Kristiana Gregory

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1779

Kristiana Gregory returns with a stunning new sequel to the bestselling Dear America title THE WINTER OF RED SNOW!

Abigail Jane Stewart returns in this brand-new sequel to THE WINTER OF RED SNOW. The Revolutionary War toils on, but the Stewart family can no longer avoid getting involved. Abby's father joins the Continental Army, while Abby, her mother, and her siblings become camp followers. They face daily hardships alongside the troops and continue to spend time helping the Washingtons. Filled with romance and adventure, Abby's frontline view of the war captures the heartache and bravery of the soldiers, as well as the steep cost of freedom.

Cannons at Dawn

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Large print for easier reading. Sequel to The Postcard (also for sale separately).  #largeprint #Amish #Lancaster #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #romance #love #ThePostcard #bestselling-author

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Crossroad

#mystery #detective #cozymystery #tamarmyers #mennonite #magdalenayoder #pennsylvaniadutch #amish #quaker #pennsylvania


Alabama

A Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes 

When eligible bachelor Cornelius Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livingood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.

Hell Hath No Curry

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Stories from Historic Philadelphia

Sweet, demure Lydia Darragh was a Quaker, a patriot, and a spy! Charles Willson Peale was a famous painter who nearly blew up the city of Philadelphia one explosive day. Peter Still was an enslaved man who bought his freedom and found his family forty years after his mother kissed him good-bye. Their true stories, plus those of inventors and moms, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts ¿ even a cow! ¿ come to vibrant life in Patriots, Heroes & Spies: Stories from Historic Philadelphia.

Patriots, Pirates, Heroes and Spies

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Eric James

Pennsylvania

A Halloween Adventure in the Keystone State

An unexpected visitor arrives in town! But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these questions as they watch the mysterious visitor travel through places they know and love in Pennsylvania! Come along and celebrate an unforgettable Halloween night!

Trick or Treat in Pennsylvania

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#general #fiction #hardcover #pennstate #mascotbooks #nittanylion #Pennsylvania #adventure 

Nittany Lion's Pennsylvania Vacation

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Jennifer Chiaverini

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

In this heartwarming debut novel, Sarah, struggling to find a job and a sense of place in her new town, finds herself learning how to quilt from a cantankerous old woman who also teaches her about the deep love that can exist between friends. Reprint.

The Quilter's Apprentice

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#paperback #singledad #family #Pennsylvania #1960s #humerous #marriage 

New Jersey

Compelling, bittersweet novel with memorable characters set in the 1960s in rural Pennsylvania, written by the legendary singer/songwriter/performer/author and founding member of the singing group The Roches



The Town Crazy, set in the sleepy town of Hanzloo, Pennsylvania, a suburban Catholic community in 1961, is a novel of passion, absurdity, innocence, and sorrow.

A single father moves into town with his young son, which arouses suspicion from the husbands and the interest of the wives, but at the same time one of the wives seems to be losing her mind, and no one knows what to do.

A contemporary, often humorous take on a bygone era, The Town Crazy also delves into the terror and cruelty of childhood, the dangerous loneliness of failing marriages, sexual repression and desire, and the intersection of art and religion, all culminating in a tragedy for which everyone in the town bears some responsibility.

Reading group guide available to download from publisher's website.

The Town Crazy

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Florida

The Diary of Annetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896

A diary account of 13-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love. Her fascinating diary entries give readers a personal glimpse into what life was like in a coal-mining town during a tumultuous time in the country's past.

A Coal Miner's Bride

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Dear America, non-fiction historical biography. Deckled pages. Attached green ribbon bookmark. 

James Fallows

Deborah Fallows

A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign.

The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems--from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge--but itis also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey--and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Our Towns (1st Edition)

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Plain Truth

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Through interviews, newspaper accounts, and other original sources, Bartoletti pieced together a picture of life in the Pennsylvania coal mines at the turn of the century.

⭐Growing up in Coal Country

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Delaware

The Famous, Infamous, and Quirky of the Keystone State

Bubble gum, Vaseline, zippers, Groundhog Day, Little League baseball, the state police force, the gas station... Today, people across the country-and the world-take these things for granted, but we have the inventiveness and skill of Pennsylvanians to thank for all of them. From the amazing and amusing to the famous and fantastic, Pennsylvania Firsts shows you why Pennsylvania so richly deserves its reputation as the "keystone" of our nation!

