Recommended reading and viewing

Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under: New Arrivals, Recommended Reading | Tags: , , , |

In the past 10 days or so, I’ve enjoyed a couple of great reads and watched a movie that will stay with me a while. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson is the follow-up to Three Cups of Tea, the subject of an earlier post.  Stones into Schools is the story of Mortenson and his [...]

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Greg Mortenson to appear at the Kitchener Aud

Posted on January 10, 2010. Filed under: Events | Tags: |

Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea, and author of Stones into Schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is coming to the Kitchener Aud on January 28 at 7 p.m.  Book signing to follow his talk. Mortenson is always a big draw, so if you think you might want [...]

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Recommended; Reading (that’s not a typo)

Posted on October 13, 2009. Filed under: Recommended Reading | Tags: , , , , |

Three Cups of Tea: one man’s mission to promote peace one school at a time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This book has met with much acclaim, and libraries everywhere can’t seem to keep enough copies on the shelves to meet demand. The publisher’s blurb reads as follows: “In 1993 a mountaineer named [...]

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