting the right title is only the first step towards making your First-Year Reading program a success; publisher support is also very important. The Random House, Inc. Academic Marketing Department is here to help make sure that your program runs as smoothly and successfully as possible, and that your needs and requests are handled in a thorough and efficient manner.

We are pleased to help you with the following:

Author Appearances

Author Available

We’ll promptly channel your author requests to the appropriate department to ensure they are considered and dealt with in a quick manner.

Discussion Guides We will continue to develop and make available First-Year Experience-specific discussion guides, which may be used as tools by your discussion leaders.These free guides are available in print or are downloadable off our website.

Customized Copies

X

We can easily customize books on demand.Want to include a letter from your Dean or College President? Imprint the cover jacket of the book with a specialized seal? Or modify the book in some other way? Just let us know and we’ll work with our Premium Sales Department to process your request (please note this refers to orders placed only through Random House Premium Sales.These orders can only be for books not for resale).

Ancillary Materials

e

Should you need book paraphernalia (posters, buttons, etc.), author photos, or additional content and materials, we will research what's available and get what you need to you as quickly as possible.

Desk Copies

d

You are entitled to one complimentary copy of a book per every 20 student copies ordered.These copies are often allocated to group discussion leaders.

We will process and ship your request immediately.

Ordering

R

Although Random House, Inc. does not sell directly to schools or libraries, we can assist you in the easy procurement of your student copies, whether through your bookstore, a local wholesaler, or our in-house Premium Sales Department (this last avenue is limited just to orders not for resale).

Do not hesitate to contact us directly: Michael D. Gentile Director, Academic Marketing Random House, Inc. 1745 Broadway, 5– 4 New York, NY 10019 Tel. (212) 782-8387 Fax (212) 940-7381 E-mail mgentile@randomhouse.com

Random House, Inc.

RECOMMENDED TITLES

Random House, Inc. Academic Dept., 5– 4 1745 Broadway • New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/academic

Presorted Standard Mail U.S. Postage PAID Permit # 664 S. Hackensack, NJ