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"American families are losing their homes. Evicted with little notice and tossed into the streets by predatory bankers, landlords, and real estate developers...But one tight knit community is fighting back. They've decided to stand their ground...and fight the power--with firepower...Enter Joseph Knox, a military veteran whose parents have been targeted in an illegal scheme to turn their quiet but slightly rundown neighborhood into luxury condos...With...
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Faced with eviction from their Brooklyn brownstone at the hands of the unscrupulous son of their widowed landlady, a group of tenants, each with their own daily struggles, must turn to each other to find the security, family, and love that the world has denied them.
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Hildafolk volume 2
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Nobrow press
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IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Hilda seeks a truce with the elves living around her family's mountain home after receiving eviction notices from them, and investigates a furry giant that comes to her house at night.
5) Landscapes of injustice: a new perspective on the internment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians
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Rethinking Canada in the world volume 5
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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English
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"In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the...
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A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.
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PAWS volume 3
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Razorbill
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English
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"The holidays have arrived for the PAWS team! And the girls are about to discover that not all surprises are necessarily good ones. Gabby's parents finally get her a cell phone for Christmas, but instead of only using it for emergencies, she soon gets swept up in posting about PAWS online. When one of her cute doggo videos goes viral, she becomes obsessed with getting internet famous. Meanwhile, Priya receives some awful news: her family is being...
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