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Simon & Schuster Freshman Year Reading Catalog 2021–2022 FreshmanYearReads.com
Dear FYE Committee Member,
We are delighted to present the 2021 – 2022 Freshman Year Reading catalog from
Simon & Schuster.
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core purpose of college and university programs across the country—to support students in
transition, promote engaging conversations, explore diverse perspectives, and foster community
during the college experience.
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Table of Contents
Featured Titles Page 4
Featured Authors Page 6
Black Voices Page 10
Campus Issues Page 14
Fiction Page 16
Food, Environment, & Sustainability Page 23
FYE Seminar Page 26
History & Society Page 29
Immigrant Experience & Diversity Page 36
Jewish Interest Page 39
LGBTQ+ Page 42
Life Lessons from Laughs Page 44
Memoir & Biography Page 46
Mindfulness Page 55
Science & Technology Page 57
Social Change, Leadership, & Education Page 60
Writing & Creativity Page 67
Speakers Bureau Page 70
Index Page 73
Available as Author available for Authors with a
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FEATURED TITLES
FEATURED TITLES
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
Aftershocks
A Memoir
Nadia Owusu
9781982111236 y Trade Paper
320 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
“In Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu tells the incredible story of
her young life. How does a girl—abandoned by her mother
at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved
father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is
the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across
countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding
your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might
be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll
take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.”
—Malala Yousafzai
Whiting Award
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Identity
Now in Paperback
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice)
and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story”
(Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family
secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.
Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and
back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them
it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was
deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American
mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to
vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen.
After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a
bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo.
With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling
stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity.
What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself
and her siblings together.
Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a
2019 Whiting Award. Her lyric essay So Devilish a Fire won the Atlas Review chapbook
contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Granta, The Guardian, Bon Appétit, Electric Literature, The Paris Review Daily, and
4 Catapult. Aftershocks is her first book.
© Beowulf Sheehan
FEATURED TITLES
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
& DIVERSITY
Infinite Country
A Novel
Patricia Engel
9781982159474 y Trade Paper
256 pages y $17.00 y Avid Reader Press
“An outstanding novel of migration and the Colombian
diaspora…Engel’s sharp, unflinching narrative teems with
insight and dazzles with a confident, slyly sophisticated
structure. This is an impressive achievement.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
New York Times Bestseller y NEA Big Read Selection 2022–23
Carnegie Medal for Execllence in Fiction Longlist
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Literary, Immigrant Experience
Now in Paperback
This “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation”
(Time ) is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama [and] an authentic vision of what the
American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” (Elle ).
I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains
of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been
warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and
a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also
miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family.
How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus
like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market
stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá
with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a
temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil.
We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s
splintering—the costs they’ve all been living with ever since.
Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the
daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the
particulars of their respective circumstances. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean
myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country “is as
much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist, starred review).
Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary
Peace Prize; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award;
and Vida, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York
Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award, the Premio Biblioteca
de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best
American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories,
and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the
University of Miami. 5
© Elliot & Erick Jimenez
FEATURED AUTHOR
BLACK VOICES
She Came to Slay
The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
9781982139599 y Hardcover
176 pages y $23.99 y 37 Ink
“This book is fascinating…hyper accessible…Harriett
Tubman is one of those people [that I thought] like I know
her, I’m a Black person, I know Harriet Tubman, and it
turns out, I did not know her. And I’m so so so glad that
I read this because I think that, you know that feeling is
so familiar; I know that name, it exists for me on multiple
levels of understanding, having someone really interpret
the primary sources and give you a new understanding of
actually what this person’s life means and what it means
in the context of today was such a powerful read for me…
It is a page-turner and there’s so much life into that it’s
so different from your typical stereotypical history book.”
—Aminatou Sow, Call Your Girlfriend
SELECTED BY Bunker Hill Community College
Themes: Women’s Rights, Social Activism, History
Never Caught
The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit
of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
9781501126413 y Trade Paper
288 pages y $16.99 y 37 Ink
“Never Caught is a gripping story of courage of a Black
slave woman who sacrificed many things including her
family to gain freedom. Never Caught shows freedom is
more important than anything else. What makes Never
Caught uniquely interesting and important is that this is
one of the rare narratives from a Black woman slave. It
also shines light on the dark corners of American history
and the first Family, the Washingtons.” —Washington
Book Review
National Book Award Finalist
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
Young Readers Edition Available
SELECTED BY Franklin College, University of Missouri–
Kansas City, Southern Methodist University–University
Honors Program, Marywood University, Ramapo College
Themes: History, Women’s Studies
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History
at Rutgers University. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and
Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008.
Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway
Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a
winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came
6 to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman.
© Whitney Thomas
FEATURED AUTHOR
HISTORY & SOCIETY
The Whole Language
The Power of Extravagant Tenderness
Gregory Boyle
9781982128326 y Hardcover y 256 pages y $27.00 y Avid Reader Press
Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers
Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, returns with a call to witness the
transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling
gang members in Los Angeles.
Barking to the Choir
The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle
9781476726168 y Trade Paper y 224 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
“One of the bravest, most humane, heartbreaking, brilliant, and hopeful stories
I’ve read in ages. Father Greg, the Gandhi of the Gangs, fills Tattoos with
unquenchable soul force and down-to-earth love.” —Jack Kornfield, author of
A Path With Heart
Author Video Available
SELECTED BY The University of Scranton
Themes: Social Change, Inspirational, Community, Regional: Los Angeles
Tattoos on the Heart
The Power of Boundless Compassion
Gregory Boyle
9781439153154 y Trade Paper
256 pages y $17.99 y Free Press
“This is a beautiful and important and soul-transporting book. It’s written
by Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest in Los Angeles who has worked with (and
loved) gang-members for decades. This book is about how to love people.
How to really love people. And how to know God when you see God….This is a
fantastic book. Please read it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“Providence College was excited to have our new students read Gregory
Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart, and to have Fr. Boyle deliver our Academic
Convocation address that opened the academic year. Fr. Boyle’s remarkable
story resonated well with many of our students and we were thrilled to be able
to share his book with our campus community.” —Charles J. Haberle, Assistant
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Providence College
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Over fifteen programs, most recently at Benedictine University,
Merrimack College, Providence College, Westmont College
Themes: Memoir, Inspirational, Community
Gregory Boyle is an American Jesuit priest and the founder of Homeboy Industries
in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the
world. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California
Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Boyle a Champion of Change. He received
the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American
Catholics. He is the acclaimed author of Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir.
The Whole Language is his third book, and he will be donating all net proceeds to
Homeboy Industries. 7
© Eddie Ruvalcaba
FEATURED AUTHOR
BLACK VOICES
Heavy
An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon
9781501125669 y Trade Paper y 256 pages y $16.00 y Scribner
“Stylish and comple…Laymon convincingly conveys that difficult times can be
overcome with humor and self-love, as he makes readers confront their own
fears and insecurities.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Kirkus Prize Finalist y Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in
Nonfiction Winner
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, African American, Society, Family
Long Division
A Novel
Kiese Laymon
9781982174828 y Trade Paper y 304 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
“[One of] our best books of the year so far…Layman’s debut novel is bursting
with colloquial language from three generations of Mississippi African
Americans, mixed with gut-piercing truths about a long racial divide that
persists to this day.” —School Library Journal
Themes: Coming-of-Age, Literary
New Title
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in
America
Essays
Kiese Laymon
9781982170820 y Trade Paper y 176 pages y $16.00 y Scribner
“[A] profound work…Laymon brings vulnerability to each page, whether
talking about the influence of OutKast and Southern hip-hop on his life, being
told that he’s not like other Black people, or battling personal demons on the
path to becoming a published writer…Moving and meditative, this reckoning
on Blackness, manhood, and self adds to Laymon’s legacy as an influential
writer.” —Library Journal, starred review
Theme: Society
Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon, Ottilie Schillig Professor in
English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, is the author of the novel
Long Division, the memoir Heavy, and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and
