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Goodman, Matthew Aaron

Summary: Struggling for survival in Queens with his crack-addicted mother, Abraham Singleton fears the loss of the family's escape from poverty when his promising basketball player uncle is arrested, in a tale that parallels the biblical story of Abraham.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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Moyes, Jojo

Summary: Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't afford to pay for. That's Jess's life in a nutshell -- until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess's knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOY

Mathis, Ayana

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Phillips, Delores

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004

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Fuller, Claire

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fuller

Smith, Betty

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Summary: A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001

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Woodrell, Daniel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Smith, Betty

Summary: The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Smith, Betty

Summary: Brooklyn, the 1920s. Margy Shannon-- shy, eager, joyfully optimistic-- lives with her parents and has witnessed how a lifetime of work and poverty has worn them down. Unable to speak up to her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in dreams of finding a husband she loves, having children, and living in a nice home. When she meets Frankie Malone, she thinks at last her dreams might be fulfilled...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

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