Life Savers: The Story of 8,000 Perfect Strangers

For readers who loved Rob Delaney's A Heart That Works, a mother's tender, inspirational memoir of her brave little boy's battle with leukemia-and the generous strangers who rallied around him to try to save his life.

Spunky six-year-old Alex just wanted to be a normal kid. But in the spring of 1989, when the leukemia he'd been fighting off for a year returned with a vengeance, his Stanford doctors were clear: His only chance of survival was to find a perfectly matched bone marrow donor-and ...