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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more)

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An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas K Gandhi
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Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and... (read more)

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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage Departures)
by Pico Iyer
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
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When China Rules the World
by Martin Jacques
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
by Tamim Ansary
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In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
by Ronald H. Spector
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Gandhi Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas K Gandhi
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Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more)

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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by Jon Krakauer
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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Wisdom 365
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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East Asia At the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement With the World
by Warren I. Cohen
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