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Patricia McArdle

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Patricia McArdle is a retired senior Foreign Service Officer. Before joining the Department of State, she served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer health educator in Paraguay and for three years as a U.S. Naval Communications officer in Morocco. Her last overseas diplomatic posting in 2005 was as a U.S. government representative in Northern Afghanistan where she was based with a British Army infantry unit. During that year, she became aware of the serious shortage of cooking fuel in rural areas and it’s impact on the women, children and environment of Afghanistan. She began to build and demonstrate solar cookers while she was there. She has continued to promote this simple technology around the world on a volunteer basis since her re...more


Average rating: 3.41 · 174 ratings · 66 reviews · 1 distinct work
Farishta
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Farishta by Patricia McArdle
Farishta
by Patricia McArdle (Goodreads Author)
read in June, 2011
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Since I'm the author, I will not rate Farishta and will leave it to other readers to comment. It's been fascinating to see the varied opinions that GoodReads reviewers have about my novel. I appreciate them all. I'm starting to get invited to speak a...more
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"Thank you, Jo Ann, for reviewing Farishta. A lot of what happened in my novel was based on real events that happened to me or to other people I knew i...more "
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" I really enjoy books like this. Informative and crisply written. The obligataory romance was well wrought and even though it was fiction, it felt sincere or authentic, maybe. I will probably get no closer to Afghanistan than these types of books.... "
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Caravans by James A. Michener
Caravans
by James A. Michener
read in June, 2009
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I was given a copy of James Michener's Caravans when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote Paraguayan village in the early 1970s. I read it by kerosene lamp under my mosquito net, was fascinated by the story and was desperate to see Afghanistan....more
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"I am really enjoying reading these reviews. Sorry you didn't like the romance thread, although such unlikely war time liaison's are not uncommon in co...more "
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Dove Season by Johnny Shaw
Dove Season
by Johnny Shaw (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2012
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message 1: by Patricia (last edited May 26, 2012 02:14pm)

Patricia McArdle I have just released a video book trailer for my novel Farishta to announce the upcoming (June 5, 2012) release of the paperback version.
(The hardcover and ebooks were released by Penguin in June 2011.)
Here's the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8lJR...


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