Peace Corps Writers

Ann Hales, Ph.D. is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, who has worked for almost fifty years providing mental health services to her community --- whether it be Tennessee, Colorado, Idaho, Liberia,...

Set in December 1776 and the fateful year of 1777, seventeen year old Will Stoner, a Private in the Massachusetts Artillery, endures incredible hardships, finds his courage on the battlefields, and...

When Catherine arrived in Nigeria as an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, she had no idea of the wealth of customs and traditions she would come to love. With her marriage to a Nigerian electrical...

Brooklyn, NY to Bocaiuva, Brazil: A Peace Corps Love Story tells the story of the unlikely chain of circumstances, in the United States and Brazil, which lead Frank and Lena to meet and fall in love...

Having had the chance to reflect on my own Peace Corps experiences, and knowing how fickle memory can be, I felt the necessity to write them down. What became of this project was a meandering...

Dodging Machetes: How I Survived Forbidden Love, Bad Behavior, And The Peace Corps In FijiAuthor: Will LutwickPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: May 21, 2012Number of Pages: 266...

IT WAS WITH GREAT RELIEF that John Ashford realized he was going to do something new in his life. In his mid-fifties and happily married to his second wife, Gen, John wanted to feel as passionate...

Frontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joseph Goss digs into the origins of his ancient home to...

How to Cook a Crocodile: A Memoir with RecipesAuthor: Bonnie Lee BlackPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: October 06, 2010Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Letters From A Wondrous Empire: An Epistolary MemoirAuthor: Cynthia Nelson MoscaPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: July 14, 2021Number of Pages: 186 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

LIRIO DEL PERU es una intensa novela de amor y suspenso al estilo de las novelas A Farewell to Arms de Ernest Hemingway y Lie Down with Lions de Ken Follett. Diane Capri, escritora reconocida como...

Little Women of Baghlan: The Story of a Nursing School for Girls in Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, and Life Before the TalibanAuthor: Susan FoxPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: October...

More Than Birding: Observations from Antarctica, Madagascar, and BhutanAuthor: Ms. Harriet DenisonPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: November 12, 2018Number of Pages: 318 pagesLanguage:...

Not Exactly Retired: A Life-Changing Journey On The Road And In The Peace CorpsAuthor: David JarmulPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: Mar 13, 2020Number of Pages: 300 pagesLanguage:...

In this autobiographical narrative, Sandi Giver describes a harrowing experience with the military judicial system. As a civilian victim of sexual assault, she vividly brings to light the challenges...

In 1966, college student Mike Stake was in danger of flunking his second straight year of college. His life seemed to be on hold, and he had no real sense of direction. An application for Peace Corps...

Parents Kevin and Kay Dixon have always had a passion for travel that they love to share with their four daughters. In the late 1970s, a contract for Kevin to work in Saudi Arabia, that came with...

Bobby Jones always hoped that someday an amateur would win the Masters. In this novel, bestselling author John Coyne-The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory-tells the...

The Emperor and the Elephants is a deeply moving memoir chronicling one Peace Corps volunteer's fascinating experiences in the Central African Republic during the late 1970s. After hiking the...

The Measure Of A DreamAuthor: Lora Parisien BeginPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: Jun 29, 2012Number of Pages: 362 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1935925253ISBN-13:...

The Warm Heart of Africa - 9781950444106Author: Jack AllisonPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: Jun 06, 2020Number of Pages: 230 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Walled In, Walled Out: A Young American Woman in IranAuthor: Mary Dana MarksPublisher: Peace Corps WritersPublication Date: April 04, 2017Number of Pages: 348 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The summation of a distinguished career in writing fiction, writing for film, travel writing, and teaching, Wordman is a source book for emerging writers and a memorable set of reflections upon a...

She lives in a thatch-roofed hut with no electricity. She bathes in a river and beats her clothes on a rock. She single-handedly fends off tarantulas. And every night, Peace Corps Volunteer Nancy...