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Welcome to the FSCJ Author Series Learning Community. This guide will help you explore the selected books for this unique program that engages approximately 2,500 FSCJ students around a memoir and social issue that promote academic discourse in higher education. The professors who adopt the text each year provide safe, respectful, and reflective academic opportunities to discuss these issues. They also provide opportunities to participate in community service learning relevant to the topic. Students attend events throughout the academic year concerning topics relevant to the memoir, and the author visits the college at the end of the academic year for lectures that are both free and open to the public.
2009 - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Topic: Child Soldiers
2010 - Welfare Brat by Mary Childers
Topic: Poverty in America
2011 - No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
Topic: The Environment & Sustainability
2012 - Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Clint Van Winkle
Topic: The War on Terror and PTSD Awareness
2013 - KaBoom! One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond
Topic: Children's Health and Fitness
2014 - Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Justice & Redemption by Jennifer Thompson & Ronald Cotton
Topic: Racial Profiling & Eyewitness Testimony
2015 - Hero of the Underground: My Journey Down to Heroin and Back by Jason Peter
Topic: Substance Abuse Awareness
2016 - The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic
Topic: Human Rights & Refugee Awareness
2017 - Thinking in Pictures : And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Topic: Autism Awareness
2018 - The World's Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
Topic: Reading, Strength, and Tourette's Syndrome
2019 - Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
Topic: Disparities in health outcomes for people of color, institutional racism
2020 - Craig & Fred by Craig Rossi
Topic: Dog Rescue, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Military Service
2021 - Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince
Topic: Ballet Dancers, Sierra Leone, Racism in the Arts, War Orphans, Family
