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The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsThe inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
by John Colman Wood
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsSet in a windswept wilderness menaced by hyenas and lions, anthropologist John Colman Wood's debut novel is an exquisite, haunting exploration of the meaning of love and the rituals of grief.
by Mischa Berlinski
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
by Neely Tucker
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsAgainst 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.
by Asne Seierstad
Published Oct 2004
Read Reviews'An admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand. Seierstad writes of individuals but her message is larger' -- Washington Post Book World.
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley
Published Feb 2004
Read Reviews"Gripping, heartbreaking reading...The interweaving of Hemingway's story, the students' narratives of terror and Huntley's own tales of discovery make for a book that is stirring and nearly impossible to put down."
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