The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

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372.1826 KAG

An amazing story of how one person's dream of helping those less fortunate turns into reality. The author grew up in rural Uganda in poverty, managed to earn a university degree, then returned to his home with hope to open a free school for AIDS orphans. Overcoming many obstacles, he founded the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School.
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The Rug Merchant by Megan Mullins

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Fic Mullins

A debut novel about Ushman, a middle-aged Iranian rug merchant hoping for a better life in America, whose loneliness and rejection by his wife in Turkey leads to relationships with a young college girl and a customer of his. An interesting read about cultural diversity and peoples' needs.
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