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There's still time to stop by cozy BookCourt on this rainy afternoon to hear award-winning novelist, Nikki Grimes, talk about Garvey's Choice! http://www.bookcourt.com/events/nikki-grimes

Nikki Grimes | BookCourt New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King award and the 2016 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, will be discussing Garvey's Choice, her new middle-reader novel.

We're so thrilled to host the release of Jacqueline Woodson as she reads from her first novel for adults in over twenty years!

Another Brooklyn, her new novel, is a story set in the 1970s, following a woman and her young girls. Full of hope and a constant threat of danger, Woodson's Brooklyn is a different, more volatile place than it is today.

“Another Brooklyn is a sort of fever dream, containing both the hard truths of life and the gentle beauty of memory. The story of a young girl trying to find herself in the midst of so many conflicting influences and desires swallowed me whole. Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. I loved this book.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times Bestselling Author

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Jacqueline Woodson | BookCourt Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed…