The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.
Airlift to America
: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
by
Tom
Shachtman
Hardcover: 15 Sep 2009 Publication information
This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world.
Half the Sky
: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by
Nicholas
D.
Kristof
,
Sheryl
WuDunn
Hardcover: 8 Sep 2009 Publication information
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
The Life You Can Save
: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by
Peter
Singer
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 1 Feb 2010 Publication information
For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the solution.
In Pursuit of the Common Good
: Twenty-Five Years of Repairing the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
by
A. E.
Hotchner
,
Paul
Newman
Hardcover: Nov 2003
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008 Publication information
With rare glimpses into their zany style and their compassion for those less fortunate, Newman and Hotchner (founders of Newman's Own all-natural foods) have written the perfect non-management book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational.
Previously published in hardcover as Shameless Exploitation in the Pursuit of the Common Good
The Promise
: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
by
Oral Lee
Brown
,
Caille
Millner
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 30 Dec 2007 Publication information
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
There Is No Me Without You
: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by
Melissa Fay
Greene
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Sep 2007 Publication information
A novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferra’s husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive.
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their...
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author— "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.
Like Robin Hood, Zorro is a story that almost everyone knows, but few have read. The original book by Johnston McCulley is out of print and ...
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The 2009 National Book Award Winners(Nov 19 2009) The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit...
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