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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Rosemary Mahoney
Paperback: 03/10/2015
Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of ...
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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
Qais Akbar Omar
Paperback: 04/08/2014
With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in ...
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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Kim Barker
Paperback: 03/06/2012
A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one ...
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Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thubron
Paperback: 07/01/2008
Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth: Out of the heart of China ...
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Paperback: 12/18/2007
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
Paperback: 01/30/2007
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-...
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God Lives In St. Petersburg: and Other Stories
Tom Bissell
Paperback: 01/03/2006
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands...
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