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  • South Philadelphia's Little Italy and 9th Street Italian Market

    by Michael DiPilla ...
    Series series Images of America
    From forest and field to thriving neighborhood, explore the Italian influence in building, markets and maybe even a pizza pie, all in South Philly's Little Italy. What is now referred to as Little Italy was priginally called Irishtown when the first Italian moved to the area near Catherine Street around 1798, mostly forest and field in the middle of colonial Pennsylvania. By 1852, an Italian ... Read more

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  • Letter to My Daughter

    by Maya Angelou ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Blue Rage, Black Redemption

    A Memoir

    by Stanley Tookie Williams ...
    A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips cofounder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and anti-gang activist.When his LA neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Pure Land

    A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth

    by Annette McGivney ...
    Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand Canyon, and into the ugliest aspects of human behavior, Pure Land offers proof of the healing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Devil's Playground

    A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square

    by James Traub ...
    As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through the Runyonesque heyday of nightclubs and theaters in the 1920s and ’30s, to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ukrainians of Western Pennsylvania

    by Stephen P. Haluszczak ...
    Series series Images of America
    Originally known as Ruthenians, Ukrainians began to immigrate to western Pennsylvania in the late 1800s. Attracted by the region�s growing importance as an industrial center, they settled in cities and towns close to their work. Like other immigrants, they faced many economic and social hardships, but they were proud to call themselves Americans as they firmly preserved and celebrated their ethnic ... Read more

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  • Punk Avenue

    Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

    by Phil Marcade, Debbie Harry ...
    Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword ReviewsPunk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene. From backrooms of Max’s and CBGB’s to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester New York

    Their Home Was Open to All

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    The story of the upstate New York home where the orator and former slave lived with family, houseguests, and fugitives on the Underground Railroad.Despite living through one of our nation's most bitter and terrifying times, Frederick Douglass and his wife, Anna, raised five children in a loving home with flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens in Rochester, New York for twenty-five years beginning in ... Read more

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  • Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania

    by Stephanie Longo ...
    Series series Images of America
    Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Courthouse Square in Scranton for the largest ethnic festival in northeastern Pennsylvania: La Festa Italiana. The Italians of Pennsylvania have been proudly celebrating their heritage since their arrival in this country with traditional festivals, including La Corsa dei Ceri in Jessup and Dunmore's procession in honor of St. Rocco. ... Read more

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  • German New York City

    by Richard Panchyk ...
    Series series Images of America
    German New York is an interesting history of the rich cultural heritage of this community.German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th- and 20th-century Europe for the promise of a better life in the bustling American metropolis. German immigration to New York peaked during the 1850s and again ... Read more

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  • A Leap of Faith.

    by Clive. R. Tilley ...
    A short true story about trust and friendship, between two best school friends, In an early sixties English village." that summer had been hot and we were bored..." Kids do some really dumb things when they get bored. This was one of them. ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to New York

    The Empire State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD