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  • KILLING SHORE
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    KILLING SHORE
    K. A. NELSON
    “I thought that this was going to another of those books puffing up the American side of WWII. It most certainly isn’t. K A Nelson tells an interesting story, illuminating a theatre of the North Atlantic campaign that has been comparatively neglected and he tells it well. Recommended.” -The Naval Review It is January 1942. Six weeks after the United States entered World War II,...

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  • THE DARBY SCHOOL OF ART
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    THE DARBY SCHOOL OF ART
    MARK W. SULLIVAN
    This first full-length account of the Darby School of Art overturns Philadelphia's long-held unwarranted reputation and demonstrates that Philadelphia was a hub of avant-garde painting in the early twentieth century. This first full-length account of the Darby School of Art overturns Philadelphia's long-held unwarranted reputation as artistically stodgy—unwilling and unable to ...

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  • THE BERGDOLL BOYS
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    THE BERGDOLL BOYS
    TIMOTHY W. LAKE
    A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for hi...

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  • DARK HISTORY OF PENN'S WOODS
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    DARK HISTORY OF PENN'S WOODS
    JENNIFER L. GREEN
    Eight chilling stories of crime, disaster and unusual deaths from southeastern Pennsylvania. A sequel to the first Dark History book, Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania, this book features more true tales of the region's disasters, deaths and tragedies – offering readers a window into a macabre slice of history. From the "coffin ships" that brought d...

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  • DARK HISTORY OF PENN'S WOODS
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    DARK HISTORY OF PENN'S WOODS
    JENNIFER L. GREEN
    "Dark History of Penn's Woods is the perfect book to keep you up all night… It's ghostly, it's ghastly, and we guarantee some of the included photos will stay with you!" — Philly Mag When ships under the command of white Europeans first sailed into the Delaware Bay in 1609, southeastern Pennsylvania's documented history of the strange and unusual began. This book tackles seven ...

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  • THE LOYALIST EXPERIENCE AND AFTERMATH IN REVOLUTIONARY PHILADELPHIA
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    THE LOYALIST EXPERIENCE AND AFTERMATH IN REVOLUTIONARY PHILADELPHIA
    KIMBERLY NATH
    This book explores the varied experience of loyalists, a mainly forgotten chapter in the history of the Revolutionary War. The city of Philadelphia was occupied for nine months by the British during the American Revolution, and had a large loyalist population. The newly independent Pennsylvania legislature passed a series of laws early in the revolution which identified, condem...

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  • KILLER IN THE HOUSE
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    KILLER IN THE HOUSE
    KATHRYN CANAVAN
    A gripping, meticulously researched account reconstructing the minute-by-minute murders of six victims in 1976 Pennsylvania. A meticulously researched page-turner about one of the Philadelphia suburbs’ most shocking 20th-century crimes. A gunman broke into Jack and Peggy Abt’s house moments after the last family member left for the day. He took a seat next to the upright piano ...

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  • SUMMER OF THE CHEAP WIENERS
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    SUMMER OF THE CHEAP WIENERS
    JUSTIN KLUGH
    A humorous, nostalgic look at the hapless 1941 Philadelphia Phillies amid baseball legends and global turmoil. Meet the 1941 Phillies: A sad little ball club with a fading number of disgruntled fans. They aren’t very good now, and they won’t be soon. But the Phillies of 1941 certainly are a team—just like all the others, with a uniform and a roster full of players: Cheap ones, ...

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  • FORT MONMOUTH
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    FORT MONMOUTH
    MELISSA ZIOBRO
    A history of Fort Monmouth, including the innovations and tens of thousands of soldiers that came through the years. The history of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, begins in May 1917 when, as part of its wartime mobilization, the Army authorized four training camps for signal troops. One camp, located in central NJ, would eventually be known as “Fort Monmouth,” in honor of the soldi...

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  • PERCEPTIONS OF BATTLE
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    PERCEPTIONS OF BATTLE
    JEFF DACUS
    Finalist, 2024 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsA new perspective on the Battle of Monmouth featuring the first-person accounts of those who took part. After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelphia to New York City. On June 28, 1778, the army caught up w...

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  • A. COOK'S PERSPECTIVE
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    A. COOK'S PERSPECTIVE
    CLARISSA F. DILLON / DEBORAH PETERSON
    A fascinating insight into 18th-century cook Ann Cook's vitriolic lambasting of a bestselling cookbook "The Art of Cookery" by Hannah Glasse. Ann Cook was an 18th-century cook and cookbook author. Her cookbook was printed in three editions and contained more than just receipts. For some reason, she had a real problem with Hannah Glasse's cookbook, The Art of Cookery: Made Plain...

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  • CHARLEY
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    CHARLEY
    BRENDAN J. LYONS
    A short biography of Charley King, who enlisted aged just 12, and became the youngest soldier to die in the American Civil. In early April 1861, the streets of West Chester, PA, echoed with the sound of a rattling snare drum. The orders it marked out could be heard for blocks around – about face, advance, retreat, company rest – but there were no troops in the city to hear it. ...

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