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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Begging for change Begging for change Sharon G. Flake Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways. OL15867325W
The Lost Memory of Skin The Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison w… OL16099623W
The fractured life of 3743 The fractured life of 3743 Rob Cabitto "Rob Cabitto's story of his fractured life being redeemed is a powerful and cautionary tale of how a life can go horribly wrong. When Rob was five, he was put up for adoption because of the severe ad… OL16664019W
Back up Back up Paul Colize "Berlin, 1967: four members of the British rock band Pearl Harbour die at the same time but in separate locations. Inexplicably, the police conclude natural causes are to blame. Brussels, 2010: A hom… OL19737653W
A street cat named Bob A street cat named Bob James Bowen When London street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. OL19966317W
Shi jie shang de ling yi ge ni = Shi jie shang de ling yi ge ni = Ron Hall The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an a… OL19971499W
A gift from Bob A gift from Bob James Bowen From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A ST… OL20865325W
Lifeless Lifeless Mark Billingham Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been redu… OL5727560W