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Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
2) Wonder boys
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Language
English
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Grady Tripp is a middle-aged Philanderer with a penchant for pot and failed marriages, who is unable to complete the long-awaited follow up to his award-winning novel. His brilliant student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed with Hollywood suicides and prone to fabrication and petty thievery. In their odyssey through the streets of Pittsburgh, Grady and James are joined by Grady's pregnant mistress, his hilarious bizarre editor, and an...
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie...
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English
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There's one corpse too many in a Pittsburgh museum's life-size diorama of the Battle of Lexington, 1775. The extra body is that of philanthropist and art connoisseur T. Colfax Bradshaw. But why? Maybe he knew too much about the biggest art heist in history. When their daughter Caitlin seeks legal advice, newly minted lawyer Cynthia Jakubek finds herself representing the teen. Jakubek aches to jump from Main Street to Wall Street but is stuck interning...
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English
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Dr. Daniel Rinaldi is a psychologist whose specialty is working with victims of violent crime. But things go sideways when Kevin Merrick, a victim of an armed assault and one of Rinaldi's patients, starts dressing like Rinaldi, acting like him, even mirroring his appearance. Before he can address this troubling behavior with Kevin, Kevin is found dead and the police believe the killer was really after Rinaldi. He races to track down the murderer before...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
When a daring bank robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except one, Rinaldi is called in to question Treva Williams, the traumatized young woman who survived. However, what seemed a simple robbery soon explodes into a series of events that plunge the investigating officers, Sgt. Harry Polk and Det. Eleanor Lowrey-- as well as Rinaldi himself-- into a vortex of mistaken identity and kidnapping.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First e-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a brutally cold winter in Pittsburgh, Daniel Rinaldi is asked to treat Lyle Barnes, a retired FBI profiler whose terrifying nocturnal visions cause him to wake up screaming. Barnes, after twenty years spent inside the minds of the nation's worst serial killers, is not only falling apart psychologically but also finds himself the target of an unknown assassin, whose mounting list of victims is paralyzing the city. Hidden for his own...
Author
Series
Saddler's legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Ann dreams of a marriage proposal from her poetic suitor, Eli—until Will Hanby shows her that nobility is more than fine words.
On a small farm in 19th-century Ohio, young Ann Miller is pursued by the gallant Eli Bowen, son of a prominent family. Eli is the suitor of Ann's dreams. Like her, he enjoys poetry and beautiful things and soon, he will move to the city to become a doctor.
Ann travels to Pittsburgh, accompanying
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A painfully insecure artist falls in love with a charming, intellectual fellow university student in 1970s Pittsburgh before their relationship spirals into an all-consuming obsession that culminates in a shattering truth.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.Roxy Abruzzo, bestselling author Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She'd like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine's shady business dealings, though he's trying to reel her in. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up-and-up for a tidy profit....
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This middle-grade novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952-53. The protagonist is Franny, a young girl of imagination, curiosity, and stubbornness. While recovering from polio, she begins a correspondence with a flea named Fleabrain"--
13) Sticky fingers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
14) Everyday people
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris "Crest" Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after a devastating accident that left his best friend dead. In Everyday People, acclaimed novelist Stewart O'Nan offers a multifaceted portrait of Crest and of East Liberty, the African American neighborhood he calls home. As he deals with the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships...
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elise Malvern has a habit of letting people down. Her former boyfriend who hoped she'd be his bride. Her grandfather who hoped she'd take over the family's auction company. But mostly she's disappointed herself. What's the point of pursuing her passion as a violinist if she is too scared to audition for a seat in the Pittsburgh Symphony? Her internship at the elegant Heinz Hall places her in the wings of the stage, but never on it. By accident, she...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A decade of unthinkable hardships in the shadow of the mill has shattered Janos and Karina Kovac's American dream. Pittsburgh's thriving steel industry has not kept its promise of prosperity--and now Karina's unraveling sanity threatens her family's future.
Its Pittsburgh, 1910the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac should be prospering, but their American dream is fading faster than...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three unexpected friends find a gruff yet kindhearted troll underneath their local Pittsburgh bridge who teaches them the importance of friendship and raising their voices" --