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Wild Mulberries

Iman Humaydan Younes | Interlink Publishing Group, 2008 | Lebanon

Originally composed in Arabic, Wild Mulberries is the story of Sarah, the adolescent daughter of a Lebanese sheikh in the 1930s. Read More »

The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics

Riane Eisler | Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 | Global

Riane Eisler’s latest work delivers a characteristically pointed and timely critique of Western standards for measuring wealth and well-being. Read More »

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Spiegel & Grau | Spiegel & Grau, 2008 | Cambodia

Admirers of Cambodian leader Somaly Mam will be thrilled by this much-anticipated memoir, which moves from her early life in the jungles of her homeland to her current global activism. Read More »

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Helene Cooper | Simon & Schuster, 2008 | Liberia

Now the diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, Helene Cooper came of age as part of the privileged, dominant class of Liberia. Read More »

With Unaccustomed Earth, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri presents a collection of eight short stories about the experiences of first- and second-generation Bengali immigrants livi Read More »

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis | Random House, 2008 | Sudan

“I am telling you, what is happening is a true genocide. It is a war between Africans and Arabs, and it is a war against those carrying black skin,” she says. Read More »