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1 Why Read Moby-Dick? PAID NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 PRESORT STD U.S. Postage SOLOMON NORTHUP Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor Introduction by Ira Berlin Foreword by Steve McQueen Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This harrowing memoir is widely considered the best-written slave narrative, notably accessible to modern readers both for vivid detail and Northup s unique perspective. Northup, born free in New York, was later drugged, kidnapped, and sold into labor on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this stark and moving account of slave life one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both free and enslaved. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before...the book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. Steve McQueen, director of the film adaptation of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword SUSAN SHILLINGLAW PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $14.00 LAYLA AL-ZUBAIDI, MATTHEW CASSEL, and NEMONIE CRAVEN RODERICK, editors Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution Voices from Tunis to Damascus Penguin Group USA On Reading The Grapes of Wrath Academic Marketing Department New York, NY PENGUIN PAPERBACK 144 PP $13.00 In this compelling biography of a book, Shillinglaw, professor of English at San Jose State University and scholar in residence at the National Steinbeck Center, examines the impact The Grapes of Wrath had upon publication in 1939, as well as its enduring relevance across cultural, social, political, ecological, and creative spheres. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 Translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins Introduction by Samar Yazbek BLAINE HARDEN Escape from Camp 14 One Man s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Journalist Harden exposes the secrets of the world s most repressive totalitarian state in the heart-wrenching story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only documented case of a person born and raised inside a North Korean labor camp to have escaped and lived to tell the tale. The story of Shin s awakening, escape, and new beginning is a riveting, remarkable book that should be required reading in every high school or college civics class. The Seattle Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $15.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 Beautiful.For the first time, a young Bosnian tells a riveting coming-of-age story about the brutal Balkan war when parents disappeared into concentration camps, teachers turned on students, and children betrayed children. Two decades later, now an American citizen, Kenan returns to his homeland to confront the guilty and honor the dead in this passionate, nuanced account. Julia Lieblich, author of Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return KENAN TREBINČEVIĆ and SUSAN SHAPIRO ALSO OF INTEREST FREDERICK DOUGLASS NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $15.00 // SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK $4.95 JOHN THOMPSON THE LIFE OF JOHN THOMPSON, A FUGITIVE SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $14.00 An award winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring. Provides a terrifying insight into the world of authoritarian regimes where freedom and democracy are alien concepts. Each of the eight accounts in this impressive anthology is accessible and illuminating. The Independent (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $17.00 FREE TEACHER S GUIDE AVAILABLE AT PENGUIN.COM/ TGUIDES 12 Years a Slave The New York Times-bestselling author of seagoing epics celebrates an American classic, offering a cabin master s tour of a novel rich with adventure and history, exploring the world of 19th-century whalers, and illuminating the book s humor and unforgettable characters for a broad contemporary audience. Why Read Moby-Dick? reels in a compelling case...short, lucid, intelligent.[philbrick] help[s] readers see the novel better while also creating a sense of excitement about it. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JUAN WILLIAMS Eyes on the Prize America s Civil Rights Years, Introduction by Julian Bond The updated, 25th-anniversary edition of Williams s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement tells the stories of key participants, from leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures like Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $23.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: THE EYES ON THE PRIZE CIVIL RIGHTS READER: DOCUMENTS, SPEECHES, AND FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS FROM THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE RAY SUAREZ Latino Americans In this companion to the landmark PBS miniseries, acclaimed journalist Suarez chronicles the rich history of Latinos who have shaped our nation since its earliest years and, in recent decades, emerged as the largest minority in the United States. This history covers an epic range of experiences over a five-hundred-year span, from the early European settlements to Manifest Destiny; the Wild West to the Cold War; the Great Depression to globalization; and the Spanish-American War to the civil rights movement. CELEBRA PAPERBACK 272 PP $18.00 ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH: LATINO AMERICANOS CELEBRA PAPERBACK $18.00

