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1) A tree grows in Brooklyn

Author

Smith, Betty

Series

Perennial classic
World's best reading
Harper Perennial modern classics
Unabridged books on CD

Language

English

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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
Coming-of-age
Family Sagas
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A poignant tale of childhood and the ties of family, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" will transport the reader to the early 1900s where a little girl named Francie dreamily looks out her window at a tree struggling to reach the sky.

2) A tree grows in Brooklyn

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English

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DVD, Other Video

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Based on Betty Smith's novel, the film tells the story of a girl who strives for a better life, despite her family's poverty, which is caused in part by her father's alcoholism.

3) A tree grows in Brooklyn

Author

Schwartz, Arthur

Language

English

4) A tree grows in Brooklyn: a musical play

Author

Schwartz, Arthur

Language

English

5) When books went to war: the stories that helped us win World War II

Author

Manning, Molly Guptill

Series

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

Language

English

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Summer Nonfiction for Adults
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"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry...

6) Joy in the morning

Author

Smith, Betty

Language

English

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Book, Large Print

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The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together. "In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a...

7) Tomorrow will be better: a novel

Author

Smith, Betty

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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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,...

8) Maggie-now

Author

Smith, Betty

Series

Perennial Library volume P98

Language

English

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"In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness."--Page 4 of cover.

9) The Space Between Us: A Novel

Author

Umrigar, Thrity

Series

Between Us

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay."—Washington Post Book World

"Bracingly honest."—New York Times Book Review

The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India...

10) Booked: a traveler's guide to literary locations around the world

Author

Kreitner, Richard

Language

English

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"A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again...

11) You've got to read this book!: 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life

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English

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Adult - Bookish

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Book, Large Print

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Includes entries by Jacquelyn Mitchard, Kenny Loggins, Catherine Oxenberg, Jim MacLaren, Malachy McCourt, Lou Holtz, Mark Victor Hansen, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Dave Barry, Earl Hamner, Nancy Pearl, Jack Canfield, Debbie Macomber, Stephen Covey, Mo Siegel, Granny D, among others.

12) The book that changed my life: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them

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English

13) A tree grows in Brooklyn

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English

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Adaptation of Betty Smith's novel about a bright, young girl growing up in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, trying to rise above her tenement existence.

14) Un Árbol crece en Brooklyn

Author

Smith, Betty

Language

Español

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Corren los años veinte del siglo pasado, y descubrimos a la pequeña Francie Nolan leyendo sentada en la escalera antiincendios de su casa, a la sombra de un árbol que solo crece en los barrios más pobres de las grandes ciudades. Poco a poco, la mirada se aleja de la chiquilla para abarcar a la estrafalaria familia Nolan, que malvive en un vecindario de Brooklyn. Conoceremos así a sus padtres, a su hermano y a la entreñable tía Sissy, que usa...