We Live in Water: Stories
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From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly...
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Derek Zanetti, also known as The Homeless Gospel Choir, is a protest singer, author and artist based...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
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Living as an Ordinary Radical Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving...
Last Stories and Other Stories
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Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner...
Max Einstein: the Genius Experiment
James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
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Albert Einstein + James Patterson = A Must Read! The world's #1 bestselling author has teamed up...
An Orchestra of Minorities
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A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside in Books
Mar 20, 2023
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The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside
By Jessica Ryn
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She’s not lost. She’s just waiting to be found…
‘Completely beguiling – a messy, loveable cast of characters with Dawn at the centre, bringing the light. A truly lovely read’
Beth Morrey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Saving Missy
Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for twenty-two years and two months, precisely.
So when she is offered a bed in St Jude’s Hostel for the Homeless, it means so much more than just a roof over her head.
But with St Jude’s threatened with closure, Dawn worries that everything is about to crumble around her all over again.
Perhaps, with a little help from her new friends, she can find a way to save this light in the darkness?
And maybe, just maybe, Dawn will finally have a place to call home….
It was good sad in places and makes you think that life’s events can change our lives. It was an easy read not something I usually pick up! Overall it was a 3 star as nothing really jump out and grabbed me.
Harshini (25 KP) rated The Bunker Diary in Books
Jan 4, 2018
Since Linus is captured by the strange 'blind' man, all he wants to do is figure out where he is and why he's there. His family was rich, though he had lived for a while as a homeless boy since he hated his family, so he assumed it was for the money, but when more people enter the bunker Linus appears to be locked in, he realises that money cannot be the reason. Soon, a strange rag-tag bunch of people are assembled in the bunker and they have to learn to live together. Slowly, though, they realise things about the way they live. They cannot communicate directly to the person who kidnapped them, but they can write notes in the only exit - an elevator. The entire book is Linus' diary.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Down and Out in Paris and London in Books
Sep 9, 2017
His life living with an extrovert Russian in Paris is vivid, describing real hunger, having had nothing to eat for several days. He ends up working in a few godforsaken squalid hotels in Paris as a dishwasher, with long hours just to make ends meet and quench his hunger. Eventually, after working with rats, he has no choice but to return to England (borrowing money) and finds that it isn't much different. The homeless shelters are basically prison cells, dark and dangerous, but a way to keep off the streets.
In the end, he attempts to give recommendations to what can be done to alleviate the plight of the poverty stricken. It is another interesting chapter of his short but eventful life.