Geographic Orientation/Pennsylvania
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Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
$18.95 Add to cartThis stirring narrative reconstructs in amazing detail the story of a remarkable band of soldiers at this seminal Civil War battle.
- Author: Leehan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: July 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515110
- Language: English
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Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign
$21.99 Add to cartFought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and… [more below]
- Author: Desjardin, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0195382315
- Language: English
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215072
- Language: English
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
$19.99 Add to cartIn a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.
The power of words has rarely been given a more- Series: Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0743299639
- Language: English
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Cellar of Horror
$21.99 Add to cartSerial killer Gary Heidnik’s name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there
- Author: Englade, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 125078669X
- Language: English
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island
$23.99 Add to cartBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania perma… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393324699
- Language: English
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Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
$21.95 Add to cartFriday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site o… [more below]
- Author: Loane, Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123091
- Language: English
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787
$19.99 Read more“Remarkable…If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it” (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dram… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0316103985
- 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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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
$17.95 Add to cart“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” ―Thomas Britten, The Histo
- Author: Marsh, Dawn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 080327520X
- Language: English
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Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore
$23.99 Add to cartSince William Penn presided over the state’s only official witch trial in 1684, witchcraft and folk magic have been a part of the history of the Keystone State.
English and German settlers brought thei
- Author: White, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1626191328
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Southwest Pennsylvania
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover some of Southwest Pennsylvania’s most harrowing ghost tales.
The ghostly woman of Summit Cut Bridge, a black hound that guards the Gates of Hell and the whispering dead entombed beneath the B
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: White, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2010
- ISBN10: 1596299231
- Language: English
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The Origin of the Brunists
$17.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-… [more below]
- Series: Coover, Robert
- Author: Coover, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 23 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137431
- Language: English
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Designer Dirty Laundry: A Samantha Kidd Mystery
$15.99 Add to cartShe expected the fashion industry to be ruthless. She wasn’t prepared for it to turn deadly.
Ready to redesign her life, style expert Samantha Kidd accepts a job in her Pennsylvania hometown as a trend
- Series: Samantha Kidd Mysteries #1
- Author: Vallere, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1939197910
- Language: English
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Legal Tender
$18.99 Add to cartIn the second thrilling novel in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline’s Rosato & Associates series, a successful lawyer now finds herself on the opposite side of the bench when she’s fram
- Series: Rosato & Associates #2
- Author: Scottoline, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062400134
- 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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Red Sky in Morning
$35.00 Add to cartA tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from Booker Prize-winning author Paul Lynch, “a writer to watch out for” (Colum McCann).
It’s 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. T- Author: Lynch, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0316230251
- Language: English
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Brown, Charles Brockden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538778
- Language: English
