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Also a musician, Tuttle is seen here performing “Break Someone Else's Heart,” a Big Band sound which he recently co-wrote, with The Rev. Chris Quintet and singer Lucie Daigle, his wife.
Local lawyer, musician and author mines gold again
Richard Tuttle, a professional musician and retired lawyer who just released the CD single, “Break Someone Else's Heart,” is also an author whose dialogue is often spellbinding. more
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Hill resident Paul Mercurio, who grew up in a West Oak Lane rowhouse, is the author of the just-released “A Waste of Breath,” a page-turning thriller with characters loosely based on real Philly people.
From struggling janitor to published author with stops in between
Paul Mercurio, who now lives across the road from Chestnut Hill College, was a typical working class kid growing up in West Oak Lane. Now he's a published author. more
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Books are a popular choice of gift over the holiday season, and Debbie Jansen, owner of Booked, knows how to find just the right read.
A gift that can deliver whole new worlds
The time has come to start thinking about the holidays and searching for that perfect gift. My humble suggestion, dear reader, should not come as a surprise. It’s a book.  more
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David Biddle, of West Mt. Airy, whose family members are descendants of Philadelphia aristocracy, discovered that his ancestors include enslaved people and enslavers.
Biddle family author pens novel about transgender teen
David Biddle has stretched his imagination with his new book, “Old Music for New People,” a timely and contemporary novel about a teenager named Robert. more
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Mt. Airy residents Norma Wingate (right), head athletic trainer at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and author of “Death Bracket,” and Sueli Vieira, an artist and author, were married in May in Mexico.
Local coaching phenom pens a female serial killer
For Norma Wingate, an avid tennis player who starred on Central High School's Public League championship tennis team in 1992, the word “love” always makes her think of tennis. more
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Boulden said she wrote the book to let women know “it is possible to get past these experiences (of sexual abuse) ... I get emotional when I read about other women's stories. I saw four therapists myself over a 15-year period.”
Local author's new book about overcoming sexual assault
In talking about her new novel, “Her Past Can't Wait,” which was released Sept. 13, Jacqueline Boulden was animated and passionate. more
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Author Janet Mason, a Mt. Airy resident for four decades, holds a copy of her just-released novel, “Loving Artemis, An Endearing Tale of Revolution, Love and Marriage.”
New novel of lesbian love by acclaimed Mt. Airy author
Mt. Airy author Janet Mason has done it again. more
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Nelson Diaz, of Chestnut Hill, tells the story of his ascent from poverty to high positions in government and corporate boardrooms in his autobiography, “Not From Here, Not from There" (Temple University Press).
From poverty to realizing the American Dream
Chestnut Hill resident Nelson Diaz has chronicled his life in the autobiography “Not from Here, Not from There." more
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Mt. Airy’s Abigail Perkiss has written extensively over many years about the carefully planned racial integration of Mt. Airy after World War II, which has been labeled “a national model.”
Nuanced view of Mt. Airy's  racial history
Mt. Airy's much-praised racial diversity skipped over the issue of class, says author Abby Perkiss. more
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Lynn Gregory’s second novel, “So Much for Walls,” was inspired by her real-life experience as a traumatized carjacking victim.
Mt. Airy carjacking victim turns trauma into new novel
There is an old saying in publishing that you should “write what you know,” and Mt. Airy author and social science researcher Lynn Gregory is an exemplar of that maxim.  more
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Flourtown native Tyler Kepner is seen giving a talk to the Norristown Rotary Club about his dream job covering Major League baseball for the New York Times.
Dream comes true for New York Times baseball writer
Millions of boys in this country undoubtedly dream of one day being a Major League baseball player. more
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Harry Groome had a successful 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, rising to chairman of SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, but after a forced retirement he has authored five novels, and two powerful new novellas that were just published in June.
Local author proves there are 'second acts,' after all
The legendary American “Jazz Age” author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Fitzgerald did not know Harry Groome. more
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The Rev. Scott Robinson, a long-time Chestnut Hill resident, will have a book reading and signing for “The Way In” on Sunday, Aug. 7, 3 p.m., at Booked, 8511 Germantown Ave.
Hill minister's new book about living with Parkinson's
“The Way In; What a Hospice Chaplain Learned Living with Parkinson's, in Poetry and Prose”  is a courageous, brutally candid revelation of Robinson’s own periodic rages. more
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John Kromer of Mt. Airy, one of three Northwest Philadelphia authors featured during an event at Hilltop Books in Chestnut Hill, will talk about his book “Philadelphia Battlefields.”
Three local authors bring their politics to Hill bookstore
Three local authors, one from Chestnut Hill and two from Mt. Airy, will discuss their books at a signing event on Thursday, July 28, 6 p.m., at Hilltop Books, 84 Bethlehem Pike. more
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'DIVERSITY' AUTHOR AT HILL LIBRARY: The public is invited to a talk by Mt. Airy author P. W. Hand about “Diversity in Modern Literature from Mid-20th Century to Present” at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave., on Wednesday, July 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. To attend in person, email handc@freelibrary.org or stop by the library. To attend on Zoom, register in advance at freelibrary-org.zoom.us/meeting/register.
Author Bernard S. Brown, co-host of the Urban Wildlife Podcast and co-founder of PhillyNature.org, has many suggestions for where to experience the natural world in Philadelphia.
Think the city is a concrete jungle? Look a little closer…
Now that the warmer weather is here to stay for a few months, it is a perfect time to go outside with the whole family. more
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Dr. Nerenbergh with her good buddy, Rosie, a Schnauzer/Bichon mix.
Hill psychologist authors acclaimed 'No Perfect Love'
According to clinical psychologist Alyson Nerenberg, an addictions and relationship expert who has long had an office in Chestnut Hill, many of us enter into relationships with unrealistic expectations - which can lead to crushing disappointment.  more
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Majlinda Kapllanaj, a CPA and Lafayette Hill resident, has just written and published “Crypto Curious; the Basics for Beginners” to help readers navigate this very difficult subject.
New book by local CPA helps explain cryptocurrency
Are you like me and almost everyone else on earth, and completely befuddled by this thing called cryptocurrency? more
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Richard Lyntton and one of his novels, which are based in part on his own experience as a British Army tank commander.
Actor, author, and war zone tank commander
Lafayette Hill resident Richard Lyntton's life would make a pretty good movie. He’s been a captain and a tank commander in the British military, observed and documented war crimes in Bosnia, been abducted by Serbs in Sarajevo and written several books.  more
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Chestnut Hill’s beloved historian pens a personal memoir
David Contosta, professor of history at Chestnut Hill College and prolific interpreter of modern America, has turned his pen to memoir and subtly bridged the genres.  more
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