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Rare 'dinky' bird migrates to US for first time (AP)
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This photo released by Bruce Sherman of Rockport, Texas, shows a Pine Flycatcher photographed at the Choke Canyon State Park, Texas, Jan. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Bruce Sherman)AP - Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south.
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epa01589351 (FILE) A file photograph showing John Lewis in Oxford Street, London, Britain, 23 December 2008. John Lewis Partnership Plc said 02 January 2009, sales rose last week at its department-store chain, the U.K.'s largest, and Waitrose supermarkets as discounts lured shoppers in the face of an economic contraction. Revenue surged 41 percent from a year earlier to 112 million euros at Waitrose in the week to Dec. 27, the London-based company announced 02 January. EPA/ANDY RAIN
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 		A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”“Yes, all the time.”“Cool.”I smile a little.“You should ......
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust 		Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived the ......
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood 		The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -.- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock ......
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy 		An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the initiative" and the "fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved." Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous ......
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 		King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for ......
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 		We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus-.-if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should ......
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa 		When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Hailed by reviewers as "powerful,""haunting" and "a tour de force of personal journalism,"When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos and, along with it, his family's ......
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (MacMillan Profiles) 		Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (MacMillan Profiles)
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost ......
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The Wretched of the Earth 		The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in ......
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 		Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always ......
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