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How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
by Tom Shachtman
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by Jason Wallace
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsA compelling, thought-provoking novel about race, bullying and the need to belong, set in Africa.
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 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 Wangari Maathai
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsHugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
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