Poverty


New Releases Tagged "Poverty"

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Poverty, by America
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
Unsettled Ground
A Little Trickerie
10 Marchfield Square
Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel (Four Eyes, #1)
Last Summer on State Street
And Then, Boom!
The Floating Girls
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Glass Castle
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Poverty, by America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Demon Copperhead
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
The Grapes of Wrath
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Down and Out in Paris and London
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Free Lunch
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketSky Ghosts by Alexandra EngellmannThe Forsaken by R.J. Craddock
Awesome Orphans
161 books — 76 voters

Can't Get There from Here by Todd StrasserPaper Things by Jennifer Richard JacobsonWhere I Live by Brenda RufenerHold Fast by Blue BalliettRunaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
Homelessness in Children's Fiction
114 books — 39 voters
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Books Involving Lower Class Families
299 books — 24 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Underclass
375 books — 131 voters
The Duchess War by Courtney MilanSecrets of a Summer Night by Lisa KleypasSomething Wonderful by Judith McNaughtJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Admiral's Penniless Bride by Carla Kelly
Impoverished Heroines
132 books — 58 voters


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Christopher Hitchens
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Rick Bragg
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

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