Michael Gill

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.

How Starbucks Saved My Life

Michael Gates Gill

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house, a loving family, and a six-figure salary. By sixty, he had lost everything: downsized at work, divorced at home, and diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, Gill had no money, no insurance, an

A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Maui Santos

Sanat Gersappa

Reads more like a promo for the Starbucks HR dept., but entertaining nevertheless.

Julie Berman

I enjoyed reading this book and found it to be a very quick read. It's a good story but I felt the author was repetitive and too overt with some of his points. It will make you want some coffee :)

Matthew Royal

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Corey White

A former advertising executive relates how, after losing his job and developing a brain tumor, he took a job at Starbucks and learned the value of respect through his boss, a young African-American manager of positive character.

How Starbucks Saved My Life

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