8 Others in America.
Photo courtesy of the author
FEATURED AUTHOR
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
& DIVERSITY
A Dream Called Home
A Memoir
Reyna Grande
9781501171437 y Trade Paper
336 pages y $17.00 y Washington Square Press
“Candid and emotionally complex, Grande’s book
celebrates one woman’s tenacity in the face of hardship
and heartbreak while offering hope to other immigrants
as they “fight to remain” and make their voices heard in
a changing America. A heartfelt, inspiring, and relevant
memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
SELECTED BY American River College, Florida International
University, Concordia University
Themes: Inspirational, Global Perspective, Regional:
California
The Distance Between Us
A Memoir
Reyna Grande
9781451661781 y Trade Paper
368 pages y $17.99 y Washington Square Press
“Grande never flinches in describing her surroundings
and feelings, while her resilience and ability to empathize
allow her to look back with a compassion that makes this
story one that everyone should read.” —School Library
Journal
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Reading Group Guide Available y Young Readers Edition
Available
SELECTED BY over thirteen programs, most recently at
Marist College, University of North Carolina–Greensboro,
Finger Lakes Community College
Themes: Global Perspective, Coming‑of‑Age
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher.
As a girl, she crossed the US–México border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing
journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award
finalist. Her other books include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains, Dancing with
Butterflies, and A Ballad of Love and Glory, and the memoirs The Distance Between Us:
Young Reader’s Edition and A Dream Called Home. She lives in Woodland, California, with
her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. 9
© Imran Chaudhry
Simon & Schuster Freshman Year Reading
BLACK VOICES
BLACK VOICES
Wake
The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall
9781982115180 y Hardcover y 208 pages y $29.99 y Simon & Schuster
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the
story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to
uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of
the historical record.
“A vividly illustrated account of Black women rebels that combines elements
of memoir, archival research, and informed imaginings of its subjects’ lives.…
An urgent, brilliant work of historical excavation.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Themes: Graphic Novel, History
New Title
The Black Kids
A Novel
Christina Hammonds Reed
9781534462731 y Trade Paper y 400 pages y $12.99 y S&S Books for Young Readers
Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming‑of‑age debut novel
explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black
teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Reluctant Reader, Regional: Los Angeles, Coming‑of‑Age
Paperback Available
April 2022
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Chad Sanders
9781982104221 y Hardcover y 288 pages y $27.00 y Simon & Schuster
A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest,
provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists,
and champions.
Themes: Memoir, History
Paperback Available
February 2022
Black Nerd Problems
Essays
William Evans & Omar Holmon
9781982150235 y Hardcover y 304 pages y $27.00 y Gallery Books
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and
unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays on everything
from Mario Kart and The Wire to issues of representation and police brutality
across media.
Themes: Essays, Pop Culture
New Title
10The Blood of Emmett Till
BLACK VOICES
What Black Leaders Learned from Tragedy and Triumph
Timothy B. Tyson
9781476714851 y Trade Paper y 304 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from
Chicago named Emmett Till. The case galvanized the Civil Rights Movement of the
50s and 60s, but the lessons are relevant today. Timothy B. Tyson relies on the
only interview granted by the woman at the center of the trial, Carolyn Bryant, the
transcript of the trial, which was only recovered in 2005, as well as a recent FBI
report on the case.
New York Times Bestseller y National Book Award Longlist
Themes: Memoir, History
Everyday People
The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology
Edited by Jennifer Baker
9781501134944 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $17.00 y Atria Books
This gorgeously wrought anthology represents a wide range of styles, themes, and
perspectives on a variety of topics. The carefully selected stories depict moments
that linger—moments of doubt, crossroads to be chosen, relationships, epiphanies,
loss, and of discovery. A celebration of writing and expression featuring critically
lauded writers including Alexander Chee, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds.
Author Video Available
Themes: Diversity, Literary
The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward
9781501126352 y Trade Paper y 240 pages y $16.00 y Scribner
National Book Award–winning author Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963
examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this
groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important
voices of our time. All confront the timely question: What does it mean to be Black
in America today? Works from Roxane Gay, Kevin Young, Isabel Wilkerson, Edwidge
Danticat, and more.
New York Times Bestseller
SELECTED BY University of South Carolina–Upstate, New York University–Liberal
Studies, CUNY Medgar Evers College
Theme: Social Activism
Heads of the Colored People
Stories
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
9781501168000 y Trade Paper y 224 pages y $17.00 y 37 Ink
In these acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker
of a book…a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious”
(Financial Times).
National Book Award Finalist y PEN Open Book Award Winner
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gettysburg College
Themes: Diversity, Literary
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in
America
Essays
Kiese Laymon
9781982170820 y Trade Paper y 176 pages y $16.00 y Scribner
A revised edition, with six new essays and seven original essays, by the “star in the
American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and
singularly beautiful” (NPR).
