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Second Annual Author Event for NYC Educators
Are you a high school teacher in the Tri-State area or are you going to be in NYC this summer? If so, we would like to invite you and your students to our Second Annual Author Event for NYC Educators. Held at the Random House, Inc. building in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, June 30th from 1-4pm, come hear four fascinating authors speak about their books: Wes Moore (The Other Wes Moore), Liz Welch (The Kids Are All Right), Alissa Torres (American Widow), and Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas (Fist Stick Knife Gun). The event will also feature teacher presentations and fun, creative workshops for students. Refreshments and free books will be available. Join us for lunch starting before the event at 12 noon.
RSVP necessary. Click here for more information.
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Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony invite submissions for the Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards. Entries will be accepted April 1-29. National winners in each category will receive a cash award of $5,000 or $10,000.
The High School Competition is open to all high school students. The Two-Year College Competition is open to first- and second-year full-time students enrolled in community colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. The Four-Year College Competition is open to current full-time undergraduate students.
Click here for more information.
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2010 Alex Award Winner
Random House, Inc. is pleased to announce that The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir, by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch has been selected as a recipient of the 2010 Alex Award.
Each year, the Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
Click here for a full listing of Random House, Inc. titles that have previously won the award.
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New Blog for High School Educators
For the past three years, RHI Magazine has been made available in print and for free to middle- and high school educators and librarians. With so many teachers, students, and publishers embracing new technology today, and the theme of our fourth issue focusing on environmental education, Random House is proud to now present the online version of the magazine in a blog format.
The blog will also be home to all things high-school related, a one-stop place for news, special editorials, teacher resources, promotional give-aways, and more. We encourage you to book-mark www.rhimagazine.com, to post your comments, and to help spread the word!
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• Random House @ High School is on Facebook! Click here to become a "fan."
• Your Inner Fish, winner of the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Book Award, is a delightful, intellectually challenging view of evolution from primitive fish to humans. The book's website has resources and tools for teachers and features a compilation of figures from the book into PowerPoint slides for use in the classroom.
• Enrique's Journey author Sonia Nazario recently spoke about her book at the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) conference in Philadelphia. Check out this video by Northern Arizona University, hosted on the NCTE site, used to introduce Enrique's Journey for the university's 2009 freshman read. For additional educator guides and materials, click here.
• Four new Vintage Classics will be available in September: The Original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley), Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
The true story of one family, caught between America's
two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the
response to Hurricane Katrina.
"A heartfelt book, so fierce in its fury, so beautiful
in its richly nuanced, compassionate telling of an American
tragedy, and finally, so sweetly, stubbornly hopeful."
—The Times Picayune (New Orleans)
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A
Mighty Long Way
by Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page
"Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the Little
Rock Nine to cross the color lines, political barriers
and cultural chasms that circumscribed her life. . . .
Her memoir, which is really our memoir, provides a rare
perspective on that history in the making." —Hank
Klibanoff, co-author of The
Race Beat
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The Castle in Transylvania
by Jules Verne
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
This long-forgotten work of Julies Verne, the
master of science fiction, is one of his few writings
about the supernatural. This eerie gothic story set in
a forgotten valley in the mountains of Transylvania, where
demons and vampires menace the populace, pits a young
stranger against the forces of evil and superstition.
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Where Men Win Glory
by Jon Krakauer
 Pat
Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract
to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism.
When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend
was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable,
and considerably more complicated than the public knew.
"Gripping, heartbreaking reading. . . . At once
unique and universal. . . . A fitting tribute." —The
Christian Science Monitor
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