2 Why Read Moby-Dick? PAID NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 PRESORT STD U.S. Postage SOLOMON NORTHUP Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor Introduction by Ira Berlin Foreword by Steve McQueen Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This harrowing memoir is widely considered the best-written slave narrative, notably accessible to modern readers both for vivid detail and Northup s unique perspective. Northup, born free in New York, was later drugged, kidnapped, and sold into labor on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this stark and moving account of slave life one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both free and enslaved. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before...the book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. Steve McQueen, director of the film adaptation of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword SUSAN SHILLINGLAW PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $14.00 LAYLA AL-ZUBAIDI, MATTHEW CASSEL, and NEMONIE CRAVEN RODERICK, editors Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution Voices from Tunis to Damascus Penguin Group USA On Reading The Grapes of Wrath Academic Marketing Department New York, NY PENGUIN PAPERBACK 144 PP $13.00 In this compelling biography of a book, Shillinglaw, professor of English at San Jose State University and scholar in residence at the National Steinbeck Center, examines the impact The Grapes of Wrath had upon publication in 1939, as well as its enduring relevance across cultural, social, political, ecological, and creative spheres. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 Translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins Introduction by Samar Yazbek BLAINE HARDEN Escape from Camp 14 One Man s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Journalist Harden exposes the secrets of the world s most repressive totalitarian state in the heart-wrenching story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only documented case of a person born and raised inside a North Korean labor camp to have escaped and lived to tell the tale. The story of Shin s awakening, escape, and new beginning is a riveting, remarkable book that should be required reading in every high school or college civics class. The Seattle Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $15.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 Beautiful.For the first time, a young Bosnian tells a riveting coming-of-age story about the brutal Balkan war when parents disappeared into concentration camps, teachers turned on students, and children betrayed children. Two decades later, now an American citizen, Kenan returns to his homeland to confront the guilty and honor the dead in this passionate, nuanced account. Julia Lieblich, author of Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return KENAN TREBINČEVIĆ and SUSAN SHAPIRO ALSO OF INTEREST FREDERICK DOUGLASS NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $15.00 // SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK $4.95 JOHN THOMPSON THE LIFE OF JOHN THOMPSON, A FUGITIVE SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $14.00 An award winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring. Provides a terrifying insight into the world of authoritarian regimes where freedom and democracy are alien concepts. Each of the eight accounts in this impressive anthology is accessible and illuminating. The Independent (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $17.00 FREE TEACHER S GUIDE AVAILABLE AT PENGUIN.COM/ TGUIDES 12 Years a Slave The New York Times-bestselling author of seagoing epics celebrates an American classic, offering a cabin master s tour of a novel rich with adventure and history, exploring the world of 19th-century whalers, and illuminating the book s humor and unforgettable characters for a broad contemporary audience. Why Read Moby-Dick? reels in a compelling case...short, lucid, intelligent.[philbrick] help[s] readers see the novel better while also creating a sense of excitement about it. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JUAN WILLIAMS Eyes on the Prize America s Civil Rights Years, Introduction by Julian Bond The updated, 25th-anniversary edition of Williams s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement tells the stories of key participants, from leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures like Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $23.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: THE EYES ON THE PRIZE CIVIL RIGHTS READER: DOCUMENTS, SPEECHES, AND FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS FROM THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE RAY SUAREZ Latino Americans In this companion to the landmark PBS miniseries, acclaimed journalist Suarez chronicles the rich history of Latinos who have shaped our nation since its earliest years and, in recent decades, emerged as the largest minority in the United States. This history covers an epic range of experiences over a five-hundred-year span, from the early European settlements to Manifest Destiny; the Wild West to the Cold War; the Great Depression to globalization; and the Spanish-American War to the civil rights movement. CELEBRA PAPERBACK 272 PP $18.00 ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH: LATINO AMERICANOS CELEBRA PAPERBACK $18.00

3 Why Read Moby-Dick? PAID NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 PRESORT STD U.S. Postage SOLOMON NORTHUP Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor Introduction by Ira Berlin Foreword by Steve McQueen Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This harrowing memoir is widely considered the best-written slave narrative, notably accessible to modern readers both for vivid detail and Northup s unique perspective. Northup, born free in New York, was later drugged, kidnapped, and sold into labor on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this stark and moving account of slave life one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both free and enslaved. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before...the book blew [my] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. Steve McQueen, director of the film adaptation of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword SUSAN SHILLINGLAW PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $14.00 LAYLA AL-ZUBAIDI, MATTHEW CASSEL, and NEMONIE CRAVEN RODERICK, editors Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution Voices from Tunis to Damascus Penguin Group USA On Reading The Grapes of Wrath Academic Marketing Department New York, NY PENGUIN PAPERBACK 144 PP $13.00 In this compelling biography of a book, Shillinglaw, professor of English at San Jose State University and scholar in residence at the National Steinbeck Center, examines the impact The Grapes of Wrath had upon publication in 1939, as well as its enduring relevance across cultural, social, political, ecological, and creative spheres. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 288 PP $16.00 Translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins Introduction by Samar Yazbek BLAINE HARDEN Escape from Camp 14 One Man s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Journalist Harden exposes the secrets of the world s most repressive totalitarian state in the heart-wrenching story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only documented case of a person born and raised inside a North Korean labor camp to have escaped and lived to tell the tale. The story of Shin s awakening, escape, and new beginning is a riveting, remarkable book that should be required reading in every high school or college civics class. The Seattle Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $15.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 Beautiful.For the first time, a young Bosnian tells a riveting coming-of-age story about the brutal Balkan war when parents disappeared into concentration camps, teachers turned on students, and children betrayed children. Two decades later, now an American citizen, Kenan returns to his homeland to confront the guilty and honor the dead in this passionate, nuanced account. Julia Lieblich, author of Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return KENAN TREBINČEVIĆ and SUSAN SHAPIRO ALSO OF INTEREST FREDERICK DOUGLASS NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $15.00 // SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK $4.95 JOHN THOMPSON THE LIFE OF JOHN THOMPSON, A FUGITIVE SLAVE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK $14.00 An award winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring. Provides a terrifying insight into the world of authoritarian regimes where freedom and democracy are alien concepts. Each of the eight accounts in this impressive anthology is accessible and illuminating. The Independent (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $17.00 FREE TEACHER S GUIDE AVAILABLE AT PENGUIN.COM/ TGUIDES 12 Years a Slave The New York Times-bestselling author of seagoing epics celebrates an American classic, offering a cabin master s tour of a novel rich with adventure and history, exploring the world of 19th-century whalers, and illuminating the book s humor and unforgettable characters for a broad contemporary audience. Why Read Moby-Dick? reels in a compelling case...short, lucid, intelligent.[philbrick] help[s] readers see the novel better while also creating a sense of excitement about it. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JUAN WILLIAMS Eyes on the Prize America s Civil Rights Years, Introduction by Julian Bond The updated, 25th-anniversary edition of Williams s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement tells the stories of key participants, from leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures like Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $23.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: THE EYES ON THE PRIZE CIVIL RIGHTS READER: DOCUMENTS, SPEECHES, AND FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS FROM THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE RAY SUAREZ Latino Americans In this companion to the landmark PBS miniseries, acclaimed journalist Suarez chronicles the rich history of Latinos who have shaped our nation since its earliest years and, in recent decades, emerged as the largest minority in the United States. This history covers an epic range of experiences over a five-hundred-year span, from the early European settlements to Manifest Destiny; the Wild West to the Cold War; the Great Depression to globalization; and the Spanish-American War to the civil rights movement. CELEBRA PAPERBACK 272 PP $18.00 ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH: LATINO AMERICANOS CELEBRA PAPERBACK $18.00

4 NELLIE BLY Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jean Marie Lutes Foreword by Maureen Corrigan This volume, the only printed and edited collection of legendary undercover journalist Nellie Bly s writings, includes her best known works Ten Days in a Mad-House, Six Months in Mexico, and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days as well as many lesser known pieces that capture the breadth of her career, from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PP $17.00 BRIAN MACARTHUR, editor The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches Updated Edition This definitive collection of famous speeches brings together the words of more than one hundred influential men and women who changed and inspired the world through the sheer power of their oratory. Newly updated and divided into chronological and historically thematic categories. MacArthur wisely [concentrates] on certain political conflicts gathering together the oratory of the American Civil War or the campaign for female suffrage. His book works well not just as an anthology but as a history of those episodes. The Independent (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 528 PP $18.00 EILEEN and ROGER PANETTA, editors On Shattered Ground A Civil War Mosaic, This collection of primary documents from newspaper accounts