Theme: Society
11Ida B. the Queen
BLACK VOICES
The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster
9781982129811 y Hardcover y 176 pages y $27.00 y One Signal Publishers
Called “a dangerous negro agitator” by the FBI, and a “brave woman” by
Frederick Douglass, an inspiring biography of the American pioneer
by Ida B. Wells’s great‑granddaughter, Michelle Duster.
Themes: Women’s Rights, Social Activism, History
Never Caught
The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
9781501126413 y Trade Paper y 288 pages y $16.99 y 37 Ink
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the
powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia
Inquirer ).
National Book Award Finalist
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available y Young Readers
Edition Available
SELECTED BY Franklin College, University of Missouri–Kansas City,
Southern Methodist University–University Honors Program, Marywood University,
Ramapo College
Themes: History, Women’s Studies
Nobody
Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill
9781501124969 y Trade Paper y 272 pages y $17.00 y Atria Books
Scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents a powerful and thought-provoking
analysis of race and class by examining a growing crisis in America: the existence
of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable, exploitable, and disposable through
the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and social practice.
New York Times Bestseller y Nautilus Award Winner
SELECTED BY St. Bonaventure University
Themes: African American, Social Change, American History
She Came to Slay
The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
9781982139599 y Hardcover y 176 pages y $23.99 y 37 Ink
In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and
illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history—
Harriet Tubman—a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.
SELECTED BY Bunker Hill Community College
Themes: Women’s Rights, Social Activism, History
State of Emergency
How We Win in the Country We Built
Tamika D. Mallory
9781982173463 y Hardcover y 272 pages y $26.00 y Black Privilege Publishing
Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action in this searing
indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black and
brown lives.
Themes: Social Justice, Anti-racism
12 New TitleSurvival Math
BLACK VOICES
Notes on an All-American Family
Mitchell S. Jackson
9781501131738 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a
book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author
Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth.
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Southern New Hampshire University–Mountainview
Theme: Overcoming Life’s Challenges
These Ghosts Are Family
A Novel
Maisy Card
9781982117443 y Trade Paper y 304 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals
the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the
tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Immigrant Experience, Family
Walking with the Wind
A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis with Michael D’Orso
9781476797717 y Trade Paper y 544 pages y $18.99 y Simon & Schuster
An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most
important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who
Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping firsthand account of the
fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.
Themes: African American History, Civil Rights
What Set Me Free
A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
Brian Banks
9781982121310 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $16.99 y Atria Books
Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true story of Brian Banks—a young man
who was wrongfully convicted as a teenager and imprisoned for more than five
years, only to emerge with his spirit unbroken and determined to achieve his dream
of playing in the NFL.
Themes: Sports, Memoir, Crime & Justice
Writing to Save a Life
The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman
9781501147296 y Trade Paper y 224 pages y $16.00 y Scribner
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déjà vu that is
part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington
Post ) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his
father, Louis.
National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlist
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Biography, History
13Simon & Schuster Freshman Year Reading
CAMPUS ISSUES
CAMPUS ISSUES
Systemic Racism 101
A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
Living Cities with Aminah Pilgrim, PhD
9781507216491 y Trade Paper y 224 pages y $17.99 y Adams Media
Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America
experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history
covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the
Black Lives Matter movement.
Themes: Anti-Racism, Social Justice
New Title Available
January 2022
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Power Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
9781982137274 y Trade Paper y 464 pages y $18.99 y Simon & Schuster
This thirtieth anniversary edition of Stephen Covey’s beloved classic The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People commemorates the timeless wisdom of the seven habits
with modern additions from Sean Covey.
SELECTED BY Harding University
Themes: Personal Success, Leadership
30th Anniversary Edition
Bad with Money
The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh* t Together
Gaby Dunn
9781501176333 y Trade Paper y 304 pages y $16.00 y Atria Books
The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an engaging and
empowering financial literacy book for Millennials and Gen Z.
Themes: Financial Literacy, Personal Success
For Every One
Jason Reynolds
9781481486255 y Trade Paper y 112 pages y $7.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and
inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award
finalist Jason Reynolds’s rallying cry to the dreamers of the world.
