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61) The conductors
Author
Series
Murder and Magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that white authorities would otherwise ignore. In the heart of Philadelphia's Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there's a strange death or magical curses causing trouble,...
62) Frendo lives
Author
Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.
A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims. Quinn wanted her first year of college in Philadelphia to be safe and easy. Instead, murderous clowns...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman--and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city,...
64) Burn you twice
Author
Series
Montana volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist's fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan's trying to put her traumas to rest. It's not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he'll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well....
65) The undertakers
Author
Series
Murder and Magic volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia"--
Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motives, and the murder itself feel a bit too neat. Raimond Duval, a victim of one of the many fires that have erupted recently in Philadelphia,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a house party goes terribly wrong, a small town fractures along lines of privilege, exposing disturbing truths about the community, perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes"--
Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases. But then a twelve-year-old girl shows...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings. She's not looking to fix him. She's looking to love him, if he'll let her in. Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they...
Author
Series
True to the game trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"True to the game II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena"--Amazon.com
Author
Series
True to the Game Trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The crooked cops are searching for the money and Gena's family members are now the target for Gena, who's hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for survival. Will Gena manage to keep the money? Can she get out of town and make a new life for herself? And will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell-bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay true to the game?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meeting Charles at a former speakeasy in Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb is shocked to discover a Black man who is fluent in Yiddish and becomes encouraged at the prospect of a better life in America.
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at...
74) Devil's Corner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Assistant U.S. attorney Vicki Allegretti investigates the double murder of an ATF agent and an informant and teams up with Reheema, a young woman whose mother was killed in a drug-related murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Without question, Fawn Birchill knows that her used bookstore is the heart of West Philadelphia, a cornerstone of culture for a community that, for the past twenty years, has found the quirkiness absolutely charming. When an amicable young indie bookseller invades her block, Fawn is convinced that his cushy couches, impressive selection, coffee bar, and knowledgeable staff are a neighborhood blight. Misguided yet blindly resilient, Fawn readies for...
76) True to the game
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, not too long ago, a young girl from the projects met Quadir, far from home in the middle of Harlem ... Now the story is told of how it all went down. True to the Game, the first novel of its time, is like no other story that can or will ever be written. The main character Gena finds herself in true blue love with Quadir, a millionaire associated with the Cartel. Quadir finds himself combating the art of extortion and interception...
77) Cross her heart
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For more than 25 years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents' murder-suicide ... Until her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night - innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that ended in gunfire. There's just one chilling difference. Erin's husband, Justin, has vanished. Bree knows how explosive the line between love and hate can be, yet the...
78) Polo cowboy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up--all except Ruthie, the team's first and only girl, who's determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole...
79) The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Billy Franklin discovers a love of learning and books through the Leather Apron Club library, run by his father, the famous Benjamin Franklin."--
80) Deadly assets
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 12
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old...
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