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Infidel (07 Edition) Infidel (07 Edition)
by Hirsi Ali

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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening... (read more)

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah

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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more)

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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
by Martin Dugard

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With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more)

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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane

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The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more)

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller

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In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more)

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more)

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Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition) Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition)
by Nelson Mandela

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These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more)

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We Are All the Same : Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (04 Edition) We Are All the Same : Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (04 Edition)
by Jim Wooten

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Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a... (read more)

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
by Immaculee Ilibagiza

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Subtitled, "One Woman's Story Of Surviving The Rwandan Holocaust". Immaculee grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. She now works in... (read more)

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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Romeo Dallaire

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For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When... (read more)

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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition) Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai

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In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement... (read more)

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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)
by Malika Oufkir

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The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more)

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Not on Our Watch (07 Edition) Not on Our Watch (07 Edition)
by Cheadle

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Shocked and enraged by the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist Prendergast to focus the world's attention on the suffering and violence there and offer six strategies readers themselves can implement to help make a... (read more)

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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
by Nina Burleigh

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Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation--and no region aroused... (read more)

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Africa: A Biography of the Continent Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader

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"Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." <BR>--"The New York Times Book Review <BR>"Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in... (read more)

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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene

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Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine... (read more)

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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari

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"I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... (read more)

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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian

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Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the... (read more)

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The Soccer War The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Ryszard Kapuscinski is one of the greatest journalists alive and one of the greatest writers, too. The titles don't always fit together easily, but what Kapuscinski does is far more than just journalism. His writing has been part of what he calls the... (read more)

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In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
by Students At Awet Sec

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The Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti, couldn't be poorer. In this extraordinary book, village youth capture the richness of life there in photographs and essays.... (read more)

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