PRC Book Group Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

The PRC Book Group at the People's Resource Center brings volunteers, staff, and clients together to discuss some of the best books written about the various countries and cultures of the people we serve, and to get to know one another better. We even get to taste some of the great foods from around the world!!

"One Book, One People"

2nd Wednesdays at lunch (12 - 1:30) in the

Megan Bradshaw LearningCenter
(on the second floor of our building)

(Borrow or buy your own book. Bring your own lunch.)

Everyone welcome!

September 8: Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber

October 13: You Don't Even Know Me by Sharon Flake

November 10: Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone by Terry Greene Sterling

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, about a Mexican American family
Six Feet of the Country, by Nadine Gordimer of South Africa
Elegy for Kosovo, by Ismail Kadare of Albania
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini of Afghanistan
The Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih of Sudan
Crabwalk, by Gunter Grass of Germany
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe of Nigeria
Coyotes, by Ted Conover
Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
In the Time of the Butterflies, By Julia Alvarez
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side, By Farah Ahmedi
Of Beatles and Angels, By Mawi Asgedom
Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin
There’s a Word for it in Mexico, by Boye Lafayette De Mente
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl, by Ma Yan
The Road to Martyr’s Square by Oliver & Steinberg
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Some of our favorite poems, with guest, Jason Snart, an Assistant English Professor from COD
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Poems from Kenya selected by Mary Ellen Durbin
The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen
Blue Clay People by William Powers
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Strange Times, My Dear by Nahid Mozaffari
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kusher
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Translator by Daoud Hari
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Class Matters by The New York Times
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
Baking Cakes in Kilgali by Gaile Parkin
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

9/8/2010 - 8/31/2008

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