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  Three Cups of Tea

  One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time

  by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

  The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and... (more)
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  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

  or, Pearls Before Swine

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.
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  There Are No Children Here

  The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

  by Alex Kotlowitz

  There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders... (more)
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  Black Hawk Down

  A Story of Modern War

  by Mark Bowden

  The acclaimed New York (NY) Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were... (more)
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  50 Hikes in Central Florida: Hikes, Walks, and Backpacks in the Heart of the Peninsula

  by Sandra Friend

  A hiking guide to one of the most beautiful and diverse ecosystems in the country. What Florida's landscape lacks in topography, it makes up for in diversity, ranging from temperate Appalachian-style forests to tangled tropical jungles. Here hikers enjoy a broad range of habitats and wildlife that only Hawaii and California surpass. Trails pass through desert-like scrub islands, jungle-like hydric... (more)
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  It Happened in India

  The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer

  by Kishore Biyani

  Personal accunt of a versatile entrepreneur. on film, dance festivals, retailing in the changing context of Indian consumerism. lots of useful information on the Indian way of business and contemporary Indian culture
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  Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge

  Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. A central debate in contemporary philosophy of perception concerns the disjunctive theory of perceptual experience. Until the 1960s, philosophers of perception generally assumed that a veridical perception (a perceptual experience that presents the world as it really is) and a... (more)
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  American Chillers: Book 24

  Haunting in New Hampshire

  by Johnathan Rand

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  St. Peter's Brewery

  by Jonathan D. Blundell

  As a twenty-something living in Austin, Texas, Jimmy Gaines had it made. A great job in the tech industry, a great girlfriend, great friends and a great life. Or so he thought. When it all came spiraling down, Jimmy quickly realized that the life he had built for himself wasn't as great as he'd originally believed. Jimmy decides to run from his problems and finds sanctuary within the walls of a small... (more)
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  Odyssey One: Book 2

  The Heart of the Matter

  by Evan C. Currie

  After an epic maiden voyage that introduced Earth to a larger universe—and a cosmos full of terrifying new enemies—Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC spacecraft Odyssey have spent months cooling their heels under their admiral’s watchful eye. But when Earth’s newest ally, the Priminae, strike a defense deal with the North American Confederacy, the Odyssey finally receives her orders: return to... (more)
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  Matched Trilogy: Book 3

  Reached

  by Ally Condie

  Cassia faces the ultimate choices in the long-anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Matched TrilogyAfter leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising--and each other--Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its... (more)
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  Iron Curtain

  The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

  by Anne Applebaum

  In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in... (more)
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  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, the author accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his... (more)
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  The Poisonwood Bible

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic... (more)