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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC SMIGoldsmith, Oliver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLSmith, Betty
Summary: A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen Editorial ; distr. by Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION SMIWalters, Minette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALDickens, Charles
Summary: Left destitute by his father's death, young Nicholas Nickleby takes a job arranged by his greedy, suspicious uncle Ralph and finds himself in a prolonged battle with his benefactor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICWalters, Minette.
Summary: When Dr. Sophie Morrison answers a call for help at the housing project known as Acid Row, she is unaware that she's entering the home of a known pedophile and a minefield of hatred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WALRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBMathis, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICAzzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: Dolores, the youngest of five sisters, watches as her family disintegrates in 1960s Cardiff, Wales, due to her father's gambling and her mother's mental decline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AZZGoodman, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIPhillips, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOYRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2002
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FullerDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny as they wait for a visit from their estranged mother. To escape, they go for a walk on the moors, taking their little Jack Russell terrier with them. But what should have been a laugh, a lark, turns deadly when the weather changes and they are caught in a blizzard. Nothing will ever be quite the same again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGSmith, Betty
Summary: A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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Summary: When Kenny and Nicky spot a glint of gold in the murky waters of Bacon Pond, they can't leave it alone. It means money, and money helps patch things up when you haven't got any. But sometimes it's better not to look too deep. Not when there are local gangsters involved, and tough questions about your own family's past. But Nicky can't help looking back. He knows it's a bad idea, and it could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGVasconcelos, José Mauro de
Summary: "When Zezé grows up, he wants to be a poet in a bow tie. For now the precocious young boy entertains himself by playing clever pranks on the residents of his Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, stunts for which his parents and siblings punish him severely. Lately, with his father out of work, the beatings have become harsher. Zezé's only solace comes from his time at school, his hours secretly spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019