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2012: Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, editors
In the face of environmental degradation, species extinction and climate change, scientific knowledge, political processes or economic incentives do not tell us what we ought to do. The missing pieces include principled reasons for doing the right thing for the future of our planet, its animals, its plants and its people.
e-reader version available

$17.95

2012: The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Jim Crow laws are off the books but an astounding percentage of African-Americans are warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status, much like their grandparents before them. This book challenges us all to put mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice.
e-reader version available
$19.95

2012: Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street

by Jim Wallis
Getting back to “the way things were” is not an option. It is time we take our economic uncertainty and use it to find some moral clarity. Rediscovering Values shows that the solution to our problems will be found only as individuals, families, friends, churches, mosques, synagogues and entire communities wrestle with the question of values together.
e-reader version available
$14.99

2012: Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace

FOR CHILDREN
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, scientist and environmentalist Wangari Maathai who -despite opposition to women’s rights - started her own Green Belt Movement in an effort to restore Kenya’s ecosystem by planting millions of trees.
$18.95

2012: The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today

by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
Slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight—the dishwasher in the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store—and we meet some unexpected slaveholders. This book calls us to action to bring an end to this horrific crime.
e-reader version available
$16.95

2012: Sold

FOR YOUTH
by Patricia McCormick
Though desperately poor, 13-yearold Lakshmi’s life in a small village in Nepal is full of simple pleasures. But then a monsoon washes away the family’s crops, and Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must take a job to support her family. Thinking she has a job as a maid in the city, she is glad to help. But then she learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.
e-reader version available
$8.99