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book recommendation: Three Cups of Tea . . . one man's mission to promote peace one school at a time. - 05/05/11 11:57 PM
Last week I finished reading a book suggested to me by my mother-in-law, Three Cups of Tea.  It is the account of American Greg Mortenson's struggle to build schools for children in Afghanistan starting a few years before the 9/11 attacks.  This probably would not have been a book I would have pursued if it were not for the recommendation of someone I admire and respect (I'm more of a Jane Austen kind of girl) and the story did not disappoint. 
Mortenson is a 20-something nurse working the night shift in a California hospital who's real passion is mountain climbing.  As the story goes, during a failed … (6 comments)

 
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