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Tag: Poverty

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth,Joy and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth

  This book is the genesis of the popular NetFlix series of the same name, and I am admitted latecomer … More

Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, nursing, Post War England, Poverty

Drafting the Next Strategic Plan

The Thunder Bay Public Library (TBPL) Strategic Plan 2014-18 is drawing to a close and we can look back with … More

community conversations, community led, community survey, employment, five year plan, health, healthy community, Homelessness, inclusion, leadership, needs based, partnerships, Poverty, public transportation, racism, safety, strategic plan, strategic plan 2014-18, strategic plan 2019-23, Thunder Bay, wellness, youth

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

This book was hugely popular when it first came out in 2005 and continues to be seven years later. I’d … More

childhood, Dysfunctional Families, Family Relationships, Homelessness, Jeannette Walls, memoir, Neglecct, Parenting, Poverty

Fifty Shades of Drivel vs. Tobacco Road

This is called killing two birds with one stone and, yes, I realize that putting these two books together in … More

American Literature, Bondage, books into films, books into movies, contemporary, Cotton Farming, Domination, E.L. James, Erotica, Erskine Caldwell, Fifty Shades of Grey, Georgia, Great Depression, Hardship, historical, Poverty, romance, Submission

Ironweed, by William Kennedy

“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing.” I had … More

alcoholism, books into films, books into movies, Bums, drama, Drifters, Great Depression, historical, Homeless, Poverty, Pulitzer Prize, William Kennedy

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