pennsylvania

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Plain truth

a novel
2001
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

The house on Spruce Street

1982
Traces the history of an old house built in Philadelphia in 1772.

Me and Earl and the dying girl

a novel
2013
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.

William Penn

founder of the Pennsylvania Colony
2004
Provides an overview of the state of North Carolina, covering its history, geography, economy, people, and points of interest.

Bewildered for three days

as to why Daniel Boone never wore his coonskin cap
2000
With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.

When the moon is full

supernatural stories from the old Pennsylvania mountains
1994
A collection of tales of the supernatural based on the traditional stories told in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania.

Send me a sign

2012
Superstitious before being diagnosed with leukemia, high school senior Mia becomes irrationally dependent on horoscopes, good luck charms, and the like when her life shifts from cheerleading and parties to chemotherapy and platelets, while her parents obsess and lifelong friend Gyver worries.

Chickamauga, Andersonville, Fort Sumter and guard duty at home

four Civil War diaries by Pennsylvania soldiers
2006
The Civil War seen through the eyes of four Union soldiers--Lt. William Glison of the 6th Ohio Infantry, Sergeant Will Duncan of the 2nd Pennsylvania Militia Battalion, John M. Kelly of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and Private George Schmittle of the 13th Pennsylvania Calvary.

The shadowed unicorn

2000
When their father dies suddenly, twelve-year-old twins Brendan and Nick, along with their mother and older sister Ami, move to an isolated old farm in the country, where the twins find themselves pulled into Ami's obsession with capturing a unicorn.

William Penn

founder of Pennsylvania
2006
A biography of early English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn; describing his life, dealings with the Lenni Lenape, and legacy of religious freedom.

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