English Poverty

A promising illustrator moves into adulthood contemplating all that he’s had to do for money - from the mundane to the grueling to the sexual. He also reflects on everything that has slipped away, including a boyfriend, close acquaintances, success, and allure. But sketch by sketch, he sometimes feels the enormity of all that is possible.

A true account of Frank, a starving street cat from the island of Funchal who travels to the UK on a plane. There he joins Dancer; a traumatised street cat who was lost in London. Both were emaciated and near to death when found but end up rescued and now living in their forever home in Sussex. Dancer hates Frank and would happily send him back on a plane if she could. J M Martlew recalls her own journey from a childhood rescuing street cats, lessons learnt as an NHS nurse in a children’s burns unit in Scotland; to finding street cats Dancer and Frank. This touching memoir ends with her ...

In 2010, Andrew Hening threw everything he owned in the trunk of his car and drove across the country to the San Francisco Bay Area to join the movement to end homelessness. What started out as a year of national service with AmeriCorps VISTA has turned into more than a decade of working to end one of our nation’s most pressing moral crises.

"Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell LOTS of jokes and I'm going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel."

Embarrassed to realize that he has become a boring old pest, retired Canadian attorney Donald Dillenbeck decides to discard his cheapskate ways, leave his home town and squander his millions in the USA by indulging in a lavish upscale life. The old boy will soon learn that life-long habits of thrift are tough to break. Don will also discover first-hand that America has become a very dangerous place to travel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name used by Canadian author and retired lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers to publish some of his shorter novels. Always a proponent of quantity ...

A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.

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This updated book (11th edition published in March 2025) investigates the nature and origin of the highly destructive conflict in Afghanistan, involving both civil and international war, which has been an ongoing feature of the country since the Soviet invasion of 1979. It examines the anti-Soviet struggle of the 1980s, the vicious civil war and emergence of the Taliban in the 1990s, the 2001 US-led invasion to remove al-Qaeda and the Taliban from Afghanistan and the dramatic collapse of the Afghan government as the Taliban swept to power once again in 2021. Decades of conflict have had ...

In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these young people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth.

Have you ever had that moment where you realize that work and money seem to be the priority and not so much family or even having a life? Do you keep working past exhaustion because of fear? Do you fear getting behind on bills, debt, or a mortgage that is painfully large? This is a common life for most people. Mortgages and rents are too high, wallets are filled with credit cards that are maxed out. The commutes are long and work hours bleed into weekends leaving little time for relationships or basic sleep. This is no way to live. It is not living at all. This book was written after I was ...

We often think of wealth and poverty as outcomes determined by external factors—our job, education, upbringing, or even luck. But what if the secret to financial freedom lies within our own minds? This book will explore the idea that poverty and wealth are not just about how much money you have but about how you think, what you believe, and the actions you take.

Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provencal lavender farm at the age of 14 after the accidental death of her father. Forced to become a maid at the boarding house of her Aunt Augustine in Marseilles, Simone's life is hard and impoverished. But one of her aunt's boarders, the beautiful Camille Casal, a star at the local music hall, gives Simone a dream: that one day she too will be a famous singer and dancer.

That forever kind of love is real love that blossoms from experiencing the ups and downs in life. It’s an earned love that encapsulates your heart through makeup and breakups and never lets go. It’s arguments that are amended with mutual understanding. It’s getting to know the value of a growing relationship’s worth. Christina Pierre Bell was Danzel’s college sweetheart. After many years of love, joy, and happiness, Danzel cheats on Christina and gets another girl from the hood’ named Nahla pregnant. During this tragedy, Christina is pregnant with Danzel’s child but never ...

In the works for more than twenty years, Interstate 69 has been both eagerly anticipated as an economic godsend and the center of a firestorm of protests by local environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, anarchists, and others who question both the wisdom of building more highways and the merits of globalization. Part history, part travelogue, Interstate 69 chronicles the last great highway project in America, introducing the people who have worked tirelessly to build it or stop it from being built, and the many places it would change forever.

THE GIRL WHO PRAYED is a tale of a kid (Cellen) born into a poor home: She's eight years old and had never being to school before because her parents had no money to put her in school. The girl (Cellen) had a strong desire to go to school and be useful to herself, but the poor situation of her parent kept her from going to school earlier; she cried so bitterly about her situation and would always weep each time she looks through her window and saw other kids going to school. She's always lonely in the neighborhood whenever her friends and neighbors had gone to school. The poverty in her ...

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As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished, in one of the richest countries on Earth we have effectively made it a crime to be poor.

While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine. With no money coming in, Jodey killed herself, aged just 42. Another DWP letter pronouncing her "fit to work" was sent to her home three days after her tragic death. A Mother's Job is the story of how Jodey's mum Joy Dove, 67, took on the system—and won justice for her daughter.

Retired attorney Allen Smith lives in poverty. Despite being in a lucrative profession, he completely missed the gravy train. When he inadvertently becomes the key witness in a New York City criminal syndicate's money laundering scheme, Allen disguises himself and flees for his life, winding up in Los Angeles. If Allen believed that his former life was the pits, wait until he learns what it's like to be a penniless fugitive lawyer panhandling on the mean streets of LA. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of an obscure Canadian author and retired lawyer named Donald W. ...

A Tragic Fiction set in Corsica and Paris during the late 19th to early 20th century. Immerse yourself in *Broken Promises*, a heart-wrenching tale that traces the intersecting lives of courageous individuals navigating the unrelenting challenges of poverty, societal oppression, and the quest for love and identity. This evocative narrative paints a vivid picture of Corsica's rugged landscape and Paris's rapidly evolving scenery at the turn of the 20th century. The journey begins with Margot, a resilient young girl entangled in the domestic turmoil of her abusive, alcohol-dependent mother, ...