CRPCA Book Club 2010-2011 1. Default Section The Columbia River Peace Corps Association's Book Club is off to a great start! We would like your assistance in choosing the days we'll meet and the books we'll discuss in 2010-2011. Please review http://www.crpca.org/books.html before proceeding. Responses invited through May 15, 2010. Thanks! Question Title * 1. CRPCA's Book Club meets one weeknight a month, 6:30-8:00 pm. Please check the day(s) of the week that generally would work for you. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Question Title * 2. Please check UP TO 15 books you'd be interested in discussing with other CRPCA members between July 2010 and July 2011. The 12 books with the highest vote totals will be announced in the June CRPCA newsletter. #1: Akpan, Uwem: Say You're One of Them (2008) #2: Beah, Ishmael: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) #3: Bissell, Tom: Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2004) #4: Brown-Waite, Eve: First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life (2009) #5: Chayes, Sarah: The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (2006) #6: Chilson, Peter: Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (1999) #7: Clarke, Suzanna: A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco (2007) #8: Davis, Matthew: When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale (2010) #9: Davis, Wade: Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures (2007) #10: Deng, Benson et al: They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan (2005) #11: Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (2005) #12: Erdman, Sarah: Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village (2003) #13: Everett, Daniel L.: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (2008) #14: Fuller, Alexandra: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (2001) #15: Herrera, Susana: Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin (1999) #16: Hessler, Peter: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001) #17: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan: Infidel (2007) #18: Holloway, Kris: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (2007) #19: Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) #20: Kapuscinski, Ryszard: Travels with Herodotus (2007) #21: Kidder, Tracy: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (2003) #22: Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (1998) #23: Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005) #24: Márquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) #25: Mathabane, Mark: Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (1986) #26: Mortenson, Greg: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time (2006) #27: Naipaul, V.S.: A Way in the World (1995) #28: Pamuk, Orhan: Snow (2004) #29: Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things (1997) #30: Seierstad, Âsne: The Bookseller of Kabul (2004) #31: Tayler, Jeffrey: Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel (2005) #32: Theroux, Paul: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (2004) #33: Thomsen, Moritz: Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (1969) #34: Troost, J. Maarten: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (2004) #35: Twain, Mark: The Innocents Abroad (1869) #36: Walcott, Derek: Omeros (1990) #37: Weatherford, Jack: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004) #38: Weiss, Philip: American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps (2004) #39: Wrong, Michela: It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower (2009) #40: Yunus, Muhammad: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (2003) Done