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One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepa
William Morrow
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Conor Grennan
294 pages
ISBN: 0061930059
EAN: 9780061930058
Kindle: B004DI7M38
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Non-Fiction Memoir
One Person Can Make a Difference In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan
traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a
journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at
the Little Princes Children’s Home, an orphanage in war-torn
Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether
he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved
in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he
was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient
children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he
had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth
about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not
orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in
remote villages to protect their children from the civil
war—for a huge fee—by taking them to safety. They would then
abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal’s
capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a
commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with
their families, but this would be no small task. He would
risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains
of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a
debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu,
and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by
snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and
share his life’s work. Little Princes is a true story of families and children, and
what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly
insurmountable odds. At turns tragic, joyful, and hilarious,
Little Princes is a testament to the power of faith and the
ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations.
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