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  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  by Ishmael Beah

  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 smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s.... (more)
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  Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

  by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

  From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex... (more)
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  Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It

  by David B. Batstone

  Award-winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his accessible and inspiring book, Batstone carefully weaves the narratives of activists and those in bondage in a way that not only raises awareness of the modern-day slave trade, but also serves as a call to action. With 2007 bringing the... (more)
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  Iqbal

  by Francesco D'Adamo

  When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil...and is brave enough to show them how to get there. This moving... (more)
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  A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

  by E. Benjamin Skinner

  To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard. As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan,... (more)
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  Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

  by Adam Hochschild

  From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history -- the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve men -- a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery -- came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first... (more)
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  Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves

  by Kevin Bales

  In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally... (more)
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  Let My People Go

  by Cal R. Bombay

  In the war-ravaged African nation of Sudan, slavery is a way of life. Islamic fundamentalists in the north capture women and children-many of them Christian-in the south and sell them to other northern Muslim as servants and concubines. There they live on table scraps and are forced to convert to Islam. Their stories are devastating, yet their capacity for hope is an inspiration to the world. Let My People Go is... (more)
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  Good News About Injustice Youth Edition : A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World

  by Gary A. Haugen

  About the Book A year 2000 Finalist in the ECPA book competition! Accounts of injustice from our own communities and from around the world often leave us feeling outraged and helpless. We wonder what we can possibly do in response. And we wonder where is the God of justice? Jesus, however, said, "Take heart! I have overcome the world." Gary Haugen sees the truth of Jesus' claim vindicated throughout... (more)
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  Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

  by Kevin Bales

  Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of contemporary slavery reaches from Pakistan's brick kilns and Thailand's brothels to various multinational corporations. His investigations reveal how the tragic emergence of a "new slavery" is inextricably linked to the global... (more)
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  Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

  by Moise?s Nai?m

  A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments. In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to... (more)
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  Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom

  by Gary A. Haugen

  In a small village outside of Phnom Pehn, little children as young as five years old were forced to live as sex slaves. Day after day their hope was slipping away. Tireless workers from International Justice Mission (IJM) infiltrated the ring of brothels and gathered evidence to free the children. Headed up by former war-crimes investigator Gary Haugen, IJM faced impossible odds-police corruption, death threats,... (more)
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  Captive Fear

  by E. G. Parsons

  A madman stalks the small city of Briarwood and surrounding communities, carefully choosing those women he feels are worthy of his attention. Stripping them of all pride and dignity, he adds them to his ever growing collection. At first his captive victims only wish to stay alive, eventually some will pray to die. Police detective, Matthew Barns has a reputation for finding missing people when all hope is gone.... (more)
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  From Congress to the Brothel

  by Linda Smith

  A journey of hope, healing, and restoration.
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  Lost Girls: A Sherry Moore Novel

  by George D. Shuman

  George D. Shuman returns! In his eagerly anticipated new thriller, blind psychic Sherry Moore combs the Caribbean to find the murderous kingpin of a human trafficking network and finds that she must confront a man who shares her talent for seeing the final moments of a dead body's life.
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  Sold

  by Patricia McCormick

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  Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

  by Siddharth Kara

  Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body... (more)
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  The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed

  by Anthony M. DeStefano

  The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking. Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiveness and aftermath of the law. DeStefano also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration used... (more)
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  Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia

  by Louise Brown

  The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners.  Sex Slaves  turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asia’s indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the world’s most silent and abused women—women who have... (more)