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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A heartening and uproariously funny novel of high hopes, bad choices, book love, and one woman's best--and worst--intentions. Through emails, journal entries, combative online reviews, texts, and tweets, Fawn plans her next move to reclaim her beloved business--and her life"--
63) Our Gen: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Gen -- short for Sexagenarian -- is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen's two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Their camaraderie is exhilarating. But beneath the fun and froth, storms...
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When a powerful developer approaches the Society to make sure the old dairy farm he wants to level is not hiding any archeological or historical surprises that could derail the project he's planning, Nell Pratt decides to make time to personally accompany him to the proposed site. But when they get to the property, they stumble upon a startling discovery--a body floating facedown in a pond. The dead man turns out to be an amateur history enthusiast,...
65) Drake: a novel
Author
Publisher
A King Production
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"In the mean streets of Philadelphia, everyone is not cut out for living that cold, calculating thug life. Drake, a man who believes he has the game all figured out, has to learn the hard way, that no matter how much money you're making, the takers can get taken. Cindy, an ambitious hustler, pushes her way through the ranks, wanting nothing less than to control the lucrative drug trade in Philly. But will her thirst to be the ultimate boss cost Cindy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006, ©2005
Language
English
Description
A devious serial killer lays siege to the city of Philadelphia, brutally sacrificing pretty young Catholic girls on the altar of insanity. As the body count rises, an exceptional investigating partnership struggles to stop him. Detective Jessica Balzano, Philly's Homicide Unit's newest rookie, is teamed up with the veteran cop Kevin Byrne, respected for his solve rate and known for his unorthodox methods. The pair, willing to do anything it takes...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia Fire, now with a new introduction by prominent scholar and award-winning writer Imani Perry, is a masterful culturally significant work that takes on a 1985 police bombing in Philadelphia, which targeted the Black liberation group known as MOVE. At the heart of the novel is Cudjoe, a writer and exile returned to his old neighborhood, who becomes obsessed with the search for a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman's most...
68) Philadelphia
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dontay had it rough growing up in the projects with a mother who forced him to become a man at the young age of fifteen. His father was a rolling stone, having multiple children with many women. He always fought for his fathers attention, until taking his spot became more important than gaining his love. Now Dontay is the leader of one of the most successful and most feared drug organizations in the city of Philadelphia. From the outside looking in,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of the best of George V. Higgins, former criminal defense attorney R.K. Glinski's THE FRIENDSHIP OF CRIMINALS explodes off the page with the crackling intensity of Scorcese's THE DEPARTED. When a new head of the Italian mob threatens Port Richmond's long entrenched Polish crime boss Anton Bielakowski the various criminal factions of Philadelphia don't know who to trust and the promise of war simmers in the underworld. With the help of...
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell reads the obituary of a former board member, Adeline Harrison, she makes a mental note to send flowers and doesn{u2019}t think twice about it{u2014}until FBI agent James Morrison shares his suspicions about the nature of Adeline{u2019}s death. It turns out that a number of other members of the local cultural community have died in the last few months, under similar circumstances. Soon Nell uncovers what seems to be a plot to rid Philadelphia...
Author
Publisher
A King Production
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Drake was left for dead but he survived; unfortunately the same couldn't be said for his fiancé and newborn son. With the help of Cindy he has rebuilt his life but the taste of revenge is still what he craves. But will Drake's quest for retribution be his ultimate downfall? Cindy continues to chase the money and power that comes with running the lucrative drug trade in Philadelphia. She believes she has the game all figured out, but with a ruthless...
72) A killer's kiss
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Victor Carl slips between the sheets with an old love--and may end up getting slapped with murder charges for his lapse of judgment.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic tale of three young friends who must rely on their connection to each other to weather tragic storms. Tabitha lost her freedom in high school when she hooked up with a boy who would impregnate her and make her his punching bag. Lisa is deemed "the strong one" by her friends, but her own past of sexual abuse and pregnancy at the hands of her stepfather keeps her one second away from falling apart as the drama builds. Their younger friend,...
76) Faith and Trust
Author
Publisher
Urban Renaissance
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Faith often feels her man, Trust, has way too much money for the small legal endeavors he tells her about, but she chooses to believe in him--until the feds kicks in her door one day. She doesn't know if she has it in her to be a ride or die. Putting her belief in Trust may give her an everlasting love or cause her to lose what she loves most. Trust is a natural born hustler. When it comes to getting money, he's strategic and thorough. He likes his...
77) The unsettled
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
78) El Buen marido
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano exprés
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Harry Posehn seems to be a great father and a loving husband, but maybe he isn t. Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Mr. Posehn, but there is a twist that not even she can see coming.
Novelas que puedes devorar en pocas horas Imposible dejar de leerlas Textos originales de JAMES PATTERSON Harry Posehn es el mejor papá, el mejor marido... bueno, tal vez no. La detective Teaghan Beaumont está cada...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her world is brutally destroyed, she feels she has nothing left to hold on to but the fading dream of escaping the ghetto. Young, beautiful, and naïve, she is drawn into the world of sex and money, working at a hole-in-the-wall strip club in South Philly. One bad decision leads to another, and she quickly finds herself on the path to destruction. But a chance meeting with Brown, a ghost from her past, changes everything. In him, she finds...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nita Gonzalez takes readers on a terrifying tour of the streets of North Philadelphia, where the code of the streets rules supreme. Told in such vivid detail and with a gritty and compelling style, this story of mayhem in the City of Brotherly Love is soon to be a hood classic. Raised by a crack addict, Lil' Bert has a chip on his shoulder and murder in his heart. As the leader of Philly's most dangerous drug gang, he is determined to keep the city's...
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