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Sweet Relief : The Marla Ruzicka Story
Jennifer Abrahamson
Hardcover - $37.95
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the extraordinary story of how a young woman helped civilians victimized by war, changed the world, and made the ultimate sacrifice.
The Man Who Tried to Save the World : The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny
Scott Anderson
Paperback - $24.95
A swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a ladies' man, and a renegade, Fred Cuny spent his life in countries rent by war, famine, and earthquake, saving many thousands of lives with his innovative and often controversial methods of relief work ...
Another Day in Paradise : International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories
Carol Bergman
Hardcover - $37.95
The Promise : How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
Oral Lee Brown
Hardcover - $34.95
In the bestselling tradition of "The Pact and "The Freedom Writers Diary--the inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary promise and steely determination to make a difference in the world."
One morning in 1987 Oral Lee Brown walked into a corne ...
Education of Jane Addams
Victoria Bissell Brown
Hardcover - $105.95
"Excellent. . . . "The Education of Jane Addams" provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--"Journal of American History"
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread : A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival
John S. Burnett
Paperback - $20.95
"There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy's first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver's face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief ...
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread : A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival
John S. Burnett
Hardcover - $38.95
"There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy's first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver's face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief ...
To Bear Witness : A Journey of Healing and Solidarity
Kevin M. Cahill
Hardcover - $39.95
Physician, teacher, activist, diplomat, and advocate, Kevin Cahill has touched so many lives, and helped right so many wrongs. And in this book, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection ...