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One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
by Conor Grennan
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by Yangzom Brauen
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence.
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsA loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers."
by Stephan Talty
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsEmotionally powerful and irresistibly page-turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who was ultimately transformed into the towering figure the world knows today.
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 Patricia McCormick
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAlthough Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the familys crops, Lakshmis stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When she arrives at Happiness House, full of hope, she learns the unthinkable truth: she has...
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.
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