PRC Book Group - June 12, 2013

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 of the month at lunch (12 - 1:30) in the

Megan Bradshaw Learning Center
(on the second floor of our building)

(Borrow or buy your own book. Bring your own lunch. Rice and beans will be served.)

Everyone welcome!

June 12, 2013

In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

July 10, 2013

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.

Even if you do not read a book, please join us as we discuss and learn more about the cultures that we live, learn and work with.

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
Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber
You Don't Even Know Me by Sharon Flake
Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone by Terry Green Sterling
Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
Saved by Her Enemy; An Iraqi Woman's Journey... by Emma Williams
My Brother, My Enemy: America and the Battle of Ideas Across the Islamic World" by Philip Smucker
World and Town by Jen Gish
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than The End of the Street by Emma Williams
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Girls at War by Chinua Achebe
A Promise Kept to Bear Witness by Joyce Wagner
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skoot
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Diraw Mengstu
Little Princes by Conor Grennan
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Don't Retire, Get Inspired by Dick Nogaj
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Mulberry Child by Jian Ping
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Stasiland: Stories behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Miracles Relied Upon by Margaret and Warren Roth
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
In My Father's Country by Saima Wahab
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun

6/12/2013 - 8/31/2008

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