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Angela's Ashes
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4.15 avg rating — 657,670 ratings
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
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4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,358,198 ratings
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Luck Follows the Brave: From Refugee Camps, Abuse, and Suicide Loss to Living the Dream
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4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870-1914
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Invisible Innocence: My Story As a Homeless Youth
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4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Release: Cycles
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4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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A Path Out of Poverty
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,849,988 ratings
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Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
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4.13 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
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4.06 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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4.03 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 100,800 ratings
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Street Child, A Memoir
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4.27 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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4.15 avg rating — 6,858 ratings
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The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Spiv
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.77 avg rating — 25,040 ratings
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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4.22 avg rating — 21,953 ratings
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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3.69 avg rating — 11,243 ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
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4.18 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change
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3.86 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty
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3.68 avg rating — 148 ratings
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An Eye For Others: Dorothy Day, Journalist: 1916-1917
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,419 ratings
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
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4.16 avg rating — 575 ratings
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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3.73 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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4.02 avg rating — 50,543 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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4.70 avg rating — 19,215 ratings
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The Girl's Guide to Homelessness
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3.24 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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If You Can't Quit Cryin' You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America
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4.16 avg rating — 134 ratings
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I Just Kept Walking (20 Years Homeless)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
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4.13 avg rating — 8,714 ratings
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Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
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4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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3.67 avg rating — 5,453 ratings
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Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence
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4.40 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life
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3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
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4.01 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman
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4.03 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium?
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
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3.82 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cases and Causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
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3.89 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 113,541 ratings
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Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
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4.23 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
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Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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4.13 avg rating — 11,630 ratings
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Escaping Poverty
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
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3.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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4.17 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
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4.01 avg rating — 8,036 ratings
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Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
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4.07 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
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4.18 avg rating — 30,688 ratings
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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
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3.93 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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Busker
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
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4.12 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Will Work for Food or $: A Memoir from the Roadside
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2.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry
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4.22 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
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3.73 avg rating — 4,229 ratings
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In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez
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4.26 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Wisdom From the Homeless: Lessons a Doctor Learned at a Homeless Shelter
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3.84 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology
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3.78 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
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4.26 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
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3.92 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
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3.82 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Open Our Eyes: Seeing the Invisible People of Homelessness
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
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3.64 avg rating — 2,899 ratings
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A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless
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3.98 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (Volume 23)
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4.36 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State
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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
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4.29 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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The Busker
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3.61 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations
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4.46 avg rating — 272 ratings
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STREET CHILD: A Memoir
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4.30 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
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4.12 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
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3.76 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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4.01 avg rating — 2,807 ratings
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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
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4.26 avg rating — 5,124 ratings
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Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country
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3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square
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3.75 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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4.10 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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Transfigured: Patricia Sandoval's Escape from Drugs, Homelessness, and the Back Doors of Planned Parenthood
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4.67 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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4.28 avg rating — 4,848 ratings
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Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
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4.37 avg rating — 567 ratings
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
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4.04 avg rating — 5,732 ratings
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
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4.49 avg rating — 34,408 ratings
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The Poor Among Us
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3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Dead End Kids of St. Louis: Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them (Volume 1)
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Welfare Racism
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4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Homelessness: How To End The National Crisis
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4.06 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community
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3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
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4.09 avg rating — 304 ratings
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A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
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3.74 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites
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4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
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3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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