Poverty Memoir

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • A memoir about homelessness through the eyes of a young girl
    • By: Nichole Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 9-year-old Nichole and her parents are evicted from their home because both of her parents are addicted to heroin. With nowhere left to turn, they ...

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    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

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    • How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
    • By: Tony Messenger
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,165 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder
    • By: Neal Wooten
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: David Ambroz
    • Narrated by: David Ambroz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Fat Joe, Shaheem Reid
    • Narrated by: Fat Joe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,854 ratings
    • Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum–selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls back the curtain on his larger-than-life persona in this gritty, intimate memoir about growing up in the South Bronx and finding his voice through music....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,711 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • By: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 974 ratings
    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

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    • By: Rick Bragg
    • Narrated by: Rick Bragg
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary....

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    • A Confession
    • By: Gary Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Gary Stevenson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: 'The Trading Game'....

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    • A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
    • By: C. Nicole Mason
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles....

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    • One Writer's Inspiring Experience at the Homeless World Cup
    • By: Dave Bidini
    • Narrated by: Mel F. Lewis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 2008, Dave Bidini accompanies Homeless Team Canada to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jemele Hill
    • Narrated by: Jemele Hill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • Jemele Hill’s world came crashing down when she called President Trump a “white supremacist”; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was deluged with death threats. But Hill had faced tougher adversaries growing up in Detroit than a tweeting president....

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    • By: Katie Van Heidrich
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For fans of Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and Life in Motion by Misty Copeland, this middle grade memoir in verse chronicles a young girl and her family who must start over after losing their home....

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    • Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
    • By: Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....

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