Riveting True Story of Hope and Redemption A Long Way Gone is Next Starbucks Featured Book
Compelling, Eye-Opening Memoir is a Rare, First-Person Account of a Child Soldier in War-Torn Africa
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) announced today the second title in its innovative book program: A Long Way Gone, by first-time author Ishmael Beah. This powerful story of hope and redemption is a former child soldier’s rare first-hand account of fighting as a boy in the war-torn country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah’s story of childhood lost and adulthood found is an inspiring journey from heartbreaking tragedy to salvation. Starbucks will begin selling the book in its U.S. Company-operated locations beginning February 15, 2007.
Starbucks will donate $2 for every copy of A Long Way Gone sold at Starbucks to the U.S. fund for UNICEF, with a minimum donation of $100,000. Created to help children around the world overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has played a key role in the rehabilitation of Beah, lifting him from the front lines and reintegrating him into civilian life in Sierra Leone as a teenager. Funds donated by Starbucks from the sale of the book will support UNICEF’s work in war torn locales, including Sierra Leone, Beah’s native country.
A Long Way Gone is a memoir about a 12-year old boy who experiences the horrors of war in Sierra Leone and manages to escape with his heart and mind intact. This socially relevant story is told in a unique first-person way that is unflinchingly honest. The author, now 26, was transformed from a fun-loving boy into a lethal child soldier, and then rehabilitated into a teenage UN spokesperson, all in a few tumultuous years. His story demonstrates the power of the human spirit to overcome unimaginable odds.
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