People's Resource
Center (PRC)
Megan Bradshaw
Learning Center
201 Naperville Road
Wheaton, IL 60187
Pam Knight,
Maryanna Milton,
Adult and Family
Literacy Co-Directors
Phone: (630) 682-5402
Fax: (630) 682-5412
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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!
- Wednesday, April 9, at 12:00 noon to 1:30.
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Islam: A Short History
by Karen Armstrong
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong begins with the flight of
Muhammad and his family from Medina in the seventh century and the
subsequent founding of the first mosques. It recounts the origins of the
split between Shii and Sunni Muslims, and the emergence of Sufi
mysticism; the spread of Islam throughout North Africa, the Levant, and
Asia; the shattering effect on the Muslim world of the Crusades; the
flowering of imperial Islam in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
into the world's greatest and most sophisticated power; and the origins
and impact of revolutionary Islam. It concludes with an assessment of
Islam today and its challenges.
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- Wednesday, May 14, at 12:00 noon to 1:30.
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28 Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen
From an internationally acclaimed journalist comes an extraordinary book
that puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa: twenty-eight vivid
stories, one for each of the million Africans living with the virus. For
the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and
this book is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of
the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings
to life men, women, and children involved in every aspect of the
pandemic, making them familiar to us in a way they never have been
before. In the process, she explores the effects of an epidemic that
well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care
about what happens.
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Even if you do not read the book, please join us as we discuss and learn more about the cultures that we live, learn and work with.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Maria
Ahasay, Bertha Escoto, Lisa Thackery, Ladi
Useni, Asfar Rasheed, Jeanie Jadran, Sharifa
Khoistani, Ali and Zeinob Falallah, Birgit Noodt,
Dorar Abas, and Sunny Agboola for sharing their
lives, cultures, and love of literature with us.
Over the months we have read, among others:
- 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, Joseph 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
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