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On The Make : The Hustle Of Urban Nightlife
Follow Me : A Novel

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Joanna ScottPublication Details
Book1st edLittle, Brown and Co2009Links
Description
On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin’s invitation to ride his new motorcycle. But when young Sally’s father–a man she has never known–enters her life and offers another story altogether, she must uncover the truth of her grandmother’s secret history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3569.C636 F65 2009 AVAILABLE
Out In The Storm : Drug-addicted Women Living As Shoplifters And Sex Workers

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Gail A. CaputoPublication Details
BookNortheastern University Press2008Description
Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up criminal occupations of shoplifting and sex work. Out in the Storm reveals similarities and differences in pathways women take to drug addiction and particular crimes and illustrates how women manage both the business and risks of crime in urban drug cultures. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6046 .C285 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Washington At Valley Forge

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Russell FreedmanPublication Details
Book1st edHoliday House2008Description
Newbery Award-winning author Russell Freedman offers up this powerful account of the survival of American soldiers while camped at Valley Forge during a crucial period in the American Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 973.33 F85w 2008 AVAILABLE
The Whiskey Rebels : A Novel

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David LissPublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2008Description
With the new states unable to support their ex-soldiers, the Maycotts make a desperate gamble: trade the chance of future payment for the hope of a better life on the western Pennsylvania frontier. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders?both patriots in their own way?find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3562.I7814 W48 2008 DUE 02-03-10
Thomas Eakins : Art, Medicine, And Sexuality In Nineteenth-century Philadelphia

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Amy WerbelPublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Links
Description
The life and work of Thomas Eakins (1844?1916), America?s most celebrated portrait painter, have long generated heated controversy. In this fresh and deeply researched interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia?s scientific, medical, and artistic communities (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6537.E3 W47 2007 AVAILABLE
Heirloom : Notes From An Accidental Tomato Farmer

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Tim StarkPublication Details
Book1st edBroadway Books2008Description
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York City?s Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) SB349 .S73 2008 AVAILABLE
Sentenced To Science : One Black Man’s Story Of Imprisonment In America

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Allen M. HornblumPublication Details
BookPennsylvania State University Press2007Links
Description
From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert M. Sentenced to Science retells the story of the Holmesburg experiments more dramatically through the eyes of one black man, Edward “Butch” Anthony, who suffered greatly from the experiments for which he “volunteered” during multiple terms at the prison. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) R853.H8 H67 2007 AVAILABLE
Jimmy’s Stars

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Mary Ann RodmanPublication Details
Book1st edFarrar Straus Giroux2008Links
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It?s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey?s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he?s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 R692j AVAILABLE
Chief Bender’s Burden : The Silent Struggle Of A Baseball Star

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Tom SwiftPublication Details
BookUniversity of Nebraska Press2008Description
The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, the coolest pitcher in the game. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, Chief Bender s Burden is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV865.B45 S95 2008 AVAILABLE
The Art And Science Of William Bartram

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Judith MageePublication Details
BookPennsylvania State University Press2007Links
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The Art and Science of William Bartram brings together, for the first time, all sixty-eight drawings by Bartram held at the Natural History Museum, along with works by some of the most well-known natural history artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QH31.B23 M34 2007 AVAILABLE
The Philadelphia Campaign

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Thomas J. McGuirePublication Details
Book1st edStackpole Books2006Links
Description
The first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution, this book is an in-depth examination of the military engagements that resulted in the British capture of Philadelphia. Congress fled the capital as the British Army approached, and the campaign to win the hearts and minds of the American people raged in full fury as the two armies marched through the region. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E233 .M3 2006 v.1 AVAILABLE (LOWER LEVEL) E233 .M3 2006 v.2 AVAILABLE
Remember Valley Forge : Patriots, Tories, And Redcoats Tell Their Stories

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Thomas B. AllenPublication Details
BookNational Geographic2007Links
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Remember Valley Forge tells the ultimate survival story. Travel the trail of defeat that leads Washington’s ragtag army to seek winter refuge at Valley Forge. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 973.3 AL431r 2007 AVAILABLE
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