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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
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Language
English
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1939. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
9) La barraca
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel; the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of 'another' working the land that once belonged to one of them.
10) Pink
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Vivi loves the color pink. She is saving her money in order to buy a pink doll from the store. How does she feel when the doll is sold to someone else?
11) The unsettled
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
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English
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"Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have children, and live in a nice home. When she meets Frankie Malone,...
15) Salvation
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
18) A distant music
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first book of the Mountain Song Legacy series readers step into a small Kentucky coal mining town in the late 1800's where hope is found in the hearts of two young girls—the vibrant, red-headed Maggie MacAuley and her fragile friend Summer Rankin.
When Jonathan Stuart, the latest in a succession of educators, actually wants to continue teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, then Maggie and Summer know that he is special. So when
...19) Raining stones
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for cash to buy his daughter a new Communion dress, a working-class man risks everything he loves, not least his immortal soul, in blind pursuit of that goal.
20) Palomos
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
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