Greene, Melissa Fay

"...tells the story of Karen Shirk: felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as an immobile, deeply isolated and depressed, ventilator-dependent patient, she was rejected by every service dog agency in the country as 'too disabled.' Her nurse encouraged her to raise her own service dog, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. 'How many people are stranded like I was' she wondered, 'who could lead productive lives with a service dog?' A thousand dogs later, Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring hurting children and their families to life"--Dust jacket.

Atlanta journalist Melissa Fay Greene shares how her and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, adopted five children, one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia, and raised them with their four biological children.

Tells the story of Haregewoin Teferra and her effort to care for the children of AIDS patients in her country of Ethiopia.

Tells the story of Haregewoin Teferra and her effort to care for the children of AIDS patients in her country of Ethiopia.