Laura Schroff

From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us.One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonalds. Twenty years later, at Lauras fiftieth birthday party, Maurice Mazyck gave a toast, thanking Laura for her act of kindness, which ended up changing the course of his life. In that toast, Maurice said that when Laura stopped on that busy street corner all those years ago, God had sent him an angel.Lauras invisible thread journey has deepened her belief that angelsdivine and otherwiseare all around us. After An Invisible Thread was published in 2011, readers from all over began sharing with Laura their own stories about how chance encounters with strangers have changed their lives. From a woman who saved a life simply by buying someone a book, to a financier who gave a stranger the greatest gift of all, to a teacher who chose a hug over discipline and changed a lost boys futureAngels on Earth introduces remarkable people whose invisible thread stories will move, surprise, and inspire readers. Angels on Earth sheds light on how everyone can live happier, more purposeful lives through sharing random acts of kindness.

A Parents Choice Recommended Award Winner A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom New York Times bestselling authors Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski comes the young readers edition of an unbelievable memoir about an unlikely friendship that forever changed the lives of a busy sales executive and a hungry eleven-year-old boy.On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch.Maurice and Laura went to lunch together, and also bought ice cream cones and played video games. It was the beginning of an unlikely and magical friendship that changed both of their lives forever.An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between an eleven-year-old boy and a busy sales executive; a heartwarming journey of hope, kindness, adventure, and loveand the power of fate to help us find our way.

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that love is a stronger force than injustice and inequality (Sybrina Fulton, mother of Travyon Martin and coauthor of Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin).Stopping was never part of the plan...She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.Whatever made me notice him on that street corner so many years ago is clearly something that cannot be extinguished, no matter how relentless the forces aligned against it. Some may call it spirit. Some may call it heart. It drew me to him, as if we were bound by some invisible, unbreakable thread. And whatever it is, it binds us still.Now with new material that brings the life-changing story up to date for its tenth anniversary, An Invisible Thread is a book capable of restoring our faith in each other and in the very idea that maybe everything is going to be okay after all (Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward).

Un ni#o en la calle, una ejecutiva de Nueva York y una conmovedora historia real. Una tarde lluviosa, Laura Schroff pas# junto a un ni#o que mendigaba en una esquina de Nueva York. Sigui# caminando, pero algo la hizo detenerse y volver sobre sus pasos. Tras cambiar algunas palabras con el ni#o, lo invit# a comer en un McDonald#s. Continu# invit#ndolo durante los cuatro a#os siguientes. Con el tiempo, las vidas de ambos cambiaron, pero siguieron en contacto. Casi treinta a#os despu#s, aquel ni#o, Maurice, est# casado y tiene una familia propia. Ahora trabaja para cambiar las vidas de otros ni#os desvalidos como #l. El hilo invisible es el relato de la larga amistad entre una atareada ejecutiva de ventas y un ni#o de once a#os que parec#a condenado a una vida de pobreza, y de c#mo algo que empez# como un simple gesto de amabilidad cambi# sus vidas.

Un niño en la calle, una ejecutiva de Nueva York y una conmovedora historia real.Una tarde lluviosa, Laura Schroff pasó junto a un niño que mendigaba en una esquina de Nueva York. Siguió caminando, pero algo la hizo detenerse y volver sobre sus pasos. Tras cambiar algunas palabras con el niño, lo invito a comer en un McDonald#s. Continuo invitandolo durante los cuatro años siguientes. Con el tiempo, las vidas de ambos cambiaron, pero siguieron en contacto.Casi treinta años despues, aquel niño, Maurice, esta casado y tiene una familia propia. Ahora trabaja para cambiar las vidas de otros niños desvalidos como el.El hilo invisible es el relato de la larga amistad entre una atareada ejecutiva de ventas y un niño de once años que parecia condenado a una vida de pobreza, y de como algo que empezo como un simple gesto de amabilidad cambio sus vidas.