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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.1097 METZL 2019
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362.1097 METZL 2019
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In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans,...
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Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO SMARSH 2018
1 available
BIO SMARSH 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO SMARSH 2018
1 available
BIO SMARSH 2018
1 available
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Traces the author's turbulent childhood on a Kansas farm in the 1980s and 1990s to reveal her firsthand experiences with cyclical poverty and the corrosive impact of intergenerational poverty on individuals, families and communities.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
2 available
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
2 available
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
1 available
306.0973 KRISTO 2020
1 available
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"A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."Tara Westover, author of Educated. The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
2 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
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"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.5097 ARNADE 2019
1 available
362.5097 ARNADE 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.5097 ARNADE 2019
1 available
362.5097 ARNADE 2019
1 available
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"Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
In Processing - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
CD BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
CD BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO VANCE 2016
2 available
LP BIO VANCE 2016
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
LP BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
LP BIO VANCE 2016
1 available
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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America--what it really is and how to eliminate it now.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
339.46 EDIN 2015
1 available
339.46 EDIN 2015
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
339.46 EDIN 2015
1 available
339.46 EDIN 2015
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"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
2 available
BIO LAND 2019
2 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.4844 SANDLE 2020
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305.4844 SANDLE 2020
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"More than forty-five million Americans attempt to survive under the poverty line, day by day. Nearly 60,000 people sleep in New York City-run shelters every night--forty percent of them children. This Is All I Got makes this issue deeply personal, vividly depicting one woman's hope and despair and her steadfast determination to improve her situation, despite the myriad setbacks she encounters. Camila is a twenty-two-year-old new mother. She has no...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHRENR 2021
1 available
305.569 EHRENR 2021
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
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In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.
"The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.5097 TIRADO 2014
1 available
362.5097 TIRADO 2014
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.5097 TIRADO 2014
1 available
362.5097 TIRADO 2014
1 available
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A controversial essayist on poverty draws on her own experiences to profile the realities of the working poor in America and why poor people make decisions that are popularly criticized.
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"A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries--the business of poverty"--Provided by publisher.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ARCENEAUX 2020
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BIO ARCENEAUX 2020
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"Ever since Oprah Winfrey told the 2007 graduating class of Howard University, 'Don't be afraid,' Michael Arceneaux has been scared to death. You should never do the opposite of what Oprah instructs you to do, but when you don't have her pocket change, how can you not be terrified of the consequences of pursuing your dreams? Michael has never shied away from discussing his struggles with debt, but in I Don't Want to Die Poor, he reveals the extent...
15) The salt path
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5097 ISENBE 2016
1 available
305.5097 ISENBE 2016
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5097 ISENBE 2016
1 available
305.5097 ISENBE 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 305.509 ISENBE 2016
1 available
CD 305.509 ISENBE 2016
1 available
Description
Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society....