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 871 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 18 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 183 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
    • 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 311 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 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 240 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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    • By: Bunton Cole
    • Narrated by: Charles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • Childhood Lost in Poverty is an account of the author’s childhood experiences, from infancy to young adulthood.

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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 60,648 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 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 1,860 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 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 861 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 55 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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    • 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 948 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 Pandemic Memoir
    • By: Alan Lane
    • Narrated by: Alan Lane
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When crisis hits and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theater company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop help shop for those in need. In 15 months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels....

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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 4,713 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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