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 848 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 8 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 178 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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    • By: Rex Ogle
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program....

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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 59,640 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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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 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 224 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 309 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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    • The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
    • By: Kate Williams
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Emma Hamilton was England's first superstar....

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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 1,847 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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    • A Legendary Reporter's Story of Overcoming Poverty, Race, Violence, and His Mother's Deepest Secret
    • By: Bruce Johnson
    • Narrated by: Bruce Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • There was no reason to bet on Bruce Johnson, given where he started out. His journey to becoming a successful TV journalist nearly killed him, but he refused to treat himself as a victim. His role was to use his voice and example to pull others out of deep waters....

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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 4,707 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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    • How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined Our Home
    • By: Michael Konik
    • Narrated by: George W. Sarris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this poignant memoir from best-selling author Michael Konik, “family” and “home” take on profound new meaning through one person's care for a stranger....

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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 50 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 67 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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    • 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 857 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: 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 942 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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    • The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
    • By: Randy Christensen M.D., Rene Denfeld
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen....

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    • A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
    • By: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Scott Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,466 ratings
    • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....

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