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First-Year and Common Reading

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To request complimentary copies of an HBG title for your program to consider, please email FYE@hbgusa.com. Once a title has been adopted, we are happy to provide desk copies for participating faculty.

 

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If you have selected an HBG title for your program and are interested in purchasing copies in bulk, please contact special.markets@hbgusa.com. Bulk ebook discounts are also available.

 

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How the Word Is Passed

How the Word Is Passed

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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismPEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021 A Time 10 Best Nonfiction… Read More

Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780316492935

USD: $29 / CAD: $37

On Sale: June 1st 2021

Little, Brown and Company

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower

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This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781538732182

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: April 30th 2019

Grand Central Publishing

So You Want to Talk About Race

So You Want to Talk About Race

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it’s hard to… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781580058827

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: September 24th 2019

Basic Books

Circe

Circe

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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios,… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780316556323

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: April 14th 2020

Little, Brown and Company

The Disordered Cosmos

The Disordered Cosmos

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From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781541724686

USD: $17.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: May 10th 2022

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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The crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used… Read More

Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780316453691

USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99

On Sale: March 10th 2020

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

No Ashes in the Fire

No Ashes in the Fire

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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781568589404

USD: $17.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: February 19th 2019

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The House of Broken Angels

The House of Broken Angels

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In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780316154895

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.49

On Sale: March 5th 2019

Little, Brown and Company

Stakes Is High

Stakes Is High

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Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionBrave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781568588742

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: January 25th 2022

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The Water Will Come

The Water Will Come

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What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780316260206

USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99

On Sale: August 7th 2018

Little, Brown and Company

The Great Pretender

The Great Pretender

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781538715277

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: July 14th 2020

Grand Central Publishing

Homeland Elegies

Homeland Elegies

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This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, New York Times). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 A Best Book… Read More

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780316496414

USD: $16.99 / CAD: $22.99

On Sale: May 25th 2021

Little, Brown and Company