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34 reviews
Katrina Kittle

Harper Perennial, 2007

Haunting and beautiful
Impossible to put this book down. As with "Traveling Light", Ms. Kittle takes on a difficult subject, but her writing is so beautiful and her characters so real, that the book is a real page-turner. I found myself caring so much about what happened to Jordan, but also to Sarah, Nate and Danny, that the book stayed with me long after I (reluctantly) turned the last page. I only hope Ms. Kittle is ...

Kindness of Strangers

17 reviews
Mike McIntyre

Berkley Trade, 1996

refreshing glimpse of American spirit
in light of recent events this book shed a ray of light on the dimming light of humanity in our world. A man leaves home with only identification and hitch hikes across the country relying only on the "kindness of strangers." Although he clearly points out that were he not male and caucasion the outcome could have been much different, the story is still heart warming. I have recommended this to ...

The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography

1 review
Kate Adie

Headline Book Publishing, 2003

Wit and Charm
I am ashamed to say that I actually found this book in my office drawer, a parting souvenir from my predecessor and I thought to myself "who the hell is Kate Adie?" The back cover gave me all the initial information I needed. Beautifully written with a wit that left me chuckling on more than one occassion, the book is a testament to Adie's own winning personality as well as to the changing ...

The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee Williams

2 reviews
Donald Spoto

Da Capo Press, 1997

A thorough life tour of "10," but with a sour thesis.
Yes, Tennesee Williams signed some of his letters as "10." That's just one of the many things you'll learn from reading Spoto's 1985 biography of this famous American playwright. More complete, thorough and sympathetic biographies have been issued since this one, but Spoto's is still worth reading. It has the virtue of concision (it runs about 400 pages, which for a crowded life like ...

Virtual Miracles: 40 True Stories of Love, Courage and the Amazing Kindness of Strangers

1 review
Karen Derrico

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003

Perfect Feel Good Book for the Holidays!
In the tradition of CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL and SIMPLE ABUNDANCE, VIRTUAL MIRACLES is a not-to-be-missed... VIRTUAL MIRACLES by Karen Derrico is the perfect feel-good book for the holiday season. The forty stories, all true, of the people whose lives have been changed for the good (and in some cases, saved) by relationships forged over the Internet are guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and, ...

The Kindness of Strangers (Anthology)

3 reviews

Lonely Planet, 2003

great travel book
Lonely Planet has done a great job of collecting travel stories of all moods and locations from great writers, some well known and others just beginning. It would be a great book to take travelling because you could finish a story intead of interrupting a novel. The stories feel so real that you want to say "don't get in that car". Other stories make you well up in emotion at the "Kindness of ...

The Kindness of Strangers: Philanthropy and Higher Education (Issues in Academic Ethics (Cloth))
Deni Elliott

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.

Kindness of Strangers (Skip Langdon Novels)

5 reviews
Julie Smith

Fawcett, 1997

Steamy New Orleans and vivid characters
Struggling with depression over a shooting from her last case, New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon is forced to take a leave of absence, freeing her to pursue her obsession with mayoral candidate Errol Jacomine in Edgar Award-winner Smith's sixth in the series. Jacomine, a liberal, civic-minded preacher in almost everybody's book, strikes Langdon as a dangerous psychopath. When her initial ...

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the ...

7 reviews
John Boswell

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

The Strangeness of Times Past
If you read thsi book at all, read it slowly and thoughtfully. Don't rush to assume that it reveals an anti-Catholic bias, as other reviewers have, and don't facilely dismiss the author's theses about long-term trends of illegitimacy, child abandonment, and infanticide being in lock-step with the structures of the Christian religion. Boswell is a very thorough scholar; before you challenge his ...

The Kindness of Strangers

2 reviews
Salka Viertel

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969

best kept secret in hollywood
This is the most interesting Hollywood memoir ever, beautifully written,and describing the inner workings of the industry from the perspective of someone who had been on top (most highly paid screenwriter in H'wood after QUEEN CHRISTINA) and down-and-out (when she was "greylisted," Salka begged her friend Ernst Lubitsch to front her the cash for a little goulash cart, since everyone loved her ...

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

1 review
Marc Freedman

Jossey-Bass, 1993

Mentoring-a difficult task
This book focused primarily on adults who have mentored inner-city youth by providing guidance to youth during difficult times. The author, Marc Freedman acknowledges the fact that mentoring is a difficult task for anyone to take on, especially when it involves difficult or problematic individuals, but reaching out and allowing youth to become emotionally connected with their mentors provides an ...

The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe From Late Antiquity to the ...

1 review
John Boswell

Pantheon Books, 1988

Nothing is new
You think stories of children left abandoned in garbage cans is new? Then you need to read this book. People have been dumping unwanted children forever. What do you do when you can't feed the ones that actually have a chance to live and a new baby comes along? You take your child to the crossroads or some other place that strangers frequent and you leave it. And then, for the rest of your ...

The Kindness of Strangers (The Tales from Grace Chapel Inn Series #23)

1 review
Susan Meier

Guideposts Books, 2005

The Kindness of Strangers
An uplifting novel involving Alice,Louise and Jane three sisters operating the Grace Chapel Inn as a Bed and Breakfast, who come together to their childhood home after their father (Pastor of Grace Chapel)dies.In this book Alice ,a nurse, is amazed when a volunteer at the hopital offers a kidney for a dialysis patient. Jane gets ready for an inspection at the Inn. Will an infraction close them ...

The Strangers of Kindness

The Fiction Works, 2004

Whether you're lost on your own world in a hostile society, or on an alien world amid bizarre life forms, the strangers of kindness offer salvation in many forms. We are pleased to present two such stories: People Like Them: Theo Dahl, bookseller, and Jennifer Skoada, truck farmer, are cruelly thrown together by their near-future New USA's increasingly repressive fascist laws. Theo's destruction seems to be Jennifer's only hope, until another ...

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