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Conor Grennan

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Conor Grennan is a citizen of the US and Ireland. He grew up in Poughkeepsie NY and Jersey City, NJ. He spent eight years at the EastWest Institute (EWI), both in Prague and the EU Office in Brussels, focusing on peace and reconciliation in the Balkans. He left EWI in 2004 to travel and volunteer in Nepal, where he ultimately started Next Generation Nepal (NGN), an organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families.

Conor was based in Kathmandu, Nepal, until October 2007, when he returned to the US. He is still active in NGN and serves on the Board. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the NYU Stern School of Business, and currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.

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	Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal 4.26 avg rating — 23,395 ratings — published 2011 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted 4.04 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction: Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School by Diane Ravitch, Rachel L. Swarns, Richard Wright 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hadley Academy Educator's Guide by Conor Grennan (Goodreads Author), Alessandro Valdrighi (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (The Five People You Meet in Heaven, #1)

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Just Don't Fall (Sweater Weather, #1; Appies, #1)

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The Christmas Thief

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“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them.”
― Conor Grennan, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

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“I am easily inspired by measurable progress...”
― Conor Grennan, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

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“If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.”
― Conor Grennan, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

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Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath

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Femina by Janina Ramírez

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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan

5 votes, 20.0%

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy

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