Third and Indiana

Third and Indiana
Author: Steve Lopez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1995-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140239456

In the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a teenaged dealer, a priest, a little girl with a jump rope. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the dark, decaying streets, looking for her fourteen-year-old-son, Gabriel. She’s afraid of what she might find. Gabriel has fallen in with the most savage of the drug dealers, but now wants to get out—if he can. In this gritty, fast-moving novel, acclaimed Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez brings home the violence that is scarring America’s vast urban wastelands, and the humanity that might save them. “An unfancy prose is streaked by strong, cinematic images . . . Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style.”—The Daily Telegraph “Lopez has done what Balzac, Dickens . . . and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.” –Pete Hamill, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Who's who in New York City and State

Who's who in New York City and State
Author: Lewis Randolph Hamersly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1416
Release: 1907
Genre: New York (N.Y.)
ISBN:

Containing authentic biographies of New Yorkers who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement including sketches of every army and navy officer born in or appointed from New York and now serving, of all the congressmen from the state, all state senators and judges, and all ambassadors, ministers and consuls appointed from New York.

Who's who in America

Who's who in America
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2476
Release: 1910
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.

Who's who

Who's who
Author: Henry Robert Addison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 3340
Release: 1953
Genre: Biography
ISBN:

Fever 1793

Fever 1793
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442443073

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story
Author: Philip Barry
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1942
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573613975

Twenty-four hours in the life of a Philadelphia belle, during which she discards an about-to-be second husband to remarry her first mate.