Education

Our Board-members' picks for international books:

VietNam:

The Quiet American
By Graham Green

Arab:

Nine Parts Desire: the hidden world of Islamic women
By Geraldine Brooks

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books
By Azar Naris

House of Sand & Fog--in US but cross-cultural insights
By Andra Dubus III

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
By Queen Noor of Jordan

Storyteller's Daughter: a woman's return to her homeland
By Saira Shah

Kiterunner
By F. Khaled Hosseini

Naked in Baghdad
By Ann Garrels

China:

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By Jung Chang

Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
By Bill Holm

1421- The Year China Discovered America
By Gavin Manzies

China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
By Bruce Gilley and Andrew Nathan

India:

Inheritance of Loss
B by Kiran DeSai.

Interpreter of Maladies
By Jhumpa Lahiri

Namesake
By Jhumpa Lahiri

Africa:

Poisonwood Bible*
By Barbara Kingsolver

Congo:

End of Poverty
By NF Jefferey Sachs

Germs, Guns & Steel*
By Jared Diamond

Disgrace
By J.M. Coetzee

The Piano Tuner
By Daniel Mason

Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (A graphic novel)
by Jean-Philippe Stassen

Nepal:

Guru of Love
By Upadhyay,Samret

in Kathmandu, Bhutan:

Beneath Earth and Sky
By Jamie Zuppa

Haiti:

Mountain Beyond Mountain
By Tracey Kidder

Jewish Holocaust-Germany & Poland:

The Speed of Light
By Elizabeth Rosner

Night
by Elie Weisel

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
By Louise Murphy (Poland)

Armenian Holocaust:

Forgotten Fire
By Adam Bagadasarian