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141) Righteous dopefiend
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 21
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This powerful anthropological and photographic study plunges the reader into the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in their scramble for survival on the streets of San Francisco. Righteous Dopefiend is a vivid chronicle of intimate suffering, solidarity, and betrayal and a trenchant analysis of the...
142) Clancy
Publisher
distr. by EchoLight Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An abused girl runs away from home and winds up living on the streets of the city. Once there, she meets up with Nick, an ill-tempered, homeless veteran. The city's corrupt mayor devises a plan to capitalize on the Clancy's disappearance in order to ensure his re-election. But the mayor's scheme takes an unexpected turn, and Clancy and Nick find themselves on the run
143) Gowanus dogs
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A homeless man who lives under a bridge in Brooklyn finds his life changing when he decides to adopt a wild dog
145) Being with Henry
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced out of his home by a disagreeable and bullying stepfather, sixteen-year-old Laker moves to another town and strikes up an unexpected friendship with a frail but determined old man
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award Nominee Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett turn in knockout performances in this vibrant tale about fathers and sons and the power of redemption. A sportswriter rescues a homeless man who turns out to be a boxing legend believed to be dead. Based on a Los Angeles Times article.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nicky Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other."--Back cover.
Publisher
[Distributed by] New Day Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An examination of activist efforts by and on the behalf of the homeless and destitute, as originally depicted through three films of Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy. Abstracts and excerpts of the films are interspersed with contemporary interviews and commentary from those activists featured in the original films
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the Bowery chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, who lived in lower Manhattan on Bowery Street. The film jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination.
Good times, Wonderful times was Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. Includes collected archive footage of war atrocities interspersed with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chat.
Out is a documentary...
154) Delicacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
459 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Cassie Dixon devote their time to Taste of Success, a training program that teaches the homeless the culinary arts and helps them find a better life. But someone is hungry to discredit the nonprofit group. Taste of Success just happens to sit on a very valuable slice of San Francisco waterfront property, a piece of real estate someone is willing to kill for. Poison. Kidnapping. Fire. A series of disturbing events leaves the staff reeling...
155) Pitch black
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; 17 cm
Language
English
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