books by Melissa Fay Greene     books:       Faces of Layla, A Journey Through Ethiopian Adoption Melissa Fay; Armstrong, Jennifer Greene Emma Dodge Hanson; Melissa Faye Greene, 2007 Faces of Layla, a book of stunning photographs of children at Layla House orphanage in Ethiopia by Emma Dodge Hanson, foreward by Melissa Fay Greene and text by Jennifer Armstrong. Emma Dodge Hanson captures the lives of the children at Layla House. Gorgeous Hard Cover Book.             Yafi's Family: an Ethiopian boy's journey of love, loss and adoption Linda Pettitt, Foreword by Melissa Fay Greene Amharic Kids, 2010 A tender story of a six-year-old Ethiopian boy's adoption and family history is a celebration of the all-encompassing love for each child that original families and adoptive parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters share. Yafi (Yafee), his parents, and two sisters, eight-year-old Kari and ten-year-old Anna, remember his early life and his adoption experience by telling stories, revisiting memories, and looking at photographs. Yafi's Family ...             No Biking in the House Without a Helmet Sarah Crichton Books, 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, “among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according ...             Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not. Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger, thirst, and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the survivors began to hope for death by gas rather than from thirst. Above ground, journalists ...             Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction Melissa Fay Greene Da Capo Press, 2006 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 ...             The Temple Bombing Melissa Fay Greene Da Capo Press, 2006 At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite made to Atlanta, the South, and ultimately, all of the United States ( Detroit Free Press ). Finalist for the National Book Award, The Temple Bombing is the brilliant and moving examination of ...             Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Esther Bubley: The Library of Congress D Giles Ltd, 2010 Each volume in this brand new series, presents 50 striking images by an individual photographer from the Library of Congress' Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) collection, recreating a picture of American life prior to World War II.             There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children Melissa Fay Greene Bloomsbury USA, 2007 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 of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed ...             Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction 2nd (second) printing Edition by Greene, Melissa Fay (2006) Melissa Fay Greene Da Capo Press, 1000             No Biking in the House Without a Helmet Melissa Fay Greene Sarah Crichton Books, 2011             Alle meine Kinder Melissa Fay Greene Blanvalet Verlag, 2007             Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction [Paperback] [2006] 2nd printing Ed. Melissa Fay Greene Melissa Fay Greene Da Capo Press, 1000             Today's Best Nonfiction Volume 20 Katie; Nizer, Louis; Clurman, Richard J.; Greene, Melissa Fay Kelly Reader's Digest, 1992 Includes A Year in Saigon (Kelly), Catspaw (Nizer), To the End of Time (Clurman) & Praying for Sheetrock (Greene).              search for books adoption, bombing, bubley, children, congress, country, disaster, edition, esther, ethiopian, fields, greene, journey, kinder, library, melissa, nonfiction, odyssey, paperback, photographs, praying, printing, rescue, second, sheetrock, springhill, through, vision, volume, without books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen Tuff-Luv Faux Leather Pull-E slip case cover for Microsoft Arc Mouse home  impressum - about us