Tracy Kidder
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Farmer follows the efforts of this unconventional Harvard genius to understand the world's great health, economic, and social problems and to bring healing to humankind.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
3) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
349 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 259 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Paul English grew up poor, in working-class Boston, but as Tracy Kidder writes, he had "a mind for the age that was coming." Brilliant, reckless, endlessly energetic, Paul English, after Kayak sold for $2 billion, asked himself: What comes next? Start another company? Use his new wealth to make a difference in the world? With a riveting, page-turning narrative and unmatched storytelling skill, Kidder...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...