International Day of Peace 2024

Updated August 30, 2024
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Can you say peace?
Katz, Karen
Paper Book
Children everywhere wish for peace International Peace Day is September 21. On this day and every day throughout the year, children all over the world wish for peace. Karen Katz takes readers on a bright and colorful journey around the globe to meet some of these children and...
The peace book
Parr, Todd
Paper Book
Peace is making new friends. Peace is helping your neighbor. Peace is a growing a garden. Peace is being who you are. The Peace Book delivers positive and hopeful messages of peace in an accessible, child-friendly format featuring Todd Parr's...
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Stevenson, Bryan
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX * A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
Beyond religion : ethics for a whole world
Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV
Paper Book
An unprecedented event: a beloved world religious leader proposes a way to lead an ethical, happy, and spiritual life beyond religion and offers a program of mental training for cultivating key human values Ten years ago, in his best-sellingEthics for a New Millennium,...
The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined
Pinker, Steven
Paper Book
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism,...
Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, Nelson
Paper Book
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a...
Peace : the biography of a symbol
Kolsbun, Ken.
Paper Book
As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds tremendous meaning today. And nothing more eloquently symbolizes the counterculture era than the peace sign. How did this simple sketch become so powerful an image? Peace: The Biography of a Symbol tells the...
Peaceful heroes
Winter, Jonah
Paper Book
The author of the highly-acclaimed FRIDA and DIZZY brings us a series of searing portraits of warriors who didn't use weapons, including Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, Gandhi, and more.Why is "hero" is a word so often reserved for warriors who fight with guns and weapons to defend...
I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller Adapted for Young Readers A National Bestseller A Nobel Peace Prize-winning Author Malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner. In this Young Readers Edition of her bestselling memoir^ which...

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