Collection of Stories from "Everyday People" Is Next Starbucks Pick
By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 8/7/2007 9:05:00 AM
Listening Is An Act of Love, a collection of 50 inspirational stories culled from StoryCorps, an oral history project that gathers what it dubs "extraordinary stories from everyday people," is the next pick in Starbucks' books program. The book, edited by Dave Isay and published by the Penguin Press, includes a CD and will be sold in U.S. Starbucks locations beginning on November 8, 2007. The book and CD will be sold together in an exclusive boxed set available only at Starbucks.According to Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, "This magical book is packed with wisdom. The short and incredibly personal stories are rich, captivating and thoroughly entertaining to read.”
Listening Is an Act of Love is the third Starbucks book pick, following Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone and Mitch Albom’s For One More Day.
