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2012
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This book tells the story behind bestselling author Danielle Steel's crusade to help the homeless of San Francisco. In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, the author opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In this new memoir, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. For eleven years, she took to the streets with a small team...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to...
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New York Times Bestseller: A lawyer is tormented by a destitute, emotionally unstable man—until one shocking moment changes everything: “A great plot.” —Los Angeles Times
Jacob Schiff has a good career, a beautiful home in New York City, and a loving family. John Gates has none of those things. A psychiatric patient with a traumatic past, John received professional treatment from Jacob’s...
Jacob Schiff has a good career, a beautiful home in New York City, and a loving family. John Gates has none of those things. A psychiatric patient with a traumatic past, John received professional treatment from Jacob’s...
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"Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter doesn't usually stop to help others, but seeing a dog next to a homeless man inspires him to give the pair some money to help. It's just Andy's luck that things don't end there. Soon after Andy's encounter with them, man and dog are attacked in the middle of the night on the street. The dog defends its new owner, and the erstwhile attacker is bitten but escapes. But the dog is quarantined and the man, Don Carrigan,...
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Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2011
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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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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
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A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
10) 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...
11) Almost home
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
12) The homeless
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Series
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Rourke Corp
Pub. Date
c1990
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Discusses the problem of homelessness in our society, how and why people become homeless, what happens to homeless people, and possible remedies for this situation.
13) Take out
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"Folliwing the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald"--Provided by publisher.
15) The homeless
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Series
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Presents first-person accounts of individuals and families who are living as homeless persons in America's cities.
16) Mr Stink
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018.
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Chloe is the loneliest girl in the world - until she meets Mr Stink. Yes, he smells a bit - but he's the only person who's ever been nice to her. So when Mr Stink needs a place to stay, Chloe decides to hide him in the garden shed! But she's about to learn that some secrets can lead to disaster. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than meets the nose.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy, " aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
18) The teddy bear
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A teddy bear, lost by the little boy who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
19) Tear it down
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues."--
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues. Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter...
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