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Parr, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Peterson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Peter

Coleman, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COL

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIE

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: "December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Gilbert, 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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

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