Volunteers - Memoirs

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Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir 3.97 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal 4.26 avg rating — 23,240 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 4.28 avg rating — 13,671 ratings
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali 4.17 avg rating — 4,983 ratings
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The Color of the Elephant
The Color of the Elephant 4.47 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter 4.12 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth 3.48 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village 3.87 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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Santiago's Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
Santiago's Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile 4.37 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog 4.09 avg rating — 5,102 ratings
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The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa 3.91 avg rating — 823 ratings
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A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service 3.67 avg rating — 214 ratings
14.
Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life 3.75 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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When Invisible Children Sing
When Invisible Children Sing 4.31 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn
The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn 4.02 avg rating — 450 ratings
18.
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story 3.60 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin 3.57 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail 4.21 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age: A Methodologically Unsound Study of Interactions Between the Tribal Peoples of America and Turkmenistan
Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age: A Methodologically Unsound Study of Interactions Between the Tribal Peoples of America and Turkmenistan 3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Mountain School
The Mountain School 3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Even the Dead Are Coming
Even the Dead Are Coming 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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In the Belly of the Elephant: A Memoir of Africa
In the Belly of the Elephant: A Memoir of Africa 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence 4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Seasons With Sojourners: A Doctor's Story Working with Refugees and Outcasts in the World's Hard Places
Seasons With Sojourners: A Doctor's Story Working with Refugees and Outcasts in the World's Hard Places 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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When Evening Comes: The Education of a Hospice Volunteer
When Evening Comes: The Education of a Hospice Volunteer 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings
21.
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis
No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis 4.09 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction
Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Tales of a Silver-Haired Volunteer: Going Far and Giving Back
Tales of a Silver-Haired Volunteer: Going Far and Giving Back 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Place to Land: Lost and Found in an Unlikely Friendship
A Place to Land: Lost and Found in an Unlikely Friendship 3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War 3.88 avg rating — 89 ratings
35.
Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
by: Ken Haigh
3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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História, História
História, História 3.96 avg rating — 76 ratings
35.
Weekends with Daisy
Weekends with Daisy 4.12 avg rating — 764 ratings
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A Tale from the Heart: Temporary Natives
A Tale from the Heart: Temporary Natives 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
39.
The People's Lawyer
The People's Lawyer 3.37 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times 4.19 avg rating — 77,380 ratings
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Bloodlines: A Tale from the Heart of Africa
Bloodlines: A Tale from the Heart of Africa 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador 3.97 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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When Bull Elephants Fight: an American Surgeon's Chronicle of Congo
When Bull Elephants Fight: an American Surgeon's Chronicle of Congo 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT 3.73 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate
I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate 4.19 avg rating — 305 ratings
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An African Season
An African Season 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Don't Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees
Don't Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees 4.15 avg rating — 281 ratings
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An Eagle Named Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
An Eagle Named Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship 4.11 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project 4.10 avg rating — 397 ratings
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His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond
His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond 3.39 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Village of Waiting
The Village of Waiting 3.92 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World 3.95 avg rating — 782 ratings
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To Benin and Back: Short Stories, Essays, and Reflections About Life in Benin as a Peace Corps Volunteer and the Subsequent Readjustment Process.
To Benin and Back: Short Stories, Essays, and Reflections About Life in Benin as a Peace Corps Volunteer and the Subsequent Readjustment Process. 3.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale
When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale 3.54 avg rating — 95 ratings
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After Sorrow Comes Joy
After Sorrow Comes Joy 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road 4.05 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa 3.70 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Just Keep Pedaling: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Uruguay
Just Keep Pedaling: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Uruguay 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam
A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe
At Home on the Kazakh Steppe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Lost and Found in Macedonia: A Journey to Unexpected Places
Lost and Found in Macedonia: A Journey to Unexpected Places 2.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou 3.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti -- With Post-Earthquake Update
On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti -- With Post-Earthquake Update 3.95 avg rating — 207 ratings
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A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher 3.70 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Service Disrupted: My Peace Corps Story
Service Disrupted: My Peace Corps Story 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Kisses from Katie
Kisses from Katie 4.39 avg rating — 34,635 ratings
68.
Into Africa With the Peace Corps
Into Africa With the Peace Corps
by: Sue Sadow
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases 4.03 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice: Peace Corps Life in 1960s Sierra Leone
Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice: Peace Corps Life in 1960s Sierra Leone liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My African Safari
My African Safari it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mzungu: A Notre Dame Student in Uganda
Mzungu: A Notre Dame Student in Uganda 2.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Volunteering in Ethiopia: A Peace Corps Odyssey
Volunteering in Ethiopia: A Peace Corps Odyssey it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem
The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem
by: Ken Budd
3.49 avg rating — 517 ratings