Drifters, Transients, and Homeless

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating — 49,873 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,509 ratings
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The Girl's Guide to Homelessness
The Girl's Guide to Homelessness 3.24 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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The Hitchhiker Man
The Hitchhiker Man
by: Matt Fox
4.02 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit 3.90 avg rating — 82,159 ratings
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I Just Kept Walking (20 Years Homeless)
I Just Kept Walking (20 Years Homeless) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha 3.74 avg rating — 394 ratings
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The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician
The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 3.81 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,985 ratings
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard 4.22 avg rating — 21,744 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond 4.13 avg rating — 8,684 ratings
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Hard Travellin': The Hobo and his History
Hard Travellin': The Hobo and his History 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas 3.54 avg rating — 528 ratings
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You Can't Win
You Can't Win 4.33 avg rating — 4,717 ratings
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City 3.67 avg rating — 5,376 ratings
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Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life
Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Spiv
The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Spiv really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Signal Through the Flames: Mitch Snyder and America's Homeless
Signal Through the Flames: Mitch Snyder and America's Homeless 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman
Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman 4.02 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless
Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women 3.89 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State
Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America 4.23 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders 4.06 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Ironweed
Ironweed 3.87 avg rating — 17,431 ratings
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Ghosts of Spring
Ghosts of Spring really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62 ratings
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On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,505 ratings
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Hobo & Tramp Art Carving: An Authentic American Folk Tradition
Hobo & Tramp Art Carving: An Authentic American Folk Tradition 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers 3.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Well-Dressed Hobo: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains
The Well-Dressed Hobo: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Street Child, A Memoir
Street Child, A Memoir 4.27 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Pages from a Worker's Life
Pages from a Worker's Life 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Riding Toward Everywhere
Riding Toward Everywhere 3.61 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 3.80 avg rating — 11,799 ratings
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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness 4.19 avg rating — 24,465 ratings
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Up in the Old Hotel
Up in the Old Hotel 4.33 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings 4.18 avg rating — 30,092 ratings
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Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes 4.07 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery
Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery 4.21 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Alen MacWeeney: Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More
Alen MacWeeney: Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened
On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened 3.64 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Busker
Busker 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Will Work for Food or $: A Memoir from the Roadside
Will Work for Food or $: A Memoir from the Roadside 2.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place
Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir 3.73 avg rating — 4,215 ratings
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Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place
Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Wisdom From the Homeless: Lessons a Doctor Learned at a Homeless Shelter
Wisdom From the Homeless: Lessons a Doctor Learned at a Homeless Shelter 3.80 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers 3.75 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Evasion
Evasion 3.57 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City
A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory 3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel 3.95 avg rating — 27,769 ratings
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope 3.91 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives 4.29 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Open Our Eyes: Seeing the Invisible People of Homelessness
Open Our Eyes: Seeing the Invisible People of Homelessness 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series)
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series) 3.60 avg rating — 117 ratings
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An American Bum in China
An American Bum in China 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Surthrival Guide For Under 18ers
Surthrival Guide For Under 18ers 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad 3.62 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless
A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless 3.97 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence 3.96 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
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How to Live Homeless - Not Helpless: The Survival & Recovery Guide
How to Live Homeless - Not Helpless: The Survival & Recovery Guide
by: Bill Cady
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy 3.46 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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How to Live Homeless In Style: 50 Ways To Survive On Plastic Bottles In These Economic Times
How to Live Homeless In Style: 50 Ways To Survive On Plastic Bottles In These Economic Times 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Free Download (No Money Down | EMERGENCY FREE HOUSING | Find Free Housing in 30 Minutes!
Free Download (No Money Down | EMERGENCY FREE HOUSING | Find Free Housing in 30 Minutes! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Survival - How to Live Full-Time in RV-Van-SUV or Car: Everything About Boondocking, VanDwelling, Stealth Camping. Thousands of Secrets! Live on less than $20 a day!
Survival - How to Live Full-Time in RV-Van-SUV or Car: Everything About Boondocking, VanDwelling, Stealth Camping. Thousands of Secrets! Live on less than $20 a day! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail 4.56 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Invisible Innocence: My Story As a Homeless Youth
Invisible Innocence: My Story As a Homeless Youth 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Sebastião Salgado: The Children: Refugees and Migrants
Sebastião Salgado: The Children: Refugees and Migrants 4.50 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope
Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope 3.98 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail 4.32 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them 4.29 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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The Busker
The Busker 3.62 avg rating — 63 ratings
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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STREET CHILD: A Memoir
STREET CHILD: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets 3.76 avg rating — 800 ratings
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The Gift - A Short Story
The Gift - A Short Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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One: The Power of One Step
One: The Power of One Step really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way 4.26 avg rating — 5,062 ratings
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Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square
Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square 3.72 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Transfigured: Patricia Sandoval's Escape from Drugs, Homelessness, and the Back Doors of Planned Parenthood
Transfigured: Patricia Sandoval's Escape from Drugs, Homelessness, and the Back Doors of Planned Parenthood 4.68 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
by: Ron Hall
4.37 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Looking Glass Brother: The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family, My Philandering ... the Homeless Stepbrother Who Shares My Name
The Looking Glass Brother: The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family, My Philandering ... the Homeless Stepbrother Who Shares My Name 2.96 avg rating — 73 ratings
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way 4.49 avg rating — 33,333 ratings
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The Dead End Kids of St. Louis: Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them (Volume 1)
The Dead End Kids of St. Louis: Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them (Volume 1) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Homelessness: How To End The National Crisis
Homelessness: How To End The National Crisis 4.06 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community
Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community 3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Homelessness and the Law
Homelessness and the Law 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hard Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women
Hard Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Homeless People and the Law
Homeless People and the Law 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi 3.74 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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King Cage and the Worth Street Djinni (King Cage #1)
King Cage and the Worth Street Djinni (King Cage #1) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings
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At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil 3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis 4.04 avg rating — 725 ratings
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I Grew Up in War Housing: The History of the Defense Housing Projects in East Alton, Illinois: 1941–1954
I Grew Up in War Housing: The History of the Defense Housing Projects in East Alton, Illinois: 1941–1954 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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