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9 Articles Tagged common reading

General Common Reads
January 10 2023

Educator’s Guide for Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World is very much a book about weight. It invites the reader to confront and reflect on the profound emotional weight associated with living one’s life in the vast shadow of climate change. Is it possible for young people to acknowledge the immensity of

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Educator’s Guide for Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

General Common Reads
January 10 2023
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July 21 2022

Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, Publishing November 15, 2022

We’re delighted to announce that Penguin Random House will publish former First Lady Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, available November 15, 2022. In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly

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Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, Publishing November 15, 2022

Common Reads
July 21 2022
General Common Reads
December 3 2021

Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

On Thursday, November 11th 2021, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for common reading. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured:   Senator Mazie K. Hirono, author of Heart of Fire Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us Michael Sayman, author of App Kid Judith Heumann, author of Being Heumann

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Videos from the Fall 2021 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

General Common Reads
December 3 2021
General Common Reads
July 19 2021

U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

U.S. News & World Report, which publishes the most widely quoted annual set of rankings for American colleges and universities, recently shared their list of “10 Books to Read Before College.” Describing these books as “assigned texts [that] are regularly used in freshman-level classes and offer students a chance to come together to discuss a

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U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

General Common Reads
July 19 2021
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July 13 2021

Women Climate Leaders Provide Truth, Courage, and Solutions in All We Can Save

Contributed by Katharine K. Wilkinson, co-editor of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis “I was shaking as I read the opening essay because I felt so empowered,” one of my students shared at the start of the fall 2020 semester. I’d spent the previous nine months co-editing the bestselling

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Women Climate Leaders Provide Truth, Courage, and Solutions in All We Can Save

Common Reads Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Environmental Science Political Science
July 13 2021
Common Reads Environmental Science
April 12 2021

In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

  Left: Robin Broad; right: John Cavanagh   In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water

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In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

Common Reads Environmental Science
April 12 2021
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020

David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Contributed by David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth Climate change is not a single subject, or a single story, but the theater in which all human life is now conducted, transforming and reordering nearly every aspect of modern life—our infrastructure and our migration patterns, our cities and our energy systems and our agriculture, our

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David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019

Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Immigration Heritage Month serves as a reminder to  celebrate individual stories of immigration, and the shared diversity that makes up the United States. This year at the 38th annual conference on The First-Year Experience, author Abdi Nor Iftin shared his journey from war-torn Somalia to the United States—first by way of American movies, and years later

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Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019
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Common Reads
August 1 2018

Common Reads® Presents 2018 First-Year Reading Roundup

For the second year in a row, Common Reads has pulled together an extensive list of First-Year and Common Reading programs run by colleges and universities across the country.

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Common Reads® Presents 2018 First-Year Reading Roundup

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August 1 2018
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