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"Someone, somewhere is always hungry. This obvious fact, but one that's all too easy to ignore, confronted journalist Stephen Henderson with full force when he was on assignment in India. It was here that he first learned of massive soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses or worship (gundwaras). After volunteering for a week at Gundwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi--which feeds 20,000 men, women, and children every day--Henderson became curious about the very...
2) One good dog
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One good dog volume 1
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The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or ofr his rebellious teenage daughter. Then, in an instant, he loses everything. Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter, serving men he'd always gone out of his way to avoid. Chance was born in an inner-city cellar, a mix of pit pull and...
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When Jess's father orders her to work at a soup kitchen for the summer, she meets Flynn, a classmate from the wrong side of the tracks, and discovers that sometimes the person who shouldn't fit in your world is the one who finally makes you feel as if you belong.
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"John van Hengel started the world's first food bank in 1967 and went on to create a network of food banks through Feeding America. The concept of getting food that would otherwise be wasted to people who are hungry has spread throughout the world. Gottesfeld's warm text and Agatha's lively art shows that there's no shame in being hungry - the shame lies in how long it took for someone to figure out how to feed people! All it took was one person with...
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Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people Joel Higgins hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty much every moment thinking about Eli, the most amazing girl in the world. But that doesn't mean he's keeping it together, or even that he has any friends. He's drafted 901 text messages-- but never presses send. But as Joel spends more...
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"Set in and around the busyness of a food pantry and soup kitchen in a nameless town, the story lyrically describes each contribution to the lifeblood of the organization--from the farmers, who give their food to the volunteers who give their time to the recipients who give their thanks--showing how everyone can both literally and metaphorically 'stir the pot' and contribute to the effort of ending hunger."--