Economic Hardship Reporting Project Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Liberating Ourselves: Attaining Personal Freedom to Release Creative Potential
Scott Teitsworth
🤩 @lisquart’s upcoming book, “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,” got a starred review from @KirkusReviews! Read the full review of our executive director’s book—which is available for pre-order now and out March 14—right here! https://t.co/EmVLfgBt82
Paperback, 2016
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Debt Project: 99 Portraits Across America
Brittany M. Powell
The Debt Project: 99 Portraits Across America is a new book from Brittany M. Powell (@Surferbrat), an EHRP contributor. It features handwritten notes from subjects of Powell's photos, giving human faces to a massive crisis that impacts 45 million people. https://t.co/5Vmqrqvf62
Hardcover, 2020
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Alissa Quart
"In Bootstrapped, @lisquart provides practical solutions for ...creating a new American Dream based not on 'rugged individualism' but on social solidarity." Hear EHRP's Alissa Quart talk her new book on @WritersVoice podcast with Francesca Rheannon! https://t.co/TJ8Lh37xYE
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Squid Game: Korean Children's Games, Ethics and Instructions
Squid Game Editions
Check out this @codepink event featuring @marwilliamson & @StrikeDebt press sec @Braxtonbrew96! ICYMI Braxton recently wrote an incredible op-ed for @TeenVogue & EHRP about similarities between predatory student loans and Squid Game: https://bit.ly/3nG7klq Read it, then RSVP👇 https://twitter.com/codepink/status/1477789195997483016
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You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility
Annabelle Gurwitch
🎉We are thrilled to see EHRP contributor @LAGurwitch receiving this incredibly deserved honor from @ThurberHouse Learn more about Annabelle’s book, YOU’RE LEAVING WHEN?, a humorous, incisive memoir about economic hardships we experience in our mid-life: https://t.co/VWGrthwXGG https://t.co/NRQGvwXUS6
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
“You don’t need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high.” — Barbara Ehrenreich in “Nickel and Dimed,” 2001 Happy birthday to our founder! https://t.co/Mmirm0A2CW
Hardcover, 2021
$38.80$19.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich
An excerpt from “Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers,” a book by our late founder, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Deirdre English. #InternationalWomensDay https://t.co/thGT0cvKFO
Paperback, 2010
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage
Rian Dundon
Published by @osupress, Rian Dundon’s PROTEST CITY features a foreword by @donnyshell and a historical introduction by Carmen P. Thompson. We’re grateful to have supported this critical project alongside @MagnumFND Available for order now ⬇️ https://t.co/HkHFYZi0Ni
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Li've: A Lesbian Action Adventure
L. Fergus
Next week, we're bringing the insightful, critical conversations in Going for Broke with @RaySuarezNews to you LIVE🎙 Ray and @StrikeDebt's Ann Larson will be in conversation with @GRITlaura of @theLFshow on WEDS, Nov 17 at 8pm ET. REGISTER NOW: http://bit.ly/3C4RCVV https://t.co/WRLliUsBhE
Paperback, 2019
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Farah Stockman
This weekend, hear more about how factory closures are hurting U.S. workers in this conversation with EHRP’s @lisquart and “American Made” author @fstockman. Airing on @cspan 2’s @BookTV 📚 Tune into #AfterWords this Sunday, 12/26, at 1pm or 10pm ET👇 https://twitter.com/BookTV/status/1474009398192214018
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book