Betty Smith - Böcker

EN UNG KVINNAS FÖRTVIVLAN, MOD OCH DRÖMMAR BROOKLYN 1916: Julen då Francies pappa dör faller ingen snö över Williamsburg. Gatorna är grå, vinterkläderna för tunna och hennes mamma väntar ett nytt syskon. Fjorton år gammal tvingas Francie att sluta...

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Ett bortglömt klassiskt verk om en ung kvinnas hårda och fattiga uppväxtvillkor. När Francie växer upp är Williamsburg i Brooklyn en smutsig förstad till New York där gatans lag är barnens skola. Men Francie drömmer om ett liv bortom fattigkvarter...

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Andra delen i berättelsen om den unga Francies hårda uppväxt - lika trollbindande som Ferrantes Neapel-kvartett Julen då Francies pappa dör faller ingen snö över Williamsburg. Gatorna är grå, vinterkläderna för tunna och hennes mamma väntar ett ny...

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EN UPPVÄXT FYLLD AV GRYMHET, KÄRLEK, SKRATT OCH SORG Brooklyn 1912: Den unga Francie klättrar ut på brandstegen för att få vara ifred med sin bok. Inne i lägenhetens mörker skrapar hennes mamma ihop matrester till middag medan lillebrodern leker. ...

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A true American classic first published in 1943, this is the tale of a little girl living in the slums of Brooklyn, who dreamily watches out her window as a tree struggles to reach the sky.

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______________________ NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARY Betty Smith's debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of th...

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Educator and quilter Betty Ford-Smith keeps the tradition of pinecone quilts alive by passing on her process. Dive into the quilts rich history and get detailed instructions for creating one.

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A timeless classic is reborn! From Betty Smith--author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," one of the most beloved novels of the past century--comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young hearts and marriage. In 1...

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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with l...

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Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own ...

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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.

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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 formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American liter...

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolanneeded to be made of stern stuff, forgrowing up in theWi...

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh ...

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A timeless classic is reborn! First published in 1948, and long out of print, Tomorrow Will Be Better is a heartwarming story of young love, marriage, and hope from Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Set in the Williamsbu...

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The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume was uniquely developed by an interdisciplinary ed...

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The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume was uniquely developed by an interdisciplinary ed...

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In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the fron...

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In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the fron...

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Becky stood up abruptly and began to walk back towards the Inn. He followed her and grabbed her hand. "Don't you see? I want to be free so that you and I can be together."

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The hellish nightmares that plagued Father Jack Malloy added to the torment of the already disillusioned young priest. Seeking the source of these torturous dreams, Jack meets Rachel Weir in a quaint bookstore in Boston. Rachel, the pretty daughte...

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Through an intense five year research of Virginia land grants, Meischen describes the interaction of these key colonial families-their neighbors, the churches they attended, their intermarriages, their political and religious ideas.

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When author Betty L. Smith's husband returned from military service in the early 50s, they started a family. Unaware that cultural conditioning was misguiding their lives, they recreated their dysfunctional family origins. Unbearably unhappy, Bett...

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Becky stood up abruptly and began to walk back towards the Inn. He followed her and grabbed her hand. "Don't you see? I want to be free so that you and I can be together."

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When author Betty L. Smith's husband returned from military service in the early 50s, they started a family. Unaware that cultural conditioning was misguiding their lives, they recreated their dysfunctional family origins. Unbearably unhappy, Bett...

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This book, the first of its kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans, although most of those who speak it use it only as a second language. Cherokee has had several recognized dialects in the pa...

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"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling ...

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Intriguing accounts of the personal triumphs and tragedies that surrounded the writing of some of our best-loved hymns. Great for worship leaders and personal devotions.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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