Both of these can be found on Amazon.com

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah



http://www.alongwaygone.com/

This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal refugee bereft of family, wandering from village to village in a country grown deeply divided by the indiscriminate atrocities of unruly, sociopathic rebel and army forces. Beah then finds himself in the army—in a drug-filled life of casual mass slaughter that lasts until he is 15, when he's brought to a rehabilitation center sponsored by UNICEF and partnering NGOs. The process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center's work after his "repatriation" to civilian life in the capital, where he lives with his family and a distant uncle. When the war finally engulfs the capital, it sends 17-year-old Beah fleeing again, this time to the U.S., where he now lives. 240 pages.




Redemption Road: The Quest for Peace and Justice in Liberia by Elma Shaw



http://liberiastories.blogspot.com/

Life in war-torn Liberia is not easy, and it is especially challenging for Bendu Lewis, a young woman who counsels traumatized survivors of Liberia's civil war while struggling silently with memories of her own war-time experiences. When the warlord who once held her in captivity suddenly appears in town, she decides that for her own healing, and for the voiceless victims of the war, she must bring him to justice for his past atrocities. In her pursuit of Commander Cobra, Bendu finds much more than she bargained for, including the courage to finally confront and make amends for her own painful war-time secret. 240 pages.

thanks LL will try to get copies asap

thats no excuse... you ben 'reading" that book long before anything came up.
see why you not fit to be the Book club mod??

it IS an interesting story... maybe not to you.....
but i actually felt moved just reading about her courage... her desire to make the best out of a bad situation...

how many of us can do that? when faced with a possible insurmountable problem, a lot of us fold tail and run.. or bow to the problem... cry, shift blame.... withdraw...

maria cried yes.. but after those few minutes of tears, she wiped her tears, held her held up and said " how much will you pay again?" and moved on.

i learned from that book.... that we make our own paths.....

whatever

moved.....