{"product_id":"between-the-mountain-and-the-sky-a-mothers-story-of-love-loss-healing-and-hope-9780785240280","title":"Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween the Mountain and the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regardless of age--takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie's story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl breaking rocks in a quarry. Maggie decides to invest her life savings of five thousand dollars to buy a piece of land and open a children's home in Nepal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat home becomes Kopila Valley Children's Home, and eventually, the nonprofit Maggie launches, the BlinkNow Foundation, also starts the Kopila Valley School, which provides tuition-free education for more than four hundred students. Maggie and BlinkNow's work have been recognized around the world for their innovative, sustainable work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, this book isn't a how-to for fledging philanthropists or nonprofit founders--it's a coming-of-age story about a young woman suspended between two worlds, as well as the love, loss, healing, and hope she experiences along the way. And Maggie's inspiring, intimate tale shows readers an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoyne, Maggie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMaggie Doyne is the founder of Kopila Valley Children's Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At nineteen, she used her life savings to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal. In 2010, she opened a s school for five hundred of the region's most impoverished children. Now thirty-two, Maggie is the mom and legal guardian of fifty-four children and the founder of the BlinkNow Foundation, which has expanded its programs and come to serve as a model for other sustainability projects and orphan care projects around the world. In 2015, she was named CNN's Hero of the Year. Her work has been championed by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof and the Dalai Lama, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Horizon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485292433682,"sku":"9780785240280","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0381ef0b-baf0-4906-868d-67f9d496ac87.jpg?v=1730401990","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/between-the-mountain-and-the-sky-a-mothers-story-of-love-loss-healing-and-hope-9780785240280","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}