03291cam a2200625 i 4500 2896589811 TxAuBib 20260929120000.0 240419s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542038126 hardcover 154203812X hardcover 9781542038119 paperback 1542038111 paperback (OCoLC)1430511714 TxAuBib rda Sullivan, Mark T, author. All the glimmering stars : a novel / Mark Sullivan ; [afterword by Anthony and Florence Opoka.]. First edition. Seattle, Washington : Lake Union Publishing, [2024] ©2024. 443 pages : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier cri rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel. Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence's upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she's pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony's war. At the lowest points of their lives, certain they'll never go home, Anthony and Florence meet by chance, fall in love, and begin to dream of surviving their captivity. They devote their lives to helping their fellow child soldiers escape bondage and return to their families and redemption by following the stars. By turns tender, shocking, moving, desperate, and ultimately triumphant, Florence and Anthony's story is an epic drama of humanity, a life-affirming tale, and an experience readers will never forget." -- Goodreads. 20260929. Kony, Joseph Fiction. Opoka, Anthony Fiction. Okori, Florence Fiction. Kony, Joseph. fast Lord's Resistance Army Fiction. Lord's Resistance Army. fast Since 1979. fast Child soldiers Uganda Fiction. Survival Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Survival. fast Man-woman relationships. fast Child soldiers. fast Uganda History 1979- Fiction. Uganda. fast Historical fiction. fast Biographical fiction. fast Novels. fast History. fast Historical fiction. fast Biographical fiction. fast Novels. fast Fiction. fast Opoka, Anthony, author of afterword. Opoka, Florence, author of afterword.