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Fourth Annual Author Event for NYC Educators

Calling all Tri-State Educators: The Random House Academic Marketing Department invites you to our FREE Fourth Annual Author Event for NYC Educators! Held at the Random House, Inc. building in midtown Manhattan on Friday, June 29 from 12-3pm, the event features six authors who will each discuss and sign free copies of their book. The author line-up is: Sam Bracken (My Orange Duffel Bag), Susan Cain (Quiet), Matt de la Pena (Mexican WhiteBoy), Julie Otsuka (The Buddha in the Attic), Said Sayrafiezadeh (When Skateboards Will Be Free), and Darin Strauss (Half a Life).

Also, the day's programming will feature a special presentation on the Common Core Standards given by our friends at the Core Knowledge Foundation. You won't want to miss it!

A free lunch will be served at noon. If you are not joining us for lunch, please be sure to arrive at least fifteen minutes before the start time of 12:30PM.

RSVP necessary. Click here for the official invitation.

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nomination

Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has been nominated for the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award for 2012-2013. This award, given by the Maryland Association of School Librarians, seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature. More than 70,000 students from across the state select their favorite books as part of the award program. Winners will be announced in May 2013.

Slavery By Another Name PBS Documentary

Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name has been made into a new PBS documentary that will broadcast on February 13th at 9:00 p.m.(ET). Please click here for a look at the trailer and tune in on Monday to see Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize–winning work come to life.

Celebrate African American History Month with Random House, Inc.

Since 1926, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has established the national theme for the month-long celebration. This year's theme is "Black Women in American Culture and History."

In addition to Black Women for Beginners—an ideal book for this year's theme—we are happy to suggest these other great, graphic non-fiction titles also from the For Beginners imprint: African History for Beginners and Black History for Beginners. And don't miss these great graphic offerings from the Campfire Books line as well: Muhammad Ali: The King of the Ring and Nelson Mandela: The Unconquerable Soul.

Celebrate African American History Month with your students by sharing these titles from Knopf Doubleday: The Warmth of Other Suns, the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life; The Grace of Silence, a memoir that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be an American, and Life Upon These Shores, a landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.

Feel free to browse our African American History Month calendar page for more suggestions.

• Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that Crown author and Aspergian John Elder Robison will serve on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). Robison is the author of books about living with autism including Look Me in the Eye and Be Different. Click here to read the news release.

• Click here to access Anne Rice's interview with School Library Journal's Angela Carstensen in which they discuss Rice's newest novel, The Wolf Gift, and its crossover appeal to high school students.

• Check out the book trailer for Ben Marcus's exciting new novel The Flame Alphabet and this brief New York Magazine write-up on the author and his new book.

• The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at the University of Illinois - Chicago is sponsoring a free event for author GB Tran on Thursday, November 17 from 4-6pm. Tran will discuss his graphic memoir, Vietnamerica, which chronicles his family's experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War and their immigration to the United States. Click here for more information.