April 2012 New Peace Corps Books

Bending with the Wind: Memoir of a Cambodian Couple’s Escape to America
Bounchoeurn Sao & Diyana D. Sao as told to Karline Frances Topp Bird (Thailand 1968-70)
McFarland & Company
$35.00
210 pages
March 2012

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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
by Tom Bissell (Uzbekistan 1996-97)
McSweeney’s, Believer Books
$14.00
300 pages
April 2012
(more about the book)

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Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook
by Travis Hellstrom (Mongolia 2008–11)
Advance Humanity Publishing
$15.95
234 pages
2010
(PCWW review)

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The Master Blaster
by P.F. Kluge (Micronesia 1969-70)
Overlook Press
$25.95
304 pages
April, 2012
(re NYTimes review)

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Far Away In The Sky: A Memoir of the Biafran Airlift
by David L. Koren (1965–66)
Createspace
$17.99 (paperback); $8.60 (Kindle)
332 pages
April 2011

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Peace Corps Experience: Write and Publish Your Memoir
by Lawrence F. Lihosit (Honduras 1975–77)
iUniverse
$13.95 (paperback); $3.03 (Kindle)
127 pages
April 2012

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A Breeze in Bulgaria
by Bruce McDonald (2002–04)
BookBrewer
$21.29 (paperback), $6.99 (Kindle)
341 pages
February 2012

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Life Under the Eastern Sky: Essays on Contemporary Chinese Culture
by Valerie Sartor (Korea 1980–81; Central African Republic 1981–83)
and Yang Jun Heng
CreateSpace
$6.99
214 pages
April 2012