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31/01/2025

Public voting opened today for BREW Readers’ Choice Award 2024-2025 Publisher of the Year! Brookline Books has been nominated, which is fantastic entering our imprint's second year of publishing!

Show your local history publisher some love Philly! 🎉 https://tinyurl.com/yw6fhntr

24/01/2025

The 2003-2004 season was a memorable one for the St. Joe’s University Hawks men’s basketball team. Two decades later, readers will be able to relive the era and learn more about it in Aaron Bracy’s A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-2004 Saint Joseph’s Hawks. Bracy...

23/01/2025

A new episode of Labor Jawn dropped featuring Brookline author Will Caverly and his new book, Tinicum & Eastwick!

Labor Jawn is Philly's working class history podcast. Historian Gabe Christy and musician Young Sam James explore the who, what, when, where, and whys of the labor movement.

Head on over to Spotify to give the episode a listen! https://open.spotify.com/episode/63odL7qc7xvQ7QqrR22544?si=CwjofZWUS-y2tisUOYaQLQ

17/01/2025

Try before you buy! Read a sample of Peter Schmitz' debut book, Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia. You can browse the Table of Contents and check out the first few pages online at:

A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia. From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world premiere performance of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, and from censorship and opposition to riots and de...

15/01/2025

This is the story of the African-American Montier family, which traces its roots to Philadelphia’s first mayor, a white Quaker named Humphrey Morrey, and includes generations of Black activists, artists and scholars.

Donald Scott Sr. takes readers through the rich generational history of this Philadelphia family whose legacy can be traced all the way into the 21st century!

Available everywhere January 31st, you can secure your copy today by ordering directly through Brookline: https://tinyurl.com/fmnckzud

14/01/2025

Brookline author Will Caverly has been interviewed over his latest book, Eastwick & Tinicum, by Southwest Globe Times!

“Who deserves a home?” That is the question author Will Caverly poses in his new book Eastwick and Tinicum: Environmental Justice and Racial Injustice in Southwest Philadelphia.

Focusing on urban planning efforts in the 1950s, Caverly breaks down the history of the creation of John Heinz Wildlife Refuge juxtaposed with the injustice of the Eastwick Redevelopment Project that was happening simultaneously.

Read the full interview over on Southwest Globe Times!

An interview with author Will Caverly “Who deserves a home?” That is the question author Will Caverly poses in his new book Eastwick and Tinicum: Environmental Justice and Racial Injustice […]

14/01/2025

Spotted in the wild! Your Barnes & Noble has Brookline's local history titles in stock—with many more on the way! Be sure to check out Adventures in Theater History along with latest podcast episode. And give us a tag when you spot our author's books out in the wild at your local book store!

03/01/2025

Now available, Tinicum & Eastwick explores class, gender, and racial dimensions of the urban renewal and eminent domain activities in 1950s and 60s Philadelphia Eastwick neighborhood. Will Caverly also examines the environmental history of the Tinicum marsh, of which Eastwick is a part, with research supports by the Natural Lands Trust.

You can get Tinicum & Eastwick at your favorite local bookstore or you can order with us over on Brookline Books! 📚 https://tinyurl.com/yk6e8v59

31/12/2024

Happy New Years Eve everyone! We'll be back in the new year to bring you all your Philadelphia area history book needs. Be safe tonight as we usher in 2025!

25/12/2024

Happy holidays and merry Christmas from everyone here at Brookline Books! May you have a very bookish holiday season and may your TBR pile grow with all your wishlisted faves!

23/12/2024

That's all for now! Our U.S. offices are closed from December 23rd 2024 to January 1st 2025. We will resume regular business hours January 2nd 2025.

Have a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Brookline Books!

20/12/2024

When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause—battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice.

Publishing everywhere December 31st, you can reserve your copy for 25% off when you use offer code 25CAVE over on Brookline Books: https://tinyurl.com/yk6e8v59

20/12/2024

We’re rounding out this year with a bang. Read on to see the last two books we’re publishing this year with Brookline Books, and we’ll be seeing you in the new year!

Read the latest Brookline Book News: https://tinyurl.com/ytu8jf53

19/12/2024

Thank you everyone who came out last night for Peter Schmitz's reading at the Narberth Bookshop last night! A great turn out and excellent chance for people to learn about Philadelphia's rich theater history.

Order your copy today: https://tinyurl.com/vcbaws28

19/12/2024

Such a great turnout last night at the Narberth Bookshop!!!

I read from the chapters about William Penn, the New Paradise Laboratories, and the Pig Iron Theatre Company - a trilogy that all tied together, with themes of idealism, theatrical censorship, and the joy of gathering together in a time of troubles!

Thank you to everyone who came to hear me read from "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" - not just friends, family and neighbors, but people who were really important to getting the book published at all!

Very happy to see Jennifer Green from ! And the great Dr. Joe Lex, to whom the book is dedicated. (In honor of the occasion, he brought me a bottle of single-malt whiskey you can see under the lectern in the top left photo). Another dear friend and neighbor, Tracy Heifetz, brought me some fresh-baked sourdough bread!)

Special thanks to Ellen and Joan Trachteberg, for being such wonderful hosts - they even set out holiday cookies for the guests, and Joan took most of these photos.

17/12/2024

The Broad Street Review has covered Peter's debut book, Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia! Get ready to explore the rich past, present, and future of Philly theater.

From the article: "On a chilly morning in late November, I met Peter Schmitz at the corner of Front and South Streets, and over the course of an hour, he guided me into the history of Philadelphia theater.

"Amid colonial streets now dotted with coffee shops and fast-food restaurants, Schmitz expounded on the performance customs of the pre-Revolution era, the rich traditions of Black and Jewish companies that once filled these areas, and the birthplaces of local luminaries like Edwin Forrest and Molly Picon."

Read the full walk-along and guided tour of Philly's historic theatrical scene from Broad Street Review, and don't forget to check out Peter's book for yourself, available now wherever fine books are sold: https://www.broadstreetreview.com/features/adventures-in-theater-history-philadelphia-by-peter-schmitz

14/12/2024

Days following its release and Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia is dominating the Amazon charts in both print and Kindle editions! Fans of Philadelphia theater history certainly don't want to miss this read. Get your copy today via Brookline Books🎭 https://tinyurl.com/vcbaws28