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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more)

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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China Wild Swans Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang

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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more)

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder

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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more)

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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
by Arthur Herman

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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (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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The Duchess The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved... (read more)

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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945 Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945
by Catherine Merridale

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A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by... (read more)

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Salt: A World History Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky

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I like salt. When I was younger and less self-conscious about eating a chip made from a potato paste, I used to lick each side of a Pringle until I found the saltier one, and put that side tongue-down so I could get the maximum salt intake. Salt is... (read more)

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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky

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Queen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant... (read more)

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The Twelve Little Cakes The Twelve Little Cakes
by Dominika Dery

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Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia.... (read more)

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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
by Ted C Fishman

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China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic... (read more)

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more)

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The Bookseller of Kabul The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad

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In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more)

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The Places In Between The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart

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In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more)

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The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France
by Jeffrey Ravel

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In the tradition of The Return of Martin Guerre, a dramatic tale of false identity, murder, and bigamy that riveted France during the reign of Louis XIV From the historian Jeffrey Ravel comes a scandalous tale of imposture that sheds new light on French... (read more)

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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz

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"The Long Walk" is the harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners' desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.... (read more)

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On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel
by Tony Cohan

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We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just... (read more)

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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson

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Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more)

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan

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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found... (read more)

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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter
by Thomas L Friedman

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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,... (read more)

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