FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL NONFICTION PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

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1 HIGH SCHOOL NONFICTION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

2 DAN-EL PADILLA PERALTA PENGUIN PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $17.00 Undocumented A Dominican Boy s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League In a powerful memoir that highlights the importance of immigration reform, a Columbia University classics scholar chronicles his life as an undocumented immigrant who went on to graduate at the top of his Princeton class. Dan-el Padilla Peralta s story is as compulsively readable as a novel, an all-american tall tale that just happens to be true. From homeless shelter to Princeton, Oxford, and Stanford, through the grace not only of his own hard work but his mother s discipline and care, he documents the America we should still aspire to be. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President, New America Foundation An impassioned counterargument to those who feel, as did some of Peralta s more xenophobic classmates, that illegals take jobs from Americans and deserve to be kicked out of the country. Minneapolis Star Tribune DAVE ISAY Callings The Purpose and Passion of Work In this inspiring tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents stories of passion, courage, and commitment. We meet a man from the barrios of Texas whose experiences in a family of migrant farmers inspired him to become a public defender. We meet a young man on the South Side of Chicago who became a teacher to help at-risk teenagers. We meet a woman from Little Rock who helps former inmates rejoin the workforce. Together, these and other stories demonstrate how work can be about more than making a living, that finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. Isay culls and collects wise words and powerful stories about searching for meaning in work from the more than 65,000 stories recorded in StoryCorps booths across America over the past 12 years. Every one of the stories in this inspiring collection reveals the deep love that motivates the storytellers as they discover and embrace their vocations.these wonderful stories reveal that work becomes meaningful to those who choose or are in some cases chosen by the calling that motivates, energizes, and inspires them. Publishers Weekly PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 288 PAGES $26.00

3 STEVEN PINKER The Sense of Style The Thinking Person s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century The bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist creates a usage guide for the 21st century, applying the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, stylish prose. In this short, practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer good prose. Using examples of effective and ineffective writing, Pinker replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, encouraging students to apply guidelines judiciously rather than robotically. More contemporary and comprehensive than The Elements of Style, illustrated with comic strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing. The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 368 PAGES $17.00 JOHN FREEMAN, editor Tales of Two Cities The Best and Worst of Times in Today s New York Thirty major contemporary writers, including Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Lydia Davis, examine life in a deeply economically divided New York. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. A bristling portrayal of New York in the tradition of Jacob Riis. Guernica PENGUIN PAPERBACK 288 PAGES $16.00 GORDON HUTNER, editor Immigrant Voices Volume II This compelling collection of essays provides a comprehensive vision of immigration to the United States in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filled with narratives by authors from around the world, Immigrant Voices: Volume II travels to Burundi, Afghanistan, Egypt, Cuba, Cambodia, Puerto Rico and elsewhere to deliver an intimate, global look at the challenges modern immigrants face. Featuring firsthand accounts by André Aciman, Tamim Ansary, H. B. Cavalcanti, Firoozeh Dumas, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Reyna Grande, Le Ly Hayslip, Aleksandar Hemon, Rose Ihedigbo, Oksana Marafioti, Anchee Min, Shoba Narayan, Elizabeth Nunez, Guillermo Reyes, Marcus Samuelsson, Katarina Tepesh, Gilbert Tuhabonye, Loung Ung, and Kao Kalia Yang. NAL PAPERBACK 448 PAGES $15.00 YEONMI PARK In Order to Live A North Korean Girl s Journey to Freedom In this story about the resilience of the human spirit and the transcendent power of love, Yeonmi Park recounts her struggle to survive in North Korea; her harrowing escape to South Korea through China s underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and her emergence as a leading human rights activist all before her twenty-first birthday. A clear-eyed and devastating autobiography [that] tells of [Park s] famine-struck childhood in North Korea, her defection, and the years in which she was trafficked around northern China by gangsters running forced marriage and prostitution rackets. The Guardian (UK) PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 288 PAGES $27.95