Author Videos Available
Themes: Inspirational, Reluctant Reader
14Gender: Your Guide
CAMPUS ISSUES
A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New
Gender Culture
Lee Airton, PhD
9781507210703 y Trade Paper y 240 pages y $15.99 y Adams Media
“An invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies…obvious and necessary”
(Library Journal, starred review) information for everyone who wants to learn
more about how to navigate gender diversity in today’s families, communities, and
workplaces.
Theme: Modern Culture
The Her Campus Guide to College Life
How to Manage Relationships, Stay Safe and Healthy, Handle Stress, and Have the Best Years
of Your Life!—Updated and Expanded Edition
By Stephanie Kaplan Lewis, Annie Chandler Wang,
Windsor Hanger Western, and Her Campus Editors
9781507210321 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $15.99 y Adams Media
Every young woman’s essential guide to tackling all of the challenges of college, from
stress to debt to scholarships, in a completely updated new edition: “Some things are
common sense but some things aren’t—especially when it comes to navigating a
college campus in a way that’s fun, independent, and totally safe” (Today).
Themes: Student Affairs, Transition/Orientation
The Infographic Guide to College
A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know
Adams Media
9781507203361 y Trade Paper y 128 pages y $16.99 y Adams Media
For fans of the popular Show Me How series, this illustrated guide to college life has
everything a student needs to excel in their first year, from tips on getting involved
around campus to advice about applying for loans and studying for exams.
Themes: Student Affairs, Transition/Orientation
The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution
How to Thoughtfully Handle Difficult Situations, Conversations, and Personalities
Rosalie Puiman
9781507211328 y Trade Paper y 240 pages y $15.99 y Adams Media
Successfully handle difficult conversations, remain civil, and end an argument
peacefully with this straightforward and mindful guide to conflict resolution.
Themes: Communication, Personal Success
Self-Care for College Students
From Orientation to Graduation, 150+ Easy Ways to Stay Happy, Healthy, and Stress-Free
Julia Dellitt
9781507211151 y Hardcover y 224 pages y $15.99 y Adams Media
Make the most out of your college experience with these manageable self-care tips
that are easy to incorporate into your busy college lifestyle.
Themes: Personal Success, Mental Health
15Simon & Schuster Freshman Year Reading
FICTION
FICTION
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
9781982136468 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $16.99 y Saga Press
From author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel about revenge, cultural identity,
and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled “one of 2020’s buzziest horror
novels” (Entertainment Weekly), this is a remarkable horror story that “will give you
nightmares—the good kind of course” (BuzzFeed).
“A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with
themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions.” —Library Journal (starred
review)
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Supernatural, Society, Indigenous Literature
Now in Paperback
Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
9781534439467 y Hardcover y 384 pages y $19.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens
that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Theme: Reluctant Reader
New Title Available
January 2022
All American Boys
A Novel
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
9781481463348 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $12.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
In an unforgettable novel from award-winning authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan
Kiely, two teens—one Black, one white—must grapple with the repercussions of
a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the
country bitterly divided by racial tension.
ALA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book y New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Videos Available
AllAmericanBoysNovel.com
SELECTED BY Millersville University, Holy Names University
Themes: Sports, Diversity, Understanding Others, Reluctant Reader
All the Light We Cannot See
A Novel
Anthony Doerr
9781501173219 y Trade Paper y 560 pages y $18.00 y Scribner
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German
boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of
World War II. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a
magnificent, deeply moving novel by a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill”
(Los Angeles Times).
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner y New York Times Bestseller
ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY The University of Idaho, Case Western Reserve University,
Carroll College, University of Dallas, Baylor University—Honors Program
16 Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Overcoming Life’s ChallengesAnxious People
FICTION
A Novel
Fredrik Backman
9781501160844 y Trade Paper y 352 pages y $17.00 y Washington Square Press
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man
Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel….Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud
funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure” (People).
New York Times Bestseller
Themes: Mental Health, Humorous
New Title
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the
Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
9781442408937 y Trade Paper y 384 pages y $14.99 y S&S Books for Young Readers
A “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) that distills lyrical
truths about family and friendship.
