Alamosa Public Library

The memoir of a young woman who at age 15 was living on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard. Murray's story was featured in the Lifetime Original Movie "Homeless to Harvard."

Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, college student Jeff COnverse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a place far deadlier than any penitentiary. Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers.

"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins...

Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.

When police find two odd skeletons locked in a bony embrace deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, Natural History curator Margo Green is called in to aid in the investigation.

This book tells how Denver Moore, an African American, was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before Deborah Hall, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

"A failed prodigy and child of divorce, Francesca Dunn is also an adolescent like any other, trying to find her identity and figure out her place in the world. On night Chester, a visionary homeless man (or an insane one, depending on your point of view), "sees" Francesca hovering over the river, bathed in celestial light. Days later, as Francesca serves meals to the needy in a local cafe, Chester falls to his knees before her in adoration. Word spreads,...

Discusses the problem of homelessness in our society, how and why people become homeless, what happens to homeless people, and possible remedies for this situation.

Wealthy London socialite Amanda Powell, becomes the subject of intense scrutiny at the hands of a cynical journalist when a homeless man is found dead on her property.

A novel in verse follows the experiences of Molly, who is forced to confront painful realities in her own life while struggling to help Red, a spirited but mentally ill homeless girl during the holiday season