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Merril D Smith

30 Mar 2016

Gathering Strangers to My Home: A Cultural Perspective

Have you ever asked a stranger to tea?   Ever spent the night with someone you’d only just met?  (Wait, that came out wrong.)   How about deciding to gather together folks you’d (mostly) never met for a week. Six … Read More

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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

LEAPFROG by Janet Givens

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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