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The Key to My Neighbor's House

Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Elizabeth Neuffer Picador

"Captures the human drama at the core of the [war crimes] trials . . . Neuffer manages to convey in intimate and sometimes painful detail the trauma of [the victims'] personal ordeals and the importance of their search for justice . . . Prodigious research and excellent reporting."—The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	28 Stories of AIDS in Africa Stephanie Nolen Walker & Company “This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart...

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The Blue Sweater

Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

Jacqueline Novogratz Rodale Books

"The decency of Jacqueline Novogratz shines through these pages and so does her strength. The stories she shares about the people she has met show the nobility of the human spirit and the breadth of the desire to stop suffering, to feed the hungry, to care for the sick, to empower the poor - in short, to make the world a better place. The Blue Sweater is a book of hope written by a practical idealist who won't take 'no' for an answer when it comes to building a better world. Jacqueline breathes new life into the phrase "a life of meaning" and she is living one everyday even as she asks us to join her."—Senator Bill Bradley

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Village of Waiting George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. "Glowing . . . A masterful book."—*New York Times Book Revie*w

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The Conquest of the Sahara

Douglas Porch Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century....

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Blue Clay People Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge William Powers Bloomsbury USA “A haunting account of one man’s determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country.”—Booklist When William Powers went to...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Overwhelming A Play J. T. Rogers Faber and Faber, Inc. "I loved how messy the play's structure is, and Rogers’s great ambition as a writer . . . the Third World is seen in the harsh glare of a bare light bulb—the author's intelligence . . . [Rogers] explores a kind of anthropology of the self, making a narrative out of his own disenfranchisement."—Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the...

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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda

Stassen, illustrated by the author First Second

The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the...

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The Unheard

A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

Josh Swiller Holt Paperbacks

A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Faith at War A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu Yaroslav Trofimov Picador "This book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don't understand us, we don't understand them. Faith at War goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation."—Philip Caputo, The New York Times Book Review

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Butterfly Burning

A Novel

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"A remarkable novel . . . Keen, vivid. The author's political sense, her critique of colonialism, is intrinsic, never intrusive . . . Vera writes gracefully, depicting with extraordinary elegance the chaos and disorder of township life, the surreal conditions of existence imposed by colonial authority upon the residents."—Michelle Cliff, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Vera's style is beautifully matched with the content, and magnificently promotes its central theme that language has both the power to heal and to accrete and to allow those who have once been victims to transform themselves and their future."—Judges' Citation, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Region (Under the Tongue)

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The Stone Virgins

A Novel

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Vera brings to this novel her extraordinary gift of sidelong and oblique entry into the heart of things using the total environment—trees, sky, rivers, rocks, and mountains are themselves characters—to express human emotion. Her treatment of love is unusual and strikingly original, bringing out its redemptive power which triumphs over the horrors of war and human cruelty."—Eldred D. Jones, Editor, African Literature Today

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	A Portrait of Egypt A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam Mary Anne Weaver Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks For centuries Egypt has been a citadel of Islamic learning and thought, and since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979, it has been of...

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The Civilized World

A Novel in Stories

Susi Wyss Holt Paperbacks

A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women—two of them haunted by a shared tragedy—whose lives intersect in unexpected and...

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