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Author
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first...
84) Ghost towns
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
86) Rough sleepers
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
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"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An expose of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem, examines how inmates are denied treatment, and suggests a more humane approach.
Author
Publisher
Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ethnographic sociologist by training, Mary Gatta went undercover as a client in a New Jersey One Stop Career Center. One Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, with swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are these centers fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs? Weaving together her account...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia - a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children's Community. Begun with just $50 in the pocket of Wayne Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a...
99) Satan's pony
Author
Series
Dr. Jo Banks mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 376 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities,...
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