philadelphia (pa.)

Tracy Ellison, now a major Hollywood star, returns to her East Coast roots and stirs up unrest among her friends, family, and past loves.

Song Byrd, raised in poverty by her single mother, longs to escape from her outsider status in her family and neighborhood, but guilt keeps her from truly enjoying life after her mother is killed and she goes to live with her father in much improved circumstances.

Maxine McCoy, producer of a popular television show, has good reason to be pleased with her life, but a history of disappointments keeps her from fully enjoying her successes; and it is not until she is called back to her childhood neighborhood in Philadelphia to care for her grandmother that she learns to come to grips with her past.

Gena struggles with being able to finally let go of Quadir in order to make a life for herself, but when past demons catch up with her, her life is on the line, as she tries to protect the only family she has left.

Gena struggles with being able to finally let go of her ex-lover Quadir in order to make a life for herself, but when past demons catch up with her, her life is put on the line as she tries to protect the only family she has left.

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.

Captioned color photographs portray a variety of scenes, places of interest, and people of Philadelphia.

In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia despite the racial prejudice they encounter.

Art therapist Zoe Hayes' plans to marry Detective Nick Stiles are interrupted by the discovery of a dead body in Zoe's backyard, and, as Zoe tries to find the killer, she is shocked to learn one of her future-in-laws might be hiding a deadly secret.

High school student Samara Tuttle finds a friend in her new English teacher, Mr. Halbrook, who inspires her to want a better life, until he vanishes and Samara learns he may have been hiding a shocking secret.