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Vise Library oversees a campus reading program known as iRead, designed to affirm the importance of reading and to create a common reading experience for the Cumberland University community. We hope to encourage interaction among students and faculty and to promote critical thinking by facilitating reading and discussion of important books. (Click here to visit the iRead blog.)

The selection for the 2009-10 academic year is Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time. In the book, Greg Mortenson and journalist David Oliver Relin recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan's K2, the world's second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils and rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the Third World to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one many really is changing the world -- one school at a time. For more information, please visit http://www.threecupsoftea.com/.