Melissa Fay Green, Author, Melissa Fay Greene, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-62206-5
In 1958, anti-Semitic white supremacists dynamited Atlanta's oldest Jewish synagogue, whose rabbi, Pittsburgh-born Jacob Rothschild, was an outspoken advocate of integration. A trial of the accused terrorists ended in a hung jury, and a second trial
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Melissa Fay Greene, Author . Harcourt $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100559-8
The mining disaster that killed 75 men in Nova Scotia in 1958 is rich terrain for a good yarn, but Greene's book about the miners who survived and those who didn't comes up short. Her research is adequate, but surprisingly, NBA finalist...
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Melissa Fay Greene, Author . Bloomsbury $25.95 (472p) ISBN 978-1-59691-116-1
Not unlike the AIDS pandemic itself, the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, who took in AIDS orphans, began in small stages and grew to irrevocably transform her life from that of "a nice neighborhood lady" to a figure of fame, infamy and...
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Melissa Fay Greene, Author Da Capo Press $21.9 (352p) ISBN 978-0-201-55048-1
As the first black commissioner of McIntosh County, Ga., retired boilermaker Thurnell Alston brought the civil rights struggle to a coastal backwater in the 1970s. He initiated voting rights lawsuits, fought drugs and introduced medical clinics,...
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Melissa Fay Greene, Author Ballantine Books $14 (512p) ISBN 978-0-449-90809-9
PW gave a starred review to this NBA nominee, the ""spellbinding"" history of an Atlanta synagogue and its congregation's place in the civil rights movement. (May)
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Melissa Fay Greene, FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-22306-9
With four children of their own, Atlanta journalist Greene (There Is No Me Without You) and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, gradually adopted five more—one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia—to create a roiling, largehearted family unit.
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Melissa Fay Greene. . HarperCollins/Ecco, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-221851-3
Expanding on an article written for the New York Times Magazine in 2012, Greene (Praying for Sheetrock) shares uplifting stories from families who have benefited from service animals provided by 4 Paws for Ability, a nonprofit dog training academy....
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