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2021.
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"Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust, where to eat, when to move locations, and how to take care of her dog. It's the only home she has. When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly, everyone from the police to the dead boys' parents want...
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Red gloves series volume 1
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In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas — and he...Author
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When her sister falls gravely ill, twenty-year-old Marlena Wenger takes on the responsibility of caring for her infant niece, Angel Rose. Worried that this turn of events portends a more complicated future than he is prepared for, her beau ends their relationship. Marlena is devastated, but is determined to give Angel Rose the best care possible. Though from the Beachy Amish herself, Marlena meets Ellie Bitner, an Old Order Amish mother who offers...
4) Pretty baby
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She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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x, 127 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mathieu is a young homeless man. His main companion is his dog Sam, a pitbull, who helps keep him alive after his life takes a tragic turn. When Sam disappears, Mathieu's frantic search to find her brings him into confrontation with the secrets of his own past and the pain and grief that drove him onto the street. The novel is a monologue from Mathieu's point of view, a sort of confessional in which Mathieu opens up to the reader. In flashbacks to...
6) I am a bear
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Pub. Date
2015.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A homeless bear living in a city has a hard time getting by, but when a little girl makes friends with him, his life becomes brighter.
7) Saving Red
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Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in Santa Monica's annual homeless count, just to get her school's community service requirement out of the way. But when she ends up meeting Red, a spirited homeless girl only a few years older than she is, Molly makes it her mission to reunite her with her family in time for Christmas. This turns out to be extremely difficult--because Red refuses to...
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1996, c1995
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viii, 390 p. ; 20 cm.
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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves,...
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Now orphaned, sixteen-year-old Faolan, who has been disguised as a boy by her grandfather for most of her life, is deemed unfit to stay on her homestead, so the mayor hires a gunslinger to send her to the mysterious Settlement, where ominous secrets and deadly creatures compel her to escape for survival.
12) Haiku
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Pub. Date
2009
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285 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Ho was a revered sensei but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as a master and now roams the streets in search of a way to atone. Drawn by his presence a group forms around him. This searing new novel from the author of the acclaimed Burke series follows this band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
13) My friend Andy
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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An unhoused person and his dog make new friends when they help a lost puppy find her way back home.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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278 pages ; 23 cm
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For Henry and his 8-year-old son, Junior, days are measured in dollars and cents. Evicted from their trailer, they now call Henry's F-250 home. Today is Junior's birthday; tomorrow Henry has a job interview. To celebrate, they have a fast food dinner and spend the night at a cheap motel. But when Henry has a altercation and in the parking lot and Junior falls ill with a fever, can they make it through to the day to come? -- adapted from back cover...
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Pub. Date
2011
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416 p. ; 24 cm.
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This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of this morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring...
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"A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise: the group's...
17) Just gone
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Angelique's work at a homeless shelter takes a strange turn when she encounters seven-year-old Jamal and his fantastic stories about a mysterious character named Jacky Wacky who looks out for vulnerable children.
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2016.
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xv, 440 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...Richard Mayhew is a young businessman...
19) Spin cycles
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Brilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope.
20) The runaway
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2019.
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The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles' criminal underworld, in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.
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