Welcome! to the I Care Book Fair, a marketplace of books about adults and children making courageous commitments to serve communities around the world, especially those with significant numbers of orphans and vulnerable children. In honor of Mother’s Day 2011 (Sunday, May 8), Mothering Across Continents (MAC) supporters and volunteers recommend the initial Top 10 non-fiction collection below – in three categories. The selections underline our idea that in a global era ‘maternal instincts’ and ‘mothering’ often extend well-beyond beyond our own families and geographic borders.

  • Books will be available through the website at least through Mother’s Day 2012.
  • A portion of book sales will fund MAC support of projects in places such as Haiti, South Africa, Rwanda and southern Sudan.
  • We invite book clubs to read at least one book from the list in the next year and make a tax-deductible donation of any size.
  • On Mother’s Day 2012, MAC will announce how much money was raised and how it was used.
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Have you already read every book on our list? You can still help. Simply fill in the amount of your tax-deductible contribution in the box at the right and click the "Donate Now" button. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of children around the world.

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Women Making Change


There is No Me Without You
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There is No Me Without You
By Melissa Fay Greene

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. Read more...


The Road of Lost Innocence
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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
By Somaly Mam

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For ten years she was shuttled through the brothels of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking until she managed to escape. Read more...


On that Day, Everybody Ate
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On that Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
By Margaret Trost

Margaret Trost was in her 30s when her husband died suddenly of asthma, leaving her to raise their young son alone. In despair, seeking meaning in her life and in her husband's death, she accepted an invitation to visit Haiti as part of a pilgrimage of reverse mission, to serve the poor as a means to transform the providers. Read more...

Men Making Change


It Happened on the Way to War
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It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
By Rye Barcott

In 2000 Rye Barcott, a college student heading into the Marines, spent time living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He learned Swahili and listened to young people talk about how they survived in poverty he had never imagined. Read more...


Leaving Microsoft to Change The World
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Leaving Microsoft to Change The World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
By John Wood

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Read more...


Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By Tracy Kidder

Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, world-class Robin Hood, Paul Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat. In medical school he found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Read more...

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Children & Families Making Change


Free the Children
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Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World
By Craig Kielburger

Craig Kielburger is an activist prodigy who, at 12, was talking to national leaders, lecturing in public forums, and following the burning passion that would not allow him to overlook cruel injustices thrust upon children around the world. Read more...


A Long Walk to Water
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a true story
By Linda Sue Park

Set in Sudan, this is a novel that tells two stories—one about a contemporary child who spends her days fetching water, the other about one of this African country's "lost boys." Read more...


The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a land withered by drought and hunger. He had read about windmills and dreamed of building one that would bring his family electricity and running water, luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford. Read more...


The Power of Half
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The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back
By Kevin Salwen, Hannah Salwen

Fourteen-year old Hannah Salwen had a "eureka" moment—she saw a homeless man in her neighborhood at the precise second a Mercedes coupe pulled up. She said "You know, Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal." Read more...