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Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Fiction Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia (Pa.) Biography Philadelphia (Pa.) History 19th century Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction Scottish Americans Fiction Still, William 1821-1902 Time travel Fiction United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 FictionGilbert, 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)Gutman, 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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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.811 MAUCabot, Sally.
Summary: The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence--a cause he refuses to support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CABGabaldon, Diana
Summary: "1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 1 OF 2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 1 OF 2Miller, Marla R.
Summary: A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, her fabled creation of "the first flag," and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 ROSS, BETSY MILParr, Delia.
Summary: Annabelle Taylor and Harrison Graymoor are an unlikely couple trying desperately not to fall in love after they are forced into an undesired predicament in 1832 Philadelphia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARPeterson, Tracie.
Summary: When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PeterOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 32Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBThorland, Donna
Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOColeman, Evelyn
Summary: When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLKientz, Chris
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KIEGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREPatrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: "What if you suddenly found yourself in Addy Walker's world in the middle of the Civil War? Join Addy on adventures as you outrun a slave catcher, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's family. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMESolomon, Asali.
Summary: "An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's Black--most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLGabaldon, Diana
Summary: "1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 2 OF 2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 2 OF 2Gabaldon, Diana.
Summary: "In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gabaldon 2014Robson, Lucia St. Clair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBMcNeur, 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: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUBiddle, Daniel R.
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 BIDSummary: This is the story of a heroine - perhaps not a traditional heroine, for one would not necessarily look upon a young, frail-of-health, free black woman from a well-to-do Philadelphia family in Civil War times as someone who would implicitly inspire the word “heroine.” But then Charlotte Forten was an extraordinary young woman. As a part of President Lincoln’s “great experiment”, she journeyed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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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"--
Format: text
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 DIESummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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