Homelessness is not new to Vancouver. There have been homeless people in Vancouver since it was founded in 1886. As in other major North American cities, until the late '70s and early '80s homelessness in Vancouver followed the economic...
Homeless persons
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Auteur:Barnholden, Michael Dorn, Newman, NancySommaire: -
Auteur:Clark, TrevorSommaire:"Seven Floors Down follows the lives of Ryder and Kendall through bouts of homicide and homelessness, beginning when Ryder gets out of jail and crashes with his alcoholic friend who, on the verge of being evicted, remains...
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Auteur:Chinn, KarenSommaire:Sam meets a stranger who helps him make the perfect decision on how to spend his lucky money.
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Auteur:Bourgois, Philippe I.Sommaire:This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors...
- Auteur:Townsend, SueSommaire:
Coventry Dakin is forced to flee her life as a wife and mother after she accidentally murders her neighbor. Ending up alone on the streets of London, Coventry encounters motley characters who perfectly encapsulate the zeitgeist of 1980s...
- Auteur:Wagamese, RichardSommaire:
Four chronically homeless people -- Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger -- seek refuge in a warm movie theater when a severe Arctic front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary...
- Auteur:Sylvestre, OlivierSommaire:
Après dix années passées dans l'antre de la bête, un intervenant nous ouvre la porte de son centre de répit pour toxicomanes, avec sa sonnette stridente et sa vitre pare-balles, sa lasagne, ses larmes et ses espoirs fous, malgré tout....
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Auteur:Lohans, AlisonSommaire:Sisters Jennifer and Sarah were once part of a happy, stable family, but their idyllic life comes to an abrupt halt with the death of their mother. Unable to cope with his grief and the needs of his two young daughters, their father...
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Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willlow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and...
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Auteur:Nielsen, SusinSommaire:From beloved Governor General Literary Award-winning author Susin Nielsen comes a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness. Felix Knuttson, twelve, is an...
- Auteur:Prosapio, DesireéSommaire:
If you found a matchbook with a phone number, would you call? What would you do if a murderer answered? Award-winning writer Desireé Prosapio's suspense novel Matchbook follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine. Driven into...
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Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing. The...
- Auteur:Spalding, EstaSommaire:
Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease - as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car. Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related...
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Auteur:Watson, CristySommaire:In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid teachers. He hangs out at the coffee shop with his best friend after school. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But...
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Auteur:Kowalski, WilliamSommaire:Mother Anqelique runs a shelter for homeless mothers and their children in a run-down inner-city area, where drug addiction, prostitution and random acts of violence are facts of life. One day, newly orphaned Jamal and his sister...
- Auteur:Peters, Evelyn J., Christensen, Julia, Andrew, Paul, Aubry, Tim, Belanger, Yale, Bird, Cynthia, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Bonnycastle, Marleny M., Brown, Deidre, Cherner, Rebecca, Christensen, Julia, Franks, Patricia, Farrell, Susan, Freistadt, Joshua, Green, Charmaine, Greenop, Kelly, Groot, Shiloh, Hodgetts, Darrin, Kern, Selena, Wiremu King, Pita Richard, Klodawsky, Fran, Lindstrom, Gabrielle, Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Parrel, Julia, Peters, Evelyn J., Prout, Sarah, Rua, Mohi, Schiff, Rebecca, Schiff, Rebecca, Siddle, Annette, Simpkins, Maureen, Smith, Barbara A., Thurston, Wilfreda E., Turner, Alina, Turner, David, Waegemakers Schiff, Jeanette, Te Whetu, Tiniwai Chas, Willetts, RobSommaire:
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples...
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Auteur:Armstrong, LuanneSommaire:In I’ll Be Home Soon, Luanne Armstrong takes the reader on a tension-filled ride as Regan, a young girl living in the inner city, searches for her mother who has mysteriously disappeared. Homeless but by no means hapless, Regan is on...
- Auteur:Sachar, LouisSommaire:
A miscarriage of justice sends Stanley Yelnats to a harsh juvenile detention center. While the warden claims that the hard labor that the boys are subjected to is meant to build character, it becomes clear that she is really using the...
- Auteur:DiCamillo, KateSommaire:
Frances is worried about the monkey and organ grinder who play near her window, especially after she sees them sleeping outside on the cold street after midnight. To express her compassion, she finds just the right thing to say at the...
- Auteur:Glasgow, KathleenSommaire:
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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