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101) Brotherly love
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peters father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peters cousin Michaelhis...
Author
Publisher
Alianza Editorial, S. A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
En un barrio de Philadelphia sacudido por la crisis de opioides, dos hermanas antano inseparables se encuentran en una encrucijada. Una de ellas, Kacey, es una adicta que vive en la calle. La otra, Mickey, es policia y patrulla por esas mismas calles en su ronda. Ya no se hablan, pero Mickey nunca deja de preocuparse por su hermana. Un dia, Kacey desaparece al tiempo que comienza una misteriosa serie de asesinatos en el distrito de Mickey, quien se...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
104) Before all the world
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket’s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters as they search for love, music, and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia. Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Blackbird--pregnant at last!--is spending summer afternoons wallowing in the Bucks County pool of her best friend, Lexie Paine, who has just been released from prison. At night, Nora is covering Philadelphia's high-society events for the local newspaper. And this time she doesn't have to look far for a good story. Next door, a Broadway show is in rehearsal at the estate of Toodles Tuttle, the long-deceased but ever-legendary composer. Reigning...
107) Betrayed
Author
Series
Rosato and DiNunzio novel volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Judy's best friend is a new partner and almost a new bride. Judy is not jealous, but not happy either as she questions her career and love life. When she learns that her Aunt Vicky has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she races to her aunt's side. She finds her aunt is dealing with the sudden death of a friend; Emelia, an undocumented worker. Her death looks unnatural to Judy, so she investigates, which leads her into an underground world far more...
108) Feared
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"LISA SCOTTOLINE is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of twenty-eight novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the U.S., she has been published in thirty-five countries, and her thrillers have been optioned for television and film. Lisa writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those stories have been adapted into a series of bestselling memoirs. Lisa...
109) The traffickers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location left six dead, most of them bystanders, and days later the headless body of a Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River. Everybody assumes that they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it - and that hunch leads him to the Texas-Mexico border.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good. When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn...
111) Lion & Lamb
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs in Philadelphia in this “fun ride…the romance between Cooper and Veena is artfully handled...endearing characters including Cooper’s two preternaturally clever kids and his Rhodesian ridgeback puppy.” –Publishers Weekly The city is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes....
112) A deadly endeavor
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia.
''Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover that her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman-and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from...
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