Poverty & Homelessness
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
$18.99 Add to cart“Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age,” (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she… [more below]- Author: Guendelsberger, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509019
- Language: English
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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The Gravity of Lies
$0.00 Read more“Despite setbacks, a plucky protagonist doesn’t stop believing in a better future in this relatable teen read.” Kirkus Reviews
A Journey Through Hollywood’s Shimmer and the Shadows of Truth
Silver Award
- Author: Deene, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986599861
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartFrom Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universal Basic Income to the test. But can the reality live … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Zwolinski, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0197556221
- Language: English
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Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
$17.99 Add to cart“An instant classic.” –Arianna Huffington
“Will inspire people from across the political spectrum.” –Jonathan Haidt
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlis- Author: Novogratz, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798779
- Language: English
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
$19.99 Add to cartIn the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker… [more below]
- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 1586486675
- Language: English
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The People of the Abyss
$9.99 Add to cartThe People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London’s poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss
- Series: Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1513270117
- Language: English
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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
$18.00 Add to cartThirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America–including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Ri… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0143131036
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year
$17.99 Add to cartIn this gorgeous and lyrical picture book, a family finds hope and healing in a Mardi Gras celebration after Hurricane Katrina changed their world.
That zany beat in our feet is ’cause of Pop-Pop, our- Author: Price, Kathy Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1534444254
- Language: English
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
$7.99 Add to cartEleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it’s 1933, and the… [more below]
- Author: Coco De Young, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0440415292
- Language: English
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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
$20.99 Add to cartNow a Washington Post bestseller.
Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-h
- Author: Carney, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062797123
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history–and futur… [more below]
- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007781
- Language: English
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
$18.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate m- Author: Bittle, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1982178264
- Language: English
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Sleeping in My Jeans
$16.00 Add to cartSixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins has it all figured out. She’ll ace her advanced high school courses, earn a college scholarship, and create a new life for herself and her family. There’s no time for d
- Author: Leonard, Connie King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1947845004
- Language: English
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All Over But the Shoutin’: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author, “a grand memoir…. Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love … he will make you cry” (Atlanta Jour… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0679774025
- Language: English
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Un Regalo Para Niña
$7.99 Read moreIn her first book for children, Cecilia Ruiz illuminates how things can change–and the importance of holding on to our dearest relationships when they do.
The first time Abuela holds Niña, her heart- Author: Ruiz, Cecilia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1536233293
- Language: Spanish
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Boys Without Names
$9.99 Add to cartTrapped.
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. They flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and
- Author: Sheth, Kashmira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061857629
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home
$8.99 Add to cart“A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” –Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky
Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secre- Author: Fox, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1534485090
- Language: English
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My Heart is Hurting
$14.99 Add to cartJinny Buffett is lonely…
She’s never had the comfort of a white picket fence with a loving family. Her subsidized apartment in Hollywood Florida echoes with the void of her dead Daddy, and the nights
- Author: Reed, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1958531251
- Language: English
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The Crane Girl
$12.95 Add to cartIn this magical retelling of a Japanese folktale, a mysterious girl weaves silk to help repay the kindness of a boy and his father until the father’s greed finally exposes her secret.
While gathering f
- Author: Manley, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643796844
- Language: English
