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English Literature & Composition

ARMADA
By Ernest Cline

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming.

Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like
the countless science-fiction books, movies, and video
games hes spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one
day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the
monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off
on some grand space-faring adventure.
But hey, theres nothing wrong with a little escapism,
right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in
the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues
dont get chosen to save the universe.
And then he sees the flying saucer.
At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting
science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising
thriller, a classic coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale
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Crown | HC | 978-0-8041-3725-6 | 368 pp. | $26.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy $13.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8041-3726-3

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

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GIRL AT WAR

A Novel
By Sara Novic

Girl at War is a powerful debut novel about a girls

coming of ageand how her sense of family, friendship,
love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.

Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree

ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in
Croatias capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across
Yugoslavia, splintering Anas idyllic childhood. Daily life
is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer
matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Anas sense of safety starts to
fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find
her way in a dangerous world.
New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though shes tried to move on from her past, she cant escape her memories of warsecrets
she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family,
Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called
home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her countrys difficult history and
the events that interrupted her childhood years before.
Novi c s important debut brings painfully home the jarring fact that what happens in
todays headlines on a daily basisthe atrocities of wars in Africa and the Mideastis
neither new nor even particularly the worst that humankind can commit. . . . Thanks to
Novics considerable skill, Anas return visit to her homeland and her past is nearly as
cathartic for the reader as it is for Ana. Booklist(starred review)

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

A Novel
By Anthony Marra
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the National Book Critic Circles
John Leonard Prize

In a small rural village in Chechnya,

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

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A CONSTELLATION OF
VITAL PHENOMENA

For Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise. Weary and overburdened, she has no desire to take on additional risk and responsibility. But over the course of
five extraordinary days, Sonjas world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of
connections that weaves together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and
unexpectedly decides their fate. A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime,
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion,
and lasting significance.
Hogarth | TR | 978-0-7704-3642-1 | 416 pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-7704-3641-4

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By Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

Selected testimonies to living history

History & Social Science

VOICES OF A
PEOPLES HISTORY
OF THE UNITED
STATES, 10
ANNIVERSARY
EDITION
speeches, letters, poems, songsoffered by the
people who make history happen, but are often left
out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.
Featuring introductions to the original texts by
Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition
include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year
prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty
Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial
inequality; and members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched,
and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act.
Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-592-0 | 704 pp. | $24.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy $12.50

History & Social Science

THE HARLEM
HELLFIGHTERS
By Max Brooks
Illustrated by Caanan White

In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment

marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had
spent more time in combat than any other American
unit, never losing a foot of ground to the enemy or a man
to capture, and winning countless decorations. Though
they returned as heroes, this African American unit faced
tremendous discrimination, even from their own government. The Harlem Hellfighters, as the Germans called
them, fought courageously onand offthe battlefield
to make Europe, and America, safe for democracy.
In The Harlem Hellfighters, bestselling author Max Brooks
and acclaimed illustrator Caanan White bring this history
to life. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina,
to the trenches in France, they tell the heroic story of the 369th in an action-packed and powerful tale of honor and heart.
Shattering.... A visceral evocation of the horrors of trench warfare.... A sharp reminder
that venerating volunteer troops for their service is an ideal that has not always been a
reality. Washington Post
Author Max Brooks is available to SKYPE with classes that adopt The Harlem Hellfighters.
For more information, email highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com
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Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-46497-2 | 272 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
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UNBROKEN
A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience, and Redemption

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By Laura Hillenbrand

In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an

incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled
his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious
talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics.
But when World War II began, the athlete became an
airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed
flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air
Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against
all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life
raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open
ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy
aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the
limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate,
whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You dont have to be
a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this bookyou just have to love great
storytelling. Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7449-2 | 528 pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-60375-7

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THOUSAND PIECES
OF GOLD
By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

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

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

BOY 30529
A Memoir
By Felix Weinberg

In 1939 twelve-year-old Felix Weinberg

fell into the hands of theNazis. Imprisoned for most
of his teenage life, Felix survived fiveconcentration
camps, including Terezin, Auschwitz, and Birkenau,barely surviving the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945.After losing his mother and brother
in the camps, he was liberatedat Buchenwald and
eventually reunited at seventeen with his fatherin
Britain, where they built a new life together.Boy
30529 is an extraordinary memoir of the Holocaust,
as well asa moving meditation on the nature of
memory.
Told with an honest, contemporary, sometimes
wry viewpoint, Weinbergs graphic memories
are haunting, as he searches the Web and historical archives to find out now what he
did not know then, while it was happening to him: where he was marching, how many
died. The dual perspective, then and now, and the blend of family intimacy (including
occasional photos) with the gripping, authoritative historical overview make this an
essential title for discussion. Booklist
Verso | TR | 978-1-78168-300-2 | 192 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-1-78168-301-9

History & Social Science

AN INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Today in the United States, there are

more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people,
descendants of the fifteen million Native people who
once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal
program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely
been omitted from history.
Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United
States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples
and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively
resisted expansion of the US empire. Spanning more
than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples history radically
reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United Statesprovides an essential historical
reference for all Americans. . . . The American Indians perspective has been absent from
colonial histories for too long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for
sovereignty and human rights. Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5783-4 | 312 pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8070-0041-0

