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The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler

Published: 2005-01-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity m...

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Poverty

by Jack A. Keller Jr. Editor

Published: 2012-07-01

Kindle Edition: 157 pages

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Deepen your understanding of the realities of poverty and be invited to commit to solidarity with the poor through accompaniment and advocacy. Christian faith invites us to become agents of God’s compassion and healing in a wounded world. Poverty is a human rights issue with grave impact...

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The Mezzanine

by Nicholson Baker

Published: 2010-07-13

Paperback: 142 pages

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In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel?first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback?the author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble...

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Nate in Venice (Kindle Single)

by Richard Russo

Published: 2013-01-28

Kindle Edition: 92 pages

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In this warm, bighearted novella, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo ("Nobody’s Fool," "Straight Man," "Empire Falls") transports his characters from the working-class East Coast of his novels to one of Europe’s most romantic cities. In classic Russo fashion, however, he packs along t...

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Friend Request

by Patti Callahan Henry

Published: 2013-03-05

Kindle Edition: 36 pages

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Heartbreaking, inspiring, and totally true—this e-original short non-fiction story sets the stage for New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry’s upcoming novel And Then I Found You (April 2013). Patti Callahan is one of three sisters, a member of a close-knit Irish Ameri...

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Five Days of Fear

by David Kovach

Published: 2012-11-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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During a family picnic, Jessica Britton s well-ordered world is slammed against a brutal reality when her mom is kidnapped, her dad is shot, and authorities can find no clues to begin their investigation. Jessica s own anxiety and fear for her mother s life compels her to help FBI Agent Dan Hamilton...

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Watership Down (Scribner Classics)

by Richard Adams

Published: 2012-10-23

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Discover—or revisit—the enchanting world of the Sandleford Warren rabbits in this first-ever illustrated edition of a celebrated modern classic. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for almost forty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved ...

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Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire, Book 1)

by Lynn Austin

Published: 2002-11-01

Kindle Edition: 432 pages

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Book 1 in the Refiner's Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened...

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Goddess : The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

by Anthony Summers

Published: 2000

Paperback: 621 pages

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She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame and private misery, her death a tragedy surrounded by mysteries. Drawing on first-hand interviews Anthony Summers offers both a classic biography and a shockingly revealing account of the screen...

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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

by Eric Jensen

Published: 2009-11-19

Paperback: 184 pages

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In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools ca...