 Beatrice’s Goat
by Page McBrier and Lori Lohstoeter
Beatrice and her family find their lives transformed, when the gift of a goat provides food and income and allows Beatrice to realize her dream of attending school for the first time. A picture book based on the true story.
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 The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Sultan Khan defied the authorities – both the Taliban and the Communists – for over twenty years, supplying books for the people of war-ravaged Kabul.
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 The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
Fiona Sweeney, an American librarian in Kenya, takes on the job of running a mobile library through the African bush. While some residents welcome her, others see the library as a threat to the oral traditions of their tribal society.
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 The Dancing Girls of Lahore: selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district
by Louise Brown
Sociologist Brown spent four years living with the family of a Lahori dancing girl. She introduces us to Maha, sold to an Arab sheikh at the age of twelve, who must face a terrible decision regarding her daughter’s future.
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 Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil
by Deborah Rodriguez
Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian group, and was surprised to find her talents as a hairdresser much in demand.
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 Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: an entrepreneur’s odyssey to educate the world’s children
by John Wood
While trekking through Nepal to get away from his job, Wood encountered a school desperately in need of books. Thus began his change of heart and change of career, as the founder of Room to Read, an organization which has touched the lives of 875,000 children.
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 The Librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
by Jeanette Winter
On the eve of war, Alia Muhammad Baker, chief librarian of Basra’s Central Library, removed 30,000 volumes and stored them safely before a bomb destroys the building.A nonfiction book for ages 7 to 10.
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 The Man Who Tried to Save the World: the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny
by Scott Anderson
This biography reads like a spy thriller, telling the true story of philanthropist Fred Cuny, known as the “Master of Disaster,” who disappeared while on an aid mission to Chechnya.
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 The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2003, surviving through his knowledge of local dialect and customs and the kindness of the local people.
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 Shabanu: daughter of the wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
This lyrical book explores how strong-willed, independent Shabanu, a young girl growing up in a nomadic tribe in Pakistan, learns to live within her desert culture. For readers 12 and up.
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 The Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
When Mohsen Ramat is caught up in the frenzy of a public stoning, a tragic chain of events is unleashed with terrible consequences for all. This is the story of the effects of repression on the lives of two couples living under the Taliban.
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 There Is No Me Without You: one woman's odyssey to rescue her country's children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Haregewoin Teferra is an Ethiopian woman devastated by the deaths of her husband and daughter, who gradually finds herself running an orphanage after a priest brings her an abandoned child.
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 A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Mariam and Laila, both married to the brutal Rasheed, become allies who must rely on each other for strength and courage. Hosseini follows two women over the course of thirty years in this searing depiction of life in Afghanistan’s patriarchal society.
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 The Zookeeper’s Wife: a war story
by Diane Ackerman
The true story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw zoo during World War II, and his wife Antonina, who sheltered 300 Jews and war resistors from the Nazis.
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