DEAD WAKE
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By Erik Larson

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its

tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as
an English country house sailed out of New York, bound
for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and
infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even
though Germany had declared the seas around Britain
to be a war zone. William Thomas Turner, Captain of the
Lusitania, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly
strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian
ships safe from attack.Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game.
It is a story that many of us think we know but dont, and
Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter
and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full
of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed
Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President
Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the
prospect of new love.
This enthralling and richly detailed account demonstrates that there was far more going
on beneath the surface than is generally known.... Larsons account [of the Lusitanias sinking] is the most lucid and suspenseful yet written, and he finds genuine emotional power
in the unlucky confluences of forces, large and achingly small, that set the stage for the
ships agonizing final moments. The Washington Post
Crown | HC | 978-0-307-40886-0 | 448 pp. | $28.00/$32.50 Can. | Exam Copy $14.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-553-44675-3

For more books by Erik Larson, please go to tinyurl.com/nxbl4ro

Science

THE THIRD
CHIMPANZEE
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
On the Evolution and Future of the
Human Animal
By Jared Diamond
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

At some point during the last 100,000

years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that
distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating
language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear
weaponsall within a heartbeat of evolutionary time.
Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the
effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies
for violence and invention have led us to a crucial fork
in our road. Where did these traits come from? Are they
part of our species immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species future if we change?
This is exactly the kind of book that should be a set text for a reinvigorated science
curriculum: engaging, thought-provoking and bang up to the minute. If your teachers
arent recommending books like thisgo out and get them anyway.Guy Claxton,
author of Whats the Point of School?
Triangle Square | TR | 978-1-60980-611-8 | 368 pp. | $17.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-1-60980-523-4

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52 Women Who Changed Science

and the World
By Rachel Swaby

In 2013, theNew York Timespublished

an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: She made a
mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from
job to job, and took eight years off from work to
raise three children. It wasnt until the second
paragraph that readers discovered why theTimes
had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill
was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in
orbit, and had recently been awarded the National
Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the
questions the obituaryand consequent outcry
prompted were, Who are the role models for todays
female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light?
[W]omen just dont get the encouragement they need and deserve to pursue careers in
science. Heres a handy book to help encourage young women to put themselves on the
scitech path, with profiles of 52 women from Nobel Prize winners to major innovators
and more who have made a difference in science. Library Journal
Broadway | TR | 978-0-553-44679-1 | 288 pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-553-44680-7

U.S. Government & Political Science

THE WORK
My Search for a Life that Matters
By Wes Moore

The Work is the story of how one young

man traced a path through the world to find his lifes purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in
the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find
him at some of the most critical moments in our recent
history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White
House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at
home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial
crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lessons
he learned from people he met along the wayfrom the
brave Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight,
to the resilient young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the true meaning of grit, to his
late grandfather, who taught him to find grace in service.
An intimate narrative about finding meaning in a volatile age, The Work will inspire readers to see
how we can each find our own path to purpose and help create a better world.
An intriguing follow-up to his bestselling The Other Wes Moore. . . . Moore makes a
convincing case that work has the most value if its built on a foundation of service,
selflessness, courage, and risk-taking. Publishers Weekly
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8384-5 | 272 pp. | $16.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-64601-3
For more books by Wes Moore, please go to tinyurl.com/lynn92v

BETWEEN THE
WORLD AND ME
By Ta-Nehisi Coates

A bold and personal literary exploration

of Americas racial history by the single best writer on
the subject of race in the United States (The New York
Observer).
In the years since the end of the Civil War and the signing
of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and
America has remained a brutally simple one, written on
flesh: It is the story of the black body, exploited to create
the countrys foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still
disproportionately threatened, locked up, and killed in
our streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find
a way to live within it? And how can we allregardless of
racehonestly reckon with our countrys fraught racial history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coatess attempt to answer those questions, presented in the
form of a letter to his adolescent son. Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined
history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, this book offers a powerful new framework for
understanding Americas history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.
For a free advance readers copy of this book, please email highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9354-7 | 176 pp. | $24.00/$31.00 Can. | Exam Copy $12.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-679-64598-6
For more books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, please go to tinyurl.com/l2q6yly

A True Story of Murder in America

By Jill Leovy

Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murdera ghettoside
killing, one young black man slaying anotherand a brilliant
and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue
justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fastpaced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait
of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a
surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder
happens in our citiesand how the epidemic of killings
might yet be stopped.
[Jill Leovy writes] with grace and artistry, and
controlledbut bone-deepoutrage in her new book. . . .
Ghettoside, if theres any justice, will be the most
important book about urban violence in a generation.
David M. Kennedy, The Washington Post

U.S. Government & Political Science

GHETTOSIDE

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

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A Story of Justice and Redemption

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

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer

when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal
practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned,
and women and children trapped in the farthest
reaches of our criminal justice system.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyers coming
of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument
for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
Every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields. David Cole, The New York Review of Books
Do Not Order Before 8/18/2015
Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8496-5 | 368 pp. | $16.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy $3.00
Also available as an e-Book: 978-0-8129-9453-7
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