Nonfiction Poverty

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    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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    • No Ordinary Cat
    • By: James Bowen
    • Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change....

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    • A Children's Handbook on Empathy, Kindness and Making a Better World
    • By: Onjali Q. Raúf, Pippa Curnick - illustrator, Isobel Lundie - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Onjali Q. Raúf
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference....

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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    • Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
    • By: Chelsea Clinton
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Clinton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2016
    • Language: English
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    • In It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!, Chelsea Clinton tackles some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, especially for kids....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....

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    • By: Bao Phi
    • Narrated by: Josh Fu
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis....

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    • By: Russell Freedman
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 39 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops....

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    • By: Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath....

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    • Stories of Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity
    • By: David Rubel, Jimmy Carter - foreword
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2010
    • Language: English
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    • For a quarter century in more than ninety countries, Habitat for Humanity has built homes with and for the people who are most in need of them....

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    • By: Lydia M. Sigwarth
    • Narrated by: Lydia M. Sigwarth, Ira Glass
    • Length: 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent....

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    • By: Etan Boritzer
    • Narrated by: Julie Julin
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • What Is Money? opens up discussion for children on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What Is Money? is a way to examine the history of money....

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    • US History Leading to Great Depression | Children's American History of 1900s
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Series: Children's American History
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Was everyone in the US depressed during the Great Depression? This history book will tackle the beginning and end of Great Depression. It will contain information on the events that led to the economic slump and what the effects of such a slump were....

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