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"Recounts the events of Reagan's historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, examining the importance of Reagan's speech at Moscow State University that offered a new vision of the future to the Soviet people"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of explorer and ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.

"The true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war."--OCLC.

A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gorazde, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.

During her freshman year of college, Aspen Matis is raped. What follows is a journey down the Pacific Crest Trail, where, on a quest for healing, Matis walks from Mexico to Canada, logging 2,650 miles.

Zora O'Neill shares her experiences of learning Arabic while traveling through the Middle East and discovering local culture in the region.

Patrick is excited to meet President Kennedy when he visits Ireland, and he brings the president a swiss roll when he goes to shake his hand.

At the age of 23, Andrew Forsthoefel had just graduated from Middlebury College in 2011. Unsure of what to do next, he decided to walk across America, just listening to everyone he met along the way. And as he listened, he discovered Americans' humanity, commonality, and the questions everyone shared. His only companions were his backpack, an audio recorder, copies of Whitman and Rilke and a sign that said "Walking to Listen." He was beset by fear, lonliness, and doubt and blessed by the incredible kindness of strangers.