Research Guides: New Books in the Library ARCHIVE: Week of April 21, 2014

FEATURED BOOK

Hard Ground by Michael O'Brien (Photographer); Tom Waits (Poems by)
Call Number: HV4505 .O25 2011 [Oversize]
In Hard Ground, award-winning photographer and Michael O'Brien and Tom Waits (described by the New York Times as the "poet of outcasts") have created a portrait of homelessness that impels the reader to look into the eyes of people who live "on the hard ground" and recognize our common humanity. Hard Ground presents both the trials of homelessness and the resilience of people who survive on the streets.

New Books: Circulating Collection - THE HOMELESS

Homeless: Portraits of Americans in Hard Times by Howard Schatz (Photographer)
Call Number: HV4505 .S3 1993 (Oversize)
Presents portraits of 75 of San Francisco's homeless, ages 3 to 94, accompanied by their own stories in some cases.
The Street: A Journey Into Homelessness by B. J. Lacasse
Call Number: HV4506.F67 L33 2012
B. J. Lacasse, photographer and author of The Street, decided to stop 'not noticing' and photograph the homeless of Fort Worth to help the rest of us perceive those we usually try to ignore. In addition to photographing the homeless living in and around the city, she took the time to get to know them as well, keeping a journal of their stories and her observations.

Books are in call number order

What I Keep: Photographs of the New Face of Homelessness and Poverty by Susan Mullally (Photographer)
Call Number: HV4506.W13 M85 2010
A photographic study of twenty-first century poverty, one that transcends class, race, profession, and talent. Susan Mullally photographed the members of Waco, Texas's Church Under the Bridge, a nondenominational, multicultural church that has been meeting below an Interstate overpass for sixteen years. While these individuals have experienced homelessness or incarceration, drug or alcohol addiction, mental illness, profound poverty, and, almost always, deep periods of hopelessness, their portraits present them with dignity and respect.
Dark Waters by James Allison
Call Number: PS3551.L4546 D37 2012
Homelessness documented through poetry and prose.
Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless by Patrick T. Randolph (selected & edited by)
Call Number: PN6110.S56 E47 2009
Empty Shoes is comprised of 150 poems about hunger and homelessness, donated by 80 different poets, many of whom have direct experiences with homelessness. Some of the poets have worked with or advocated for the homeless. Some of them have been homeless themselves.
The Bones of the Homeless by Judy Jones
Call Number: PS3610.O625743 B66 2007
Presents a collection of poems and photographs to and about the homeless and poor of the world.

New DVDs on HOMELESSNESS

Easy Street by Wideyed Films
Call Number: DVD 0348
Publication Date: 2007
According to homeless people and experts alike, St. Petersburg, Florida is one of the best places to be if you're homeless. Over the course of one year, the filmmakers documented the daily existence of homeless people throughout the city. Focusing on five individuals with varied backgrounds and circumstances, this film reveals who homeless people really are and what they do to survive.
Exposing Homelessness by Documentary Educational Resources
Call Number: DVD 0349
Publication Date: 2007
Exposing Homelessness documents the experiences of Midori Meissen, Bréyon Austin, and Liz Olsen, three formerly homeless women who participated in a three-month photography workshop. They received 35mm cameras and were instructed in the art of black-and-white photography. They were asked to use photography to express their insight into the issue of homelessness through their personal experiences. Diverse in age, race, class, and citizenship, the women challenge the stereotype of homelessness.
Tent City, U.S.A. by Virgil Films & Entertainment
Call Number: DVD 0350
Publication Date: 2012
Nashville, Tennessee is home to a fast rising tent city population. With a shelter system that cannot support even 1 out of 5 of the city's homeless population, most people have nowhere to go. Nearly 100 homeless individuals have come together to form Nashville's Tent City, an encampment located under a bridge close to the city's center. This film examines this community, which is self-sustaining and self-governed with its own council of eight Tent City residents who meet weekly to discuss residents' issues. The critical issue is that the camp must be moved and the residents must find somewhere else to go.
Tokyo Godfathers by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Call Number: DVD 0351
Publication Date: 2004
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
Without A Home by Breaking Glass Pictures
Call Number: DVD 0352
Publication Date: 2011
Filmmaker Rachel Fleischer spent four years creating this documentary that enters the lives of six homeless individuals in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. The film's subjects include families in temporary housing, a street performer who depends on banjo-playing for income, and a heroin-addicted man living in Skid Row, an area that contains one of the largest homeless populations in the United States.

Hawaii Pacific Collection

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūleʻa, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian renaissance by Sam Low
Call Number: GN440.2 .H393 2013
The true story of Hōkūleʻa and the men and women who sailed in the wake of their ancestors to discover pride in their culture and themselves.

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Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography by Kathryn Spink
Call Number: BX4406.5.Z8 S65 2011
Newly revised and updated, here is the complete story of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a woman regarded by millions as a contemporary saint for her dedication to serving the poorest of the poor.
The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Roland H. Bainton
Call Number: BR305.2 .B298 1985
Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029.R8 N49 1977
1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Call Number: PS3619.T636 H45 2011
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; W. Marriott (Translator)
Call Number: PT2617.E85 S53 2013
Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.