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• From the Ashes

  My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

  Thistle, Jesse,

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  Adult - A remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up.

• A Fine Balance

  Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-

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  Adult - a magnificent novel that follows Ishvar Darji and his nephew as they hope to rise above their caste roles by becoming tailors. Moving to Bombay, they struggle to earn their living in India between 1975 to 1984.

• Homeless Memorial

  Poems From the Streets of Vernon

  La Greca, John,

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  Adult - A collection of poems from the streets of Vernon, British Columbia.

• My Mother's Daughter

  a Memoir of Struggle and Triumph

  Felicien, Perdita, 1980-

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  Adult - This raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and her daughter- who would become a champion hurdler- who beat the odds together.

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew

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  Adult - In Evicted , Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads.

• Beautiful Boy

  a Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

  Sheff, David,

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  Adult - Journalist David Sheff has written a moving, heartbreaking account of his son's addiction to methamphetamines and its impact on those around him.

• Overdose

  Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis

  Perrin, Benjamin,

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  Adult - An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid health crisis. Benjamin Perrin, a law and policy expert in Vancouver shines a light with an urgent and humane look at the worst health crisis in recent history.

• Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful

  a Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss

  Wittels Wachs, Stephanie,

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  Adult - When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris, a comedy writer, died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance.

• My Book of Life by Angel

  Leavitt, Martine, 1953-

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  Teen - Angel, a sixteen-year-old girl working the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, befriends Melli, an 11-year-old girl in the same situation and realizes she must do all that she can to save Melli and perhaps save herself at the same time.

• Roughneck

  Lemire, Jeff,

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  Teen - Former NHL player Derek Oulette, ousted from hockey over a violent incident on the ice, reconnects with his sister Beth, who is running from an abusive boyfriend.

• Hey, Kiddo

  Krosoczka, Jarrett,

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  Teen - A profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.

• If I Ever Get Out of Here

  Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

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  Teen - Lewis "Shoe" Blake is from the Tuscarora Reservation and has a new friend, George Haddonfield- from the local Air Force base. But in 1970's New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Free Lunch

  Ogle, Rex,

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  Teen - Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care.

• Baygirl

  Smith, Heather, 1968-

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  Teen - Growing up in the 1990s, in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village, should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable.

• Go Ask Alice

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  Teen - A novel in diary form of a fifteen-year-old girl's journey from a secure middle class family to the nightmare world of drug addiction, hustlers, and dealers.

• In Real Life

  Doctorow, Cory,

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  Teen - Immersing herself in an online role-playing game where she enjoys fantasy heroics, Anda confronts a difficult choice when she befriends a disadvantaged Chinese kid who works illegally to collect valuable objects and sell them to other players…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Fixed Address

  Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-

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  School Age - Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.

• Hold Fast

  Balliett, Blue, 1955-

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  School Age -One old winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother are homeless. It is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.

• Parked

  Svetcov, Danielle,

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  School Age - Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food.

• Crenshaw

  Applegate, Katherine,

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  School Age - Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times and his family may have to live in their minivan... again. Crenshaw is a large, outspoken, imaginary cat who has has come back into Jackson's life to help him. Is an imaginary friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation