Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
10 best books like Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin (Susana Herrera): American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, Miriam's Song: A Memoir, The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, Band-Aid for a Broken Leg, Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm, Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
| Author | Paul M. Barrett |
| ISBN | 0374104239 |
Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism
There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American...
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better...
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?
I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
| Author | Mark Mathabane |
| ISBN | 0743203240 |
Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left...
| Author | Josh Swiller |
| ISBN | 0805082107 |
A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence
These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
| Author | Sarah Erdman |
| ISBN | 0312423128 |
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she...
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
| Author | Damien Brown |
| ISBN | 1743310218 |
A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line, and a moving testimony of the work done by Medecins Sans Frontieres
Damien Brown, a young doctor, thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa....
Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
| Author | Sarah Menkedick |
| ISBN | 1101871415 |
Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest...
Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
| Author | Andrew Meldrum |
| ISBN | 0802142516 |
Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe consolidated...
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
| Author | Lauren St. John |
| ISBN | 0743286790 |
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing...
| Author | Suzanne Strempek Shea |
| ISBN | 0807072249 |
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
My impression of Peace Corps memoirs, before reading this book, was not good. This seems to be recognized as one of the better ones, and as an engaging, perceptive memoir with a strong writing style, it certainly exceeded my expectations.
Tidwell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in...
| Author | Hilary Liftin |
| ISBN | 0375703675 |
A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.
Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to Africa. Over...
| Author | Michael Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0802135862 |
The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world’s longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for...
| Author | Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa |
The 10th Anniversary Trade Paperback edition of Daughters of the Stone, includes a special note from the author, as well as a Readers Guide for educators and bookclubs.
It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her...
| Author | Moritz Thomsen |
| ISBN | 0295969288 |
this was the one of MANY peace corps memoirs i suffered through (reading material choices were limited to our paltry communal bookshelves in the volunteer lounge of the swaziland peace corps office).
anyway, i used to write a monthly literature review box or our volunteer newsletter, and one month...
Padre!: A Place Whose Rules Rearrange Your Own
| Author | Raven Moore |
| ISBN | 0989726606 |
Described as 'that missing voice from Generation X' by Roger Muntu from Voice of America, Raven fashions you front row seats to the ride of a lifetime. She is a cultural, nonfictionist tyrannosaurus rex and her narration of the lives of Ivoiriens during her 2 years living in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa...
The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
| Author | Twesigye Jackson Kaguri |
| ISBN | 0670021849 |
The extraordinary story of one man's gift to orphaned children in need of hope
Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri defied many naysayers-and his own nagging doubts-and proved that, with a dream and incredible determination, he could change many lives....
Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition: Self-Care for Improved Cycles and Fertility... Naturally!
| Author | Marilyn M. Shannon |
| ISBN | 0926412345 |
Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition is the best, all-in-one guide to lifestyle choices and their effects on reproductive systems that I've ever encountered. The first few chapters are the most important, because the information applies to all women and men - eat well, follow these simple guidelines,...
My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
| Author | Rachel Hajar |
| ISBN | 1609765915 |
My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality is Dr. Rachel Hajar's memoir of her remarkable life in the heart of Arab-Islamic culture and society. Rachel never dreamed she would marry an Arab cardiologist or live in Qatar, a place she had never heard of before. When she left her homeland in the Philippines...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam
| Author | Yahiya Emerick |
| ISBN | 0028642333 |
I understand more about Islam than before. But I had trouble with the author. He seemed to be always defending Islam. For example he says the Taliban had a religious right for demolishing the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan because there are no Buddhists in Afghanistan anymore, and the Quran teaches...
The Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Arabic: English-Arabic Edition
| Author | Norma Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0194361977 |
The Oxford Picture Dictionary is an up-to-date vocabulary reference and teaching tool for English language learning, designed to meet the language needs of beginning through intermediate, young adult and adult students. The illustrations depict over 3700 words on 140 key topics within 12 thematically...
Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco
| Author | Paula Wolfert |
| ISBN | 0060913967 |
Since it was first published in 1973, Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco has established itself as the classic work on one of the world’s great cuisines, and in 2008 it was inducted into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. From the magnificent bisteeyas (enormous, delicate pies composed...
The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
| Author | Jacqueline Olds |
| ISBN | 0807000345 |
In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during...
