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Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Tyler now bears the burden of being a divorcee in 19th century Pennsylvania, a difficult position for an upstanding young woman to be in. When circumstances force Annabelle, who has sworn never to marry again, and Philadelphia's most eligible bachelor and ladies' man, Harrison Graymoor into a marriage that neither seems to want, they plot an early annulment before word can leak out to the public. More than a few...
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Something strange and deadly trilogy volume 1
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"In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead"--
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
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[2023]
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English
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The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students first day of school. Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. Meanwhile, Ava runs a side hustle out of the school parking lot, and Gregory, now a full-time teacher, is in over his head with the curriculum.
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The University of Chicago Press
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[2014].
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English
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"Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives - family, girlfriends, jobs - into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track...
86) Ghetto cowboy
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Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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Victor Carl volume 4
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W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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A defense attorney who lives his life in shades of gray, Victor Carl fights all the right fights for all the wrong reasons.
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In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
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Bethany House
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c2008
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English
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Cassandra Stover can't believe her luck when she becomes the companion to Mrs. Jameston, a wealthy society woman. Not only can she help her widowed mother and sister, but Cassie genuinely comes to care for the elderly woman who treats her like family. Enter Mark Langford, an insurance investigator, and everything changes for her. When Mark reveals that he is investigating Sebastian Jameston, the son of Cassandra's employer, she agrees to pretend they...
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Rosato and Associates volume 10
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HarperCollinsPublishers
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c2008
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English
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Mary DiNunzio's teenage angst comes flooding back when her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone (dubbed "Trash" by Mary) comes seeking her help. It doesn't matter that Mary is now the rainmaker of Rosato & Associates, Trish's mere presence is enough to make Mary feel like she's at the bottom of the food chain. As it turns out, however, Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive South Philly mobster,...
92) A little high
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Rainey Paxton volume 2
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Paige Dearth
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[2019]
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English
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Nothing matters more than getting the next fix. First came the shocking story of Rainey Paxton being born addicted to heroin, and the sacrifices she made to accommodate her parents’ reckless lifestyle. Now comes the terrifying, extraordinary novel that picks up after Rainey’s release from juvenile detention. With no money, and lost in a section of North Philadelphia dominated by gangs and violence, Rainey won’t accept that it may be too late...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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In her diary, eleven-year-old Hope writes about her life in 1778 Philadelphia as British Redcoats take over her family's house, her father fights with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, and she gains a new friend and new baby sister. Includes a historical note.
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Victor Carl volume 5
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Payment in advance lures cheerfully selfish criminal defense attorney Victor Carl to seek a new trial for Franȯis Dub,̌ a charming French chef convicted of murdering his beautiful wife.
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Includes Rosato and Associates volume 1
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Perennial
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
97) The Messenger
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As lives hang in the balance, a young woman must choose between helping the man she's come to love and holding onto her pacifist faith. Annotation: As lives hang in the balance, a young woman must choose between helping the man she's come to love and holding onto her pacifist faith. This item is Returnable.
98) Pride
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Lionsgate
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English
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Based on the true story of inner city Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis. From his roots in Salisbury, North Carolina, Ellis goes on to build a swim team in one of Philly's toughest neighborhoods in the 1970s.
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2011
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English
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Provides a detailed account of the 1874 kidnapping and ransom of a boy named Charley Ross, who was taken from his family's front yard in Philadelphia while the city was preparing for the nation's centennial celebration, describing the wide-spread media attention on the case, and discussing the efforts of the Philadelphia and New York police departments, elicit American citizens, and others to recover the child.
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2017.
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"When George and Martha Washington moved from their beloved Mount Vernon in Virginia to Philadelphia, then the seat of the nation's capital, they took nine enslaved people with them. They would serve as cooks and horsemen, as house servants and personal attendants. The North was different for the entire household, free and enslaved, white and black. There was a new climate to adjust to, and new mores as well. Slavery, in Philadelphia at least, was...