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1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families ... More
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2. Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. ... More
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3. Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
"The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world" --Cover.
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4. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins (Foreword by)
With a new foreword by David Platt, two new chapters and a final word on how to help without hurting, this expanded edition of "When Helping Hurts" ... More
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5. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
by Paul Collier
Global poverty, Collier argues, is actually falling quite rapidly. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, ... More
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6. An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
by Laura Schroff
When Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely ... More
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7. Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
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8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in ... More
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9. The Hole in Our Gospel
by Richard Stearns
The former CEO of Lenox, America's finest tableware company, describes his own struggle to obey God whatever the cost, and passionately calls for ... More
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10. The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
by Richard Stearns
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11. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
by William Julius Wilson
The acclaimed author of "The Truly Disadvantaged" now gives readers the most important book on race and poverty that's been written in recent years. ... More
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12. The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to ... More
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13. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William Easterly
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain higher standards of living. The ... More
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14. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
by Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson (Foreword by)
"Dead Aid" describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of ... More
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15. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer (Creator)
With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia to the beleaguered villages of Haiti, "Human Rights and the New War on the Poor" uses ... More
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16. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by Kevin Bales
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17. In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in ... More
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18. Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
by Sara Miles
Miles has produced a provocative and witty spiritual memoir from an atheist-turned-religious activist. "Take This Bread" is the story of her journey ... More
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19. Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Yvonne Davis
World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor ... More
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20. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a New Preface
by Paul Farmer
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21. Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right
by Dr. John M Perkins (Editor)
This is an in-depth how-to manual for those involved in or interested in Christian community development among our nation's poor. Dr. Perkins, along ... More
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22. How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob A Riis
Published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary ... More
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23. Forever
by Nora Roberts
Two classic tales of stubborn wills and impassioned hearts by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Roberts are bound together in this two-in-one ... More
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24. Scar Lover
by Harry Crews
In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns ... More
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25. Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
by Leon Dash
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in ... More
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