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Local History Books
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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 4.18 — 28 ratings — published
Vanishing Philadelphia:: Ruins of the Quaker City (Lost)
by (shelved 4 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 29 ratings — published 2014
Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 92 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 3.70 — 185 ratings — published
Cellar Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 541 ratings — published 2013
Just a Kid from Swampoodle to Vietnam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 125 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)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.27 — 1,001 ratings — published 2014
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Phantom Killer: John Wesley Wable (True Crime)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 2.89 — 19 ratings — published
Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Wisconsin Lore: Antics and Anecdotes of Wisconsin People and Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.42 — 24 ratings — published 1962
Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.68 — 25 ratings — published
Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,343 ratings — published 1989
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 79 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 4.08 — 410 ratings — published 2018
Philadelphia, a 300 year history after 25 years (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
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 — 87 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 4.42 — 74 ratings — published 1999
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,157 ratings — published 2017
Philadelphia: A Railroad History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 21 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 4.73 — 22 ratings — published
Remembering Kensington & Fishtown: Philadelphia's Riverward Neighborhoods (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 25 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 — 745,463 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 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2013
The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
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 4.59 — 29 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)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 121 ratings — published 1982
Philadelphia's City Hall (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
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 — 816 ratings — published 2009
The Making of Milwaukee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 140 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 — 3,942 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 3.90 — 155 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Boston (Short Histories)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 207 ratings — published 2004
Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery (Images of America: Ohio)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 2004
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,817 ratings — published
Black Mass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,520 ratings — published 2000
On Location.....on Martha's Vineyard: (The Making of the Movie "Jaws")
by (shelved 2 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.35 — 152 ratings — published 1975
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,567 ratings — published 2002
“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century city. It has been said that 'God made the country and man made the town', but that is not true: the town is simply disguised countryside. Main roads, some older than history itself, still bend to avoid long-dried marshes, or veer off at an angle where the wall of a manor house once stood. Hills and valleys still remain; rivers, even though entombed in sewer pipes, still cause trouble in the foundations of neighbouring buildings and become a local focus for winter mists. Garden walls follow the line of hedgerows; the very street-patterns have been determined by the holdings of individual farmers and landlords, parcels of land some of which can be traced back to the Norman Conquest. The situation of specific buildings - pubs, churches, institutions - often dates from long distant decisions and actions on the part of men whose names have vanished from any record.”
― The Fields Beneath
― The Fields Beneath
“Dervishes died as the bullets smacked into them, but the rest never even thought of pausing. In a society where bravery and reputation counted for much more than mere wealth, the warrior creed drove them forward. Ancient blades flashed in the sunlight and swung again, now covered in fresh blood. In short order the ground was littered with torn and mangled Egyptian corpses and the battle was over.”
― No Road to Khartoum
― No Road to Khartoum
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