{"product_id":"befriending-monica-dickens-9780879727000","title":"Befriending: The American Samaritans","description":"This book relates the founding in America, and evaluates the effectiveness of, a branch of the worldwide organization of volunteers known as the Samaritans, committed to the prevention of suicide through the simple means of \"listening therapy.\" Great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Monica Dickens was best known in England as a novelist; in America, as the founder of the U.S. Samaritans. Today Samaritans are in every large city of the country. Volunteers work twenty-four hours a day, answering telephones or meeting troubled people, to try to give them, in nonjudgmental ways, the help they need to get their lives back in order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monica Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0879727004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780879727000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.43d","brand":"Monica Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063461769471,"sku":"9780879727000","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb2ed0a8-fbd5-4bef-83b9-3073a3b5265d.jpg?v=1685389691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/befriending-monica-dickens-9780879727000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}