Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
9 best books like Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Tracy Kidder): Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, The House at Sugar Beach, Plan of Attack, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe, Zeitoun, Emma's War, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities;...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| Author | Katherine Boo |
| ISBN | 1400067553 |
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced...
| Author | Helene Cooper |
| ISBN | 0743266242 |
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced...
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743255488 |
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative...
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
| Author | Douglas Rogers |
| ISBN | 0307407977 |
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
| Author | Deborah Scroggins |
| ISBN | 0375703772 |
Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to...
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
| Author | Jacqueline Novogratz |
| ISBN | 1594869154 |
For the first 5,000 copies of The Blue Sweater purchased, a $15 donation per book will be made to Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that invests in transformative businesses to solve the problems of poverty.
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking...
In this brilliant, hilarious memoir, Robyn Scott recounts the years living in Botswana while her dad works as a flying doctor. At first she thinks her parents don't have the best ideas, but soon she begins to realize the importance of her father's work. Botswana has the highest rate of HIV infection in...
