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Little Princes

One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Conor Grennan

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Marketing Campaign

•National Broadcast and Print Media Campaign
•15-City Television Satellite Tour
•25-City Radio Satellite Tour
•6-City Author Tour: Boston, Denver, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
•Featured title at BEA 2010
•Featured at All Fall 2010 Regional Trade Shows, Including ARE Giveaways
•Pre-publication Sell-In Tour
•Month-by-Month Teaser Campaign
•Pre-publication Online Buzz Campaign, Including Early Consumer Reads and Viral Video
•Special Book Trailer Video with Outreach to YouTube.com, Yahoo.com, and MySpace.com
•Online Social Networking Campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads
•LibraryThing.com, BookBrowse.com and Goodreads.com Early Reviewer Programs
•Online Promotions, Including Video, Audio, Blogger Campaign, and E-mail Notifications and Excerpts
•Featured in the Hot@Harper Newsletter
•Reader’s Edition Available
•Deep Distribution of Reader’s Edition
•Cross-promotions with Next Generation Nepal
•College Radio Promotions
•Academic Marketing, With Educator Outreach
•Library Marketing, Including Galley Mailings
•Author Website: www.NextGenerationNepal.org

Conor Grennan

Before traveling to Nepal, Conor Grennan spent eight years at the EastWest Institute (EWI) in Prague and Brussels, focusing on peace and reconciliation in the Balkans. In 2001 he was named Deputy Director of EWI's Program on Security and Good Governance, and served as the Advisor on EU Affairs to EWI's Worldwide Security Program.

In 2004, Conor began work at the Little Princes Children's Home in the village of Godawari, outside Kathmandu, Nepal, where he cared for eighteen children. In 2006, he founded Next Generation Nepal, a non-profit organization that helps reconnect trafficked and displaced children with their families and communities.

A citizen of the United States and Ireland, Conor received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. In May 2010 he graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business where he was President of the Student Body. Having hired a U.S.-based Executive Director for Next Generation Nepal (www.NextGenerationNepal.com), Conor now serves as an active board member for NGN, still involved in the daily activity of the organization. He lives in the New York City area with his wife and son.

 



Photo Credit: Morris J. Kennedy


 

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Little Princes
Little Princes
Conor Grennan
  • E-Book
  • 9780062042439
  • 1/25/2011
  • $20.99
 

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"Grennan's work is by turns self-pokingly humorous, exciting, and inspiring."


—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“Looking for wider horizons, 30-year-old Grennan opted for a day trip around the world. His journey began at the Little Princes orphanage in Nepal, where he had planned to volunteer for three months before moving on to other adventures. Then he met the children—laughing, bright-eyed, and, he learned, often not orphans at all but victims of human traffickers. So Grennan changed his life in order to change theirs, risking everything to reunite children with their families. Promoted by HarperCollins senior vice president and publisher Liate Stehlik at LJ’s Day of Dialog, this is shocking, affecting, and, ultimately, a reminder that each of us can make a difference. Yes, Three Cups of Tea comes to mind, but Grennan has his own story and his own style.”


—Library Journal
"The beauty of this book is partly the fact that it is a memoir. But it is also more than that. I defy you to not be inspired or moved by this saga."


—New York Journal of Books
“If you’ve never believed in miracles, this book could convince you otherwise. . . . Like the children he writes about, Grennan has boundless resilience and determination, in addition to self-effacing humor and tunnel-vision devotion. He’s also a good writer. . . . Go buy multiple copies . . . invest in a miracle or two or more.”
 


—Christian Science Monitor
"The author stumbles into volunteering in an orphanage in Nepal and gets involved in reuniting trafficked children with their families. The energy of these children will make you laugh even though they've been through hardship and loss."


—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“Little Princes is a tale of determination, courage and love that will not leave you unchanged.”


—Daytona Beach News
"While the story is amazing, sincere and touching, it is also a pleasure to see how the author grows, both in personality and style over the five years that the memoir covers."


—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"In the tradition of Three Cups of Tea and Mountains Beyond Mountains, this book provides proof (there cannot be too much) of the value of volunteer work."


—Los Angeles Times
“For millions across the world uprooted and scattered by war, home is the elusive and unobtainable reward. Conor Grennan is helping fulfill that dream for the lost children of Nepal, who are so crucial to its future. More than just another do-gooder’s tale from the trenches, his book is both an inspiring story of service and a page-turning adventure.”


—Bryan Mealer, co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
“Funny, touching, tragic. Conor Grennan’s Little Princes is a remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”


—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts