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Bars (Drinking establishments) Management Bars (Drinking establishments) Management Drama Friendship Friendship Pennsylvania Philadelphia Drama Irish Americans Irish Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Drama Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia (Pa.) Drama Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction United StatesSummary: Step up to the bar at Paddy's Pub and get into the crazy world of Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac as they pursue even more outrageous subjects like cannibalism, glory-hole fixations, or Dennis's over-the-top sexual memoirs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Frank and Joe travel to Philadelphia where they intend to prevent an attack on an extreme sports contest called the Big Air Games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXSummary: "The Wildsam Philadelphia guide explores the tough and tender "underdog" city best known as the birthplace of our nation. Inside you'll find stories from poets, typewriter repairmen, historic interpreters, artists, salvage woodworkers, chefs and urban farmers"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.481 PHILADELPHIA WILCabasin, Linda
Summary: "Whether you want to eat a cheesesteak, see the Liberty Bell, or visit the Philadelphia's best museums, the local Fodor's travel experts in Philadelphia are here to help! Fodor's Philadelphia guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.481 PHICorchado, Alfredo
Summary: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CORAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends are all in for Dress Like Your Favorite Character Day, but when everyone at school asks Riley for costume advice, they discover that the key to being a costume visionary is active listening and a big imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALBGilbert, Julie
Summary: "With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Mauger, Edward Arthur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.811 MAUSmith, Roland
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMIGutman, Dan
Summary: One minute Qwerty Stevens is researching a last-minute report on the Internet, and the next minute Benjamin Franklin is sitting on his bed. Thanks to the Anytime Anywhere Machine hooked up to his computer, Qwerty has snatched Franklin from July 4, 1776, the very day the Declaration of Independence was signed. Qwerty and his best friend, Joe, realize they have to get Franklin back in time for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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Summary: When Dominique, Eric, Josephine, and Ajay return to the Smithsonian they see that modern animals are extinct and dinosaurs have been brought back to life, so they time travel to the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition to stop this wicked plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KIESummary: Saturday Evening Post magazine provides readers with uplifting features, original art, celebrated fiction, side-splitting humor, preventive medical advice and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Graham 1839
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Diemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIEAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALBKrasner, Larry
Summary: "Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America's carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system in the era of mass incarceration, before deciding that the way to truly transform the system was to get inside of it. So he launched an unlikely campaign to become the District Attorney of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRASNER, LARRY KRASummary: Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis, his sister Dee, and their nihilistic father Frank, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTO, OCTAVIUS BIDGoyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYMcNeur, Catherine
Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: Not content with just cleaning out their room, nonbinary fourth grader Riley organizes a supersized sale in their South Philadelphia neighborhood--and figures out a way to preserve the memories while getting rid of the clutter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALBSummary: Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Baby 2008Summary: Get ready for more misguided dreams leading to blundered schemes from everyone's favorite bar owners! The gang returns to Paddy's Pub, including Mac (Rob McElhenney), Dennis (Glen Howerton), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Frank (Danny DeVito). Last season, the gang crushed Wade Boggs' cross-country flight drinking record, killed Mac's dad, and started a cult. This season, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SLashner, William.
Summary: Victor Carl is a defense attorney who skates the edge of legal ethics; but he is loyal to his clients--even when they're dead. Joey Cheaps tells Victor his part in a crime, and is then murdered, leading Victor to search for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASRosser, Kareem
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021