5 Top social justice books like The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets by Phyllis Cole-Dai

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The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

By: Phyllis Cole-Dai

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Who would you be without a home? In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the …

If you liked the social justice plot in The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets by Phyllis Cole-Dai , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Not a Sound

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately… read more

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2. Desert Sojourn: A Woman's Forty Days and Nights Alone

By: None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

At age 31, having left a stifling decade-long marriage, Debi Holmes Binney set off alone into the h… read more

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3. The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

By: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

79-year-old Martha Anderson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intenti… read more

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4. The Dovekeepers

By: Alice Hoffman

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing n… read more

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5. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

By: Jennifer Worth

3.78

Format: 472 pages,

An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one ex… read more

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6. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

By: Richard Grant

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 and 2016 (The Clar… read more

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7. The Watchmaker’s Hand (Lincoln Rhyme, #16)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killin… read more

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8. The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8)

By: Nick Petrie

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the… read more

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9. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

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"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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10. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

By: Meera Shah

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling”  —Cecile Richards, au… read more

Similar categories in Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion book and Phyllis Cole-Dai's The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

By: Sarah Smarsh

3.76

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"

-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

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12. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko

4.03

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more

Similar categories in Radley Balko's The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South book and Phyllis Cole-Dai's The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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13. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

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14. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

By: Regina Jackson

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more

Similar categories in Regina Jackson's White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better book and Phyllis Cole-Dai's The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. The Scandal

By: Nicola Marsh

3.95

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

My life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and… read more

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16. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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17. Dead Body Calls: One Cop's Experiences With Homicides, Suicides, Fatal Accidents, and Natural Deaths

By: Loren W. Christensen

4.20

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Remembering is the death of mercy."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

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19. Open Season (Breed Thriller, #2)

By: Cameron Curtis

4.45

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The Taliban want her dead. But first they have to get past Breed. Breed, a Delta Force veteran, … read more

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20. Close Quarters (Breed Thriller #4)

By: Cameron Curtis

4.39

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep in the jungle, there is a new apex predator. His name is Breed.Deep in the Amazon jungle, a tr… read more

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21. The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

By: Phyllis Cole-Dai

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Who would you be without a home? In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the … read more

Similar categories in Phyllis Cole-Dai's The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets book and Phyllis Cole-Dai's The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • social justice

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3.76

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