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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Hawa Abdi, 1947-     Subjects     Hawa Abdi, 1947-     Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.     Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.     Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.     Gynecologists -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.     Blacks -- Biography.     Somalia -- Biography.     Somalia -- History -- 1991-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hawa Abdi, 1947-       by title:      Keeping hope alive :...       by call number:      323.092 H389k     Search the Web     Hawa Abdi, 1947-     Hawa Abdi, 1947-     Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.     Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.     Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.     Gynecologists -- Biography.     Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.     Blacks -- Biography.     Somalia -- Biography.     Somalia -- History -- 1991-       MARC Display

Keeping hope alive : one woman : 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins. by Hawa Abdi, 1947- Grand Central Publishing, c2013. Call #: 323.092 H389k Subjects Hawa Abdi, 1947-   Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.   Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.   Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.   Gynecologists -- Biography.   Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.   Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.   Blacks -- Biography.   Somalia -- Biography.   Somalia -- History -- 1991- ISBN:  9781455503766 (hc.) 1455503762 (hc.) Alternate title:  One woman : 90,000 lives changed 1 woman : 90,000 lives changed Description:  xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (on endpapers), photos. ; 21 cm. Contents:  Introduction: keeping hope alive -- A stranger in my homeland -- Gold is made beautiful by fire -- To stop the bleeding -- Paradise in the world -- Friends and enemies -- Awaiting a life, awaiting a death -- Filling the hole in my heart -- Losing my past and my future -- Building my practice -- My sisters return -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- Collapse -- Why do you want to do this? -- Danger from without -- Today we are happy -- Operation Restore Hope -- One wrong decision -- The fourth container -- Vice Minister of Labor and Sports -- We can remember -- Ahmed -- "A doctor bound by humanity" -- An ocean of need -- A new generation -- The attack -- Women of the year --Forgiveness. Summary:  The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Genre:  Autobiographies. Other authors:  Robbins, Sarah J. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Biography 323.092 H389k Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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