{ "item_title" : "Everything is Tuberculosis Autographed", "item_author" : [" John Green "], "item_description" : "Due to Limited Stock, Multi-Copy Orders May be Reduced to 5 Copies Per Customer. Click Here for the unsigned copyJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and apassionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human storyilluminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as amalady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injusticeand inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka GovernmentHospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friendswith Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit toLakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatmentand wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatableinfectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific andsocial histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shapethe future of tuberculosis.John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books includingLooking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and TheAnthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many onlinevideo projects, including Vlogbrothers, the educational channel Crash Course and anannual livestreamed fundraiser called the Project for Awesome (P4A). John serves onthe Board of Trustees for global health nonprofit Partners in Health and, in partnershipwith PiH and the Nerdfighter community around Vlogbrothers video, has raised over $30million dollars to tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In 2023, John spoke at theUnited Nations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis cases in the next decade. Johnlives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. You can visit him online atjohngreenbooks.com and find out more about the fight against tuberculosis attbfighters.org.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/52/542/605/0525426051_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "28.00", "online_price" : "28.00", "our_price" : "28.00", "club_price" : "28.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "28.00" } }

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