New Books by Peace Corps Writers — June 2015

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To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet
(A verse memoir)
by Philip Brady (Zaire 1980–82)
Broadstone Books
June 2015
168 pages
$24.94 (hardcover); $18.50 (paperback)

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The Unspoken: The Lost Novel
by Christopher Conlon (Botswana 1988-90)
CreateSpace
January 2015
776 pages
$25.95 (paperback)

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Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience, & Spirit
by Rabbi Rachel Cowan (Ecuador 1966–67) and and  Dr. Linda Thal
Behrman House Publishing
May 2015
$16.95 (paperback)

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Mersin-10, Turkey: Six Years in Northern Cyprus
(Memoir)
by Eddie James Girdner (India 1968–70)
CreateSpace
June 2015
374 pages
$19.95 (paperback)

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Swimming: Stories
by Karl Luntta (Botswana 1977-80; staff: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Kiribati, Barbados)
Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press
May 2015
120 pages
$16.95 (Kindle), (paperback)

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The Wall
(Poetry)
by Andrew Oerke (PC staff: Tanzania, Uganda, CD-Malawi, CD-Jamaica 1966–71)
Poets’s Choice Press of the William Meredith Foundation
2015
54 pages
$14.95 (paperback)

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Waveland: One Woman’s Story of Freedom Summer
(Novel)
by Simone Zelitch (Hungary 1991–93)
The Head & The Hand Press
May 2015
224 pages
$18.00 (paperback)