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The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world, an on-the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe and Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro Publisher Comments In February, 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) after years of oppression took up arms against the Sudanese government. The government and allied militias answered the rebellion with mass murder, rape and the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Enough Moment (10 Edition) by John Prendergast Publisher Comments Had Enough? Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur 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) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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War and Slavery in Sudan (Ethnography of Political Violence) by Jok Madut Jok Publisher Comments Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable to the practice. As Jok Madut Jok argues, the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler Synopsis The tragic and inspiring story of four Sudanese refugees who make their way to the US to rebuild their lives.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside Sudan Political Islam Conflict by Donald Petterson Publisher Comments Sudan, governed by an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship, has come into conflict with the United States and other countries not because of its religious orientation but because of its record of human rights abuses and support for terrorism. The country... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle Publisher Comments Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Alphonsion Deng Synopsis A stunning literary memoir from three of Sudan's Lost Boys recounts a harrowing, horrific journey across an unforgiving landscape and mourns the culture that they left behind.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M W Daly Publisher Comments Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called ‘the world's worst... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darfur : a New History of a Long War (Rev 08 Edition) by Julie Flint Publisher Comments The humanitarian tragedy in Darfur has stirred politicians, Hollywood celebrities and students to appeal for a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Beyond the horrific pictures of sprawling refugee camps and lurid accounts of rape and murder lies a complex... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle Publisher Comments An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan by Francis Mading Deng Publisher Comments For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Storyof Love and Death in Sudan by Deborah Scroggins Publisher Comments Emma McCune?s passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her apart from other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide by Eric Reeves Publisher Comments The main theme of this new book is that the Khartoum regime is committing genocide in Darfur while the international community watches in silence or with mere hand-wringing. Publication of such an important book, at this critical moment in the Darfur... (read more) List Price $37.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa by Nicholas Coghlan Publisher Comments In 2000, with controversy raging over the presence in Sudan of Talisman Energy, Canada's largest independent oil and gas producer, Ottawa decided to open a post in Khartoum. Nicholas Coghlan was recalled from assignment in Colombia to set up and run... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $35.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Guerilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan in the 1990s by Oystein H Rolandsen Publisher Comments The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army's National Convention and Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990sThe last few years have brought prospects for peace in the Southern Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army has... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Has a Face: Mascara, a Machete and One Woman's Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan by Michele Perry Publisher Comments Termites for dinner. Bombs in the backyard. A nation torn by decades of war still on the brink. Can one life really make a difference? Born without her left hip and leg, Michele Perry is no stranger to seeming impossibilities. So when she arrived in war... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds Publisher Comments Life's changes. They happen every day. Some large, some small. A few are very personal. Others impact the world. Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope includes original and inspiring essays that celebrate the glories gained... (read more) Your price: $23.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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