philadelphia (pa.)

"Offers two ... books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts, dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations"--Dust jacket.

Amanda Pepper, an English teacher at an exclusive private school, investigates a series of pranks that range from trivial to potentially deadly, but her investigation is disrupted when the students rise up against the administrators.

Bennie Rosato is surprised by the physical resemblance between her and her new client, and when her client announces she is Bennie's identical twin, Bennie doesn't believe her, but she finds herself drawn to her and as she investigates her client's case, she uncovers secrets her family would kill to keep from her.

Janelle, Natalie, and Tanya, twenty-somethings living in Philadelphia and bored with their daily routines, decide to take a vacation to Miami, where they are enticed by the fast-paced lifestyle, but get perspective on what really matters in their lives.

A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.

Regina Harris has managed to clean up her life and leave the gang-infested streets of Harlem behind her, but she finds herself drawn back towards her old lifestyle as she tries to help her three best friends, who still live on the streets.

Highlights the life of the seamstress who is credited with sewing the first American flag that had stars and stripes and relates the events surrounding its design. Discusses flag etiquette.