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1) Poor Ghost
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On a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a
private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost-one of America's most storied
rock bands-plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman.
Poor Ghost moves back and forth between the impact of the plane crash on
Caleb's life, and an oral history of Poor Ghost, from its beginnings as a
working-class punk band to rock icons.
2) Poor People
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That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered.
Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own...
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A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the softened towers of the great steel bridges rose above the river mist like fairy towers suspended between Heaven and earth. And again...
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Are you tired of feeling like your money is slipping through your fingers, leaving you trapped in a cycle of financial frustration? "RICH MONEY POOR MONEY" is your ticket to breaking free from the chains of monetary uncertainty. Discover the secrets to unlocking financial mastery and waving goodbye to the anxiety of paycheck-to-paycheck living. Imagine a life where your money works for you, where debt becomes a tool for financial growth, and where...
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Pam Sowder needed to bring in extra money for her family but struggled to find a solution that would give her the flexibility that she needed to continue to be an active and present mother. Once she discovered the industry of direct sales, her life changed! No one thought she would succeed, including herself. But, she worked through her doubt and discomfort to create a multimillion-dollar business! Several decades later, Pam has touched hundreds of...
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Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe writes indelibly about and for poor white people: about unlearning the American dream, untangling from white supremacy, and working for liberation alongside other poor folks.
Monroe introduces us to people who are poor and unhoused in a small town in Washington, who eke out a living on land that once...
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Millions have entered poverty as a result of the Great Recession's terrible toll of long-term unemployment. Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham examine recent trends in poverty and assess the performance of America's "safety net" programs. They consider likely scenarios for future developments and conclude that the well-being of low-income Americans, particularly the working poor, the near poor, and the new poor, is at substantial risk despite...
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These incredible stories of pain and suffering, courage and determination will assist people newly diagnosed with cancer to position themselves in the best possible place for survival. Knowledge and understanding of the stories of survivors of cancer may also assist health professionals to best help those living with cancer, and the people who journey alongside them. At the very least these stories shed light on how a group of people, given the worst...
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Money is the second most discussed topic in the Bible. Therefore, it must be important. You need to know how to handle money the way God wants you to handle money.God knows that money is something that has a lot of power here in this fallen world. This is why He spends so much time telling you how to properly manage it.Listen to God and learn all you can about money. However, don't simply learn from sources of this world. No, learn from the Bible....
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Rubbish. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away, the connotations are the same; of something dirty, useless and incontrovertibly 'bad'. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality?
In Rubbish Belongs to the Poor, Patrick O'Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay's waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize rubbish as a 21st century commons, at risk of enclosure. On a giant landfill...
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Black Widows volume 2
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Veera meets a new man, Johanna sells off her old man's things and Kirsi's got money troubles. But throw a half million dollars in Veera's shed, a dangerous business partner at her door and a husband that's not quite dead, and things start to get complicated.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens
Conventional wisdom says you have to graduate from college in order to get a good job and start making money. But what if you start your financial journey as a teen?
Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens (2004) contains all the financial knowledge from his best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) restructured for teenagers who want to start their financial...
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This book introduces new audiences to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final initiative, the multiracial Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968. Robert Hamilton depicts the experience of poor people who traveled to Washington in May 1968 to dramatize the issue of poverty by building a temporary city, Resurrection City. His narrative allows us to hear their voices and understand the strategies, objectives, and organization of the campaign. In addition, he...
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Do you dream of a future where you are rich, and you didn't have to worry about money?You cannot be rich, at least not with your job as a nurse. Everyone tells you this, and you have gradually come to believe that maybe getting wealthy has been preserved for people in other careers – with bigger paychecks.It doesn't help that there are no enough role models around you or even in the world to show you that it's possible.So, you have settled into...
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In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the United States's newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal...
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When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their creator meant? If you've ever (gently) judged anyone else for their linguistic failures, if you find yourself guffawing about the frequent confusion between...
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