February 2011 Peace Corps Books
John. Just a note to thank you for ongoing postings about RPCV books. I would never have heard of Gloryland…
History Begins in Africa
by Mary Acosta (Afghanistan 1964–66)
Birds Nest Publishing
$29.95
385 pages
December 2010
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Haiti: Ti Moun Se Riches
[Our Children Are Our Treasures]
photographs by Skyler Badenoch (Cote d’Ivoire 2001–02)
Suzanne Guard and Tuck Stephenson, publishers
$30.00 pages
January 2011
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This is Africa: Peace Corps Malawi and the Liberian Civil War
by Eugene T. Caruso (Malawi & Liberia 1990–92)
CreateSpace
$9.99
134 pages
2009
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The Family Goryachevix
by Murray Davis (Russia 1996–99)
Finer Images Printing
$12.00
154 pages
2010
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Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land
(Winner of the 2010 SRCA Open Poetry Chapbook Competition)
by Jeff Fearnside (Kazakhstan 2002–04)
Standing Rock Cultural Arts
$12.00
24 pages
February 2011
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Gloryland
by Shelton Johnson (Liberia 1982–83)
Sierra Club/Counterpoint
$15.95
288 pages
2010
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A School For Others: The History of the Belize High School of Agriculture
by George Lebard (Belize 1981–86; APCD 1986–92)
Xlibris
$19.99
269 pages
2010
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When The World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and its First Fifty Years
by Stanley Meslier (PC/HQ 1963–67)
Beacon Press
272 pages
2011
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Never Seek to Tell Thy Love: A Love Odyssey
(Poems)
by Andrew Oerke (PC/Staff in Tanzania & Uganda, and CD in Malawi and Jamaica from 1966–71)
GCEEF Publisher
$15.00
60 pages
2010
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The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920
(revised edition) by James Quirin (Ethiopia 1965–67)
Tsehai Publishers
$29.95
365 pages
2010
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The Village
by T. F. Rhoden (Thailand 2005–07)
Digital Lycanthrope
$29.96
324 pages
November 2010
The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of Americans’ Attitudes toward Africa
by Theodore M. Vestal (PC Staff/Ethiopia 1964–66)
Praeger
$44.95
231 pages
February 2011
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John. Just a note to thank you for ongoing postings about RPCV books. I would never have heard of Gloryland by Shelton Johnson otherwise. It is a great story about the African-American experience. The interior monologue of the main character is stunning. Storyland deserves a large American audience.
I also watched the Niger ’66 documentary because of your comments. I agree that it is a brilliant piece of work about how the Peace Corps experience echoes through our lives. Roger Landrum