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One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
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by Julie Checkoway
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsThe inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
by Carol Lynch Williams
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsKyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her ...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsThe 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.
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsFrom 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.
by Leslie T. Chang
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsAn eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
by Mahvish Khan
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsOutraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, Mahvish Khan volunteered to translate for the prisoners. Her story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is and who we are.
by Masha Hamilton
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsThe Camel Bookmobile follows an American librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern Kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of dangerous and seemingly immutable obstacles.
by Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary promise and steely determination to make a difference in the world.
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferras 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.
by Sonia Nazario
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
by Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis 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.
by Muhammad Yunus
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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