 | Mating: A Novel by Norman Rush
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 One of my favorites of all time. I learned so many new words! And now I want to be an anthropologist.
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 | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $6.25 If you think it matters whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House when trying to stop a genocide, think again. A disheartening book that shows how inconsistent the U.S. can be in its interventions. I may start voting for the Green Party beginning in 2008.
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $2.74 So inspirational. An account about how the "forces of good" but an end to one of the world's first modern genocides.
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 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.25 An amazing look at how cultural tradition and modern medicine clash. I would love to be able to write a book as good as this.
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 | What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $12.50 / Used from: $4.98 I didn't like Dave Eggers until now. Read it and you will know what it must mean to fear being eaten by man-eating lions.
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.00 A book that, without shying away from the natural feeling of outrage that the Rwandan genocide provokes, demonstrates the subtleties and nuances of that event and its aftermath that make "moving on" so very difficult to do.
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 | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.15 / Used from: $3.83 Paul Farmer is an inspiration to all who question what one person can to do to change the world.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $12.49 It will make you want to travel to South America and experience the magic yourself.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Do you like this amazing story or One Hundred Years of Solitude. It will be a very tough choice.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $4.93 If you are a man, don't be put off by the fact that this book about a missionary family in the Congo is written from the perspective of every member of the family except the father. It will dazzle you and make you think hard about what is good and "true" and the opposite of these things, whatever they may be.
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