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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
Hardcover: 04/24/2018
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.
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Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
Anna Badkhen
Hardcover: 03/13/2018
An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and ...
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Alexis Okeowo
Hardcover: 10/03/2017
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by ...
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven Hatch
Hardcover: 03/07/2017
A physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it,...
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley
Hardcover: 01/10/2017
In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the ...
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Jessica Posner, Kennedy Odede
Paperback: 07/26/2016
Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a ...
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A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg
Paperback: 12/08/2015
In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them ...
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