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David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story
David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story
by Stephen Tomkins
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Readers of popular history and biographies of inspiring history makers will find this an honest and balanced account of the real man behind the Victorian icon Two hundred years after his birth, Tomkins assesses David Livingstone's life, impact,... (read more)

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First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
by Peter H. Eichstaedt
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“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls.  He was ordered to do this by a... (read more)

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Tripoli Witness: The Remarkable First-Hand Account of Life Through the Insurgency
Tripoli Witness: The Remarkable First-Hand Account of Life Through the Insurgency
by Rana Jawad
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"Rana Jawad gives a voice for ordinary Libyans."—The Guardian "A chilling account of real life through an insurgency."—Paul Kenyon, BBC Early in 2011 Rana Jawad found herself the last British journalist reporting from inside Tripoli. Defiant... (read more)

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by Leymah Gbowee and Carol Mithers
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WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together — and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian... (read more)

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Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War
by Ben Rawlence
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While poring over dust-caked pamphlets in the library, Ben Rawlence stumbles upon the photo of a lost city of colonial Congo--a glistening, modern metropolis built by huge tin mines and European capitalists. Today, that city, Manono, sits beyond the... (read more)

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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
by Hawa Abdi
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