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Stories From Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsA riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.
by Naomi Benaron
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsRunning the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions.
by Tracy Kidder
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsStrength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one mans remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
by Stephan Faris
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near futurepolitically, economically, and culturally
by Uwem Akpan
Published Jul 2009
Read ReviewsUwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsAn 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.
by Paul Rusesabagina
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsThe riveting life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who, as his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, sheltered more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.
by Carol Bergman
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsHumanitarian workers define courage in the 21st century. This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek to serve.
by Michela Wrong
Published Jun 2002
Read Reviews"Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land". "This book will become a classic"
by Elmore Leonard
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsEven with this tragic background of Rwanda Pagan Babies comes off as Leonard's funniest straight-faced novel to date.
by Carlotta Gall, Thomas de Waal
Published Jan 2000
Read ReviewsA combination of investigative journalism and historical overview that emphasizes the Chechens' role as the long-oppressed victims of Russian imperialism.
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