Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time is the fall 2008 book selected for Washburn University’s iRead program. The book is written by Greg Mortenson and acclaimed journalist, David Oliver Relin. Mortenson is scheduled to speak at Washburn on Thursday, Nov. 20.

A book is all that connects Erin to her mother, who died when she was a baby. But how much can Erin really learn about her mother from a tattered copy of To Kill a Mockingbird? On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin decides it’s finally time to find out.

Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel from 2002 paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view within a family, she has created a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

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Offered is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. Offered must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant because, in an age of declining births, Offered and other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. First published in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

The Night Journal is an enthralling tale in which Indian ruins, majestic desert hotels, and the hardship and boldness of frontier life fit seamlessly with a modern-day story of coming to terms with loss, family secrets, and shattering truths that lie shrouded in memory.

Sigmund Freud steps off a steamboat in 1909 New York and into the murder investigation of a young woman found strangled in an opulent penthouse.  When another young heiress barely escapes becoming the second victim, Freud and his associate Dr. Younger, race to solve the crime. 

A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it.

Laughter is the glue that holds the women of Freesia Court together—and it is the foundation of a book group they call the AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons).  Holding on through forty eventful years Faith, Audrey, Merit, Kari and Slip will take the plunge in the chaos that inevitably comes to those with the temerity to be alive and kicking.