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1) Almost home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
2) King
Author
Series
King volume 1
Publisher
[T.M. Frazier]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Doe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from. A notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don't want to cross unless you're prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, sex or a combination of all three. King's future hangs in the balance; Doe's is written in her past. When they come crashing together, they will have to learn that sometimes in order to hold on, you have to first let go ...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks...
Author
Series
Ellis Portal mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bridge Works Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
6) Rooftoppers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
7) Translated
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An old man is about to be executed in ancient Rome and then finds himself translated to the 21st Century where he is confused and homeless. A truck driver picks him up in Rome, Oregon and discovers that the old man claims to be the Apostle Paul. In the spirit of Miracle on 34th Street, humor with a message is presented and a poignant commentary is made about condition of the Body of Christ in the U.S. and their lack of unity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thought-provoking story that encourages us all to sit up and take notice. Nobody notices the queen on the corner. Nobody, that is . . . except one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells in the abandoned plot is a warrior queen, with many battles fought and won. When, one day, danger comes to the street and the queen on the corner sounds the alarm, the little girl must find a way to thank her. Can she bring the community together to turn...
10) The bridge home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Series
Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Français
Description
Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.
16) Into the light
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
17) Hold fast
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
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