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The Glass Castle
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The Glass Castle

By Jeannette Walls ,

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The Salt Path: A Memoir
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The Salt Path

By Raynor Winn ,

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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

By Nick Flynn ,

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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics

By Neil Gong ,

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Reckoning with Homelessness
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Reckoning with Homelessness

By Kim Hopper ,

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Stuart: A Life Backwards
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Stuart

By Alexander Masters ,

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The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
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The Marvellous Equations of the Dread

By Marcia Douglas ,

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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
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Rough Sleepers

By Tracy Kidder ,

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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
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From the Ashes

By Jesse Thistle ,

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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

By Gregg Colburn , Clayton Page Aldern ,

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Fragile Dwelling: How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own
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Fragile Dwelling

By Margaret Morton ,

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Beyond Charity
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Beyond Charity

By DeBorah Gilbert White ,

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