by Ayaan Hirsi Ali  Publisher Comments In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your Price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments "I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Philip Gourevitch 
Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more) Your Price $14.99 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Peter Allison
Publisher Comments Whatever You Do, Don’t Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Melissa Faye Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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Friday May 9, 2008
by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Adam Hochschild
Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Monia Hejaiej Publisher Comments Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among it inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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