Lisa Cordeiro

Whiskey Creek Press Bestselling Author

Recipient of Whiskey Creek Press's First Publisher's Pick of the Month!

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Book signing at the 2010 Annual Book Fair for Literacy

I'm a new recruit with RomVets -
"military women who've turned the sword into a pen."

Parris Island is a Finalist in EPICon 2010.

Parris Island:

A Woman's Memoir of Marine Corps Boot Camp (2008 Edition)

Nineteen-year-old Lisa Cordeiro has no idea what to do with her life. She changes her major every week at UMass Amherst, around the constant partying in college and in Boston. She never considered it before, but one day she decides to join the military. On visiting the recruiting office, a Marine recruiter convinces her to enlist active-duty in the Marine Corps. She's headed for boot camp in Parris Island, South Carolina for a thirteen-week training regime considered by many to be the most difficult military training in the world.

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Journey of a Woman Marine:

Life, Love, and Travels During and After the Marine Corps

After graduating from boot camp, Lisa trains in the California desert and meets a Marine she could never befriend back home. Then, she deploys to Okinawa, Japan—a beautiful, tropical island where a nightmarish twist unfolds.

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Signed, First Edition Copies of

Parris Island:

A Woman's Memoir of Marine Corps Boot Camp

A great gift for book collectors.

Lisa Cordeiro brings you along on an intensely personal, physical, spiritual, and sometimes comical struggle to become one of "the few, the proud." From choosing among the various sales pitches thrown by military recruiters to survival tactics in boot camp, Parris Island allows you to experience Marine Corps boot camp like never before.

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Europe From a Backpack

"At last, a collection of first-person eye-witness adventures that will keep you laughing, wondering, and walking with the well-traveled story tellers who take you inside Europe's must-see places.

• Billy Anderson stares down death at the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
• Lisa Cordeiro takes a "will work for food" approach to travel as a waitress at a Paris restaurant.
• And Mike Riley's desperate search for underwear in a Portuguese market... well, that's another story."

- From the Europe From a Backpack Web site

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