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Charities & Volunteering
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Search results: The best new books - Books about charities, charitable giving & volunteering
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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
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| 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. |
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Paperback: 29 May 2007
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| An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help. |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia. |
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District
by Louise Brown
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 1 Jul 2006
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| With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a
novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the
'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan. |
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Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neely Tucker
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 5 Apr 2005
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| Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't miss this gripping memoir. |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 31 Aug 2004
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| This powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. |
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The Invisible People: How the U. S. Has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time
by Greg Behrman
Hardcover: 1 Jun 2004
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| Intensely researched and vividly detailed, The Invisible People is a groundbreaking and compellingly readable account of the appalling destruction caused by more than two decades of American abdication in the face of the defining humanitarian catastrophe of our time. |
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Hardcover: Jun 1999
Paperback: 14 Oct 2003
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| This autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit. |
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