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Life in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi is difficult for ten-year-old Safiyah, who makes money by selling items from the garbage dump. However, the stack of glossy magazines she finds inspires her to create a mural on the side of her tin shack that brings hope to her and her grandmother, Cucu.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

Hayate Ayasaki's new career as a live-in butler for the rich Sanzenin family comes with more responsibilities than Hayate expected and may cost him his life.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Argues that the influences of the 1960s in helping the poor has adversely affected the people who were presumably being helped.

Collects Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," and "Summer," depicting a New England farmer who falls in love with his hypochondriac wife's cousin and the love affair between humble New England woman and an aristocratic man; and includes writings on the historical context of the work and critical essays.

Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.

"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities"--.

Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.