RPCV Books For Summer Reading

Before you leave for the long week end, and the long summer, here are a few books to order to take with you. All of these books were written by RPCVs. Support the Peace Corps Community and read some great books!

The Italian Summer: Golf, Food, and Family at Lake Como
By Roland Merullo (Micronesia 1979-80)
Touchstone
272 pages
2009

Madness Under the Royal Palms:
Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
(Non-Fiction)
by Laurence Leamer (Nepal 1965-67)
Hyperion Press
368 pages
2009

Hippie Chick
(young adult)
By Joseph Monninger (Burkina Faso 1975-77)
204 pages
Front Street Press
2008

The Mind Dancing
(Poems)
By Tony Zurlo (Nigeria 1962-64)
Art and Calligraphy by Vivian Lu
76 pages
Plain View Press
2009

The Disappearance
(Novel)
by Efrem Sigel (Ivory Coast 1965-67)
Permanent Press
264 pages
2009

Triumph & Hope: Golden Years With The Peace Corps in Honduras
(Memoir)
Barbara Joe (Honduras 2000-03)
BookSurge
319 pages
2008

Mosquitoes and other Impossibilities
(Memoir)
By Nancy Sellin (Liberia 1966-68)
iUniverse
234 pages
2009

First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria:How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
(Memoir)
Eve Brown-Waite (Ecuador 1988)
Broadway Books
320 pages
2009

The Baker’s Boy
(Literary Novel)
Barry Kitterman (Belize 1975-77)
Southern Methodist University Press
2008

Palos Verdes Blues
A Jack Liffey Mystery
By John Shannon (Malawi 1965-67)
Pegasus Books
320 pages
2009