What Is the What, Dave EggersIn a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed like militias, liberation

A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas

This edition of Kidnapped includes a Foreword

by a combination of textual and contextual analysis

Then this book is NOT for you

and a fascinating occasional piece

He also reveals the attitudes and approaches diverse geniuses share — and anyone can emulate

A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year

Purdey (who taught that nothing changes without making a change)

It made me search through East Anglia for a blue-eyed boy suffering from wealth-ennui

her Scottish gillie

by and large

intent on heading back to my seat