"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom's most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed--a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.

Coffee Melts Bars, powerfully blows the cell door off their hinges, revealing - for the first time ever - life inside the explosive, hot-headed and totally dangerous world of Israel's maximum security prisons. Fishel Jacobs was the only American ever to serve as a high ranking officer, Major, and Rabbi, inside the crazy walls of the IPS (Israeli Prison Service). As an heavyweight karate champ, and eighth degree master instructor, Jacobs is never intimidated by his underlings. Even when they include the world's most evil Islamic terrorists, men serving seventeen life sentences As an orthodox Jewish rabbi, Jacobs is there to mend the broken hearts and lives of his thousands of criminal inmates. Men and women who made mistakes outside, and now find themselves crying and longing for freedom on Jacobs shoulder. A rugged book, these absolutely true stories are fast becoming a national best seller. And, the book has already sprouted a major Hollywood movie. The theme running throughout is: The lower man falls, the higher his spirit may eventually rise. But, the underlying feeling one realizes, through Jacobs' fantastic personality is: Life without humor is not funny Get this book. It will change how you view prison, people and luck. It may change your life. It will give you hope