Poverty
| author: Summer Brenner | shelved under: Youth Fiction | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: In this empathetic tale of hope, understanding, and the importance of family, readers confront the difficult issue of poverty and the hardships of homelessness. Ivy, an inspiring young heroine, is a girl who finds herself living on the streets of San Francisco after she and her father, Poppy, are evicted from their artist loft. Struggling to survive, Ivy and Poppy befriend a dog who leads them to the ramshackle home of quirky siblings Eugenia and Oscar Orr, marking the start of their amazing adventures.
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| author: Irène Némirovsky | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2007 | publisher: Vintage Books | | content type: book | | description: Golder is a superb creation. Born into poverty on the Black Sea, has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joyce, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism?
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| author: E.L. Doctorow, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1976 c.1974 | publisher: Random House Trade Paperback | | content type: book | | description: Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P.
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| author: Wendy and Allan Scarfe | shelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History | | date: 1974 | publisher: Sorrett Publishing | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: Nikkie Van Der Gaag, Nawal el Saadawi, | shelved under: Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender | | date: ers | publisher: | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: Julian Ninio | shelved under: Why the USA is bad | | date: 2004 | publisher: Scribe Publications | | content type: book | | description: "The Empire of Ignorance, Hyposcrisy and Obedience is an immensely persuasive indictment of the most powerful country on earth. This comprehensive, highly original overview of the American 'disease' examines its unchecked corporations, media bias, urban poverty, gun violence, voter apathy, carefree consumerism and burgeoning empire. It discovers the syndrome linking all these ills, and it offers a plan of action that everyone (American or not) can undertake to cure America"--BOOK JACKET.
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| author: Vance Packard | shelved under: Why the US is bad | | date: 1962 | publisher: Pelican Books | | content type: book | | description: Explores the rise of status-seeking and class climbing behaviour in USA as informing addresses, beliefs, belongings and relationships between people
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| author: Michael Harrington | shelved under: Why the US is bad | | date: 1962 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: In contrast to the purported wealth of the United States, this book explores the hidden poverty and misfortune of many of its citizens
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