ALA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Reluctant Reader, Friendship, LGBTQ+ Issues
Beartown
A Novel
Fredrik Backman
9781501160776 y Trade Paper y 432 pages y $17.00 y Washington Square Press
The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel
about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Tulane University, East Stroudsburg University
Themes: Sports, Community
The Deep
Rivers Solomon
9781534439870 y Trade Paper y 192 pages y $14.99 y Saga Press
Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with
Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–
nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.
Themes: African Experience, Science Fiction
Now in Paperback
Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
Jennifer De Leon
9781534438255 y Trade Paper y
352 pages y $12.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her
new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school
ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Reluctant Reader, Social Justice, Diversity
Now in Paperback 17Dry
FICTION
Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
9781481481977 y Trade Paper y 416 pages y $12.99 y S&S Books for Young Readers
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is
forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of
survival.
New York Times Bestseller y Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Reluctant Reader, Dystopian
The Eternal Audience of One
A Novel
Rémy Ngamije
9781982164423 y Hardcover y 384 pages y $28.00 y Scout Press
Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and,
above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here)
coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of
Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality.
Themes: Coming-of-Age, Global Perspective
New Title
Fahrenheit 451
60th Anniversary Edition
Ray Bradbury
9781451673319 y Trade Paper y 272 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on
the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Montag never
questions work, returning each day to his bland life. When his wife attempts suicide
and a neighbor suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has
ever known.
Pulitzer Prize Special Citation y National Endowment for the Arts Big Read
Classroom Discussion Guide Available
Now an HBO Film SELECTED BY Xavier University of Ohio, University of Houston Victoria,
Wesley College, University of Lynchburg, Maryville University,
American University in Cairo, Oakland University The Honors College
Themes: Science Fiction, Dystopian
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
9781982146160 y Trade Paper y 288 pages y $19.99 y Gallery 13
Frankenstein’s Monster lives on—and so does legendary artist Bernie Wrightson’s
legacy—in this landmark illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, featuring
an introduction by Stephen King.
Themes: Ethics, Science Fiction
Paperback Available
April 2022
A Heart in a Body in the World
Deb Caletti
9781481415217 y Trade Paper y 384 pages y $12.99 y Atheneum
A girl tries to outrun her demons in this searing, universal novel about the impact of
gun violence, everyday sexism, rape culture, and internalizing—and overcoming—
guilt from National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.
ALA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Social Change, Social Activism, Inspirational, Coming‑of‑Age,
Reluctant Reader
18In the Midnight Room
FICTION
A Novel
Laura McBride
9781501157790 y Trade Paper y 416 pages y $18.00 y Atria Books
From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a powerful,
intergenerational story of four women whose lives become intertwined through the
changing fates of a Las Vegas casino. Exploring womanhood, family bonds, and
immigration, In the Midnight Room is about the way we live in America now.
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
Themes: Regional: Las Vegas, Community, Women’s Issues, Immigration
In the Shadow of the Banyan
A Novel
Vaddey Ratner
9781451657715 y Trade Paper y 352 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the
Cambodian killing fields, this searing first novel—based on the author’s personal
story—has been hailed by Little Bee author Chris Cleave as “a masterpiece…
utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful.”
New York Times Bestseller y PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Kalamazoo College, Georgetown University, Montgomory College,
Roger Williams University, Arizona State University Honors College
Themes: Global Perspective, Diversity
Long Division
A Novel
Kiese Laymon
9781982174828 y Trade Paper y 304 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes
a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black
teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion,
and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.
Themes: Coming-of-Age, Literary
New Title
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
9781481438261 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $11.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author
Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the
time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed
his brother.
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist
Reading Group Guide Available y Graphic Novel Adaptation Available
SELECTED BY Northern Vermont University–Johnson
Themes: Family, Society
A Man Called Ove
A Novel
Fredrik Backman
9781476738024 y Trade Paper y 368 pages y $17.00 y Washington Square Press
A charming novel from Sweden about a hilariously grumpy old man whose solitary
world is intruded on—and slowly changed—by the boisterous young family that
moves in next door. A Man Called Ove wonderfully enforces the power of community
friendship and family and why it is so important to never judge someone without
knowing them.
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Regis College
Themes: Friendship, Community 19The Map of Salt and Stars
FICTION
A Novel
Zeyn Joukhadar
9781501169052 y Trade Paper y 400 pages y $16.99 y Atria Books
This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to
Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day
Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice.
