Locality/Philadelphia
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The Silver Linings Playbook
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one ma
- Author: Quick, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533571
- Language: English
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Saint John Neumann (Ess)
$8.95 Read moreLearn about the life of the holy man who became the only canonized North American bishop, St. John Neumann. Join him on his adventures in following God’s will as he travels from Europe to America and … [more below]
- Author: Brown, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0819890669
- Language: English
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Final Appeal
$16.99 Add to cart- Author: Scottoline, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063031167
- Language: English
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Love Walked in
$17.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Us Shine comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where … [more below]
- Author: de Los Santos, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0452287898
- 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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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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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
$29.95 Add to cartIn 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he l
- Series: City in the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Nutter, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0812250028
- Language: English
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Controlled Chaos: Chip Kelly’s Football Revolution
$21.00 Add to cartThe author of The Tao of Chip Kelly returns with deep insight into the mind of one of the NFL’s most innovative and increasingly controversial coaches.
- Author: Saltveit, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1626818231
- Language: English
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague
- Author: Ruderman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006208545X
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Phillies
$31.99 Add to cartThe Philadelphia Phillies, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, have maintained a strong, loyal fan base for over 125 years. Despite historic set backs, the franchise has proven resilient… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1531648835
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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Cellar of Horror
$21.99 Add to cartSerial killer Gary Heidnik’s name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there
- Author: Englade, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 125078669X
- Language: English
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787
$19.99 Add to cart“Remarkable…If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it” (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dram… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0316103985
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Cradle of Liberty
$33.99 Add to cartThe finely aged history of Philadelphia brewing has been fermenting since before the crack appeared in the Liberty Bell. By the time thirsty immigrants made the city the birthplace of the American lag… [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Rich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1540206548
- Language: English
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Little Earthquakes
$19.99 Add to cartJennifer Weiner’s richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life’s most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of ne… [more below]
- Series: Washington Square Press
- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0743470109
- Language: English
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Certain Girls
$18.99 Add to cartReaders fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her lif… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0743294262
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia–a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our cur
- Author: Meyer, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268566
- Language: English
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The Chaneysville Incident
$17.99 Add to cart“The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison’s Invisible Man.” — Christian Science Monitor
Updated with a ne
- Author: Bradley, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063135620
- Language: English
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Philadelphia: A Keepsake
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the founding of democracy in the Western Hemisphere to the modern skyscrapers, take a quick yet in-depth tour of America’s sixth-largest city. From Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell you will… [more below]
- Series: Keepsake #12
- Author: Gadomski, Michael P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0764357573
- Language: English
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Thee Hannah
$19.99 Add to cartCatch a glimpse of pre-Civil War Quaker life as Hannah and her family go to Meeting and to market, host a gathering of Friends, and enjoy ice skating and other pastimes. Nine-year-old Hannah finds it
- Author: De Angeli, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: 11-Feb-00
- ISBN10: 0836191064
- Language: English
