Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can...
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Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.Summary: -
Author: Larson, ErikSummary:The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd...
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Author: Lam, VincentSummary:Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also abon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a...
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Author: Stratton, AllanSummary:Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to...
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Author: McGirr, MichaelSummary:
Things you get for Free is a priest's hilarious and heartwarming account of six weeks spent discovering a continent and so much more in the company of his "mum," who is as eccentric...
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Author: Johnsen, Gregory D.Summary:An account of U.S. military policy in the Arabian Peninsula nation of Yemen from 1980 to 2012.
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Author: Derr, MarkSummary:
Describes the early cooperative relationships between Ice Age humans and dogs as well as human society's later efforts to domesticate and control dog species through reproduction, revealing...
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Author: Cohen-Green, Cheryl T.Summary:Biography of sex surrogate. Explicit reading.
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Author: Watson, Richard andFreeman, OliverSummary:A look at four possible tracks for the near future.
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Author: Button, JamesSummary:Working for Rudd, James paints a colourful picture of the machinations of government and shows how far the party has moved from the idealism and pragmatism of his father's generation. He ends...
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Author: Carr, CalebSummary:An epic account about the kingdom of Broken follows the efforts of a solitary noble soldier to confront legendary medieval adversaries to save a fortress city from internal and external dangers....
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Author: Green, JohnSummary:Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on...
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Author: GladwellSummary:New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like...
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Author: Lowry, LoisSummary:In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power...
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Author: Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:The best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high...