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An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called "mole people" living alone and in communities, in the frescoed waiting rooms of long-forgotten subway tunnels and in pick-axed compartments below busway platforms. It is about how and why people move undergraound, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the treacherous "topside" world...

"This book is a work of narrative history set in Seattle, Washington, that explores the relationship between the health care safety net and homelessness. The book traces the social determinants of health from Seattle's earliest days"--

A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom.

Best-selling author Minette Walters captivates mystery aficionados throughout the world with her evocative, multi-layered novels, which have been translated into 22 languages. In The Echo she spins a finely-wrought web of secrets and betrayals, love and guilt that entangles everyone who touches it. A homeless man has been found dead of starvation-huddled next to a food-filled freezer-in a London socialite's garage. When journalist Michael Deacon interviews...

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,...

Portrays the gradual deterioration of Lisa Napolitano, a young women forced to exist on the streets, intermingling with the outcasts of society. Along the way she encounters a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, Nick, a nihilistic East Villager, Tom, and a sympathetic good Samaritan, Paul. Filmed in black and white on location in Tompkins Square Park and the Lower East Side. The soundtrack includes music by Johnny Thunders.

Monty, a Harvard student, drops the only copy of his 100-page thesis into the hands of Simon, a homeless man who lives under the college library. Insulted by the way in which Monty dismisses him, he offers to return one page of the thesis for each good turn from Monty, who in desperation, brings Simon home with him.

"With powerful writing and memorable characters, Kelly Irvin follows the lives of four Amish widows in the Every Amish Season series. In Through the Autumn Air, Mary Katherine learns that falling in love again doesn't diminish the strong love she had for her first husband"--