NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE Melissa Fay Greene

“Brimming with humor and love, the story of Greene’s ever-expanding family is both unique and universal.” —GERALDINE BROOKS, author of People of the Book Two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene is best THE ALL-IN-ONE AUDIOBOOK known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/ NO BIKING AIDS pandemic. But Melissa and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. When she confided to friends that they planned to adopt a four-year old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, “among

the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets...and perhaps THE IN even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who...gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia.” HOUSE When the number of children hit nine, Greene took a break from reporting and trained her journalist’s eye upon events at home, from the bike being ridden down the basement stairs to the four non-native-English- speaking boys researching, on Mom’s computer, the subject of “saxing.” A celebration of parenthood and a relishing of moments hilarious and enlightening, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet is a loving portrait of a unique twenty-first century family as it wobbles between disaster and joy. Melissa Fay Greene is the author of the National Book Award finalists Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing, as well as Last Man Out and There Is No Me Without You. She has written for , the Greene Fay Melissa New York Times Magazine, and , among other publications. Melissa lives with her family in . Coleen Marlo, Publishers Weekly’s 2010 Audiobook Reader of the Year, has won three Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and earned two Audie Award nominations. Coleen is a member of the Actors Studio and taught acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Her audiobooks include Promise Me by Nancy G. Brinker, with Joni Rodgers.

Running Time: 12.5 Hours • Unabridged © 2011 Melissa Fay Greene  2011 Tantor Media, Inc. Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jacket design by Jennifer Carrow. www.tantor.com ACTUAL SIZE 15006

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