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1	The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music more books like this by Steve Lopez add to wishlist A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician, "The Soloist" is soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City more books like this by Jennifer Toth add to wishlist This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.87! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America more books like this by Mike Yankoski add to wishlist Mike and Sam found their beds under bridges and received handouts from strangers for five months...by their own choice. This is their story, providing insight into the reality of street life. see all copies from $4.88! new only from $6.53! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Reliquary more books like this by Douglas J Preston add to wishlist Natural History Museum curator Margo Green helps the police to track a grotesque beast who prowls the basement of the museum. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	How to Steal a Dog more books like this by Barbara O'Connor, M.a, RN add to wishlist Desperate to hold her struggling family together, Georgina Hayes is inspired after she spots a poster offering a $500 reward for the return of a missing dog. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.59! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Room One: A Mystery or Two more books like this by Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (Illustrator) add to wishlist A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends. Illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Runaway more books like this by Wendelin Van Draanen add to wishlist ""It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."" Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean. Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist "Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Gideon's Gift more books like this by Karen Kingsbury add to wishlist A little girl's gift to a homeless man forever changes both their lives and reminds them of the true meaning of Christmas. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets more books like this by Lars Eighner add to wishlist Eighner's memoir of homelessness and of his dog. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey more books like this by Richard LeMieux add to wishlist This astonishingly frank memoir tells the story of one man's resilience in the face of economic disaster. LeMieux chronicles his journey from enjoying lavish vacations and a opulent home to being penniless, estranged from his family, and living in his van. see all copies from $5.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
12 view cover	Grand Central winter : stories from the street more books like this by Lee Stringer add to wishlist Stories about the homeless and destitute in New York, by a writer who has been there. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Righteous Dopefiend more books like this by Professor Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg add to wishlist This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through ... see all copies from $19.77! new only from $19.77!
14 view cover	Monkey Island more books like this by Paula Fox add to wishlist Eleven-year-old Clay Garrity wakes up one morning to find himself suddenly alone--his jobless father left months ago, and his pregnant mother hasn't come back to the welfare hotel where they had been living for the last month. Afraid that he will never find his family again if he seeks help, Clay flees to the streets of the city. There, in a park, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.33! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Rule of the bone : a novel. more books like this by Russell Banks add to wishlist The story of a homeless youth living on the edge of society. His life is dramatically changed by an exiled Rastafarian, with whom he undertakes a journey of self-discovery, from the towns and malls of Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Fly Away Home more books like this by Eve Bunting add to wishlist This is the story of a homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal hoping not to be noticed. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	December more books like this by Eve Bunting, David Diaz (Illustrator) add to wishlist Simon and his mother do not have much except for the cardboard house they built, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel on the wall. On Christmas Eve, they take in a frail stranger looking for a place to keep warm. The next morning, Simon discovers the woman has vanished. Could she have been an angel? Full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Manhattan Hunt Club more books like this by John Saul add to wishlist Beneath the streets of Manhattan, the elite and the powerful relax with a particularly dangerous game--the tracking, stalking, and killing of humans. And not just any people, not only the downtrodden forced by circumstance to live in the subway and sewer tunnels. No, their victims are handpicked from above ground, framed for crimes they didn't ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	To play the fool more books like this by Laurie R. King add to wishlist Detectives Kate Martinelli and Al Hawkin investigate the death of an apparently homeless man whose cremated remains are found in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. Implicated in the death is an elderly wandering soul who calls himself Erasmus and exemplifies the persona of a Shakespearean fool. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir more books like this by Cheeni Rao add to wishlist Expected to continue the family tradition and become a priest in rural India praying in the ancestral temples of Kali, he escapes to Williams College for his higher education. His previous life of abstinence and celibacy devolves into a life of violence and dealing drugs to the offspring of America's finest families at one of our nation's top ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Glass Castle more books like this by Jeannette Walls add to wishlist Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family around the country on the run from creditors and from one bad idea ... see all copies from $7.48! new only from $76.32!
22 view cover	Stuart: A Life Backwards more books like this by Alexander Masters add to wishlist Hailed in Britain as "devastating," "inspirational" ("Saturday Telegraph"), "heartbreaking" ("Saturday Telegraph Magazine") and "hilarious" ("The Spectator"), "Stuart" is the tragic yet ultimately uplifting story of a boy whose life left the rails early and just kept going. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Chosen more books like this by Sharon Sala add to wishlist Set in Washington, D.C, this work of romantic suspense stars TV journalist January De Lena, who believes that the Sinner, a fire-and-brimstone preacher inspired by his near-death experience, is responsible for the disappearance of several homeless men. But can she convince skeptical (and attractive) homicide detective Benjamin North to take her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Echo more books like this by Minette Walters add to wishlist Amanda Powell finds Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, dead in her garage in one of the richest neighborhoods in town. Who was Billy Blake, and why was he in her garage? The answers may have something to do with the disappearance of Amanda's banker husband and a vast sum of money five years earlier. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy more books like this by Wendelin Van Draanen add to wishlist Sammy is working off some junior high detention time at St. Mary's when Father Mayhew discovers his ivory cross has been stolen! Sammy becomes the prime suspect and must use all her sleuthing talents to find the real thief. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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