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The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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by Carol Mithers
Published Aug 2025
Read ReviewsRethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time — poverty and homelessness — in asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?
by Tracy Kidder
Published Jan 2024
Read ReviewsThe powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Steven Hatch
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsA physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity.
by Henry Marsh
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital, and a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.
by Amana Fontanella-Khan
Published Aug 2014
Read ReviewsA triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women.
by Bob Harris
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsAfter making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, so he travels from Peru and Bosnia, to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met.
by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary, riveting story of a Palestinian doctor who, rather than seek revenge after witnessing his three daughters' deaths by Israeli tank shells, continues his humanitarian call for the people of the region to come together in understanding, respect, and peace.
by John Paul Rathbone
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie.
by Alison Thompson
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe Third Wave tells the inspiring story of how volunteering changed Thompson’s life, and provides an invaluable inside glimpse into what really happens on the ground after a disaster—and a road map for what anyone can do to help.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the solution.
by Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsRoss Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases.More than just an adventure story, it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the struggle of those risking all to aid them.
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsFrom 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.
by Abraham Verghese
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsVoted Best Debut Author of 2009 by BookBrowse Subscribers
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others set in 1960s & 1970s Ethiopia and 1980s America.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
by Dennis Bock
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsThe historical Norman Bethune—legendary in both his native Canada and China—was a visionary whose dedication touched millions, and as the narrator of this novel he springs to vivid life even as he approaches its end.
by Atul Gawande
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferra’s husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive.
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Mar 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
by Greg Behrman
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsIntensely researched and vividly detailed, The Invisible People is a groundbreaking and compellingly readable account of the appalling destruction caused by more than two decades of American abdication in the face of the defining humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
by Muhammad Yunus
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit.
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