Pennsylvania
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Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg
$34.95 Add to cartGen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point-educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry … [more below]
- Author: Longacre, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124292
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- 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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Explorer’s Guide 50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips
$22.99 Add to cartVeteran trailblazer and outdoor activist Tom Thwaites, the author of two other 50 Hikes guides to Pennsylvania, has completely revised and updated this guide to the central portion of Penn’s Woods. Ro… [more below]
- Series: 50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania: From the Great Valley to the #0
- Author: Thwaites, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0881504750
- Language: English
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh
$19.99 Add to cart“Chabon’s writing is deft and delicate — almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ activity and Art’s thoug
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060790598
- 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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Out of This Furnace
$25.00 Add to cartOut of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family — the Dobrejcaks — still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplish
- Series: Pitt Paperback; 120
- Author: Bell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 30 1976
- ISBN10: 0822952734
- 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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All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home
$29.95 Add to cartDad’s eyes peer into an infinite black hole.
He’s lost … and I with him.
When E.M. Liddick, a legal advisor to a special operations task force, returns from another tour in Afghanistan, he finds his
- Author: Liddick, E. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146106
- Language: English
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From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, A National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom
$17.95 Add to cartPatty Bear grew up among the “Plain People” amidst bountiful farmlands, black bonnets, and black cars. It was a world unto itself, both bucolic and beastly, with traditions and beliefs from the old wo
- Author: Bear, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0997573503
- Language: English
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Bend Toward the Sun
$16.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of Every Summer After and Lucy Score, Bend Toward the Sun is an angsty slow-burn romance between two complicated, imperfect people-and a love story you’ll never forget.
“A steamy roma- Author: Devon, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1250822009
- Language: English
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Gem of the Ocean
$15.95 Add to cart“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”–John Lahr, The New Yorker
“A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty.
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362804
- 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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An American Childhood
$17.99 Add to cart“An American Childhood more than takes the reader’s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you’re a different person, one who has virtually experien
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915188
- 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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All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home
$16.95 Add to cartDad’s eyes peer into an infinite black hole.
He’s lost … and I with him.
When E.M. Liddick, a legal advisor to a special operations task force, returns from another tour in Afghanistan, he finds his
- Author: Liddick, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146092
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$30.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0306926075
- 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
