Poverty Memoir

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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 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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 ...
    • 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....

    • 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 62,489 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
    • A Memoir
    • By: Brenda Myers-Powell, April Reynolds - contributor
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • When Breezy, as she came to call herself, hit the streets of Chicago as a prostitute in 1973 she was barely a teenager. But she was pretty and funny as hell, and determined to support her daughters and make a living....

    • A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four
    • By: Jon King
    • Narrated by: Jon King
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From Jon King, legendary front man of iconic post-punk band Gang of Four, comes a memoir to remember.

    • 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 248 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....

    • How One Man Broke the Cycle of Prison, Poverty, and Addiction
    • By: Weldon Long
    • Narrated by: Weldon Long
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Weldon Long knows firsthand that Maui is nicer than prison. After 13 years of federal and state incarceration, he emerged a transformed man: a powerful speaker, driven motivator, and successful trainer/entrepreneur....

    • A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
    • By: Steve Lopez
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 740 ratings
    • A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician....
    • 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 189 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....

    • 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 1,899 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....

    • A Confession
    • By: Gary Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Gary Stevenson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 112 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'....

    • 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 69 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....
    • 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 4,738 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....

    • 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 978 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....

    • 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 965 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....
    • 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 324 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....

    • A Woman's Journey From Poverty To Purpose & Profits
    • By: Precious Williams
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the poverty-stricken streets of St. Louis, Missouri, to the global stage of influence, Precious L. Williams’ story of transformation is ...
    • 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 351 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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