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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. 33140 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: $3.99 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.
The Peace Corpse: Misadventures in Love and Africa    by Andy Christofferson
Price: $2.99 USD. 98130 words. Published on May 9, 2011. .

Imagine a white, 22-year-old college kid from Montana volunteering to serve in the Peace Corps with the intention of bringing knowledge and friendship to the developing world. That was me, along with the others who served with me in Tanzania for two years. At least, that was the idea.
Aralen Dreams    by Charles Thompson
Price: $2.99 USD. 71070 words. Published on July 17, 2011. .

John Dillon stepped off the plane to become a better man. He didn't know love, loss, and revenge waited for him.
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.
Indian Summer    by Daniel Rider
Price: $0.99 USD. 74560 words. Published on June 15, 2012. .

What do you do when your best friend comes back from the Peace Corps crazy? When he declares that he loves Indian movies and is suddenly talking in an Indian accent? When he wants to drive you across the country to meet an Indian girl he is madly in love with, and then, halfway across that country, in the middle of nowhere, he starts getting in fights, dancing and singing with windmills?
Olymp-i-a Peace Challenge 1    by Lesa R. Walker
Price: $1.99 USD. 6810 words. Published on September 29, 2012. .

This e-book launches you on a journey of peace through the practice of positive ideas and actions. Simple steps move us forward and practice makes us stronger. By participating in the Olymp-i-a Peace Challenge, you create and sustain peace in your own life and the lives of others. Together, we make the world a more peaceful place! Join in the journey! Discover peace!