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19 Books to Pick Up This October

Empty Hands

By Sister Abegail Ntleko

Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Pages: 176

A tenaciously hopeful memoir by a South African nurse who mothered hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS, all in the spirit of ubuntu—the Zulu belief that you are only a person because of other people.

— Natalie Beach

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