Geographic Orientation/Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps
$24.95 Read more70 color maps and insightful text tell the hour-by-hour story of the 3-day Battle of GettysburgEach map shows the same 3 1/2-by-4 1/2-mile view of the battlefield, allowing the reader to visualize the… [more below]
- Author: Detweiler, M. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0811712184
- Language: English
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Plain and Fancy: Volume 3
$16.99 Read moreWhen Love Is an Unwelcomed Complication
Is it good for two people–one plain, the other fancy–to fall in love? Laura Meade loves her modern life, yet she fascinated by the Amish culture in Lancaster- Series: Brides of Lancaster County
- Author: Brunstetter, Wanda E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1636097065
- Language: English
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The Gettysburg Address
$12.95 Add to cartThe Gettysburg Address was delivered on the afternoon of November 19, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the battlefield of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle. Included in this edition is the … [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1557090734
- Language: English
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University of Pennsylvania
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover America’s first university through a unique collection of images, highlighting centuries of student life on and around campus.
By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University
- Series: College History
- Author: Hutchins, Amey A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0738535222
- Language: English
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Better Nate Than Ever
$8.99 Read moreSoon to be a Disney+ Original movie!
“The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it’s like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended.” –Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the- Series: Nate
- Author: Federle, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1534429131
- Language: English
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Rebecca Rides for Freedom: An American Revolution Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreThe American Revolution is raging in Philadelphia, and Rebecca is determined to do all she can to help. With her father stationed with Washington’s army at nearby Whitemarsh, it’s up to Rebecca to hel… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Bernay, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496596900
- Language: English
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Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the “Commanding Ground” Along the Emmitsburg Road
$24.95 Read moreWinner, 2019, The Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award, Given by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central New Jersey
More books have been written about the battle of Gettysburg than any other … [more below]
- Author: Hessler, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216753
- Language: English
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Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and the Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
$20.00 Read moreBy virtue of his previous four books on the subject, David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement, which rejects the official conspiracy theory… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, David Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 156656686X
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Add to cart“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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The Philadelphia Phillies
$24.95 Add to cartA facsimile edition of the 1953 history of the Philadelphia Phillies
Fred Lieb and Stan Baumgartner’s history of the Philadelphia Phillies was originally published in 1953 as part of the celebrated se
- Series: Writing Sports
- Author: Baumgartner, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 259
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1606350129
- Language: English
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
$17.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020172
- Language: English
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The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
$10.99 Read moreTo what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meetin… [more below]
- Author: Birkbeck, Matt
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0425266850
- Language: English
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American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
$21.99 Add to cartPowerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor-winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation’s capital–and the eventual triumph over the disease.
Long before
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0395776082
- Language: English
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Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
$18.99 Add to cartA Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.
Jeffrey Lionel “Maniac” Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn’t made him an orph- Author: Spinelli, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 02 1990
- ISBN10: 0316807222
- Language: English
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The Cabin Faced West
$8.99 Read moreAnn Hamilton’s family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamilton… [more below]
- Author: Fritz, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: August 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0698119363
- Language: English
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The Story of the Philadelphia 76ers
$11.99 Read more“Middle grade basketball fans are introduced to the extraordinary history of NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers with a photo-laden narrative of their greatest successes and losses”–
- Series: Creative Sports: A History of Hoops
- Author: Whiting, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1682771954
- Language: English
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We’ll Always Remember the 11th of September
$14.99 Add to cartOn September 11, 2001, the world as we know it was forever changed by the horrific acts of terrorists. This unthinkable event destroyed thousands of lives and caused devastating losses for our entire
- Author: Rowe, Jamie Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1946446890
- Language: English
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Skippack School
$19.99 Add to cartWith his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn’s Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdo
- Author: De Angeli, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0836191242
- Language: English
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Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$19.99 Add to cartDead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Melding the entirely true and t- Series: Norvelt #1
- Author: Gantos, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0374379939
- Language: English
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Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
$21.99 Add to cartIn Bear Run, Pennsylvania, a home unlike any other perches atop a waterfall. The water’s tune plays differently in each of its sunlight-dappled rooms; the structure itself blends effortlessly into the
- Author: Harshman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1596437189
- Language: English
