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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Alex Tresniowski, Laura L. Schroff (CD-Audio, 2011)

When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afteron, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald's across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both of their lives had changed dramatically. Nearly thirty years later, that young boy Maurice has gotten married and has his own children. Now he works to change the lives of disadvantaged kids, just like the boy he used to be.An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between a harried sales executive and an eleven-year-old boy who seemed destined for a life of poverty. It is the heartwarming story of a friendship that has spanned three decades and brought meaning to an over-scheduled professional and hope to a hungry and desperate boy living on the streets.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
420
Narrator(s)
Pam Ward
Author Biography
Laura Schroff is a former advertising executive who has worked for companies including USA Today and Conde Nast. Alex Tresniowski is a senior writer at People magazine and the author of The Vendetta. Pam Ward has performed in a variety of venues, but she found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress Talking Books program, for which she received the prestigious Alexander Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. She is also an AudioFile Earphones Award winner.
Date of Publication
26/12/2011
Subject
True Stories
Imprint
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition Statement
Unabridged
Country of Publication
United States

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