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Article: Riveting True Story of Hope and Redemption A Long Way Gone is Next Starbucks Featured Book.
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- Article date:
- January 11, 2007
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Compelling, Eye-Opening Memoir is a Rare, First-Person Account of a Child Soldier in War-Torn Africa
SEATTLE -- 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.
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Article: The Australian Continues Assault on Ishmael Beah's ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);
February 4, 2008 ;
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... ... Australian are trying to turn up the heat on Ishmael Beah, the former child soldier from Sierra Leone whose memoirs, A Long Way Gone, they ... after, and fought in the civil war in Sierra Leone for almost three years before being rescued ...
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