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141) Mixed doubles
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
142) Bread on arrival
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
143) We are patriots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.
144) Wonnie
Author
Series
Coming out volume 5
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wonnie is a brave girl who came out at just thirteen years old. She found support in her parents and taught herself to live life to its fullest. Wonnie belongs to a friendly LGBT community in Philadelphia. She produces Come Out!, a podcast that has become a platform for gay-lesbian-trans teens. Her love life is also at its peak, and Rebecca, Wonnie's girlfriend, wants to get married. Funny, romantic and honest, this novel follows a day in the life...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter's reputation, it's Philadelphia's strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac...
147) Burn you twice
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist's fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan's trying to put her traumas to rest. It's not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he'll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well....
148) With or without you
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality...
149) Beauty for ashes
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the prim and proper Philadelphia of 1820, a wealthy widower seeks a marriage of convenience in order to assure the care of two small motherless children.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What if you suddenly found yourself in Addy Walker's world, in the middle of the Civil War? Together, you and Addy could help newly freed people, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's family. As you read, you decide what happens next by choosing your own path through this multiple-ending story." -- Page [4] cover.
152) My own
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
352 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
153) The good neighbor
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cenagage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Things are a little rough for Izzy Lane. Still reeling from the break-up of her marriage, the newly single mom moves back to the Philadelphia home she grew up in, five-year-old Noah in tow. The transition is difficult, but with the help of her best friends -- and her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Feldman -- Izzy feels like shes stepping closer to her new normal. Until her ex-husband shows up with his girlfriend. Thats when Izzy invents a boyfriend of her...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Step up to the bar with Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee and Frank, the outrageously inappropriate gang at Paddy's Pub, as they work together for a common cause, themselves! It's every man for himself as the gang tackles gay marriage, fights the class war, enjoys the high life on the high seas and does whatever it takes to figure out who knocked up Dee.
156) Last call
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A real estate developer returns to his old Philly neighborhood and must decide to raze or resurrect the family bar.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Harper Perennial paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 kit (337 pages ; 20 cm, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927, and Helen Montgomery is coming of age on Philadelphia's Main Line, where privileged young women are set for life. But Helen has desires of her own. Debutante balls, eligible bachelors, and marriage aren't among them...until her father is embroiled in a devastating scandal that jeopardizes the family's financial future and social standing, that is. Then it becomes up to Helen to repair both by marrying a man of wealth and connection. Edgar...