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"From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with...
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams -- breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attending a university, and becoming a writer -- were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, working days and taking college classes online. She also began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans....
3) Empire Falls
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Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.
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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics volume nos. 109, 117, 118, 123, 158, 159, 162, 167, 170, 172, 174, 183, 263, 266, 268, 271, 282, 295, 299, 307, 313, 314, 318, 319, 323, 326, 340, 342, 346, 347, 349, 352, 361, 368, 372, 380, 383, 384, 386, 389, 393, 397, 398, 401, 402, 411, 419, 420, 424, 429, 437, 439, 448, 449, 455, 458, 459, 461, 462, 465, 467, 469, 474, 479, 480, 483, 489, 491, 500, 505, 506, 508, 518, 524, 530, 531, 541, 545, 561, 563, 565, 599, 605, 609
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1913-1933.
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volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
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176 pages ; 21 cm
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Perhaps one of the most revered works of twentieth-century fiction, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. In the title story, a reform-school cross-country runner seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life.
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"Stories from a lost American classic" in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace...
8) Martin Eden
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"Smitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's determined striving leads to a resolve to become a writer himself but his success comes at the price of disillusionment, leaving him stranded between his proletariat origins...
9) The jungle
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
11) The moth
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[1986]
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As World War I approaches, Foreshaw Park, the run-down estate of the once-wealthy Thorman family, is the setting for the burgeoning romance between the Thormans' elder daughter, Agnes, and hired-hand Robert Bradley.
15) Three lives
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The stories of three young ordinary working class women are portrayed in this volume.
19) Shuggie Bain
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
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