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Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 30 ratings — published
Vanishing Philadelphia:: Ruins of the Quaker City (Lost)
by (shelved 4 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 32 ratings — published 2014
Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 96 ratings — published 2010
Philadelphia Area Cemeteries (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Coventry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 1911
Remembering Northeast Philadelphia (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2009
Last Don standing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 194 ratings — published
Cellar Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 554 ratings — published 2013
Just a Kid from Swampoodle to Vietnam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 126 ratings — published
Magical Destinations of the Northeast: Sacred Sites, Occult Oddities & Magical Monuments (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 34 ratings — published
The Removers: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 1,007 ratings — published 2014
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Phantom Killer: John Wesley Wable (True Crime)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 2.71 — 24 ratings — published
Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 2014
Wisconsin Lore: Antics and Anecdotes of Wisconsin People and Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 26 ratings — published 1962
Stevens Point Brewing Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 28 ratings — published
Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,401 ratings — published 1989
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 83 ratings — published
Philadelphia Perspectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2015
God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 441 ratings — published 2018
Philadelphia, a 300 year history after 25 years (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Pennsylvania Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 89 ratings — published 2007
Philadelphia: City of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2006
In Eddie's Name: One Family's Triumph over Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 80 ratings — published 1999
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 11,771 ratings — published 2017
Philadelphia Railroad History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 22 ratings — published 2012
A Firefighter's Journal: Thirty-Seven Years on the Firegrounds and in the Firehouses of Philadelphia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.74 — 23 ratings — published
Remembering Kensington & Fishtown: Philadelphia's Riverward Neighborhoods (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 27 ratings — published 2008
Oxford Circle: The Jewish Community of Northeast Philadelphia (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 2004
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,103 ratings — published 2003
The Cop Who Would Be King : The Honorable Frank Rizzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published 1977
Philadelphia: The World War I Years (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2013
The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 2009
Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 28 ratings — published 1976
News Hound: From Half-ball in South Philly to TV News (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published 1983
Philadelphia: A 300-Year History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 125 ratings — published 1982
Philadelphia's City Hall (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
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avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2003
Lower Northeast Philadelphia (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Along the Schuylkill River (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Frankford (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.36 — 834 ratings — published 2009
The Making of Milwaukee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 142 ratings — published 1999
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,080 ratings — published 1983
They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe (Cleveland Crime and Disaster Series by John Stark Bellamy II)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 157 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Boston (Short Histories)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 218 ratings — published 2004
Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery (Images of America: Ohio)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 2004
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,895 ratings — published
Black Mass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,805 ratings — published 2000
The Dead End Kids of Port Richmond, Philadelphia: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2001
“The troops arrived at the wall together and swept into the village, some through the gates and some through the holes blasted by the artillery. Then the slaughter began as they went from hut to hut, winkling out the defenders at bayonet point. The screaming showed the progress of the individual battles across the village until at last it was quiet.”
― No Road to Khartoum
― No Road to Khartoum
“Trenton got up and made for the bathroom. On the way he paused to put a record on the gramophone. He loved music first thing in the morning and his good friend Fred Astaire was a particular favourite. As he stepped into the bath, he began to sing along. ‘Da da da da da da…I’m putting’ on my top hat, tying up my white tie, brushing’ off my tails.”
― Death of an Officer
― Death of an Officer
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