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Branch: Virtual
Date: Saturday, 29 January 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual event. Email bethanym@oldhampl.org for a link to the meeting on zoom.
Adult Writers Group

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Branch: LaGrange
Date: Monday, 31 January 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Location: 308 Yager Ave,
LaGrange, KY 40031
Tax Prep
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Branch: Virtual
Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: This is a virtual program.
Virtual Preschool Storytime
Virtual Story Time is for children ages 3 & up.

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Joe Bell [videorecording (DVD)]

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive [paperback bestseller]

Land, Stephanie

Born behind bars

Venkatraman, Padma

Silas House : exploring an Appalachian writer's work

Front desk [electronic resource (playaway)]

Yang, Kelly

Watercress

Wang, Andrea

Simon B. Rhymin'

Reed, Dwayne

A wish in the dark

Soontornvat, Christina

Appalachian fall : dispatches from coal country on what's ailing America

Young, Jeff

Front desk [electronic resource]

Yang, Kelly

Soul full of coal dust : a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia

Hamby, Chris

Tortilla Flat : with an introduction by Thomas Fensch

Steinbeck, John

Quest : a portrait of an American family [videorecording (DVD)]

Troop 6000 : how a group of homeless Girl Scouts inspired the world

Stewart, Nikita

Voices worth the listening : three women of Appalachia

Burton, Thomas G.

Invisible Americans : the tragic cost of child poverty

Madrick, Jeff

Smacked : a story of white-collar ambition, addiction, and tragedy

Zimmerman, Eilene

Free lunch

Ogle, Rex

Welcome homeless : one man's journey of discovering the meaning of home

Graham, Alan

Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Chambers, Cassie

Jackpot

Stone, Nic

Beaten down, worked up : the past, present, and future of American labor

Greenhouse, Steven

On the clock : what low-wage work did to me and how it drives America insane

Guendelsberger, Emily

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian [electronic resource (playaway)

Alexie, Sherman

A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century

DeParle, Jason

The Public [videorecording (DVD)]

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

Land, Stephanie

Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth

Smarsh, Sarah

Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression

Terkel, Studs

No fixed address

Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin

Sold on a Monday : a novel

McMorris, Kristina

Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America

Griswold, Eliza

Tobacco road

Caldwell, Erskine

Squeezed : why our families can't afford America

Quart, Alissa

Front desk

Yang, Kelly

Still a family

Reeves Sturgis, Brenda

On our street : our first talk about poverty

Roberts, Jillian

Ramp Hollow : the ordeal of Appalachia

Stoll, Steven

Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century

Bruder, Jessica

The broken ladder : how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die

Payne, Keith

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Vance, J. D.

A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Ziegelman, Jane

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Vance, J. D.

City of Joy [videorecording (DVD)]

White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America

Isenberg, Nancy

The lady in the van [videorecording (DVD)]

Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city

Desmond, Matthew

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Those shoes

Boelts, Maribeth

Fanny says

Brown, Nickole

Scarcity : why having too little means so much

Mullainathan, Sendhil

The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap

Taibbi, Matt.

Mary Coin

Silver, Marisa.

Beasts of the southern wild [videorecording (DVD)]

Economix : how our economy works (and doesn't work) in words and pictures

Goodwin, Michael

Why nations fail the origins of power, prosperity and poverty / [electronic resource] :

Acemoglu, Daron.

Smile for the camera : a memoir

James, Kelle.

Banker to the poor micro-lending and the battle against world poverty / [electronic resource] :

Yunus, Muhammad

Breaking night a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard / [electronic resource] :

Murray, Liz

Broke, USA from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. : how the working poor became big business / [electronic resource] :

Rivlin, Gary.

I beat the odds from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond / [electronic resource] :

Oher, Michael.

I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond

Oher, Michael.

Rags and riches : kids in the time of Charles Dickens, a nonfiction companion to A ghost tale for Christmas time

Osborne, Mary Pope

A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge

Neufeld, Josh

Dark days [videorecording (DVD)].

Grapes of wrath [videorecording (DVD)]

No small thing

Ghent, Natale

Beyond Goose Creek -- river of no return : daily life in rural America during the great depression

Keith, Preston J.

Girlbomb : a halfway homeless memoir

Erlbaum, Janice

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Alexie, Sherman

Hillbilly women

Kahn, Kathy.

In the east Kentucky hills

Quillen, Bess Bradley.

My Appalachia : a reminiscence

Caudill, Rebecca

Night comes to the Cumberlands : a biography of a depressed area

Caudill, Harry M.

Theirs be the power : the moguls of eastern Kentucky

Caudill, Harry M.
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