Poverty Memoir

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    • A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival
    • By: Cash Carraway
    • Narrated by: Cash Carraway
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • It’s a luxury to afford morals, and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Fat Joe, Shaheem Reid
    • Narrated by: Fat Joe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum–selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls back the curtain on his larger-than-life persona in this gritty, intimate memoir about growing up in the South Bronx and finding his voice through music....

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    • Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
    • By: Kerry Hudson
    • Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prize-winning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns....

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    • A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
    • By: Natasha Carthew
    • Narrated by: Natasha Carthew
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Undercurrent is part-memoir, part-investigation, part love-letter to Cornwall. It is a vivid, powerful exploration of rural poverty, and the often devastating impact of living without the means or support to build a future....

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    • One Man and the Battle for Rio
    • By: Misha Glenny
    • Narrated by: Misha Glenny
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal....

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    • A True Story of Life in the Open
    • By: Emma Tarlo
    • Narrated by: Emma Tarlo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Nick and Pascal live and sleep outside in central London. They are an unusual duo: Nick is an avid reader of history and philosophy able to converse on any topic; Pascal is quiet, spending much of his time lying still, communicating silently with birds and animals....

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    • Finding Home in a System That Fails Us
    • By: Kieran Yates
    • Narrated by: Kieran Yates
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • By the age of twenty-five journalist Kieran Yates had lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Terri White
    • Narrated by: Terri White
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing....

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    • The Good News and the Bad News About Our Society
    • By: Jon Snow
    • Narrated by: Jon Snow
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • It is rare in history that so many nations in the developed world are in crisis at the same time. There has been a disintegration of trust in political leaders and in the media that holds them to account....

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    • My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood
    • By: J. Michael Straczynski
    • Narrated by: Peter Jurasik
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television, and comics. Yet there’s one story he’s never told before: his own....

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    • Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
    • By: Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....

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    • A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
    • By: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Scott Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....

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    • A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
    • By: Monica Potts
    • Narrated by: Monica Potts
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Poignant and unforgettable, The Forgotten Girls is a story of coming of age as the American dream ends - and a new American classic....

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    • How We Have Been Lied to About African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing
    • By: Magatte Wade
    • Narrated by: Magatte Wade
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Join the movement for Africa's rightful place in the 21st century: fostering innovation, earning prosperity, and growing into an economic powerhouse. Wade's impassioned voice promises nothing less than the dawn of a new era....

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    • How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....

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    • By: Jeff Pearce
    • Narrated by: Robin Morrissey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything and proof that, sometimes, rags can be turned into riches....

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