4 PAUL STROHM Chaucer s Tale 1386 and the Road to Canterbury In the politically and economically fraught London of the late fourteenth century, Chaucer was swept up in a series of events that left him jobless, homeless, separated from his wife, exiled from his city, and isolated in the countryside of Kent. Brought expertly to life by Paul Strohm, this is the eye-opening story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury Tales. Strohm illuminates how 1386 marked a decisive year for Geoffrey Chaucer, one in which he went from accomplished coterie poet to the popular author of the work of genius for which he is celebrated to this day: The Canterbury Tales. In Chaucer s Tale, Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, brings this turbulent moment in Chaucer s England to life, recovering in vivid detail the professional and creative pilgrimage that led Chaucer to compose so memorable a fictional one. James Shapiro, Columbia University PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $18.00 AZAR NAFISI The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books As a young girl growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi, the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, came to know America through its fiction. Now an American citizen, she urges fellow Americans to rediscover their country and its fundamental ideals through its literature. Here, she blends memoir and polemic with close readings of three of her favorite novels Mark Twain s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sinclair Lewis s Babbitt, and Carson McCullers s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Nafisi finds the essence of the American experience, filtered through narratives not about exceptionalism or fabulous success, but alienation, solitude, and landscape. Her argument is compelling. Jane Smiley, The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK 352 PAGES $17.00 DAVID ORR The Road Not Taken Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong The poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review offers a lively look at Frost s most beloved poem, revealing its cultural influence, artistic complexity, and historical journey from the margins of World War One to its canonical place in American literature. Orr is fascinated by why so many have read this poem so positively for so long, and what this fact reveals about the American soul. Christian Science Monitor PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 192 PAGES $25.95 ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken and Other Poems DELUXE EDITION EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID ORR Presents Frost s best-loved poem along with other works from his early years, including After Apple-Picking, The Oven Bird, and Mending Wall. Award-winning poet and critic David Orr s introduction discusses why Frost remains a central figure in American culture and how the intricacy of his poetry invites generation after generation to search for meaning in his work. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 144 PAGES $15.00

5 SARAH CHURCHWELL Careless People Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby When F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to New York in 1922, his arrival coincided with a brutal double murder that greatly influenced the novel he began writing that same autumn: The Great Gatsby. In this mesmerizing journey into the dark heart of Jazz Age America, acclaimed American literature scholar Churchwell combines a forensic inquiry into an unsolved crime with a quest for the roots of America s best-loved novel. Blends biography, scholarship, and literary journalism to generate a narrative that is almost novelistic in its urgency.the finest achievement of Careless People may be to return The Great Gatsby to its moment.churchwell presents a wealth of historical material that ought to inform any reading of Fitzgerald s great novel as a product of its era. The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 432 PAGES $17.00 MARJA MILLS The Mockingbird Next Door Life with Harper Lee [A] wonderful memoir of Harper Lee and her sister.a zesty account of two women living on their own terms yet always guided by the strong moral compass.an atmospheric tale of changing small-town America; of an unlikely, intergenerational friendship between the young author and her elderly subjects; of journalistic integrity; and of grace and fortitude. The Washington Post A winning, nuanced portrait.it seems unlikely we ll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life. USA Today PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $17.00 KERI SMITH The Wander Society Several years ago when Keri Smith, author of Wreck This Journal, discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass, her interest was piqued. Those simple markings would become the basis of a life-changing exploration into a mysterious group known as The Wander Society. Here, Smith presents the results of her research: a guide to the Wander Society, a secretive group that holds up the act of wandering, or unplanned exploring, as a way of life. PENGUIN HARDCOVER 208 PAGES $20.00 MATT HAIG Reasons to Stay Alive This frank account of how Haig overcame depression with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and girlfriend inspires those who feel daunted by depression and helps illuminate the disease for those who are mystified by it. In this short, scintillating, first-hand account of depression and how he combated it, novelist Haig leaves us in no doubt as to the true, terrifying nature of the beast. Writing thirteen years after suddenly being struck down by a new claustrophobic and suffering reality, Haig provides enough detail about the symptoms of depression to deter anyone from taking the name of this cruel condition in vain.haig s story of recovery will encourage anyone who feels miserable, whether they are clinically depressed or not, and offers valuable insights to family and friends. The Daily Mail (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $15.00

6 CLASSROOM FAVORITES HIGH SCHOOL NONFICTION DANIEL JAMES BROWN The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics PENGUIN PAPERBACK 416 PAGES $17.00 JONA OBERSKI Childhood AFTERWORD BY JIM SHEPARD TRANSLATED BY RALPH MANHEIM PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 112 PAGES $14.00 NEIL MacGREGOR Shakespeare s Restless World Portrait of an Era PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $22.00 KATHERINE HOWE The Penguin Book of Witches INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KATHERINE HOWE PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $17.00 SUSAN SHILLINGLAW On Reading The Grapes of Wrath PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $14.00 JEANNE MARIE LASKAS Hidden America From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work BERKLEY PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $16.00 SOLOMON NORTHUP Twelve Years a Slave EDITED WITH AN AFTERWORD BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. INTRODUCTION BY IRA BERLIN FOREWORD BY STEVE McQUEEN PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $16.00 THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS Losing My Cool Love, Literature, and a Black Man s Escape from the Crowd PENGUIN PAPERBACK 240 PAGES $15.00 KEVIN TREBINČEVIĆ and SUSAN SHAPIRO The Bosnia List A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $16.00 EDWARD HUMES Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash AVERY PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $16.00 BRIAN MacARTHUR, editor The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches PENGUIN PAPERBACK 624 PAGES $18.00 MICHAEL POLLAN The Omnivore s Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals PENGUIN PAPERBACK 464 PAGES $18.00 DAVID LASKIN The Family A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PAGES $17.00 MARK KURLANSKY Cod A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $16.00

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