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(0)Melissa Fay Greene
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1100L
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English
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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 and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black...
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English
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The miners of Springhill, Nova Scotia, walked into the mouth of danger daily, riding down into recklessly constructed mine Number 2. Of the one hundred seventy-five men on the afternoon shift of October 23rd, 1958, seventy-five never walked out. Propelled by the angry force of the earth's gases, the mine's three levels hurtled upwards, pinning men against the ceiling. Miners were instantly buried. Limbs, trapped between timber beams, endured the pressure...
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English
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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, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness...
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English
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The National Book award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa with this account of an Ethiopian widow who welcomed over sixty AIDS orphaned children into her home, caring for them and helping to place them with new families. A powerful and ongoing story of hope in the face of despair, it is at its heart simply about children and parents, wherever they may be and however they may find each other.
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Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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The story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leaves millions of children, mostly healthy themselves, without family.