A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in BrooklynA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of the 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 growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her familys erratic

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a seventeen-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of the goddess of birds

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war

But a shocking discovery during renovations links the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past—and a voice that won’t be silenced

Fifty years

powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters

now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mother-in-law’s table

The second book in Sarah J

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plan her wedding to an older

to the special excitement of holidays

from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day