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"A KNOCKOUT STORY!"
From New York Times
Bestselling Cleo Coyle


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To keep his legacy, he must keep his wife. But she's about to change the game.


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A haunting past. A heartbreaking secret. A love that still echoes across time.


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A city slicker. A country cowboy. A love they didn�t plan for.


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A string of fires. A growing attraction. And a danger neither of them saw coming.


Getting Me Cheap by Lisa Dodson

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Also by Lisa Dodson:

The Bodyguard's Deadly Mission, February 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Getting Me Cheap, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Six Days to Live, November 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Moral Underground, December 2009
Hardcover

Also by Amanda Freeman:

Getting Me Cheap, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

Getting Me Cheap
Lisa Dodson, Amanda Freeman

How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

The New Press
December 2022
On Sale: November 29, 2022
256 pages
ISBN: 1620977427
EAN: 9781620977422
Kindle: B09QQW1WYT
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political

Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids.

Getting Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers—primarily women—who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid. While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care for siblings and aging family members.

Based on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap explores how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving others of us the lives we seek. Destined to rank with works like Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also offers a way forward—with both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines.

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