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Nora Blackbird may have been to the manor borne, but these days money is so tight, she can’t afford to lose her job as a society columnist. So when her new boss at the Philadelphia Intelligencer- Australian tabloid editor Gus Hardwicke- tells her to work the celebrity gossip beat or start checking the want ads, the choice is easy. Now Nora’s writing a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech...
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Omar Tyree returns to the story of Tracy Ellison, the spirited heroine of his best-selling Flyy Girl. Now 28 years old and on the verge of superstardom as a screen writer and actress, Tracy is going back east to reconnect with family and friends. Tracy's worked hard for her success. She's made it in Hollywood on her own terms and without compromise. But returning to Philly proves to be more than the happy homecoming she expects. While trying to decide...
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Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 12
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English
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Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her only current problems are keeping her well-meaning family from hijacking her wedding, is understandably stunned to discover a perfect specimen of the species dying at the foot of the school's marble staircase. It is anybody's guess what led to Tomas Severin's...
66) The numbers
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Blackstone Publishing
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Ex-homicide detective Thomas Prescott joins an emergency task force to track down a serial killer who carves three-digit numbers into his victims, and uncovers a link to an illegal street lottery known as the Numbers.
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Harper
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Neena's mother, Freeda, disappeared on a cold February morning in 1984, leaving the fifteen-year-old Neena and her younger sister, Tish, in the care of Nan, their stern grandmother. Two decades later, Neena-no longer living in Philadelphia-supports herself by blackmailing married men. Returning to her childhood home when a sting goes terribly wrong, she avoids her grandmother while attempting to pull one last hustle on a prominent local lawyer. But...
68) Where's Prancer?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Santa and his reindeer return from their Christmas Eve trip around the world, they realize that one of them is missing and a search begins.
69) Four to midnight
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Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Sometimes the hardest thing for a cop to do is the right thing.
A black city councilman is badly beaten on a West Philadelphia street and blames two of Sgt. Eddie North's best cops. They deny it. Eddie, uncertain of what really happened, decides to back his men-and finds himself accused of a conspiracy to cover up the truth.
The media, the politicians and the public are outraged. And then a man in a black ski mask begins a campaign to assassinate...
71) Philly stakes
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Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 2
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c1989
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English
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Amanda attempts to instill the spirit of Christmas by having her students prepare and serve a meal for the homeless, but her plan backfires. A wealthy and politically ambitious parent, Alexander "Sandy" Clausen, turns the event into a lavish, catered publicity and personal photo-op. Worse, his party ends in fire and death with his daughter, Amanda's student, one of three people who insist they alone started the fire. Amanda wants to solve the crime...
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Whether it's poker or trial law, wisecracking Rita Morrone plays to win, especially when she takes on the defense of the Honorable Fiske Hamilton, a prominent federal judge accused of sexual harassment. And it's no coincidence that the judge is her live-in lover's father. Then the action turns deadly, and Rita finds herself at the center of a murder case. She probes deep into the murder, uncovering a secret life and suspects in shocking places. When...
76) Drift
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Forge
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2013.
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English
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When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he's inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and out of place, Doyle is surprised to find himself falling for his new neighbor, Nola Watkins, who's under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large and mysterious...
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2014.
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A social satire set in Philadelphia over the course of a single day. It follows the experiences of a young IT manager, his former singer fiancě and his skeptical grad school student brother as they confront their choices during a funeral and an annual Bloomsday party.
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Mike Coletti novels volume 3
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2012.
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English
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Awakening in the night covered in her murdered husband's blood with no knowledge of what happened, defense lawyer Andrea Wilson flees the police and turns for help to detective Mike Coletti, a man from her past who she entreats to help prove her innocence.
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Lou Kline novels volume 2
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Second in the gripping, hard-hitting Lou Klein detective series - Sins that ex-cop Lou Klein thought he'd buried return to haunt him when a woman from his past reappears. Born into a family of cops, Franny Patterson married into a family of crime when she wed Brian Haggerty, owner of one of Philadelphia's hottest nightclubs. Now she wants out - and she has approached her former love, Lou Klein, for help. While he can't ignore her plea, Klein suspects...