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Extraordinary Gifts celebrates 20 remarkable women with Philadelphia connections - including Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Mead, Mary Cassatt, and Marian Anderson - with original art, poetry, and fiction by contemporary artists and writers from the Philadelphia area. Each of the women this volume honors, some familiar and some less well known, have changed the world through their courage to think outside the box, to go against convention, and to defy society's expectations for their gender. The stories of these women span over two centuries of local and global history.

Philadelphia attorney David Gold has never done a daring thing in his life-until he meets Jacob Feig, a survivor of Auschwitz who stands accused of murder. "In the end, "Feig" is really David Gold's book. As he listens to the stories of survivors, he emerges from his safe isolation-and his insistence that they share their hardest, deepest secrets leads to a deeper connection to the world." -Simone Zelitch, author of "Louisa" and Assistant Chair of Literature and Creative Writing, Community College of Philadelphia

"Blythe Davenport's mastery of the intricate and unexpected image guides us back and forth from past to present in her poetic portraits of the Philadelphia landscape. She fills her poems with voices, places, and lines like 'the sun flexes his supernova arm, punching/a perfect round brilliant/in the bruised evening sky.' This is a book well worth reading and rereading for its informed voice, its subtlety, its grace." - Donna Wolf-Palacio, author of What I Don't Know

Come As You Are is a novel about balancing work, family, and a chick rock band. Margo Bevelacqua is a gorgeous siren with a successful gardening show on The Outdoor Network. Kit Greene is a single mother living back at home with her aging father. Ten years earlier, these thirty-something women were best friends who played in the late 90s Philadelphia girl group, Broad Street. Time and circumstances drove them apart, but when they get an invitation to play the esteemed Women of Rock national tour, they put aside their differences to reform their old band. The women must contend with stalkers, crazy celebrities, married television executives, and eccentric parents to find ways to harmonize the many facets of their lives. Come As You Are is a sequel to Weiser's debut novel, Broad Street, described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a "terrific Philadelphia rock roman a clef."

50 Over 50 is a superb collection of poetry, essays, and fiction by women over 50. This anthology features work by notable authors like Robin Black, Bonnie Jo Campbell, J.C. Todd, Vickie A. Carr, and Rachel Pastan. While many of the writers included are emerging authors, all of the work has something funny, thoughtful, and compelling to say about sex, family, loss, and love.

"Pet lovers will lap up every word." -John Grogan, author of Marley & Me When copywriter Anne Kaier stops traffic to rescue a stray cat, neither she nor the cat knows what lies in store ... You'll lose yourself in this witty, true-life story of how Anne hopes a beguiling cat called Henry can help her as a single woman in the amped-up city. But first, how will she lure Henry out from under the bed-when not even her ten-year-old nephew can get him to stir?

A collection of the best short fiction, poetry, and essays published by Philadelphia Stories between 2004 and 2014. This volume, published in celebration of Philadelphia Stories' tenth anniversary, includes work by Philadelphia-area writers as well as winners of the magazine's national contests - the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry.