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West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markhams West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exup&... (read more)

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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
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Aciman has written a touching and affectionate portrait detailing the lives of his flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Aciman introduces us to the... (read more)

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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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)

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Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
by Zachary Karabell
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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
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In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller?s endearing ability to find laughter... (read more)

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The Village of Waiting
by George Packer
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
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The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation
by James L Newman
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
by Fauziya Kassindja
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
by Binyavanga Wainaina
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
by Ellen Johns Sirleaf
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
by Jim Wooten
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
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