12 new books by Peace Corps writers: January – February 2021

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Creative Types and Other Stories
By Tom Bissell (Uzbekistan 1996)
Pantheon
225 pages
March 2021
$12.99 (Kindle); $25.95 (hardback), $14.70 (Audible)

If you like to think, if you adore language and excellent, if weird and navel gazing writing, Bissell is your guy. He’s irreverent and funny, given a bit too much to lecturing, a real leading light of his generation of writers, and fairly unusual. — from a PCW review by Tony D’Souza

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Become Loaded for Life: Financial Independence, Retiring Early, Maximizing Happiness
Nate  Carter (Morocco 1995-1997)
Bowker Identifier Service
2019
260 pages
$10.99 (paperback), $7.18 (Kindle)

Nate shares how his Peace Corps experience and service as a U.S. diplomat influenced him to create a plan for financial independence and early retirement. He shares a replicable strategy for creating wealth, mitigating money-related stress and maximizing long-term happiness. 

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Two brothers, Max and Jordie. Their friend, Marty. And a girl named Tia. Together they struggle with the journey of their lives, often defined by loss. They possess an abiding concern for one another, tempered by resolve and courage and a life changing moment.

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The 2019 European Games in Minsk
Steve  Kaffen (Russia 1994-96)
Independently published
January 2021
$3.99 (Kindle)

Join author and explorer Steve Kaffen and attend the best of the European Games including the spectacular closing ceremony, and experience the sights, spirit and local color of surprising Minsk.

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Fast Food for Thought: Poetry to Ponder
Eldon Katter (Ethiopia 1962–64)
A Peace Corps Writers Book
December 2020
178 pages
$5.99 (paperback)

The idiomatic title is meant to suggest that the words are something worth thinking about. It is a selection of the author’s poems, old and new, on a wide range of subjects. Identity, choice, change, aging, and the environment are just a few of the topics touched upon.

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