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Dedicated to bringing you the latest for common reading programs in schools, universities, and communities.
New York City, NY
Joined August 2010
Watch @dan_chandler discuss FREE AND EQUAL, which is a part of the UnCommon Authors Series. #UnCommonAuthors
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Daniel Chandler argues it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out of the escalating crises that are devastating our world today.
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My book FREE AND EQUAL is out today in the US & Canada! It presents a unifying vision for progressive politics, drawing on the philosopher John Rawls Get the US edition here: https://t.co/XR97tvdgxd or the UK edition here: https://t.co/Tjc4Clzcke Thread about the book👇
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Ten colleges are given the highest ranking for first-year experiences for students. Read more here: https://t.co/zb4EJXyqHT
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Some schools take the extra step in integrating new students into campus life.
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Read an excerpt from @RaymondAntrobus’s The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound. https://t.co/kYY1ugoZrk
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The Quiet Ear, An Investigation of Missing Sound tells the story of Raymond Antrobus’s upbringing at the intersection of race and disability.
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Greg Grandin, America, América is the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere. It offers a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both. https://t.co/C6LuO9rmxz
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The first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America.
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Read an excerpt from Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull’s The Jailhouse Lawyer. https://t.co/UWMoPavBGQ
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A searing and ultimately hopeful account of Calvin Duncan, and his thirty-year path through Angola after a wrongful murder conviction.
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Read an excerpt from @AdamAJRbrothers’s Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World. https://t.co/8mu3rqeTEv
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A blueprint for boosting your activism and building support for the causes you care about, featuring tactics from the music industry.
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How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.” Read an excerpt from Gerd Gigerenzer’s How to Stay Smart in a Smart World. https://t.co/zRabP8bjzk
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How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.” Technological solutionism is the belief that...
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Read an excerpt from Ashley Cordes’s Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age. #fromthepage #excerpt
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This book explores how Indigenous currencies have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
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We’re excited to announce our 2025-2026 award recipients! 17 colleges, and universities are represented among this year’s recipients! Many thanks to our award sponsors, @prhhighered and DIA Higher Education Collaborators, for your support of this year’s awards campaign.
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Watch Arthur C. Brooks discuss Build the Life You Want as a part of the #UnCommonAuthors series: https://t.co/RlF1Xa0uh4
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Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future.
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This is an article contributed by Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional, in which she articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas. https://t.co/x9RK5ZNXHx
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Contributed by Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, in which she articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success...
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In this award-winning graphic novel, one teen boy’s coming-of-age story is told through fairy tales drawing upon the author’s own Vietnamese heritage. Now adapted to audio, featuring a full-cast narration. https://t.co/5FHgf9GCKK
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Featured in New York Public Library’s “Books for All” nation-wide community reading program, The Magic Fish is “a lyrical masterpiece” (BuzzFeed) from “a gifted storyteller” (The New York Times) that...
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A community read or all school read can be a powerful way to bring people together. Browse some of the titles we have adapted for young people, so adults and students of all reading levels can share and discuss a great book together. https://t.co/s8EM1FYsg8
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As we approach August, school and community leaders are looking for ways to set the tone for a new school year. Each community will have its own expectations to set, academic priorities to spotlight,...
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Read an excerpt from Alan Weisman’s Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future. https://t.co/gW3Esh1zz4
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The award-winning environmental journalist’s extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face an uncertain future.
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Christian Cooper’s memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World, has been announced as the first selection of the newly established community reading program for Ingham County. https://t.co/acxIE986RI
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In May 2020, Christian Cooper, a dedicated birder, was on his home turf in New York’s Central Park looking for the elusive mourning warbler when he came across a “bird” he had never …
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In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions. Read an excerpt from Kyra Davis Lurie’s The Great Mann. https://t.co/8CBRcEXOYc
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In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions. ...
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Watch Neil Shubin, author of ENDS OF THE EARTH, discuss his book as a part of the UnCommon Authors Series:
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The author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice.
The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist & science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: https://t.co/06hteUUMwv
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The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist & science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: https://t.co/06hteUUMwv
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Listen to Calvin Duncan, author of The Jailhouse Lawyer, interviewed by Terry Gross on @nprfreshair. https://t.co/Xc8ZbVlW37
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Hear the Fresh Air program for Jul 14, 2025
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