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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The times of my life The times of my life Brent K. Ashabranner The prolific author describes how his interest in writing developed as he was growing up in the Oklahoma of the Depression and chronicles his years after World War II as a government worker in Africa… OL15001039W
Back to Pakistan Back to Pakistan Leslie Noyes Mass "Fifty years after living in a remote Pakistan village as a Peace Corps volunteer, Leslie Noyes Mass returns to discover a much-changed Pakistan-and a village that still remembers her. She deftly int… OL16151860W
American Taboo American Taboo Philip Weiss,Philip Weiss In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner — a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed tw… OL2973463W
The story of the Peace Corps The story of the Peace Corps Zachary Kent Examines the history of the American volunteer service whose young members dedicated their talents and skills to helping needy people throughout the Third World. OL49403W
Power lines Power lines Jason Carter "Power lines pass over the town of Lochiel, South Africa. When Jason Carter arrived, the power lines of First-World South Africa ran directly through the village in the former black homeland...but th… OL5956867W