Melissa Fay Greene
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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
...Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (14.5 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.