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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Devil's Highway : True Story (04 Edition) by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America"s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, 'If you think America"s entanglement in the Middle East began with... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities ... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 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 $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Russian Revolution (90 Edition) by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia....Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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In Search of England by Michael Wood Publisher Comments England is the birthplace of many immortal legends told around the world: King Arthur and Camelot, the Holy Grail, Robin Hood, the mysterious Isle of Avalon. But are these famous stories based on historical events and actual people? And what do they tell... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Stimulating and tumultuous, the court of Henry VIII attracted the finest minds and greatest beauties in Renaissance England. Meticulous in historic detail, narrated with high style and grand drama, Weir brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Palestine by Joe Sacco Publisher Comments A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir Publisher Comments The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 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 $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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