Seeking Shelter
A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
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From the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amidst the devastating housing crisis.
In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America’s housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This is Hobbs’s first book since The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace that focuses on a single character and her extraordinarily illuminating journey.
In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network that offers no clear pathway for her children to remain together and in a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn works full time as a waitress yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while she strives to provide stability, education, loving memories, and college aspirations for her children even as they sleep in motels and in her car, living in fear of both her ex and the nation’s largest child welfare agency. Eventually Evelyn encounters Wendi Gaines, a recently trained social worker who decades earlier survived her own abusive marriage and housing crisis. Evelyn becomes one of Wendi’s first clients, and the relationship transforms them both.
Told from the perspectives of Evelyn, Wendi, and Evelyn’s teenaged son, Orlando, Seeking Shelter is a powerful and urgent exploration of the issues of homelessness, poverty, and education in America—a must-hear for anyone interested in understanding not just social inequality and economic disparity in our society but also the power of a mother’s love and vision for her kids.
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Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The mixture of fantasy and reality
- De Amazon Customer en 03-23-25
De: Eowyn Ivey
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Paris Undercover
- A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Kristi Burns
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. With the help of a French country priest and others, they set out to rescue British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines—some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints hidden inside the trunk of their car.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great history marred by terrible reader
- De gail en 03-01-25
De: Matthew Goodman
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Woody Allen
- A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham
- De: Patrick McGilligan
- Narrado por: Seth Lews
- Duración: 34 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Across nearly nine eventful decades, Woody Allen’s life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar’s television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequential American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Final Impressions (after First Impressions)
- De Buretto en 02-08-25
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Calling In
- De: Loretta J. Ross
- Narrado por: Loretta J. Ross
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole career.
De: Loretta J. Ross
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The Mother Next Door
- Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
- De: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
- Narrado por: Andrea Dunlop
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
No bond is more sacred than the one between a mother and child. And no figure is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the reason for the illness? What if the sympathy is the point? With help from some of the top MBP experts in the world, Dunlop and Weber uncover the complex maze of psychological, systemic, and cultural issues that compound MBP and offer solutions for how we might find our way out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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When nonfiction is more terrifying than fiction
- De Bob en 04-25-25
De: Andrea Dunlop, y otros
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Ends of the Earth
- Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
- De: Neil Shubin
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Renowned scientist Neil Shubin has made extraordinary discoveries by leading scientific expeditions to the sweeping ice landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic. He’s survived polar storms, traveled in temperatures that can freeze flesh in seconds, and worked hundreds of miles from the nearest humans, all to deepen our understanding of our world. Written with infectious enthusiasm and irresistible curiosity, Ends of the Earth blends travel writing, science, and history in a book brimming with surprising and wonderful discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent scientific view of the poles
- De Prosanta Chakrabarty en 02-27-25
De: Neil Shubin