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Jennie's Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics By Wayne Johnston Cover Image
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice By Jamie K. McCallum Cover Image
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks Cover Image
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Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time By Jacob Wheeler Cover Image
$17.95
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The Power Elite By C. Wright Mills, Alan Wolfe (With) Cover Image
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance Cover Image
$27.99
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Small Loans, Big Dreams, 2022 Edition: Grameen Bank and the Microfinance Revolution in Bangladesh, America, and Beyond By Alex Counts Cover Image
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We Are Not Okay By Christian Livermore, Candice Louisa Daquin (Editor), Christine Ray (Cover Design by) Cover Image
By Christian Livermore, Candice Louisa Daquin (Editor), Christine Ray (Cover Design by)
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger By Katie S. Martin Cover Image
$28.00
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Hillbilly Elegy [movie tie-in]: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance Cover Image
$17.99
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself By Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins (Foreword by), David Platt (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins (Foreword by), David Platt (Foreword by)
$15.99
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America By Monica Potts Cover Image
$41.95
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