and broadsheets to poetry, songs, photography, maps, and folk tales records the evolution of the American Civil War from Abraham Lincoln s election to his assassination. SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK 352 PP $7.95 JOHN DAVID SMITH, editor A Just and Lasting Peace A Documentary History of Reconstruction This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans Northern, Southern, black, and white responded to the changes unleashed by the surrender at Appomattox and the end of slavery. SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK 640 PP $8.95 M. JERRY WEISS and HELEN WEISS, editors The Signet Book of American Essays A compendium of commentary, criticism, and oratory excellence by America s most notable scientists, philosophers, politicians, and writers. Features essays by Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mark Twain, Erma Bombeck, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and more. SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK 368 PP $8.95

5 MARK KURLANSKY Ready for a Brand New Beat How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America Kurlansky chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the height of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act and showcases how a simple song about dancing gained currency as an activist anthem. RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 A YALSA OUTSTANDING BOOK FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND DANIEL JAMES BROWN The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics In this dramatic story of the Washington college rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler s 1936 Berlin Olympics, Brown shows how nine working-class boys the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers climbed from the depths of the Great Depression to beat the odds and create hope in the most desperate of times. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 416 PP $17.00 A YALSA OUTSTANDING BOOK FOR THE COLLEGE BOUND DAVE ISAY Ties That Bind Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps Drawing from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project s archives, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents a collection of conversations that celebrate the power of human connection in trying circumstances and unlikely places. PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 256 PP $25.95 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PP $15.00 PAPERBACK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2014 ALSO OF INTEREST: LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE PENGUIN PAPERBACK $16.00 NEIL MACGREGOR A History of the World in 100 Objects Spotlighting artworks, artifacts, and documents from the British Museum s vast collections, Neil MacGregor the museum s director brilliantly elucidates and connects items ranging from Zhou Dynasty bronze vessels to Victorian tea sets.traversing continents, cultures, and epochs with perfect aplomb, [this book] is ultimately a defense of why the universal museum remains a vital institution. The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 736 PP $30.00 RICHARD OVERY 1939 Countdown to War This brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history s greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions as Europe s greatest powers jockeyed for advantage and embarked on a collision course that led to World War II. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 176 PP $14.00

6 EDWARD HUMES Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist investigates America s biggest export, its most prodigious product, and its greatest legacy trash to find out what s in it, how much we pay for it, and how we manage to create so much of it. AVERY PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 TERRIE M. WILLIAMS The Odyssey of KP2 An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist s Fight to Save a Species This true story of a renowned marine biologist s quest to save KP2, an abandoned, endangered Hawaiian monk seal pup, follows KP2 s journey from his Pacific island home to a marine mammal lab in California, where Williams and her team fight to save the pup and his species. PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PP $16.00 MARK KURLANSKY Cod A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Kurlansky shows how a single commodity, a fish basic to the European diet, has dramatically altered the course of American, Caribbean, African, and European history by igniting wars, spurring revolutions, driving industries and trade routes, and more recently threatening ecological catastrophe as the overfished cod becomes commercially extinct on both sides of the Atlantic. This eminently readable book is a new tool for scanning world history. The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PP $15.00 ALSO OF INTEREST: SALT: A WORLD HISTORY PENGUIN PAPERBACK $18.00 DAN KOEPPEL Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World A fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana s history, cultural significance, and endangered future that takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. Clear, engaging...admirable...part historical narrative and part pop-science adventure. San Francisco Chronicle PLUME PAPERBACK 304 PP $17.00 MARK BAUERLEIN, editor The Digital Divide Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking Introduction by the editor An exploration of the perils and promises of the revolution in social media, which collects works by today s best thinkers and cultural commentators, including Steven Johnson, Nicholas Carr, and Todd Gitlin. The Digital Divide weighs in on the profound issues raised by new media, from questions of reading skills and attention span to cyber-bullying and the digital playground. TARCHER PAPERBACK 368 PP $17.95

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