Temple University Press
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Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism
$28.00 Add to cartGrowing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosphere of strict gender segregation, rigorous religiou
- Author: Newfield, Schneur Zalman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1439927618
- Language: English
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Monument Lab: RE: Generation
$35.00 Add to cartBeginning in 2022, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art, history, and design studio, Monument Lab, launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in … [more below]
- Author: Farber, Paul M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1439923973
- Language: English
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A Century of Music Under the Stars: A History of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and Robin Hood Dell
$40.00 Add to cartEveryone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell–“the Mann” and “the Dell” to their many patrons. Lavishly illustrated wi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1439924333
- Language: English
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The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions II
$60.00 Add to cartFly, Eagles, Fly! They did it again. The Eagles routed the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX to claim their second NFL championship in the Jeffrey Lurie era. Author Ray Didinger has done it again t… [more below]
- Author: Didinger, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1439927782
- Language: English
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Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk
$30.00 Read more“Create a More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923809
- Language: English
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News
$35.00 Read more“He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.”—Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI’s Action News for 47 years
“We we- Author: Grzybowski, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439921822
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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Bg’s ABCs: Tackling Football and Life
$19.99 Add to cartA is for attitude. B is for bravery. C is for confidence. That’s how Philadelphia Eagle Brandon Graham learned his ABCs. And now, with BG’s ABCs, you can too! In this charming alphabet book, Graham an… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1439926646
- Language: English
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The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women’s Sports
$30.00 Add to cart“No one cares about women’s sports” is a familiar refrain from vocal skeptics, but as The Fact Track shows, a series of watershed moments reflect the increasing popularity of and support for women’s s… [more below]
- Author: McManus, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1439925089
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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Swingin’ at the Savoy
$31.95 Read moreIn this volume, dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress and author Norma Miller shares her historical memoir of Harlem’s legendary Savoy Ballroom and t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: April 26 2001
- ISBN10: 1566398495
- Language: English
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
$35.00 Read moreHistoric Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones,… [more below]
- Author: Yamin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1439922101
- Language: English
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Exploring Philly Nature: A Guide for All Four Seasons
$17.95 Read moreDo snakes and salamanders fascinate you or make you squeamish? Have you ever listened closely to the birds chirping in your neighborhood? Can you identify the flowers growing in Philadelphia’s urban p
- Author: Brown, Bernard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1439921210
- Language: English
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It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
$23.00 Read moreThe recent flashpoint of Colin Kaepernick taking a knee renews a long tradition of athlete-activists speaking out against racism, injustice, and oppression. Like Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robe
- Author: Steele, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1439921733
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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The Mouse Who Played Football
$16.99 Read moreSome folks think Brian the mouse is too small. He may be a tough little fella, but they are not sure Brian has what it takes. The Mouse Who Played Football, by former Philadelphia Eagles running back
- Author: Westbrook Sr, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 143992239X
- Language: English
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Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartaches
$30.00 Read moreRay Didinger opens his lively memoir Finished Business with the Philadelphia Eagles’ upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle
- Author: Didinger, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1439920605
- Language: English
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Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle Against an Epithet
$30.00 Read moreMore than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being “corrupt and contented,” Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterizati… [more below]
- Author: Mandel, Brett H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1439924279
- Language: English
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Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race
$30.00 Read moreBrothers is Nico Slate’s poignant memoir about Peter Slate, aka XL, a Black rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had di
- Author: Slate, Nico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923825
- Language: English
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Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City’s Heroes and Historic Sites
$18.95 Read morePhiladelphia is known as the home of vibrant colonial history: the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House, and Independence Hall. But the City of Brotherly Love is also home to–and less well known for–i
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1439919240
- Language: English
