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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : OCLC:1053909774

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Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, grow up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060736262

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Pdf

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

When Books Went to War

Author : Molly Guptill Manning
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544535176

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When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning Pdf

This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly

Betty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author : Valerie Raleigh Yow
Publisher : Independent Author
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 098272070X

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Betty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Valerie Raleigh Yow Pdf

Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" captured the imagination of readers in 1943. In the first published biography of Smith, the real-life stories behind the heroes in her novel are told.

Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062988690

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Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith Pdf

"A rediscovered treasure." — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post From Betty Smith, author of the beloved classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes a poignant story of love, marriage, poverty, and hope set in 1920s Brooklyn. Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work, poverty, and pain has worn them down. Her mother's resentment toward being a housewife and her father's inability to express his emotions result in a tense home life where Margy has no voice. Unable to speak up against her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple—to find a husband, have children, and live in a nice home—one where her children will never know the terror of want or the need to hide from quarreling parents. When she meets Frankie Malone, she thinks her dreams might be fulfilled, but a devastating loss rattles her to her core and challenges her life-long optimism. As she struggles to come to terms with the unexpected path her life has taken, Margy must decide whether to accept things as they are or move firmly in the direction of what she truly wants. Rich with the flavor of its Brooklyn background, and filled with the joys and heartbreak of family life, Tomorrow Will Be Better is told with a simplicity, tenderness, and warmhearted humor that only Betty Smith could write.

Joy in the Morning

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062988638

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Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith Pdf

From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law—and there they marry. But Carl and Annie’s first year together is much more difficult than they anticipated as they find themselves in a faraway place with little money and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, they come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through. A moving and unforgettable story, Joy in the Morning is “a glad affirmation that love can accomplish the impossible.” (Chicago Tribune)

All the Things We Do in the Dark

Author : Saundra Mitchell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062852618

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All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell Pdf

Sadie meets Girl in Pieces in this dark, emotional thriller by acclaimed author Saundra Mitchell. Something happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. Ava would rather keep that something hidden—buried deep in her heart and her soul. But in the woods on the outskirts of town, the traces of someone else’s secrets lie frozen, awaiting Ava’s discovery—and what Ava finds threatens to topple the carefully constructed wall of normalcy that she’s spent years building around her. Secrets leave scars. But when the secret in question is not your own—do you ignore the truth and walk away? Or do you uncover it from its shallow grave and let it reopen old wounds—wounds that have finally begun to heal?

The Tree Book

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Trees
ISBN : 9781889538433

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The Tree Book by Anonim Pdf

Identifies and discusses the more than thirty different kinds of trees found in North America.

The Second Mrs. Hockaday

Author : Susan Rivers
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616207366

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The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers Pdf

When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation—and the next—began to see their world anew.

Classic

Author : Cecily Von Ziegesar
Publisher : Poppy Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-29
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 031617212X

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Classic by Cecily Von Ziegesar Pdf

Jenny Humphrey wants to be the best at Waverly Academy.

Triple-A Plowed Under

Author : Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). National Service Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045054017

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061803024

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Pdf

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children of Francie’s neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a novel of childhood, replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences—a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.

From Time to Time

Author : Jack Finney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144428

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From Time to Time by Jack Finney Pdf

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.

Sounder

Author : William H. Armstrong
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062105561

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Sounder by William H. Armstrong Pdf

This powerful Newbery-winning classic tells the story of the great coon dog Sounder and his family. An African American boy and his family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the boy's father takes their dog, Sounder, out to look for food. The man grows more desperate by the day. When food suddenly appears on the table one morning, it seems like a blessing. But the sheriff and his deputies are not far behind. The ever-loyal Sounder remains determined to help the family he loves as hard times bear down. This classic novel shows the courage, love, and faith that bind a family together despite the racism and inhumanity they face in the nineteenth-century deep South. Readers who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder, even as they read through tears at times.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author : Betty Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061120077

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Pdf

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.