Greene, Melissa Fay

Praying for sheetrock : a work of nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

18 editions published between 1991 and 2015 in English and held by 1,726 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner

There is no me without you : one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

22 editions published between 2006 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa in a portrait of Haregewoin Teferra, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the caretaker of sixty children orphaned and abandoned by the AIDS crisis

The Temple bombing by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 2006 in English and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

By weaving together the parallel experiences of four different Atlanta communities - the white power structure, the white supremacists, the African Americans, and the Jews - Melissa Fay Greene places at the center of her narrative Jacob Rothschild, the Temple's outspoken rabbi and the lightning rod for the predawn attack. With the visceral power of great writing, The Temple Bombing illuminates as never before the danger facing everyday citizens who try to lead moral lives in an era of defiance. It is a vivid social history, a courtroom drama, and a page-turning mystery rich in character and incident

The underdogs : children, dogs, and the power of unconditional love by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

11 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was "too disabled." Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. "How many people are stranded like I was," she wondered, "who would lead productive lives if only they had a dog?" A thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Long shunned by scientists as a manmade, synthetic species, and oft-referred to as "Man's Best Friend" almost patronizingly, dogs are finally paid respectful attention by a new generation of neuroscientists and animal behaviorists. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest scientific discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karen's story and a few stories of suffering children and their heartbroken families

Last man out : the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

8 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 879 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relates the story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining accident of the twentieth century, the 1958 explosion at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine

There is no me without you : [one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children] by Melissa Fay Greene( Recording )

8 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa in a portrait of Haregewoin Teferra, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the caretaker of sixty children orphaned and abandoned by the AIDS crisis

Last man out : [the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster] by Melissa Fay Greene( Recording )

9 editions published between 2003 and 2015 in English and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts the 1958 Springhill mining disaster and the daring rescue effort to pull the trapped men from the mine shaft

The underdogs by Melissa Fay Greene( Recording )

7 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 84 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was "too disabled." Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. "How many people are stranded like I was," she wondered, "who would lead productive lives if only they had a dog?"A thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Long shunned by scientists as a manmade, synthetic species, and oft-referred to as "Man's Best Friend" almost patronizingly, dogs are finally paid respectful attention by a new generation of neuroscientists and animal behaviorists. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest scientific discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karen's story and a few exquisitely rendered stories of suffering children and their heartbroken families.Written with characteristic insight, humanity, humor, and irrepressible joy, what could have been merely touching is a penetrating, compassionate exploration of larger questions: about our attachment to dogs, what constitutes a productive life, and what can be accomplished with unconditional love

The Temple bombing by Melissa Fay Greene( Recording )

2 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White supremacists in Atlanta are acquitted of dynamiting a Temple

One woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children by Melissa Fay Greene( Book )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Haregewoin Teferra suffered depression after her daughter died while giving birth. But when the priests brought her two AIDS orphans she took them in and found a new reason to live. As the AIDS crisis, more children came to her and she turned none away