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Videos Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Diversity
Music of the Ghosts
A Novel
Vaddey Ratner
9781476795799 y Trade Paper y 352 pages y $21.99 y Atria Books
From the award-winning author of In the Shadow of the Banyan comes a novel set
in contemporary Cambodia that follows a former child refugee as she returns home
to discover the truth about her father, who went missing during the Khmer Rouge
regime.
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
SELECTED BY Montgomery College
Themes: Global Perspective, Diversity
The New American
A Novel
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
9781982120733 y Trade Paper y 288 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,”
who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Literary, Immigrant Experience
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
9781982110994 y Hardcover y 240 pages y $24.00 y Gallery Books
Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time
to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This modern classic coming‑of‑age
is a The Catcher in the Rye for a whole new generation. Featuring a brand‑new
“Dear Friend” letter from Charlie.
New York Times Bestseller
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Slippery Rock University
Themes: Reluctant Reader, Coming‑of‑Age
20th Anniversary Edition
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Novel
Jesmyn Ward
9781501126079 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American
story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Set in rural Mississippi
amongst spirits of the past, the novel follows one family’s journey to collect their
patriarch from prison.
National Book Award Winner y BCALA Literary Award Honor
Reading Group Guide Available y Author Video Available
SELECTED BY Duke University, Williams College, Xavier University, The University
of Michigan–Flint
20 Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, African American, Regional: The SouthThe Storm
FICTION
A Novel
Arif Anwar
9781501174513 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $17.00 y Atria Books
From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, this “fascinating,
ambitious” (The New York Times Book Review) and epic novel seamlessly
interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi
history—for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
Theme: Global Perspective
New Title Available
in Paperback
Swimming Back to Trout River
A Novel
Linda Rui Feng
9781982129392 y Hardcover y 272 pages y $26.00 y Simon & Schuster
A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows
a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous
birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in
years.”
Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize Shortlist
Theme: Global Perspective
New Title
This Tender Land
A Novel
William Kent Krueger
9781476749303 y Trade Paper y 464 pages y $17.00 y Atria Books
The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace returns with a powerful novel about four
orphans’ life-changing adventure traveling down America’s great rivers during the
1930s, seeking a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking
into despair.
New York Times Bestseller
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, American History
Tradition
Brendan Kiely
9781481480352 y Trade Paper y 368 pages y $11.99 y Margaret K. McElderry Books
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a
stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious
boarding school.
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Friendship, Coming‑of‑Age, Reluctant Reader
We Are Called to Rise
A Novel
Laura McBride
9781476738970 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
Based on a true and shocking split-second moment, Laura McBride expertly links
three lives and narratives to tell a story about America today, where so many
cultures and points of view collide and coexist. Set in the suburban sprawl of
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Molloy College, Owensboro Community & Technical College
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Diversity
21We Are Not Like Them
FICTION
A Novel
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
9781982181031 y Hardcover y 336 pages y $27.00 y Simon & Schuster
Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong
bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly
altered by a tragic event—a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America
today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.
Theme: Friendship
New Title
Where the Line Bleeds
A Novel
Jesmyn Ward
9781501164330 y Trade Paper y 256 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
A timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—“a lyrical yet
clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely
depicted” (The Boston Globe).
Reading Group Guide Available
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Regional: The South
The White Tiger
A Novel
Aravind Adiga
9781416562603 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $17.00 y Free Press
The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and
corruption of modern India’s caste society, guided by his great ambition.
Man Booker Prize Winner
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY Winona State University
Themes: Coming‑of‑Age, Global Perspective
Yonder
A Novel
Jabari Asim
9781982163167 y Hardcover y 272 pages y $27.00 y Simon & Schuster
The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully
rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black
strivers in the mid-nineteenth century.
Theme: Global Perspective
New Title Available
January 2022
Your Corner Dark
Desmond Hall
9781534460713 y Hardcover y 384 pages y $19.99 y Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that
takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a
teen is willing to go for family.
Themes: Reluctant Reader, Global Perspective
22Simon & Schuster Freshman Year Reading
FOOD, ENVIORNMENT, & SUSTAINABILITY
FOOD, ENVIRONMENT,
& SUSTAINABILITY
Desperate
An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia
Kris Maher
9781501187346 y Hardcover y 352 pages y $28.00 y Scribner
Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal
drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal
industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community—
from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher.
