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1. And the mountains echoed: a novel

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Author:
Hosseini, Khaled
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...

2. The Blind Man's Garden

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Author:
Aslam, Nadeem
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Secretly entering Afghanistan to help care for wounded civilians, Jeo and Makal, foster brothers from a small Pakistani town, find that their good intentions cannot keep them out of harm's way.

3. Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time

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Author:
Mortenson, Greg
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
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Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.