Pennsylvania Firsts

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New with slight shelf wear. #Brunstetter #Barbour #Amish #romance #Pennsylvania 

Missouri

Daughters of Lancaster County 

Time seems to stand still in Naomi Fisher's tranquil community, but it cannot hold back tragedy. Helping her widowed father run a store, manage a household, and raise seven children is a daunting task. There is no time to think about courtship or having her own family, though her heart yearns for the attention of Caleb Hoffmeir. But her days are plotted for her-until the afternoon her baby brother disappears from the yard. How can Naomi expect anyone to love and trust her if she can't take care of one small boy? Should she leave all that is familiar and seek a new avenue of life? The Storekeeper's Daughter is book 1 in the bestselling Daughters of Lancaster County series now available in mass market. Other books in the series include The Quilter's Daughter and The Bishop's Daughter.

The Storekeeper's Daughter #1

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James A. Michener

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Writer Lucas Yoder, editor Shirley Marmelstein, critic and would-be author Karl Streibert, and reader Jane Garland, who treasures the written word, play key roles in a study of the people who create, publish, critique, and enjoy books

The Novel

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Eliza Griswold

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

One Family and the Fracturing of America

In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.

Amity and Prosperity

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#hardcover #amish #cozymystery #penndutch #pennsylvania #womansleuth

Magdalena Yoder comes to the aid of local police chief Melvin Stoltzfus as she takes on the investigation into the murder of Lizzie Mast, the worst cook in peaceful Hernia, Pennsylvania, while coping with an influx of new guests at the PennDutch Inn and a killer who will do anything to stop her from uncovering the truth.

The Crepes of Wrath

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#hardcover #fiction #cozymystery #penndutch #pennsylvania #amish #food 

When Minerva J. Jay, a local lady known for her prodigious appetite, collapses after consuming her pancakes at a church breakfast, Police Chief Chris Ackerman enlists the aid of a pregnant Magdalena Yoder to investigate the case, which is soon complicated by the death of their prime suspect.

Batter off Dead

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Elisabeth Thomas

A Novel

"[A] delicious literary Gothic debut." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE "Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step." - THE WASHINGTON POST A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly * New York magazine * Cosmopolitan * The Atlantic * Forbes * Good Housekeeping * Parade * Better Homes and Gardens * HuffPost * Buzzfeed * Newsweek * Harper's Bazaar * Ms. Magazine * Woman's Day * PopSugar * and more! A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school's promise of prestige. Trust us, you belong here. Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years--summers included--completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire. Among this year's incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual discipline--only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school's enigmatic director, Viktória, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she's ever had. But the House's strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the school--in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadence--might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum. Combining the haunting sophistication and dusky, atmospheric style of Sarah Waters with the unsettling isolation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Catherine House is a devious, deliciously steamy, and suspenseful page-turner with shocking twists and sharp edges that is sure to leave readers breathless.

Catherine House

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#hardcover #fiction #dearamerica #youngadult  #kids #middlegrades #Pennsylvania #1700s #Captive 

Connecticut

The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan

A strong-willed Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

Standing in the Light

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North Carolina

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes more "catnip for women's fiction fans" (Booklist) in the second novel of the Hudson Sisters series. Allie, Des, and Cara, each having her own reasons for wanting a share of their father's estate, meet in the grand Victorian home in which he grew up, only to be greeted by another secret he purposely hid from them: his sister Bonnie. The women reluctantly band together to take on Fritz's challenge, working with a local contractor to begin the renovations financed by an account Fritz had set up for the task. While the restoration appears to go smoothly at first, it soon becomes apparent that the work will be more extensive than originally thought, and Des, elected to handle the money, needs to find ways to stretch out the remaining savings while searching for new sources of funding. As strangers linked only by their DNA try to become a family, the Hudson sisters also try to come to terms with the father they only thought they knew. In the process, each woman discovers her own capacity for understanding, forgiveness, love, and the true meaning of family.

The Sugarhouse Blues

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Craftsmen and Farmers

Describes the crafts of Pennsylvania Dutch living in a rural atmosphere. Includes making quilts, pottery, and tin and tole ware.

Pennsylvania Dutch

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#hardcover #historicalfiction #coalmining #dearamerica #juvenile #middleschool #pennsylvania #fiction 

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Kristiana Gregory

Cannons at Dawn

Beverly Lewis

The Crossroad

Tamar Myers

Hell Hath No Curry

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Patriots, Pirates, Heroes and Spies

Eric James

Trick or Treat in Pennsylvania

Denise L. Kaminsky

Nittany Lion's Pennsylvania Vacation

Jennifer Chiaverini

The Quilter's Apprentice

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The Town Crazy

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A Coal Miner's Bride

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Our Towns (1st Edition)

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Plain Truth

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⭐Growing up in Coal Country

Patrick Reynolds

Pennsylvania Firsts

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James A. Michener

The Novel

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Batter off Dead

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