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Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness. Shows how their descent into society's basement has been exacerbated by the forces of gentrification and the increasing criminalization of homeless people, while exposing the draconian changes to the mental health care system that have brought us here.
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
44) The way it works
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Walter Davis is homeless after his mother's death, and when he meets the girl of his dreams, he tries to keep his circumstances from her
45) Miracle in Milan
Series
Criterion collection volume 1119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of a good-hearted orphan in Milan, Italy, who saves his community of vagabonds from greedy developers.
47) Girl in pieces
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Appears on list
Description
"Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
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Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
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Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
Documents the photojournalist author's thirty-year friendship with former NFL star Jackie Wallace, describing the losses and addiction that led the three-time Super Bowl star to homelessness on the streets of New Orleans.
50) Everlasting Nora
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother.
52) Into the light
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Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious traumafrom his past.
Publisher
Highlight Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55:15, 21:05 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 2011, the Oprah Winfrey show featured a segment identifying San Luis Obispo (on the Central Coast of California) as the 'Happiest City in America'. And yet, even in San Luis Obispo, an alarming number of residents regularly go without adequate shelter, food and clothing. [This film] ... chronicles the unique narratives of these indiviuduals who have struggled with homelessness. This diverse tapestry of stories dispels common myths & misconceptions...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"When Maddy Donaldo, a homeless woman who has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended"--
55) Tunnel vision
Author
Series
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 8
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xii, 432 p. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
194 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Selina Kyle es más valiente de lo que cree. Durante 15 años, ha soportado a todos los malos novios que ha tenido su madre, pero cuando Dernell, la pareja actual de su mamá, resulta ser más cruel quel los otro, Selina reevalúa su lugar en el núcleo familiar. No hay mander de que Selina y Dernell puedan vivir bajo el mismo techo, y puesto que Dernell no se irá, Selina debe hacerlo.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
222 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
When living with her mother's abusive boyfriend becomes unbearable, fifteen-year-old Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, runs away and struggles to find her own identity while living on the streets of Gotham.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
268 pages
Description
In Homelessness is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence...
59) Dear Librarian
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Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
60) Gathering prey
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They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out...
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