Poverty Memoir

Product List
    • 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 34 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 ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • 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....

    Regular price: $14.99

  • Regular price: $14.58

    • 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 252 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....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • 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 59 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....

    Regular price: $14.99

    • 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....

    Regular price: $9.77

    • 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 62,578 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

    Regular price: $19.79

    • 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 4 ratings
    • From Jon King, legendary front man of iconic post-punk band Gang of Four, comes a memoir to remember.

    Regular price: $24.96

    • From Poverty to Purpose
    • By: Chef Ricardo
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • SUCCESS LESSONS FROM A YOUTUBE STAR-CHEF WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS How does one move from growing up poor in Jamaica to becoming a ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • 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 94 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....

    Regular price: $15.56

    • 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 191 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • By: Mary Hayward
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Few books are actually written by the survivor, but this is one. This is a true story written by me. My name is Mary and I was born to London ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
    • By: Jamie Mustard
    • Narrated by: Jamie Mustard
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-29-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • A notorious movement cloaked in secrecy. A prosperous Black family that rose from the ashes of American slavery. A forgotten boy. And a daring escape.

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • 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....

    Sale price: $7.99 (68% off)

    Regular price: $24.95

    Sale ends in

  • Regular price: $14.99

    • Essays
    • By: Samantha Irby
    • Narrated by: Samantha Irby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 692 ratings
    • Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times best-selling author Samantha Irby explodes in her uproarious first collection of essays....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • 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 118 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'....

    Regular price: $20.33

    • 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 1,902 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 967 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....

    Regular price: $8.10

adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_webcro805_stickypopup