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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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Forced to rescue his medically abused younger sister,
angry and self-loathing Korean War–veteran Frank
Money revisits memories—from childhood and war—that
leave him questioning his sense of self and rediscovers
a profound courage he thought he could never possess again.
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In
the Garden of Beasts
By Erik Larson
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative
non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author
of The
Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable
story set during Hitler's rise to power.
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Dear Marcus
By Jerry McGill
An inspiring memoir written as a letter to the unknown
man who shot the author in the back at age thirteen, rendering
him a paraplegic, about the importance of optimism, forgiveness,
and enjoying life to its fullest.
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Anne Frank's Family
By Mirjam Pressler
A
fascinating history of Anne Frank and the family that
shaped her is based on a treasure trove of thousands of
letters, poems, drawings, postcards, and photos recently
discovered by her last surviving close relative, Buddy
Elias, and his wife, Gerti.
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