Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2006)

Best book I've read in 2009. One friend said she didn't think it was well written, but I found it fascinating, because the work that Greg Mortenson is doing is really changing the world in a profound way. He was a mountain climber, who while coming down off of a failed climb in Pakistan, spent some time in a small mountain village and befriended the people and saw a great need for a school there. This has become his life's work, building schools in Paksitan and Afghanistan with the people of the communities, for the education of their girls and boys.