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At the Table of Want    by Larry Kimport
Price: $4.99 USD. 108930 words. Published by Foremost Press  on December 14, 2009. .

At the Table of Want, a coming-of-age love story, chronicles orphan Truman Kramer's settling into a Peace Corps assignment in a small Malaysian community, where he eventually finds himself involved with a local shopkeeper's wife, an unloved woman craving anything of her own.
God's Money: A novel based on actual events    by Tad Hutton
Price: $2.99 USD. 33150 words. Published by Foremost Press  on December 14, 2009. .

Four fishermen find twenty million dollars on an uninhabited island. Now they have to keep the cash from the drug cartel and pirates who claim it. The setting for this thrill and laugh-a-minute tale is the notorious Palawan Passage in the South China Sea. Based on a true story, so recent that the ending is still in play.
Bread From the Sky    by Marie McCarthy
Price: $4.99 USD. 96460 words. Published on January 2, 2011. .

How many cat heads do you have to eat before you acquire the characteristics of a cat? Why do you hang a snail shell in a tree? How do you get a curse removed? And who buried a gri-gri in the yard? These and other questions are answered in Bread From the Sky, a Peace Corps memoir.
Doorways to Significance: Finding Peace, Power, Passion    by Pat Holland Conner
Price: $4.99 USD. 46770 words. Published on April 1, 2011. .

It's never too late to change the brokenness.
In the Belly of the Elephant    by Susan Corbett
Price: $2.99 USD. 98840 words. Published on April 10, 2011. .

In the Belly of the Elephant is a true story of adventure, myth, and romance gone awry set amidst the vivid beauty of Africa’s land, people, and culture. A young American aid worker endures the harsh realities of the West African Sahel and searches for the love of a good man; written in the language of a wide-open soul from Idaho—funny, heartbreaking, and always with an attitude.
Steve's Adventure with the Peace Corps    by Steve Hunsicker
Price: $4.99 USD. 126140 words. Published on May 3, 2011. .

After a 23 year career in TV News, Steve Hunsicker left the comforts of his Florida home, moved to the South Pacific and served for more than two years as Peace Corps Volunteer. This chronological account of his adventures begins from the day he first decided to apply to Peace Corps until the day he finished his service.
Facing the Son, A Novel of Africa    by M L  Rudolph
Price: $0.99 USD. 78690 words. Published on May 31, 2011. .

American Matt Reiser travels to The Ivory Coast on a mission to locate his estranged son. His only guide is a three-year old postal address. Fighting cultural vertigo and disorientation at the Abidjan airport, he relies on a glib and persistent limo driver who speaks just enough English to gain Matt's trust. The next morning, Matt wakes up drugged, robbed, and dropped into a grim city slum.
Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age: A Methodologically Unsound Study of Interactions Between the Tribal Peoples of America and Turkmenistan    by Sam Tranum
Price: $5.99 USD. 88130 words. Published on October 20, 2011. .

In 2004, Sam Tranum moved to Turkmenistan, an isolated, totalitarian petrostate bordering Iran and Afghanistan, to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. That same year, the Economist magazine predicted his new home would be the worst place in the world to live, despite the fact that its leader, known as Turkmenbashy, insisted that his country was experiencing a Golden Age.
One For The Road    by David Mather
Price: $7.50 USD. 122320 words. Published on January 19, 2012. .

One For The Road is a coming-of-age novel set in a breathtakingly beautiful land from a bygone area. A young man’s quest to both help and fit into the lawless rural society leads to an unanticipated relationship with a gorgeous young woman. It is this relationship that provides the key to his heartwarming—and heartbreaking—acceptance into the community.