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Resources

The Community Book in Common project provides a wide variety of resources for those who are interested in the book and the many issues that the book raises.

If you have ideas to contribute, please send them to Brooks Thorlaksson

Speakers Bureau 

If you would like to invite a speaker to a class or a book group, check out the list of available speakers and their areas of expertise and e-mail Brooks Thorlaksson to arrange for time and place.

Dean Bill Loker's request for speakers

Curriculum

1. Ideas about how to use the book in a class

2. Books that support the issues in The Soloist

3. Films that support the issues in The Soloist

4. Music featured in The Soloist

News Media and Blogs

CSU, Chico Orion–Students Collect for Food Donations for the Homeless

Chico Enterprise-Record– Service Learning: Class Puts Students in Contact with Homeless

Oroville Mercury Register: Book in common discussion focuses on homelessness

CBS Evening News– A Tale With a Storybook Ending

NPR– The Real Story Behind the Soloist

60 Minutes –How Mr. Ayres and Mr. Lopez Became Friends

SF Gate–Homeless Blogger Writes for Elle

NorCal blogs Enterprise-Record – for the community book in common, Kristen Mahlis, blog master

Sacramento Bee–Life after The Soloist opens new chapter for unlikely pair, Allen Peirleoni

Publicity 

You can use these downloadable pdfs to advertise your own events for the Community Book in Common.

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