Ragen, Naomi.
Summary: " In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGTi̤bn̕, Colm
Summary: Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Toibin 2009Elliott, Zetta
Summary: In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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Summary: "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2015