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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.

The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 8 Mar 2005
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A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.

Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 31 Aug 2004
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This 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.

Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: May 1998
Paperback: 1 May 1998
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A passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

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