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Staff of Newsday and the Tribune Company, with an introduction by Jimmy Breslin
The Stories of the Men and Women
Lost on September 11
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Al Meltzer with Robert S. Lyons
Big Al’s autobiography is also an invigorating chronicle about the personalities that he’s had the pleasure of knowing, most memorably Wilt Chamberlain, who granted Al his final exclusive interview. The Philadelphia Daily News named him “Arguably, Philly’s most recognizable, most popular and best sports anchor ever.”
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Steve Bucci & Dave Brown
It chronicles Carlton‘s extraordinary and improbable ’72 season. Throughout the book, the authors intersperse memorable conversations and anecdotes involving Carlton—from the dugout, the locker room, and the team hotel—which illuminate Lefty’s eccentricities, his uncanny focus n on the mound, and the sage and offbeat advice that he imparted to his fellow Phillies.
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The Staff of the Philadelphia Daily News
Relive the history of this amazing venue through stories and more than 200 rarely seen full-color photos.
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Elizabeth P. Hoffman
Provides a firsthand tour of the friendly ghosts that inhabit the Delaware Valley. By documenting the specific incidents of sighting, and the circumstances that brought each ghost to its final resting place, this spirited jaunt through the region's haunted places will have even nonbelievers on the edge of their seats.
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Stanley Ginsberg
and Norman Berg
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Charles Bowser
Investigating the notorious bombing of the MOVE cult by Philadelphia police, May 13, 1985, the author details the cover-ups, the excuses, and the perjury.
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The Staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer
A deluxe paperback edition of the highly popular Millennium Philadelphia, with the striking black–and–white photographs of city life and history that made it a “family album of the Philadelphia century.” Picking up where the original left off, a chapter update, “The New Millennium,” features a full–color pictorial of the city’s continued change into the 21st century.
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with George Anastasia
FREE CD with the purchase of any book by George Anastasia. Profiles of mob bosses who ruled Philadelphia, from 1959 to present including Bruno, Testa, Scarfo, Natale, Merlino, and Ligambi.
The cost of the CD is $12.95 if it is ordered without purchasing any of Anastasia's books.
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William C. Costopoulos
with Brad Bumsted
The True Story of Mayor Charlie Robertson and the York, Pennsylvania, Race Riots
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Edward W. Duffy
Philadelphia: A Railroad History describes the remarkable development of the railroad industry in Philadelphia and the intense competition that pitted the Pennsylvania Railroad against the Reading Railroad, and those two titans against the formidable Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to dominate the regional market
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A look back at the pop, rock, and R&B music scene in Philadelphia during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Janice L. Booker
From the conventional to the unusual, and from the earliest date of the city's settlement to the present, Philly Firsts celebrates the ingenuity, creativity, and perseverance of the denizens of this great city.
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David K. O'Neil
Foreword by Robert Venturi
A history of this venerable institution, in words and pictures, from its colonial roots to its present-day central prominence in the life of Philadelphia.
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S.A. Paolantonio
New introduction by John F. Timoney
The first full-scale biography of Frank Rizzo, one of the most beloved and feared public figures in urban American history.
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Text by Greg Landry
Illustrations by Robert Hochgertel
Greg Landry’s crisp text and Robert Hochgertel’s vibrant illustrations combine to bring the diverse pleasures of this great city to life on every page
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Tony Auth
with David Leopold
Tony Auth’s cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, have influenced public opinion and politicians for more than 40 years. “Our job is not to amuse our readers,” says Auth of a national artistic heritage of editorial cartooning that began with Benjamin Franklin in 1754. “Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them.”
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The Detroit True Crime Chronicles is a-one-of-a- kind publication. It chronicles the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information from declassified federal documents and many firsthand accounts, the book focuses on the city’s local Mafia, key mobsters, drug kingpins, serial killers and unsolved crimes. Readers will be taken inside the belly of the beast for twenty bone-chilling and dramatic tales of intrigue, betrayal, and murder.
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The Devil and Dr. Barnes traces the near-mythical journey of a man who was born into poverty, amassed a fortune through the promotion of a popular medicine, and acquired the premier private collection of works by such masters as Renoir, Matisse, Cézanne, and Picasso.
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Rich Westcott
Foreword by Harry Kalas, National Baseball Hall of Fame sportcaster
In The Fightin’ Phils, Rich Westcott leads fans beyond common knowledge of home team lore to a treasure trove of the other stories––many previously untold, all richly entertaining and surprising.
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There’s no better time to glory in all things Phillies. Come along as the author travels from Grover Cleveland Alexander’s 1915 National League champions to Cliff Lee’s club of 2009.
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Edward Colimore
An indispensable guide that leads history buffs on 12 separate walks through neighborhoods where the past remains alive.
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Here, in the loving hand of the city planner-turned-writer, is the architecture of Philadelphia's current re-invention.
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Elaine Krasnow Ellison and Elaine Mark Jaffe
The oral history of the people who lived on Marshall street.
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