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Every Day Since Desenzano: A Tale of Gratitude
Patrick Logan (Thailand 1984-86)
Peace Corps Writers
150 pages
September 11, 2021
$9.35 (paperback), $6.99 (Kindle)
Following his father’s death, the author inherited his wartime letters from WW II, and in them learned much about the man from whom he’d grown distant, emotionally at first and then geographically. He decided to trace his father’s route, from just north of Naples, to Rome, Florence, Verona and finally to Desenzano, guided by passages from the letters and books on the division’s combat history. A blend of memoir, history and travelogue, Every Day Since Desenzano details a son’s discovery of his father’s greatest gift: the importance of gratitude. The book includes forty-two pages of excerpts from his father’s wartime letters and journal, making it a collaborative project.
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How to Improve the World Quickly
Christopher J. Roesel (Guatemala 1973–75)
Peace Corps Writers
August 10, 2021
114 pages
$12.00 (paperback)
A how-to of improving the health, nutrition and water for people around the world.
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The Life of a Nepali Village Boy
by Ambika Mohan Joshee (Peace Corps staff/Nepal 1971–2001)
Peace Corps Writers
June, 2021
267 pages
$24.50 (paperback)
“He is talented: able to secure work, develop schools, and convince others to aid these selfless efforts, especially in education. And he is responsible: responsible to the farmers in the co-ops he led, responsible to the students he taught, responsible to the volunteers he prepped and supported, and responsible to his family above all. His work touched the lives of thousands.” — Will Newman, former Country Director, Peace Corps/Nepal.
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Afghanistan at a Time of Peace
by RobinVarnum (Afghanistan 1971–73), Photographer: Juris Zagarins (Afghanistan, 1971-1974)
Peace Corps Writers
201 pages
June 2, 2021
$25.00 (paperback), $10.00 (Kindle)
A young American woman serves as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan at a time in the early 1970s when it was possible to hope that the prospects for its people, and especially its women, would improve.
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Dreams of Italy
Leita Bevacqua Davis (Senegal 1993–96)
Peace Corps Writers
April 22, 2021
130 pages
$15.00 (paperback)
A family memoir. The author follows her dream of traveling to Calabria in the toe of Italy to find decendents of her family who had left there at the turn of the twentieth century to survive in the new world.
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Goats: And Other Stories
Martin Ganzglass (Somalia 1966–68)
Peace Corps Writers
March 17, 2021
305 pages
$10.00 (paperback)
Ten Imaginative stories that weave together the mundane and the supernatural to reveal relationships that are at once humorous and humane.
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The Giant Tangerine Sunball: Poems from a Peace Corps Volunteer
Katie Speicher (Senegal 2016-2018)
Peace Corps Writers
March, 2021
72 pages
$19.95 (paperback)
In her literary debut, Katie Speicher invites readers to join her in Senegal with her poems on beauty, strength, questioning, nostalgia, heartbreak, and contentment. Her poems have sprung from her Peace Corps service and from reaching deep into memory.
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The G–K Project: A Peace Corps Experience
Carl Murry (Pakistan 1962–64)
A Peace Corps Writers Book
184 pages
January 25, 2021
$7.95 (paperback)
THE G-K PROJECT is a personal account of the historical beginnings of the Peace Corps and the process of selecting, training and placement of volunteers, with an introduction to the small, highly populated, Islamic nation of East Pakistan before its independence to become Bangladesh.
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Transformation: The 60-second Mind-body Practice Integrating Tai chi and Yoga to Manage Stress and Unlock Your Potential
Robert R. Abbott, Ph.D. (Nigeria 1965-67) and Zochi Young
Peace Corps Writers
January 14, 2021
110 pages
$22.00 (paperback), $9.99 (Kindle)
Transformation has 20 chapters of text and 30 illustrations that generally conform to Tai Chi movements linked to powerful social value affirmations such as; share, be of service, speak your truth etc.