“[Desperate is] both a case study in exploitation of the little guy and a playbook
for confronting it. A rigorous accounting of a remarkably hard-fought battle for
clean water.”—Kirkus Reviews
Themes: Public Policy, Law
New Title
1,001 Voices on Climate Change
Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World
Devi Lockwood
9781982146719 y Hardcover y 352 pages y $26.00 y Tiller Press
Join journalist Devi Lockwood as she bikes around the world collecting personal
stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities.
Themes: Climate Change, Policy
New Title
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Charles Fishman
9781439102084 y Trade Paper y 416 pages y $18.00 y Free Press
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine,
The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water
and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in
our lives.
SELECTED BY Carroll University, College of Charleston, California State
University–Bakersfield, Occidental College, Western Carolina University
Themes: Conservation, Nature
The Dirty Life
A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball
9781416551614 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $17.00 y Scribner
From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail,” this riveting memoir
explores a year on a sustainable farm—and the real world epitome of Michael
Pollan’s food philosophy.
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry–Newcomb
Themes: Agriculture, Community
23The Dorito Effect
FOOD, ENVIORNMENT, & SUSTAINABILITY
The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
Mark Schatzker
9781476724232 y Trade Paper y 272 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the
key to reversing America’s health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition
and flavor.
SELECTED BY Lehigh University
Themes: Science, Nutrition
Exposure
Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
Robert Bilott
9781501172823 y Trade Paper y 400 pages y $18.00 y Atria Books
Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the
lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont, one of the world’s
largest chemical companies, after uncovering a shocking history of environmental
pollution and heartless corruption.
Themes: Public Policy, Law
How We Eat
The Brave New World of Food and Drink
Paco Underhill
9781982127091 y Hardcover y 256 pages y $27.00 y Simon & Schuster
An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to
how we buy it—is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance
to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on
consumer behavior.
Themes: Business, Food Science
New Title Available
January 2022
On Fire
The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein
9781982129927 y Trade Paper y 336 pages y $18.00 y Simon & Schuster
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes
the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and
impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).
New York Times Bestseller
Themes: Science, Political Science, Climate Change
On Trails
An Exploration
Robert Moor
9781476739236 y Trade Paper y 352 pages y $17.00 y Simon & Schuster
From a debut talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David
Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails
help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span
continents, from interstate highways to the internet.
New York Times Bestseller y Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner
SELECTED BY University of Arizona–Honors Program
Themes: Nature, Science, Memoir
24The Patch
FOOD, ENVIORNMENT, & SUSTAINABILITY
The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
Chris Turner
9781501115103 y Trade Paper y 368 pages y $16.99 y Simon & Schuster
Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers into the heart of the oil industry,
showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact North America and demanding that
we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about
the Patch?
National Business Book Award
Theme: Global Perspective
The Story of Stuff
The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—And How
We Can Make It Better
Annie Leonard
9781451610291 y Trade Paper y 368 pages y $18.00 y Free Press
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring,
The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat
of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard
examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps
for a changed planet.
Reading Group Guide Available
SELECTED BY over seven, most recently at Oakton Community College,
Moravian College
Themes: Political Science, Conservation
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
9781451697391 y Trade Paper y 576 pages y $18.99 y Simon & Schuster
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient
truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that
we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and
build something radically better.
Classroom Discussion Guide Available y Author Video Available
SELECTED BY Amherst College, Alaska Pacific University, University of Alaska–
Anchorage
Themes: Political Science, Conservation
What Stands in a Storm
A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
Kim Cross
9781476763071 y Trade Paper y 320 pages y $17.00 y Atria Books
A real-life thriller, the dramatic true story of America’s biggest tornado outbreak
since the beginning of recorded weather, a three-day superstorm with 358 separate
tornadoes touching down in twenty‑one states and destroying entire towns.
SELECTED BY University of Mount Union
Themes: Nature, Regional: Alabama
Winning the Green New Deal
Why We Must, How We Can
Varshini Prakash and Guido Girgenti
9781982142438 y Trade Paper y 384 pages y $18.00 y Simon & Schuster
An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing
the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including
contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash,
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more.
Themes: Political Science, Climate Change
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