Next Year

admin | November 3, 2009

Please send suggestions of titles to consider for next year’s Book of the Year. I’ll add them to the list below. The Committee will meet sometime this semester to make a list of possible titles, and needs your help!
Suggestions So Far:

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected [...]

Further Reading & Viewing

admin | October 19, 2009

Throughout Three Cups of Tea are references to names and writings that might have piqued your interest.  Here are some tips to help you  look a little deeper:

Warrior Song of King Gezar (Gesar). Called  Gling Ge sar gye sgrung in Tibetan, this ancient and [...]

HSU Library has the Book

admin | June 11, 2009

Three Cups of Tea is available in many forms from the HSU Library.  Click the links to see the catalog information for call number and number of copies:
Print Book
Audio Book (11 discs)
Print Book - Young Reader’s Edition

A Little History

admin | June 11, 2009

The past choices for HSU Book of the Year:
2008-2009 - Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler
2007-08 - Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2006-07 - A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
2005-06 -  Grand Avenue by Greg Sarris & Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
In case you wondered…
And, since HSU partners with College of the Redwoods [...]

We’ve Chosen!

admin | April 3, 2009

For this coming year, the featured common reading book for Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods will be
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date: January 2007
ISBN-13: 9780143038252

The book is available from the HSU Bookstore, Barnes [...]