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Evicted! : the struggle for the right to vote / by Duncan, Alice Faye,author.(CARDINAL)382930; Palmer, Charly,illustrator.(CARDINAL)353194;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.1080LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Picture books.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Voter registration; Voter suppression;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city [Large print] / by Desmond, Matthew,author.(CARDINAL)345910;
Includes bibliographical references.Cold city -- The business of owning the city -- Making rent -- Hot water -- A beautiful collection -- Thirteenth Street -- Rat hole -- The sick -- Christmas in room 400 -- Order some carryout -- Hypes for hire -- The 'hood is good -- Disposable ties -- E-24 -- High tolerance -- A nuisance -- Ashes on snow -- This is America -- Lobster on food stamps -- Little -- Nobody wants the North Side -- Bigheaded boy -- If they give momma the punishment -- The serenity club -- Can't win for losing -- Home and hope -- About this project.Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
Subjects: Large print books.; Low-income housing; Eviction; Poverty; Profit; Cities and towns;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / by Desmond, Matthew.(CARDINAL)345910;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-405) and index.Cold city -- Rent. The business of owning the city ; Making rent ; Hot water ; A beautiful collection ; Thirteenth Street ; Rat hole ; The sick ; Christmas in Room 400 -- Out. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow -- After. This is America ; Lobster on food stamps ; Little ; Nobody wants the North Side ; Bigheaded boy ; If they give momma the punishment ; The serenity club ; Can't win for losing -- Home and hope -- About this project."[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, "Love don't pay the bills." She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality-- and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Low-income housing; Eviction; Poverty; Profit; Cities and towns;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / by Desmond, Matthew,author.(CARDINAL)345910;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-405) and index.A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a cause of poverty in America, revealing how people are forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by legal systems.
Subjects: Low-income housing; Eviction; Profit; Cities and towns; Public housing; Landlord and tenant; Poverty; Profit.;
Available copies: 60 / Total copies: 82
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Eviction notice / by K'wan.(CARDINAL)466324;
"From #1 Essence bestselling author, K'wan, comes the next installment in his bestselling Hood Rat seriesPorsha: the ghetto princess. Boots: the scandalous baby mama. Frankie aka Francine: the con artist. These three girls live in one apartment and are into all kinds of hood foolishness while having fun. Until one day they find an eviction notice taped to their door. Now they have seventy-two hours to find out how to come up with all the money they owe in months of back rent. Of course Don B. is still up to his old tricks with Big Dawg ENT and trying to find an artist to replace Animal and he comes across a rapper from Newark named Lord Scientific who proves to be much more than even Don B. can handle. Meanwhile, the police and Gucci are still searching for Animal and they'll uncover something about him and his abduction that no one was prepared for. There goes the neighborhood, again!"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Urban fiction.; African American women; African Americans; Street life;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 23
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Eviction notice [sound recording] a hood rat novel / by K'wan.;
"From #1 Essence bestselling author, K'wan, comes the next installment in his bestselling Hood Rat seriesPorsha: the ghetto princess. Boots: the scandalous baby mama. Frankie aka Francine: the con artist. These three girls live in one apartment and are into all kinds of hood foolishness while having fun. Until one day they find an eviction notice taped to their door. Now they have seventy-two hours to find out how to come up with all the money they owe in months of back rent. Of course Don B. is still up to his old tricks with Big Dawg ENT and trying to find an artist to replace Animal and he comes across a rapper from Newark named Lord Scientific who proves to be much more than even Don B. can handle. Meanwhile, the police and Gucci are still searching for Animal and they'll uncover something about him and his abduction that no one was prepared for. There goes the neighborhood, again!"--
Subjects: African American women; African Americans; Audiobooks.; Street life; Urban fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Evictions of Pain: When the only choice I had was to move from it.... / by Nichols, Shanetta.;
Since the womb I was destine to live a life of pain. Instances kept arriving in my life that add more scars to the ones that was always there. Without healing I grew up but my mind didn't. Until one day a change of events had me at a place that either I was going to survive or die. (Amazon)
Subjects: Dysfunctional families.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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99 homes [videorecording] / by Bahrani, Ramin,producer,screenwriter,director.(CARDINAL)558426; Dern, Laura,actor.(CARDINAL)340083; Garfield, Andrew,1983-actor.(CARDINAL)559255; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.(CARDINAL)344061;
Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown, Tim Guinee.When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, he begins working for the ruthless real estate businessman who evicted him and finds himself in an increasingly dangerous situation.MPAA rating: R.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Eviction; Single fathers;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 21
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99 homes / by Brown, ClancyActor(DLC)no 98131251; Dern, Laura,Actor(DLC)n 93083179; Garfield, Andrew,1983-Actor(DLC)no2008178694; Guinee, Tim,Actor(DLC)nr2003004126; Shannon, Michael,1974-Actor(DLC)no2006031203; Evermore, J. D.,1968-Actor(DLC)no2016058965; Bahrani, Ramin,Film directorFilm producerScreenwriterdirectorproducer(DLC)no2008134959; Nādirī, AmīrScreenwriter(DLC)nr 97022866; Amritraj, Ashok,Film producerproducer(DLC)no2003110512; Turen, Kevin,1979-Film producerproducer(DLC)no2007010717; Nappi, Justin,Film producerproducer(DLC)no2014019387; Partos, Antony,Composer(DLC)n 97857761; Zingales, Matteo,1980-Composermusical director(DLC)no2018128584; Bukowski, Bobby,Cinematographerdirector(DLC)no2001055337; Broad Green Pictures (Firm),Presenter(DLC)no2016009014; Hyde Park Entertainment (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2003048462; Image Nation (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2013027463; Noruz Films (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2009017020; TreeHouse Pictures (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2015080553; Videoville Showtime,Publisher(DLC)no2010160788;
Music byAntony Partos & Matteo Zingales ; production designer, Alex DiGerlando ; director of photography, Bobby Bukowski.Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown, Tim Guinee, J.D. Evermore.When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to go to work for Rick Carver, the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal-with-the-devil that provides security for his family; but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films; Fiction films; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Eviction; Single fathers;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great ghost rescue [videorecording] / by Segal, Miriam.; Solomons, David.(CARDINAL)549274; Samuell, Yann,1965-; Fielding, Emma.; McKidd, Kevin.; Mackintosh, Steven.(CARDINAL)436936; Hall, Toby.; Ibbotson, Eva.Great ghost rescue.; Newbridge Film Capital (Firm); Lipsync Productions (Firm); Silver Reel (Firm); Premier Picture (Firm); Good Films (Firm); ARC Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)849389;
DVD; NTSC, region 1, widescreen format ; Dolby digital.Emma Fielding, Kevin McKidd, Steven Mackintosh, Toby Hall.Music, Mark "Dog" Sayfritz ; director of photography, Antoine Roch ; editor, Robert K. Lambert.Rating: Not rated.When ghostly young Humphrey and his family are exorcised from their ancestral castle, their search for a new home to haunt turns up spirits from around the world also left without haunting grounds, as humans are destroying ancient dwellings to make way for modern construction. However, an encounter with a sympathetic human family leads Humphrey to rally his own ghostly family to take back their home.
Subjects: Fantasy films.; Comedy films.; Ghost plays.; Film adaptations.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Haunted houses; Eviction; Families;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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