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Laurel Estabrook's life changes drastically after being attacked. She goes from being outgoing to withdraw, her photography and work at a homeless shelter are now her life. Laurel meets Bobby, a mentally ill man, at the shelter with a box of photos he won't let anyone see. When he dies she discovers that he photographed celebrities. Laurel becomes obsessed and searches for the truth of his former life.
2) Just gone
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Angelique's work at a homeless shelter takes a strange turn when she encounters seven-year-old Jamal and his fantastic stories about a mysterious character named Jacky Wacky who looks out for vulnerable children.
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"It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together...
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 1
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Sometimes you find hope in the last place you look.
Gabrielle Fairbanks has nearly lost touch with the carefree, spirited young woman she was shen she married her husband sixteen years ago. But when the couple moves to Chicago to accommodate Philip's ambition, Gabby longs for the chance to find real purpose in her own life.
A chance encounter with a homeless woman suddenly opens a dooor she never expected. The women of Manna House Women's Shelter...
5) Shelter
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While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
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More than a quarter of a million people in the United States stay at some type of homeless shelter. One out of seven of those people is a youth, age eighteen or younger. Readers will learn that teens are especially vulnerable to the risks and consequences
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"Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching-is his Aleford parish his true calling? One night in downtown Boston, Faith is startled by a face from her past. It's Richard Morgan, a former boyfriend from her life as a single woman in Manhattan. Their heady, whirlwind affair...
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"This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women's shelter through the eyes of a young girl, who, with her mother's help, uses her imagination to overcome her anxiety and adjust. Includes factual endnotes detailing various reasons people experience homelessness and the resources available to help."--Publisher's website.
11) Sunday
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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[2004]
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English
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Madeleine wakes one Sunday to face her stagnant acting career and failing marriage. That same day, unemployed computer technician Oliver finds himself in a homeless shelter. When Madeleine mistakes Oliver for a film director, they spend the day together.
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 5
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Scribner
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In Leeds, England, a Pakistani girl flees to a homeless center for youths to avoid an arranged marriage, but the family comes after her and blood flows. The black policeman, Charlie Peace, investigates.
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ITV Studios Home Entertainment
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c2010
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The Christmas hope: After suffering a personal tragedy, Patty and Mark Addison take in a young orphan girl who changes the lives of everyone she meets. The Christmas choir: A workaholic discovers the spirit of Christmas through a chance encounter with a homeless man, and volunteers to start a Christmas choir at a homeless shelter.
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Hope Springs novels volume 5
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Montlake Romance
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[2015]
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English
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"No matter how many years Dakota Keller has spent trying, he can't outrun his past, so when a private investigator tells him his sister needs him, he travels to the small Texas town of Hope Springs to start a new life with the support of his siblings. When he arrives to do a routine construction job at the town's new espresso bar, he's shocked to discover that the owner is Thea Clark--the girl he couldn't resist in high school and whose memory kept...
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Izzard Ink Publishing
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[2021]
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"This book is based on author's and others' experiences working for Volunteers of America at a homeless transitional housing program in Northern California. These experiences represent the current changing landscape for the homeless population across the country and the future for them as citizens. (This work represents the views and opinion of the author and it is not intended to represent the opinions, views, or position of any private or public...
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