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A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
by Aman Sethi
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by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsThe first in a suspenseful new trilogy by the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, this gripping story follows a retired expat journalist in contemporary China who tries to crack a murder case as he battles his own personal demons.
by Katherine Boo
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
by Barbara Demick
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsA remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
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 Louise Brown
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsWith beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan.
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsReveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
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