New books by Peace Corps writers | September–October 2024

New books — 

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 Make Room for Healing:40 Tips from a Breast Cancer Survivor
by Travis Brady (China 1994)
Hay House LLC
176 pages
October 2024
$13.94 (Paperback); $8.99 (Kindle); 1 credit (Audible-author narrator)

Accessible, heartfelt, and witty, this short collection of simple, practical tips offers self-care, healing, and recovery, from a stage-3 breast cancer survivor.

Her Side of the Sun: Her name is Jamala
Tim  Flaherty (Guatemala  1974-76)
Dorrance Publishing Co.
248 pages
June 2024
$20.00 (paperback); $15.00 (Kindle)

Her Side of the Sun chronicles the tales of various women in a women’s prison located in Framingham, Massachusetts, and the crimes that led them there. The events portrayed within are based on real accounts of incarcerated women and their crimes.

It’s a Small World After All
by Dorothy Crews Herzberg (Nigeria 1961-63)
Independently Published
132 pages
October 2024
$12.00 (Paperback)

In It’s a Small World After All the author shares her experiences and observations as she traveled — first with family an then alone — through the United States, Mexico, Asia, Africa, and South America.

What Death Revealed: A Story of Virtue, Vice and Violence
Jonathan Lash (Dominican Republic 1967-69)
Austin Macauley Publishers
July 2025
378 pages
$23.95 (paperback); $$4.50 (Kindle); $38.95 (hardcover); to come (audible)

This is the tale of a formidable black police sergeant and an idealistic young federal prosecutor who form an improbable partnership seeking justice for a murdered friend, and uncover venality, murder and poisonous racism in Washington, DC, eight years after the city was torn apart by the riots set off by the assassination of Martin Luther King.

Miracles Along County Q
by Mike McCabe (Mali 1989-91)
Little Creek Press
October 2024
238 pages
$17.95 (paperback), $9.99 (Kindle)

Anyone who has ever lived in a small town will connect with the lovely book.”— Nickolas Butler

Decolonizing African Agriculture
By William G. Moseley (Mali 1987-89)
Agenda Publishing
December 2024
246 pages
$40.00 (hardback)

To tackle food security successfully, the book argues, we need a non-colonial, indigenous agronomy that creates the social innovation needed to support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.

A Million Miles: My Peace Corps Journey
by Jody Olsen (Tunisia 1966-68)
University of Utah Press
October 2024
276 pages
$44.95 (hardcover); $24.95 (paperback)

This memoir is a sharp, vulnerable portrait, a testament to the transformative power of leadership and self-discovery.