Melissa Fay Greene: 4 books
The Underdogs
Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Underdogs tells...
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes,...
There is No Me Without You
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human
face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman
working to save her country's children.
After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some...
Praying for Sheetrock
A Work of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything...