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  • A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

    by Edna Adan Ismail ...
    ‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostImprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution.Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s people, especially its women. When she suffered the trauma of FGM herself as a young girl at the bidding of her mother, Edna’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

    by Edna Adan Ismail ...
    Narrated by Edna Adan Ismail ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 27 min

    ‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostImprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution.Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution.‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostEdna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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  • The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself

    Illustrated by Kara Simpson ...
    by Alison Redford ...
    Boy built a wall to keep himself safe. Behind it he felt strong and more protected. Then Someone Kind came along. She bounced a ball, sang and painted on the other side of the wall, and Boy began to wonder if life on the other side might be better after all.Written for children aged 4 to 9, this gentle full-colour picture book uses a simple metaphor to explain how children who have had painful or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

    by Carole Boston Weatherford ...
    Illustrated by Eric Velasquez ...
    “A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African Americans and books about them.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Household Workers Unite

    The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

    by Premilla Nadasen ...
    Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Hound From Hanoi

    The Vietnamese Street Dog Who Built a Family

    by Moire O'Sullivan ...
    Tom is on the menu at a dog-meat restaurant in Hanoi when he is rescued by an Irish couple escaping economic woes back home. The three embark on a whirlwind tour of Vietnam, Nepal and Cambodia, determined to stay together against the odds.In this poignant tribute to her late husband Pete, Moire O’Sullivan recalls how their devotion to Tom helped forge a love between them that will last for ever. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Otto von Bismarck

    The Politician Who Built a Powerful State

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Doug Greene ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a conservative German statesman, diplomat, and author who was born Junker Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck. Bismarck supervised Germany's unification in 1871 and functioned as its first chancellor till 1890, throughout which time he ruled Europe for 20 years.From 1867 to 1871, he was the chancellor of the North German ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Patriot Reign

    Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion

    by Michael Holley ...
    When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with a losing record and a roster of overpaid, underperforming players. So how did a head coach with a questionable record transform this team, garner three Lombardi trophies in four years, and -- with the Pats' 2005 Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles -- cement the team's place as an NFL dynasty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger

    The Story of the Kids Who Built a World-Class Church

    by Tan Seow How (Pastor How), Cecilia Chan (Pastor Lia) ...
    Book 1 - GenerationS
    This is the story of the kids who built a world-class church — Heart of God Church started as a divine experiment to build a prototype Youth Church. Now it has developed into a proof of concept that Youths can build a STRONG CHURCH.GenerationS is a mindset-shifting, heart-changing book that shows you how to raise up generations of young people in your church to build His kingdom.After over 20 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Boy With A bamboo Heart

    The story of a street orphan who built a children’s charity

    by Amporn Wathanavongs, Chantal Jauvin ...
    The Boy With A Bamboo Heart is the inspiring story of Dr Amporn Wathanavongs. Orphaned at 6 years of age in a remote village in rural Thailand, Lek was thrust into a life-long struggle to find his place in the world. Alone and impoverished, he survived by begging for food in the markets of Surin until he was recruited to fight as a boy soldier in jungles of Cambodia.Despair and poverty lead him to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Girl Who Built a Tower

    Fairendale, #11

    by L.R. Patton ...
    Book 11 - Fairendale
    Never underestimate the power of greed.Ruby, one of the lost 12-year-old children of Fairendale, has been transformed into an old woman—but at least she has her magic. She uses this magic to help grow a garden outside the land of Rosehaven, as she used to do in her homeland of Fairendale. Her life, though lonely, is relatively orderly and safe—until she ventures into the village of Rosehaven.There ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Man Who Built a Purple Pool

    by David Krause ...
    College-bound Tom Cochrane isn’t rich enough to place his kidney-cancer-stricken sister on America’s twelve organ donation waitlists, so he quits school and takes a job as a carpenter in Las Vegas, sending his weekly paychecks back home, hoping to make enough to add her name to each list. Unfortunately, Tom’s paychecks aren’t coming fast enough, and his sister is getting worse, so he turns to what ... Read more

    $4.99 USD