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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the...
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[2003]
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English
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Describes the disappearance of explorer Dr. David Livingstone while searching for the source of the Nile River, journalist Henry Morton Stanley's search for him, and the individual journeys of the two men through uncharted Africa.
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Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.
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2015.
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English
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The authors recall how, one year after moving to war-torn Liberia to provide medical care to those in need, he was diagnosed with Ebola and became the first victim of the disease to be treated in the United States amid great controversy.
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B & H Publishing
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c2008
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English
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Set in Siam and Europe during the 1920s, a glittering decade of change, The Moon in the Mango Tree is based upon the true story of Barbara Bond, a beautiful young opera singer from Philadelphia who is forced to choose between her fierce desire for independence-a desire to create something of her own to give purpose and meaning to her life-and a deep abiding love for her faithful missionary husband whose work creates a gap between them.
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YWAM Publishing
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[2014]
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English
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"Klaus-Dieter John dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took, study in top universities, and practice surgery in remote dangerous places, to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed it most."-- backcover