Locality/Philadelphia
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Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables
$12.99 Add to cartAnne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day West Philadelphia, w… [more below]
- Series: Classic Graphic Remix
- Author: Weir, Ivy Noelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0316459771
- Language: English
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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
$19.99 Add to cartA stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nob… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 043977733X
- Language: English
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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
$24.99 Add to cart“Disturbingly lovely . . . The Resurrectionist is itself a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature. Deliciously macabre and beautiful… [more below]
- Author: Hudspeth, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21, 2013
- ISBN10: 1594746168
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Stockings Spy
$16.95 Add to cartPhiladelphia 1777 is no place for the faint of heart. The rumble of war with the British grows louder each day, and spies for and against the Patriots are everywhere. No one is above suspicion. Still,… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1585362301
- Language: English
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Fever 1793
$8.99 Add to cartAn epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where “the plot rages like the epidemic itself” (The New York Times Book Review).
During t- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0689848919
- Language: English
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The Philly Fake
$6.99 Add to cartIt’s the ninth inning! The Philly Fake is book #9 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark!
What better city to spend the Fourth of July than P- Series: Ballpark Mysteries (Paperback) #9
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0307977854
- Language: English
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Black Brothers, Inc.: The Violent Rise and Fall of Philadelphia’s Black Mafia
$19.99 Read moreUpdated Edition, October 2007
“A gripping story. . . . Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia’s organization, outreach and over-the-top badness.”–Philadelphia Inquirer
“Griffin’s reporting on the Bl
- Author: Griffin, Sean Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1903854369
- Language: English
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
$19.99 Add to cartBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twenti
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 393357627
- Language: English
