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Janet Givens

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At Home On The Kazakh Steppe: A Peace Corps Memoir was seven years in the making, but worth it. Within its first few days it popped up to #2 on Amazon's Best Sellers in the Russian Travel Section. Of course, that's only because Russia is the closest I can get to Kazakhstan on Amazon. I'm working on that.

In the rest of my life, I live in Vermont's Green Mountains with my husband, the author C. W Starkweather, and my dog Sasha. My blog, "And So It Goes", and my Facebook Author Page feature posts on making connections across cultures. I'm always open for new connections.

Oh, and I’m Sasha’s favorite human. I like that. ...more

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Published on November 17, 2025 07:03

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Janet Givens’s books

Average rating: 4.08 · 83 ratings · 23 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	At Home on the Kazakh Steppe 4.05 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fan Favorites: Bonus Scenes from a Peace Corps Memoir it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peggy Pelican Goes Fishing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it.”
― Janet Givens, Fan Favorites: Bonus Scenes from a Peace Corps Memoir

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)”
― Janet Givens, At Home on the Kazakh Steppe

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