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A Volunteer Story
by Alison Thompson
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by Matthew Goodman
Published Mar 2014
Read Reviews1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.
by Bob Harris
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsAfter making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, so he travels from Peru and Bosnia, to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worlds population, we must become part of the solution.
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 Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsRoss Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases.More than just an adventure story, it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the struggle of those risking all to aid them.
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.
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