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Little Princes
: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
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Conor Grennan
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 27 Dec 2011
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Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about. |
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Bonobo Handshake
: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
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Vanessa Woods
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 7 Jun 2011
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A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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William Kamkwamba
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Aug 2010
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The 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. |
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Half the Sky
: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Nicholas D.
Kristof
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Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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From 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. |
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Unbowed
: A Memoir
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Wangari Maathai
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 7 Sep 2007
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Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. |
There Is No Me Without You
: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
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Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Sep 2007
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A novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferras husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive. |
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